It’s All In The Title

[Cait S]

It's All In The Title
Duration: March 17, 2016 - ????
Level: Hard (10 books per category)
Progress: 97/150

1.Color
1.1- Ultraviolet
1.2- Jade Green: A Ghost Story
1.3- The Copper Gauntlet
1.4- Snow White & the Huntsman
1.5- The Bronze Key
1.6- Between Shades of Gray
1.7- The Black Cauldron

2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
2.1- Full Dark, No Stars
2.2- The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
2.3- Orbiting Jupiter
2.4- Dark of the Moon
2.5- Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 4: Fortress Vader

3. Food or Drink
3.1- Like Water
3.2- Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
3.3- Whiskey Sour
3.4- Buttercream Bump Off
3.5- Milk and Honey
3.6- Fortunately, the Milk

4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
4.1- The Sea of Monsters
4.2- Lost Lake
4.3- Salt to the Sea
4.4- Stillhouse Lake
4.5- Killman Creek
4.6- River of Teeth 6/12/2019

✔ 5. Person’s First or Last Name
5.1- The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
5.2- Saving Zoë
5.3- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
5.4- Kristy's Great Idea
5.5- Mary Anne Saves the Day
5.6- Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
5.7- The Truth About Stacey
5.8- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5.9- Carrie
5.10- The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
6.1- The Lover's Dictionary
6.2- Paper Valentine
6.3- But I Love Him
6.4- Foolish Hearts

✔ 7. One Word Title
7.1- March
7.2- Joyland
7.3- Grayson
7.4- Snap
7.5- Hounded
7.6- Cut
7.7- Survive
7.8- Revealers
7.9- Vibes
7.10- Antigoddess

✔ 8. Number in Title
8.1- The 100
8.2- Dawn and the Impossible Three
8.3- The Last One
8.4- The Book of Three
8.5- Pretty Girl-13
8.6.- Day 21
8.7- A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
8.8- The Final Six
8.9- One of Us Is Lying
8.10- The Baumgartners Plus One

9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
9.1- Hex Hall
9.2- A Spy in the House
9.3- House Rules
9.4- The Dead House
9.5- House Broken
9.6- The House of Dead Maids
9.7- Welcome to Dead House
9.8- The House We Grew Up In
9.9- The Ghost at Dawn's House

10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
10.1- The Lost Daughter
10.2- The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights
10.3- A House for Happy Mothers
10.4- The Wife Between Us

[Cait S]

11. Cultural
11.1- An American Plague
11.2- Looking for Alaska
11.3- How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America

12. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
12.1- The Monstrumologist
12.2- The Candymakers
12.3- Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space

✔ 13. Animal
13.1- Grand Theft Horse
13.2- Kittens in the Kitchen
13.3- Pony on the Porch
13.4- Puppies in the Pantry
13.5- Tell the Wolves I'm Home
13.6- I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs
13.7- Promise of the Wolves
13.8- The Bear and the Nightingale
13.9- Parrotfish
13.10- The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

14. Body Part
14.1- Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir
14.2- Bag of Bones
14.3- I Heart My Little A-Holes
14.4- The Maze of Bones
14.5- Silent to the Bone
14.6- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
14.7- Doll Bones
14.8- Heart of Iron
14.9- Every Heart a Doorway

15. Clothing
15.1- The Haunted Mask (Classic Goosebumps, #4)
15.2- The Cloak Society

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome!

[[deleted user]]

Oops! I ran out of space on my original post, so moved to here.

6/6/17: Giving up on this as it's been over 2 years.

Levels:
Easy 1-3 books per category
Moderate 4-7 per category
Difficult 8-12 books per category

Categories

Color - Completed

1. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (12/6/15)
2. Black Skies - Arnaldur Indriðason (4/7/15)
3. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery (27/9/15)
4. A Field of Red - Greg Enslen (13/11/15)
5. The Color Purple - Alice Walker (23/11/15)
6. Five Red Herrings - Dorothy L. Sayers (15/4/16)
7. Red Pottage - Mary Cholmondeley (11/6/16)
8. The Wisdom Of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton (26/7/16)
9. Lucy Blue, Where Are You? - Louise Harwood (9/8/16)
10. The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux (8/11/16)
11. Black Out - Lisa Unger (1/2/17)
12. White Lies - Emily Harper (21/4/17)

Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.) Completed

1. To the Moon and Back - Jill Mansell (15/5/15)
2. The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson (25/8/15)
3. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (10/10/15)
4. Snow Angels - James Thompson (6/11/15)
5. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey (26/11/15)
6. Sleigh Bells in the Snow - Sarah Morgan (11/12/15)
7. The Brightest Star in the Sky - Marian Keyes (15/1/16)
8. The Girl Who Read the Stars - Skylar Dorset (21/1/16)
9. Moon Island - Rosie Thomas (27/1/16)
10. Diamonds In The Sky: A Paranormal Romance - M.A. Harper (14/2/16)
11. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (14/3/16)
12. Seven Sunny Days - Chris Manby (2/8/16)

Food or Drink - Completed

1. Apple Tree Yard - Louise Doughty (13/7/15)
2. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley (9/8/15)
3. Pineapple Lies - Amy Vansant (21/10/15)
4. Christmas at the Cupcake Café - Jenny Colgan (2/12/15)
5. Christmas at the Gingerbread Cafe - Rebecca Raisin (12/12/15)
6. The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy - James Anderson (8/1/16)
7. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (24/2/16)
8. Champagne and Lemon Drops - Jean Oram (5/4/16)
9. Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic - Meghan Ciana Doidge (13/5/16)
10. Making Lemonade - Kate Langdon (31/10/16)
11. Smashed Potatoes and Gravy - Ginny Gold (13/11/16)
12. A Gingerbread Cafe Christmas - Rebecca Raisin (3/12/16)


Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)

1. Down on the Bayou - Erika Chase (8/8/15)
2. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (12/1/16)
3. The Bay at Midnight - Diane Chamberlain (25/3/16)
4. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (4/8/16)

Person’s First or Last Name - Completed

1. Poirot's Early Cases - Agatha Christie (16/5/15)
2. Parker Pyne Investigates - Agatha Christie - (20/5/15)
3. The Not So Secret Emails Of Coco Pinchard - Robert Bryndza (30/5/15)
4. Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie (1/6/15)
5. Bugsy Malone - Alan Parker (12/6/15)
6. Miss Marple's Final Cases - Agatha Christie (1/7/15)
7. Reinventing Mona - Jennifer Coburn (5/7/15)
8. Union Jack - Val McDermid (14/7/15)
9. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling (23/7/15)
10. The Mysterious Mr. Quin - Agatha Christie (21/8/15)
11. Daisy McDare and the Deadly Art Affair - K.M. Morgan (29/8/15)
12. Heidi - Johanna Spyri (3/10/15)

Romantic Word - Completed

1. The Princess Bride - William Goldman - (19/5/15)
2. Coco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding - Robert Bryndza (31/5/15)
3. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence (3/6/15)
4. Second Honeymoon - James Patterson (17/7/15)
5. Death By Honeymoon - Jaden Skye (27/8/15)
6. Dog Day Wedding - Rich Amooi (24/10/15)
7. Married By Christmas - Scarlett Bailey (10/12/15)
8. Love Bats Last - Pamela Aares (9/1/16)
9. The Love of My Life - Louise Douglas (17/1/16)
10. No Cure For Love - Peter Robinson (2/4/16)
11. Love and Muddy Puddles - Cecily Paterson (17/9/16)
12. The Vampire's Mail Order Bride - Kristen Painter (22/10/16)

One Word Title - Completed

1. Hidden - Casey Hill (1/6/15)
2. Glitz - Louise Bagshawe (9/6/15)
3. Max - James Patterson (8/7/15)
4. Invisible - James Patterson (3/8/15)
5. Fang - James Patterson (8/8/15)
6. Micah - Jo Raven (9/8/15)
7. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (13/8/15)
8. Wonder - R.J. Palacio (15/8/15)
9. Incandescent - River Savage (20/8/15)
10. Everblue - Brenda Pandos (22/8/15)
11. #Forfeit - Caroline Batten (16/9/15)
12. Quake - Richard Laymon (19/9/15)

Number in Title - Completed

1. Zero Day - David Baldacci - (17/5/15)
2. Three Act Tragedy - Agatha Christie (22/5/15)
3. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North (7/8/15)
4. Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher (19/8/15)
5. The Thirteen Problems - Agatha Christie (7/9/15)
6. Diary of a Size 12 - Sophie Quinn (13/9/15)
7. The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie (14/9/15)
8. One Hell of a Guy - Tammi Labrecque (17/10/15)
9. Twelve Days of Christmas - Trisha Ashley (14/12/15)
10. 1984 - George Orwell (23/1/16)
11. Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes - Denise Grover Swank (30/1/16)
12. Four: A Divergent Collection - Veronica Roth (15/3/16)

Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)

1. The House of Dolls - David Hewson (20/7/15)
2. The Christmas Crimes At Puzzel Manor - Simon Brett (1/12/15)
3. Castle Cay - Lee Hanson (16/1/16)
4. The Doll's House - M.J. Arlidge (19/2/16)
5. The Murder at Sissingham Hall - Clara Benson (22/3/16)
6. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (30/4/16)
7. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole (10/7/16)
8. No Safe House - Linwood Barclay (27/8/16)
9. The Red House Mystery - A.A. Milne (21/1/17)
10. Murder House - James Patterson (12/2/17)
11. The Doll's House - Tania Carver (5/3/17)

Family Member - Completed

1. Mum on the Run - Fiona Gibson (21/9/15)
2. Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody (4/10/15)
3. Anybody's Daughter - Pamela Samuels Young (22/10/15)
4. Daughter - Jane Shemilt (23/10/15)
5. My Favorite Husband - Pam McCutcheon (27/11/15)
6. The Shadow Wife - Diane Chamberlain (10/1/16)
7. Just What Kind of Mother Are You? - Paula Daly (8/2/16)
8. Pedigree Mum - Fiona Gibson (3/5/16)
9. Someone Else's Son - Samantha Hayes (4/5/16)
10. Kiss Mommy Goodbye - Joy Fielding (8/5/16)
11. The Sleuth Sisters - Maggie Pill (14/6/16)
12. Aunt Bessie Assumes - Diana Xarissa (10/7/16)

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Bonus Categories

Cultural (a real place, language, people group) - Completed

1. Her Dakota Man - Lisa Mondello (13/6/15)
2. Murder in the South of France - Susan Kiernan-Lewis (28/8/15)
3. Autumn in Carthage - Christopher Zenos (28/9/15)
4. Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie (2/10/15)
5. Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie (8/11/15)
6. Love on St. Barts - Emme Cross (28/11/15)
7. Valley of Thracians - Ellis Shuman (12/2/16)
8. The Miss America Family - Julianna Baggott (20/2/16)
9. Amanda in Arabia: The Perfume Flask - Darlene Foster (1/8/16)
10. What Stays in Vegas - Beth Labonte (27/8/16)
11. The Korean Word For Butterfly - Jamie Zerndt (14/9/16)
12. A Yorkshire Christmas - Kate Hewitt (22/12/16)

A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.) - Completed

1. The Temporary Detective - Joanne Sydney Lessner (3/8/15)
2. The Barber Surgeons Hairshirt - Douglas Lindsay (23/9/15)
3. The Executioner - Chris Carter (26/10/15)
4. The Profiler - Chris Taylor (27/10/15)
5. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (14/11/15)
6. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill (20/1/16)
7. The Island of Doctor Moreau - H.G. Wells (24/3/16)
8. Teacher Beware - Charlotte Raine (9/5/16)
9. The Teacher - Katerina Diamond (18/8/16)
10. The Shepherd - Ethan Cross (29/8/16)
11. The Doll Maker - Richard Montanari (29/10/16)
12. Confessions of a Wedding Planner - Michelle Jo Quinn (23/3/17)

Animal - Completed

1. Prince of Wolves - Quinn Loftis (21/7/15)
2. Lana'i of the Tiger - JoAnn Bassett (24/8/15)
3. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (17/11/15)
4. Kissing Frogs - Rich Amooi (18/11/15)
5. A Lonely Dog on Christmas - Patrick Yearly (2/12/15)
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (8/1/16)
7. Pop Goes the Weasel - M.J. Arlidge (9/1/16)
8. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (8/3/16)
9. The Serpent in the Glass - D.M. Andrews (17/7/16)
10. Discovery of an Eagle - Grace Mattioli (30/7/16)
11. The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis (13/8/16)
12. Cat Among the Pigeons - Agatha Christie (13/10/16)

Body part - Completed (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)

1. By the Pricking of My Thumbs - Agatha Christie (25/5/15)
2. Watch Your Back - Karen Rose (27/6/15)
3. Blood Of Others - Rick Mofina (3/9/15)
4. Heads or Tails - Leslie A. Gordon (20/11/15)
5. Postcards from the Heart - Ella Griffin (30/1/16)
6. Dark Blood - Stuart MacBride (6/2/16)
7. The Hand That Feeds You - A.J. Rich (5/3/16)
8. Shatter The Bones - Stuart MacBride (27/3/16)
9. Through a Mother's Eyes - Cary Allen Stone (18/4/16)
10. Blood Sport - A.J. Carella (17/6/16)
11. A Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine (29/6/16)
12. Close to the Bone - Stuart MacBride (1/7/16)

Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

1. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne (5/10/15)
2. The Greatcoat - Helen Dunmore (17/3/16)

[Katherine]

It’s All In The Title
Start: 2016-07-17
End:
39/150

1. Color:
White Hot Kiss 16/12/16
Written in Red 29/12/16


2. Sky:
Night After Night 17/7/16
The Lightning Thief 26/7/16
Kindling the Moon 31/10/16


3. Food or Drink:
Cream of the Crop 3/8/16


4. Body of Water:(sea, pond, creek, etc.)

5. Person’s First or Last Name:
Archer's Voice 24/7/16
Becoming Calder 29/7/16
Finding Eden 30/7/16
Sin Undone 10/12/16
Zack 14/12/16


6. Romantic Word:
Rock Wedding 21/7/16
The Darkest Kiss 30/8/16
Mr. Romantic 1/9/16
A Thousand Boy Kisses 11/9/16
Hitched: Volume One 14/12/16


7. One Word Title:
Yanked 18/7/16
Perfection 26/8/16
Beautiful 8/10/16
#Nerd 1/12/16
Womanizer 8/12/16


8. Number in Title:(once, twice, etc can count as well)

9. Type of home:(house, manor, cabin, etc)

10. Family Member:
Sugar Daddy 4/8/16
The Single Undead Moms Club 7/11/16


Bonus:
1. Cultural:
The Raven King 1/8/16
The Duchess War 24/8/16
Vegas Baby 5/9/16
Reign of Shadows 10/9/16
Royally Screwed 13/11/16
A Court of Thorns and Roses 21/12/16
A Court of Mist and Fury 23/12/16
City of Glass 27/12/16


2. A profession:
Playboy Pilot 23/9/16
Mr. President 5/12/16


3. Animal:
Spider’s Revenge 15/9/16
Animal Farm 16/10/16
Angel's Wolf 17/12/16
Murder of Crows 30/12/16


4. Body part:(head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
Sweet Cheeks 3/12/16


5. Clothing:(dress, pants, shoes, etc)
Nobody Looks Good in Leather Pants 16/12/16

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Start: 27-7-2016
Level: difficult

0/150

1. Color
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
3. Food or Drink
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
7. One Word Title
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)

Bonus
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
3. Animal
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Sam F]

I'd love to join starting 30/7/2016

Level:
I'll start with Easy 1-3 books per category


Categories

1. Color
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
3. Food or Drink
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
7. One Word Title
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)

Bonus

1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
3. Animal
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Amanda]

Welcome!

[Mackey]

I'm starting out easy... but I really like this idea a lot:

1. Color
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
3. Food or Drink
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
7. One Word Title
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)

Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.

1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
3. Animal
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Amanda]

Welcome to the challenge, M'lee!

[Agnieszka]

I love this idea. I'm starting with easy (8/1/16) and if I still like it I'll bump it up than :-)

12(14)/30 + 2 Bonus

Categories:
1. Color: Barfoot in White / Storks in a Blue Sky / Storming the Black Ice / The Black Butterflies / Black Gold / White Gold / Silver and Gold ( Angel Paws) / Murder in Calico Gold
1.1.
1.2.
1.3.
2. Sky: Just Beyond the Clouds / A Map of Heaven
2.1. Red Moon Rising: Rediscover the Power of Prayer 5*
2.2.
2.3.
3. Food or Drink:
3.1. Whiskey Sour 4*
3.2.
3.3.
4. Body of Water:
4.1. Der alte Mann und das Meer=The Old Man and the Sea 5*
4.2. River's Edge see The Cape Refuge Collection: Cape Refuge, Southern Storm, River's Edge, Breaker's Reef 5*
4.3. Murder on Thames 4*
4.4. Dangerous Waters 5*
4.5. Breaker's Reef (Cape Refuge Box book 4)
5. Person’s First or Last Name: I Know Lucy / Reclaiming Nick / The Measure of Katie Calloway / Zdrada Bourne'a / Pakt Holcrofta / Saving Grace / Yaeger's Law / Icarus Prediction... the easiest one :-)
5.1. Maxwell's Smile 4*
5.2. Larry and Kate: A romantic comedy 4*
5.3. Tagebuch der Anne Frank=The Diary of a Young Girl 3*
6. Romantic Word: Milosc w duzym miescie / Love on the Line / Kann es wirklich Liebe sein? / The Vigilante's Bride / The Christmas Mail Order Bride / To Love Again (Lilliana Blake Starter Collection book 5)
6.1. A Love and Beyond
6.2.
6.3.
7. One Word Title: Defender (Interpid #1) / Knowing / Slut / Misdirection / Beguiled (Gist) / Absolution (Susan Fleet)
7.1. Tank 4*
7.2. AVIATRIX: First Woman Pilot for Hughes Airwest 4*
7.3.
8. Number in Title: Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg und verschwand / Zwei wie Hund und Katz / Five Days in Skye / The Third Rule / Three Card Monte
8.1. A Two-Way Street: a drabble 5*
8.2. 1st to Die
8.3.
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
9.1. Mystery at the Manor 4*
9.2.
9.3.
10. Family Member: The Sea Glass Sisters / Covenant Child (Blackstock)
10.1. Murder, Mayhem and Mama 3*
10.2. The Apothecary's Daughter
10.3.


Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.

1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group): London Tides / The Paris Protection
1.1. How To Survive In Russia: From The Bear's Mouth 1*
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.): The Recruiter / Agent for a Cause / Agent out of Time / The Ranger
2.1. Die Bücherdiebin=The Book Thief 4*
3. Animal: The Lone Wolf / Silent Cats / Fire of the Raging Dragon
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc): Pirate of my Heart / Thicker Than Blood / Organising from the Heart / When a Heart Stopps
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Teresa]

I would like to start this challenge. I am going to go with easy.


1. Color
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
3. Food or Drink
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
7. One Word Title
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
3. Animal
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Agnieszka and Teresa :)

[Marissa]

I'm planning to start this challenge on the 1st of the year :)

It's All In The Title Challenge

Start Date: 01/01/2017
Level: Moderate (4-7 books per category)
Progress: 70/75 books

Categories
✔️Color
1. White Oleander by Janet Fitch (11/05/17)
2. The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners by Luanne Rice (01/13/18)
3. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (09/12/19)
4. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (11/29/19)
5. Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin (02/22)

✔️Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (01/23/17)
2. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (04/20/18)
3. Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza (06/15/18)
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (08/05/18)
5. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (02/03/19)

✔️Food or Drink
1. Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch (01/10/18)
2. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (06/30)
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (2/7)
4. Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan (7/17/21)
5. L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad (7/26/21)

✔️Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
1. Up at Butternut Lake by Mary McNear (03/10/17)
2. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (07/06/18)
3. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (07/16/18)
4. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (09/10/19)
5. And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness (10/22/19)

✔️Person’s First or Last Name
1. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (02/06/17)
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (03/03/17)
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (03/07/17)
4. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (10/09/17)
5. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (12/12/17)

✔️Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
1. Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin (06/05/17)
2. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks (03/04/19)
3. A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole (03/29/20)
4. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (09/19/20)
5. The Queen of Hearts by Kimmerly Martin (12/13)

✔️One Word Title
1. Allegiant by Veronica Roth (01/05/17)
2. Room by Emma Donoghue (03/12/17)
3. Unbelievable by Sara Shepard (08/30/17)
4. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (01/15/18)
5. Matched by Ally Condie (09/24/19)

✔️Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
1. Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne (01/25/17)
2. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (04/16/17)
3. Number 11 by Jonathan Coe (05/20/17)
4. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (08/30/17)
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (10/11/17)

✔️Type of Home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
1. Crazy House by James Patterson (10/28/17)
2. House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker (01/22/19)
3. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (02/10/19)
4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (08/18/19)
5. The House Next Door by Darcy Coates (09/18/19)

✔️Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
1. My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni (02/03/17)
2. The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison (03/10/19)
3. The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher (04/30/19)
4. Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz (01/03/21)
5. The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth (8/14/21)

Bonus
✔️Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
1. North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo (04/27/17)
2. Looking for Alaska by John Green (08/16/17)
3. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (04/11/19)
4. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (10/04/19)
5. American Royals by Katharine McGee (01/18/20)

A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
1. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (08/12/17)
2. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (04/13/18)
3. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian (03/30/19)
4. The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer (09/07)
5.

✔️Animal
1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01/02/2017)
2. Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley (03/28/17)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (05/14/17)
4. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans (06/29/17)
5. The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted by Andrew Kaufman (02/01/18)

✔️Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
1. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (08/25/17)
2. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (01/29/18)
3. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (01/06/20)
4. A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer (01/17/20)
5. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (01/31/20)

Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
1. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (09/03/17)
2.
3.
4.
5.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge Selu and Marissa ☺

[Lily]

Duration: Jan 1 - Dec 31 --- Easy 1-3 books per category (I'm trying to do as many books as I can per category but there a few I have no books for yet)


87/87 ~ finished Nov 24th


1. Color...
Death's Ink-Black Shadow by John Wiltshire ~ 8/24/17 ~ 4.5★
Out in the Blue by Kelly Jensen ~ 2/3/17 ~ 3★
Symphony in Blue by Shira Anthony ~ 6/8/17 ~ 4★
The Bridge of Silver Wings by John Wiltshire ~ 5/25/17 ~ 4★

2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
Hanging The Stars by Rhys Ford ~ 7/4/17 ~ 4★
Rain Shadow by L.A. Witt ~ 10/26/17 ~ 3.5★
Ryde the Lightning by Sandrine Gasq-Dion ~ 10/20/17 ~ 3.5★
The Bruise-Black Sky by John Wiltshire ~ 7/22/17 ~ 4.5★

3. Food or Drink
Absinthe of Malice by Rhys Ford ~ 5/20/17 ~ 4★
Bombs and Guacamole by B.A. Tortuga 2/15/17 ~ 3.5★
How the Cookie Crumbles by Jaime Samms ~ 7/28/17 ~ 3.5★
Lemon Drops by Sean Michael ~ 2/1/17 ~ 3★
The Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau ~ 4/22/17 ~ 3.5★
Whiskey Business by Avon Gale ~ 5/10/17 ~ 3.5★

4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)

5. Person’s First or Last Name
Charlie's Hero by Nic Starr ~ 3/6/17 ~ 3.5★
David, Renewed by Diana Copland ~ 1/5/17 ~ 4★
Dinner at Jack's by Rick R. Reed ~ 3/7/17 ~ 3.5★
Lane’s by Nash Summers ~ 5/22/17 ~ 4★
Loki's New Job: Coffin Nails MC California by K.A. Merikan ~ 1/8/17 ~ 3★
Merry Christmas, Mr. Miggles by Eli Easton ~ 5/13/17 ~ 4★
Saving Jason by K.C. Wells ~ 2/28/17 ~ 3.5★

6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
Add Love and Mix by Sean Michael ~ 7/5/17 ~ 3.5★
Ask, Answer, Look, Kiss by Livia Frost ~ 7/1/17 ~ 3.5★
Big Love by Rick R. Reed ~ 1/2/17 ~ 3.5★
I Love You More Than Pierogi by K.A. Merikan ~ 1/28/17 ~ 3.5★
Love is a Stranger by John Wiltshire ~ 2/17/17 ~ 4★
Love Me Tenor by Annabeth Albert ~ 3/5/17 ~ 4★
Love Means... No Limits by Andrew Grey ~ 7/13/17 ~ 3.5★
To Love and To Cherish by Addison Albright ~ 2/24/17 ~ 3.5★

7. One Word Title
Addicted by Mark Summers ~ 3/6/17 ~ 3★
Blaze by Wolf Specter ~ 4/27/17 ~ 4★
Bloodline by Barbara Elsborg ~ 1/22/17 ~ 4★
Defenseless by A.J. Rose ~ 5/8/17 ~ 4★
Dissonance by Shira Anthony ~ 7/13/17 ~ 4★
Elected by Pepper Espinoza ~ 2/2/17 ~ 3★
Encore by Shira Anthony ~ 1/23/17 ~ 4★
Femme by Marshall Thornton ~ 1/6/17 ~ 3.5★
Forsaken by Sloane Kennedy ~ 4/3/17 ~ 4★
Freckles by Amy Lane ~ 3/27/17 ~ 3.5★
Ignite by Wolf Specter ~ 2/15/17 ~ 3.5★
Interborough by Santino Hassell ~ 4/15/17 ~ 4★
Jinxed by Sandrine Gasq-Dion ~ 4/5/17 ~ 4★
Jumpstart by Riley Hart ~ 4/9/17 ~ 4★
Locked by Ella Frank ~ 7/5/17 ~ 4★
Meatworks by Jordan Castillo Price ~ 3/30/17 ~ 3.5★
Murmuration by T.J. Klune ~ 1/10/17 ~ 5★
Pansies by Alexis Hall ~ 1/12/17 ~ 4.5★
Prelude by Shira Anthony ~ 1/20/17 ~ 3.5★
Repaired by Melissa Collins ~ 8/10/17 ~ 4★
Retribution by Sloane Kennedy ~ 2/7/17 ~ 4★
Scorch by Wolf Specter ~ 1/21/17 ~ 3.5★
September by Robert Winter ~ 4/29/17 ~ 4★
Shameless by R.G. Alexander ~ 3/19/17 ~ 4★
Sold by Sean Michael ~ 5/27/17 ~ 3★
Spurs by Jules Dixon ~ 6/20/17 ~ 3.5★
Strays by Garrett Leigh ~ 5/10/17 ~ 4★
Swarm by Jordan Castillo Price ~ 4/13/17 ~ 3.5★
Tonight by Karen Stivali ~ 7/1/17 ~ 3.5★
Unchaste by Mia Watts ~ 2/4/17 ~ 2★
Vengeance by Sloane Kennedy ~ 4/20/17 ~ 4★
Spun! by J.L. Merrow ~ 11/11/17 ~ 3.5★

8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
Bless Us Every One by Gina A. Rogers ~ 7/1/17 ~ 3★
First and First by Santino Hassell ~ 2/6/17 ~ 4★
Second to None by Felice Stevens ~ 4/1/17 ~ 4★
Seventh Inning Stretch by J.M. Snyder ~ 5/22/17 ~ 3★
Take Two by Shira Anthony ~ 8/6/17 ~ 3.5★

9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
The Summer House by R.J. Scott ~ 3/12/17 ~ 4★

10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
His Fairy Godfather by Cate Ashwood ~ 7/9/17 ~ 3.5★

Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)

2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
All Lessons Learned by Charlie Cochrane ~ 2/24/17 ~ 3.5★
Island Counselor by Sue Brown ~ 6/17/17 ~ 3.5★
Lessons for Survivors by Charlie Cochrane ~ 4/10/17 ~ 3.5★
Warrior and Priest by Katie Howe ~ 4/6/17 ~ 3.5★

3. Animal
Cow Pie Bingo by Addison Albright ~ 4/1/17 ~ 3★
Fish Out of Water by Amy Lane ~ 3/4/17 ~ 4★
Fish Stick Fridays by Rhys Ford ~ 6/7/17 ~ 4★
The Black Sheep and The Rotten Apple by K.A. Merikan ~ 11/24/17 ~ 3.5★
The Cat's Meow by Sean Michael ~ 2/1/17 ~ 3★

4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
Conscious Decisions of the Heart by John Wiltshire ~ 4/7/17 ~ 4★
Don't Twunk With My Heart by Renae Kaye ~ 3/24/17 ~ 4★
Eyes Only for Me by Andrew Grey ~ 6/10/17 ~ 3★
Head Over Heels by Sunne Manello ~ 1/17/17 ~ 3★
Heart Ripper: Coffin Nails MC by K.A. Merikan ~ 3/26/17 ~ 4★
Helping Hand by Jay Northcote ~ 3/31/17 ~ 3.5★
Knave of Broken Hearts by Tara Lain ~ 1/20/17 ~ 3.5★
Surrender Your Heart by Aimee Nicole Walker ~ 6/17/17 ~ 4★
Traditions from the Heartby Bru Baker ~ 2/3/17 ~ 3★

5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
Shirt by Amy Lane ~ 4/5/17 ~ 3★

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge, Lily :)

[Lisa]

Trying this one out.

Level: Easy 1-3 books per category
Date Started: June 3, 2017

Categories
1. Color
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
3. Food or Drink
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
7. One Word Title
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)

Bonus
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
3. Animal
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Rebecca]

So close...but I think I'm going to give up on this one :(...it's been three years and I haven't finished food or drink in the title. That one was tough for me, but I really enjoyed this challenge!

IT'S ALL IN THE TITLE
LEVEL: Difficult (8-12 per category)
DURATION: June 20,2014-June 11, 2017 (incomplete)
(95/100)

CATEGORIES
✔ Color
1. Red by Erica Spindler 7/30
2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 8/5
3. White Noise by Don DeLillo 8/20
4. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 11/9/14
5.Whiteout by Ken Follett 2/9/15
6.Black Friday by Alex Kava 3/13/15
7.Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton 5/27/15
8. Blacklands by Belinda Bauer 7/6/15

✔ Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
1. The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke 7/17/14
2. The Burning Air by Erin Kelly 7/24/14
3. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 12/4/14
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1/3/15
5. My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh 6/17/15
6. Snow Angels by James Thompson 6/23/15
7. The Sun in Splendour by Jean Plaidy 1/22/16
8.Under a Silent Moon by Elizabeth Haynes 2/8/17

Food or Drink
1. A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane 7/7/14
2. Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner 7/15/14
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1/18/15
4.A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown 7/25/15
5. The Shadow of the Pomegranate by Jean Plaidy 2/14/16
6.
7.
8.

✔ Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
1.A Dark and Twisted Tide by S.J. Bolton 6/30/14
2.Broken Harbor by Tana French 4/8/15
3.The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman 5/9/15
4.China Lake by Meg Gardiner 6/25/15
5.Solitude Creek by Jeffery Deaver 11/5/15
6. The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory 12/16/15
7. Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman 8/26/16
8. Cane River by Lalita Tademy 12/17/16

✔ Person’s First or Last Name
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 6/30/14
2. Justice for Sara by Erica Spindler 7/2/14
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8/1/14
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 11/1/14
5. See Jane Die by Erica Spindler 2/13/15
6. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith 2/23/15
7. Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith 3/21/15
8. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving 4/9/15

✔ Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 6/29/14
2. Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last by John M. Gottman 7/1/14
3. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg 7/5/14
4. Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan 8/9/14
5. Judas Kiss by J.T. Ellison 9/25/14
6. Kiss Me, Kill Me by Allison Brennan 9/27/14
7. Love You More (Detective D.D. Warren, #5) by Lisa Gardner 10/27/14
8. XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel by Jeffery Deaver 2/4/15

✔ One Word Title
1.Ubik by Philip K. Dick 7/12/14
2.Disturbed by Kevin O'Brien 7/22/14
3.Cornered by Alan Brenham 8/2/14
4.Intensity by Dean Koontz 8/28/14
5.Fury: A Memoir by Koren Zailckas 10/3/14
6.Unspeakable by Kevin O'Brien 10/11/14
7.Skin by Mo Hayder 10/26/14
8.Gone by Lisa Gardner 11/13/14

✔ Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
1. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 7/26/14
2. The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner 7/27/14
3. 14 by J.T. Ellison 8/22/14
4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 8/30/14
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez 11/6/14
6. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill 11/9/14
7. 1st to Die by James Patterson 11/19/14
8. One Kick by Chelsea Cain 12/1/14

✔ Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
1. Iron House by John Hart 8/7/14
2. The Stranger House by Reginald Hill 9/1/14
3. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 12/14/14
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 12/23/14
5. No Safe House by Linwood Barclay 4/1/15
6. The Other Woman's House by Sophie Hannah 5/13/15
7. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom 6/4/16
8.The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware 3/4/17

✔ Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
1. Native Son by Richard Wright 7/19/14
2. Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas 7/20/14
3. The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner 8/18/14
4. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty 12/29/14
5. The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah 4/26/15
6. The Pocket Wife by Susan H. Crawford 6/14/15
7. The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison 8/13/15
8. Somebody Else's Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage 9/15/15

Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.

✔ Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
1. Natchez Burning by Greg Iles 6/25/14
2. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer 8/12/14
3. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich 4/16/15
4.The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir 8/22/15

✔ A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré 6/22/14
2. Cop Town by Karin Slaughter 9/5/14
3.Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 9/19/14
4.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 10/7/14

✔ Animal
1. Animal Farm by George Orwell 7/13/14
2. Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy 9/12/14
3. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris 9/15/14
4. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 9/21/14

✔ Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
1. Cover Her Face by P.D. James 9/2/14
2. The Pure in Heart by Susan Hill 9/10/14
3. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen 9/11/14
4. The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen 10/22/14

Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
1.The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman 8/13/15
2. The Winter Crown: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Elizabeth Chadwick 2/11/17
3.
4.

[Mandy]

It's All in the Title
June 1, 2017 -
Level:: Difficult 8-12 books per category

Categories:

1. Color 1/8
Chesapeake Blue 6/7 5*
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.) 1/8
Cape Storm 6/7 3*
3. Food or Drink
Fire and Water
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.) 1/8
Seduce Me in Dreams 6/1 3*
7. One Word Title 2/8
Souljacker 6/7 3.5*
California 6/15 3.5*
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)

Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.

1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group) 1/8
Janesville: An American Story 6/2 4*
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
3. Animal 1/8
Boy, Snow, Bird 6/4 3*
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Amy]

This one was so much fun that I'm doing it again. All the categories and all the bonuses except clothing--that one was a killer last time!

It's All in the Title
Level: Difficult
Date Started: 7/31/17
Date Finished: 3/19/18

Total Complete: 112/112

Color
8/8 Completed
1. The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum FINISHED 8/3/17
2. Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie FINISHED 9/30/17
3. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. FINISHED 10/23/17
4. The Grey King by Susan Cooper FINISHED 11/27/17
5. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis FINISHED 12/14/17
6. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison FINISHED 1/17/18
7. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff FINISHED 1/21/18
8. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett FINISHED 1/23/18

Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
8/8 Completed
1. The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker FINISHED 10/17/17
2. Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick FINISHED 11/16/17
3. Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses by John Dvorak FINISHED 12/2/17
4. When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi FINISHED 1/9/18
5. Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy FINISHED 1/11/18
6. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann FINISHED 1/15/18
7. Void Moon by Michael Connelly FINISHED 1/29/18
8. The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin FINISHED 2/17/18

Food or Drink
8/8 Completed
1. Adventure Time: Banana Guard Academy by Kent Osborne FINISHED 9/16/17
2. The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 13: 1975-1976 by Charles M. Schulz FINISHED 11/17/17
3. The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes FINISHED 11/18/17
4. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky FINISHED 11/24/17
5. Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt - Expat Stories from Kazakhstan by Monica Neboli FINISHED 12/8/17
6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl FINISHED 12/17/17
7. The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald FINISHED 2/12/18
8. Coconut Chaos: Pitcairn, Mutiny and a Seduction at Sea by Diana Souhami FINISHED 3/1/18

Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
8/8 Completed
1. The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings by Lars Brownworth FINISHED 9/29/17
2. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin FINISHED 10/13/17
3. Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan FINISHED 10/26/17
4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman FINISHED 12/12/17
5. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa FINISHED 12/17/17
6. Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley FINISHED 12/20/17
7. The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin by Donna Jo Napoli FINISHED 12/26/17
8. Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes FINISHED 12/29/17

Person’s First or Last Name
8/8 Completed
1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer FINISHED 8/5/17
2. Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer FINISHED 8/10/17
3. The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald FINISHED 8/12/17
4. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington FINISHED 9/3/17
5. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken FINISHED 9/7/17
6. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders FINISHED 9/20/17
7. Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse FINISHED 10/4/17
8. Rachel Rising, Volume 1: The Shadow of Death by Terry Moore FINISHED 10/16/17

Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
8/8 Completed
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie FINISHED 9/16/17
2. Evidence of Love by John Bloom FINISHED 10/8/17
3. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon FINISHED 11/8/17
4. Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz FINISHED 11/18/17
5. Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why by Sady Doyle FINISHED 12/10/17
6. Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore FINISHED 1/19/18
7. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene FINISHED 1/25/18
8. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse FINISHED 2/19/18

One Word Title
8/8 Completed
1. Greenwitch by Susan Cooper FINISHED 9/21/17
2. LaRose by Louise Erdrich FINISHED 9/22/17
3. Mythology by Edith Hamilton FINISHED 9/27/17
4. Gast by Carol Swain FINISHED 10/7/17
5. Autumn by Ali Smith FINISHED 10/12/17
6. Carol by Patricia Highsmith FINISHED 10/13/17
7. Zodiac by Robert Graysmith FINISHED 10/15/17
8. Genesis by Eduardo Galeano FINISHED 11/26/17

Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
8/8 Completed
1. 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie FINISHED 8/1/17
2. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle FINISHED 8/26/17
3. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse FINISHED 10/6/17
4. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher FINISHED 10/27/17
5. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu FINISHED 11/2/17
6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury FINISHED 11/7/17
7. Death Has a Thousand Doors by Patricia W. Grey FINISHED 11/16/17
8. A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions by Muhammad Yunus FINISHED 12/16/17

Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
8/8 Completed
1. A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine FINISHED 9/16/17
2. Another Castle: Grimoire by Andrew Wheeler FINISHED 9/20/17
3. Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell FINISHED 9/30/17
4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson FINISHED 11/2/17
5. Henna House by Nomi Eve FINISHED 11/30/17
6. Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale FINISHED 12/1/17
7. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe FINISHED 1/6/18
8. The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett FINISHED 1/12/18

Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
8/8 Completed
1. The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston FINISHED 10/3/17
2. Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong FINISHED 10/26/17
3. The Mothers by Brit Bennett FINISHED 11/22/17
4. My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Pool FINISHED 11/26/17
5. The Thief's Daughter by Jeff Wheeler FINISHED 12/7/17
6. Daughters of the River Huong by Uyen Nicole Duong FINISHED 2/5/18
7. The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich FINISHED 3/12/18
8. The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century by Martha Hodes FINISHED 3/19/18

Bonuses

Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
8/8 Completed
1. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal FINISHED 9/17/17
2. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett FINISHED 9/28/17
3. The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg FINISHED 10/7/17
4. Ashes of Izalco by Claribel Alegria FINISHED 10/23/17
5. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer FINISHED 11/9/17
6. The Devil's Ashpit: and other Tales of Ascension Island by Dan Kovalchik FINISHED 11/14/17
7. Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise by Dave Holloway FINISHED 11/20/17
8. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by A.J. Hartley FINISHED 12/4/17

A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
8/8 Completed
1. The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage by Jen Van Meter FINISHED 9/28/17
2. Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker FINISHED 10/5/17
3. Doctors by Dash Shaw FINISHED 10/12/17
4. The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero by Patricia McCormick FINISHED 10/20/17
5. The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier FINISHED 11/18/17
6. Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve by Lenora Chu FINISHED 12/5/17
7. The Pearl Thief by Noor Al Noaimi FINISHED 12/9/17
8. No Way Home: A Dancer's Journey from the Streets of Havana to the Stages of the World by Carlos Acosta FINISHED 12/27/17

Animal
8/8 Completed
1. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery FINISHED 8/16/17
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey FINISHED 8/19/17
3. The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific by Charles Montgomery FINISHED 8/20/17
4. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa FINISHED 8/23/17
5. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George FINISHED 9/7/17
6. When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe FINISHED 10/5/17
7. Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Constantine Croke FINISHED 11/6/17
8. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs FINISHED 12/11/17

Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
8/8 Completed
1. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson FINISHED 8/12/17
2. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis FINISHED 9/12/17
3. Torso by Brian Michael Bendis FINISHED 9/21/17
4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad FINISHED 9/23/17
5. Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood by Marjorie M. Liu FINISHED 11/4/17
6. Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski FINISHED 11/10/17
7. The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric FINISHED 11/14/17
8. Stiff Upper Lip by Lawrence Durrell FINISHED 12/13/17

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Congratulations Selu!

[Maysam]

Duration: started 1/1/2018
Level: Easy
Completed: 18/30

1. Color 
a) Red Rising by Pierce Brown
b) Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
c)

2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
a)
b)
c)

3. Food or Drink
a) Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay
b) Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlay
c)

4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
a) The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
b)
c)

✔5. Person’s First or Last Name
a) The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
b) The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
c) Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
a) The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
b)
c)

✔7. One Word Title
a) Cinder by Marissa Meyer
b) Obsessed by R.J. Lewis
c) Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

✔8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
a) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
b) Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
c) Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
a)
b)
c)

✔10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
a) Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller
b) Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
c) The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Maysam & Chie!

And thank you Chie for the nice comment!

[Kate]

I'm in, thought I'm not sure what level I will do

1. Color
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
3. Food or Drink
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
~Dark Lover 1/5
7. One Word Title
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
~The Cowboy's Healing Ways 1/3
3. Animal
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Kate!

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Chelsea!

[Am]

Duration: January 04, 2018
Level: Difficult
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[LaurLa]

It’s All In The Title
January - December 2018 (or before)

MY It’s All In The Title Challenge (msg 344)

Moderate Level: 4 books per category
60 of 60 Books Read

✔1. Color

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🌸The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop - Carolyn Brown - 02.07 ★★★★
🌸Vision in White - Nora Roberts - 03.02 ★★★★
🌸Scarlet - Marissa Meyer - 04.06 ★★★★
🌸Silver Serenade - Gerry O'Hara - 10.13 ★★★
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✔2. Sky

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🌸First Star I See Tonight - Susan Elizabeth Phillips - 05.20 ★★★★
🌸Spring Rain - Jaci Burton - 02.03 ★★★
🌸Fifth Grave Past the Light - Darynda Jones - 03.14 ★★★★
🌸Dark Sky - Carla Neggers - 10.25 ★★★★
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✔3. Food or Drink

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🌸Relationships, Pie, and Other Complicated Stuff - A. Lynn Powers - 03.08 ★★
🌸Silenced by the Yams - Barbara Marr - 08.25 ★★★
🌸Nuts - Alice Clayton - 08.18 ★★★★
🌸Sugar Rush - Sawyer Bennett - 02.28 ★★★★
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✔4. Body of Water

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🌸The Cove - Catherine Coulter - 04.22 ★★★
🌸The Rapids - Carla Neggers - 06.17 ★★★★
🌸Lethal Bayou Beauty - Jana DeLeon - 10.19 ★★★
🌸Breakwater - Carla Neggers - 12.09 ★★★★
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✔5. Person’s First or Last Name

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🌸For the Love of Katie - Erica Lucke Dean - 01.26 ★★★★
🌸Garrett - Sawyer Bennett - 01.22 ★★★★
🌸Zack - Sawyer Bennett - 02.03 ★★★★
🌸Loving Lilly - J.M. Madden - 10.28 ★★★
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✔6. Romantic Word

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🌸A Wedding Story - Susan Kay Law - 02.06 ★★★★
🌸Bye, Bye Love - K.J. Larsen - 01.17 ★★★★
🌸His Wicked Heart - Darcy Burke - 10.07 ★★★★
🌸It's in His Kiss - Julia Quinn - 07.30 ★★★★
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✔7. One Word Title

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🌸Cress - Marissa Meyer - 07.07 ★★★★
🌸Sterling - Dannika Dark - 04.23 ★★★★
🌸Forsaken - Lisa Renee Jones - 06.23 ★★★★
🌸Endgame - Ann Aguirre - 03.02 ★★★★
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✔8. Number in Title

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🌸You Say It First - Susan Mallery - 01.25 ★★★★
🌸Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich - 03.13 ★★★
🌸Third Grave Dead Ahead - Darynda Jones - 02.22 ★★★★
🌸Love Me Once, Love Me Twice - Sandy Sullivan - 02.14 ★★★
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🌸Castle Hill - Samantha Young - 06.10 ★★★★
🌸A Sandcastle Christmas - J.D. Faver - 09.06 ★★★
🌸Shelter Island - Carla Neggers - 04.19 ★★★
🌸The Housewife Assassin's Handbook - Josie Brown - 03.16 ★★★
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✔10. Family Member

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🌸The Bull Rider's Brother - Lynn Cahoon - 02.23 ★★
🌸Lost and Found Sisters - Jill Shalvis - 05.25 ★★★★★
🌸The Colonel's Daughter - Amy Andrews - 09.17 ★★★★
🌸The Forgotten Child - Lorhainne Eckhart - 09.12 ★★★
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✔1. Cultural

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🌸New Orleans Mourning - Julie Smith - 03.21 ★★★
🌸Welcome to Last Chance - Hope Ramsey - 05.09 ★★★
🌸Louisiana Longshot - Jana DeLeon - 02.25 ★★★
🌸Fall from India Place - Samantha Young - 09.04 ★★★★
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✔2. A Profession

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🌸Cop of the Year - Kathryn Shay - 01.31 ★★★
🌸Hillbilly Rockstar - Lorelei James - 11.04 ★★★★
🌸The Bull Rider’s Manager - Lynn Cahoon - 07.26 ★★★
🌸Goalie Interference - Nikki Worrell - 06.26 ★★★
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✔3. Animal

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🌸Her Lone Wolves - Diana Castle - 08.20 ★★★★
🌸Must Worship Cats - Edie Ramer - 10.15 ★★★
🌸How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf - Molly Harper - 01.22 ★★★★
🌸Dragon Bound - Thea Harrison - 04.09 ★★★★
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🌸Them Bones - Carolyn Haines - 02.18 ★★★★
🌸Undercover Heart - Pamela Stone - 01.27 ★★★
🌸Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - Darynda Jones - 03.09 ★★★★
🌸Getting Out of Hand - Erin Nichols - 04.28 ★★★★
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🌸Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lingstrom - 02.17 ★★★
🌸Deadly in High Heels - Gemma Halliday - 07.19 ★★★
🌸The Art of Running in Heels - Rachel Gibson - 01.20 ★★★★
🌸Cowboy Boots for Christmas: Cowboy Not Included - Carolyn Brown - 03.12 ★★★★
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[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Am & LaurLa!

[Mandy!]

It's All in the Title Challenge

Duration: January 1st-December 31st, 2018

Level: Easy (1-3 books per category)

Read: 34/15

Categories:

✔ 1. Color:

(1) Red by John Logan (3/27/18)
(2) Green but for a Season by C.S. Pacat (9/5/18)

✔ 2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.):

(1) The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur (12/31/18)

✔ 3. Food or Drink:

(1) Warm Coffee by ナニン (4/26/18)
(2) Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (8/25/18)
(3) Fish & Chips by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux (9/15/18)

✔ 4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.):

(1) Off the Ice by Avon Gale & Piper Vaughn (5/27/18)

✔ 5. Person’s First or Last Name:

(1) The Deaths of Henry King by Jesse Ball (3/28/18)
(2) Wallis in Love by Andrew Morton (4/26/18)
(3) Diana: Her New Life by Andrew Morton (4/27/18)

✔ 6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.):

(1) Bound with Love by Megan Mulry (1/30/18)
(2) Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks (4/6/18)
(3) On the Brink of Passion by Tamsen Parker (8/25/18)

✔ 7. One Word Title:

(1) solanin by Inio Asano (10/10/18)
(2) Shade by Pete Souza (11/8/18)
(3) Radiant by Traer Scott (11/27/18)

✔ 8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well):

(1) It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian (1/4/18)
(2) Sixty Five Hours by N.R. Walker (4/12/18)
(3) Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (10/11/18)

✔ 9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc):

(1) The Summer Palace by C.S. Pacat (9/10/18)

✔ 10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.):

(1) My Brother's Husband Vol. 1 by Gengoroh Tagame (6/6/8)
(2) Sister Queens by Julia Fox (12/9/18)

Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional

✔ 1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group):

(1) Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (3/9/18)
(2) West Cork by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde (4/7/18)
(3) American Fix by Ryan Hampton (9/3/18)

✔ 2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.):

(1) Wheelmen by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell (3/4/18)
(2) The Gentleman and the Lamplighter by Summer Devon (1/31/18)

✔ 3. Animal:

(1) Birding is My Favorite Video Game by Rosemary Mosco (5/21/18)
(2) She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai (8/20/18)
(3) American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee (9/16/18)

✔ 4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc):

(1) Truth or Beard by Penny Reid (6/4/18)
(2) The Face on Your Plate by Jeffrey Moussaief Masson (7/8/18)

✔ 5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc):

(1) Shirt by Amy Lane (10/17/18)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Mandy!

[Beth]

It's All in the Title
Start date 2/2/2018
Duration open-ended
read so far: 17 (1 for "Color," 2 for "Sky," 1 for "Food or Drink," 1 for "Body of Water" 4 for "first or last name," 3 for "One Word title," 3 for "Number," 1 for "Romantic Word" 1 for "Bonus: profession")
goal: 4 per category + bonuses

1. Color:
1) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo 12/19/2018
2)
3)
4)

2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.) 2/4 read
1) Too Like the Lightning 2/9/2018
2) The Stars Are Legion 3/2/2018
3) to read: Cloud Atlas
4) to read: Perhaps the Stars

3. Food or Drink: 1/4 read
1) The Years of Rice and Salt 4/8/2018
2) Black Wine?
3)
4)

4. Body of Water: 1/4 books read
1) Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege 8/31/2018
2) Blind Lake ?
3) River of Gods ?
4) On Such a Full Sea

5. Person’s First or Last Name 4/4 read
1) Henry V 3/5/2018
2) Hecuba 7/28/2018
3) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 9/22/20
4) Macbeth 3/10/2019

6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.) 1/4 read
1) Love's Labor's Lost 10/15/2018
2) Beloved?
3)
4)

7. One Word Title 3/4 read
1) Spin 5/5/2018
2) Utopia 7/3/2018
3) Quicksilver 11/11/2018
4)

8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well) 3/4 read
1) Seven Surrenders 3/7/2018
2) The Fifth Season 3/20/2018
3) Three Men in a Boat 1/28/2019
4)

9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc) 2/4 read
1) The Man in the High Castle 4/23/2018
2) The House of the Wolfings 9/9/2018
3) maybe The House on the Borderland?
4)

10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
1) Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology?
2) Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
3)?
4)?

Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
1/5 read
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group): ?
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.) Farmer Giles of Ham 8/25/2018
3. Animal: The Conference of the Birds?
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[Sana]

It’s All In The Title
Duration: 2 February 2018 - ??
Level: Moderate 4-7 per category
COMPLETED

Categories
1. Color
Succubus Blues 28/3/18
The Red Ledger: Part 1 31/5/18
Red and the Wolf 3/4/18
Silver Borne 10/7/18

2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
The Last Star 17/3/18
Oracle's Moon 11/4/18
Moon Called 27/5/18
Her Dark Angel Of The Night 5/8/18
The Darkest Star 14/11/18


3. Food or Drink
God of Wine 21/3/18
The Cosy Christmas Teashop 24/10/18
The Beachside Sweet Shop: A Feel Good Romantic Comedy 28./8/18
The Cosy Christmas Chocolate Shop 16/11/18
The Falcon's Malteser 28/10/18
The French Confection 10/11/18


4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
The Infinite Sea 11/2/18
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 11/4/18
River Marked 11/7/18
The Beachside Flower Stall 29/9/18

5. Person’s First or Last Name
The Vampire Voss 9/8/18
The Vampire Dimitri 20/8/18
Jace 28/4/18
Tommaso 16/3/18
Aiden 25/5/18
Luc 28/7/18
The Forbidden Life of Alex Moore 9/10/18

6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
So I Married a Sorcerer 21/2/18
Immortal Matchmakers, Inc. 23/2/18
Lover Enshrined 31/7/18
Honeymoon from Hell III 8/5/18
Iron Kissed 8/6/18
Xander's Mate 6/8/18
In Bed with a Highlander 28/8/18
Seduction of a Highland Lass 2/11/18

7. One Word Title
Found 11/2/18
Indelible 15/5/18
Refugee 17/2/18
Salvation 19/2/18
Brave 6/3/18
Unplugged 28/7/18
Illuminae 15/3/18
Cursed 23/4/18
Truce 16/6/18
Checkmate 4/5/18
You 31/8/18

8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
One by One 14/2/18
The Curse of Tenth Grave 13/2/18
Eleventh Grave in Moonlight14/5/18
Gentleman Nine 26/2/18
Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon 31/3/18
One by One 29/8/18
The Drawing of the Three 31/7/18
The Five Deaths of Roxanne Love 30/9/18


9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
The House 7/4/18
Better Homes and Hauntings 4/7/18
The Cosy Teashop in the Castle 3/9/18
The Snow Leopard's Home 4/12/18

10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
Cousins 6/4/18
Cousins Book 2 23/4/18
The Single Undead Moms Club 27/3/18
The Little Sisters of Eluria 8/11/18


Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)

2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
The Queen's Poisoner 10/8/18
The Witch Hunter 29/7/18
Dance of Thieves 18/8/18
Firefighter Griffin 10/11/18
I Hunt Killers 27/10/18
Bodyguard Bear 23/11/18


3. Animal
Goldilocks and the Bear 6/4/18
Firefighter Pegasus 27/6/18
Dragon Bound 6/5/18
Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon 31/3/18
The Lion's Lady 26.6.18
The Snow Leopard's Mate 2/12/18
The Snow Leopard's Baby 3/12/18


4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
An Evil Mind 11/3/18
Hearts of Fire 30/3/18
Bone Crossed 12/6/18
The Snow Leopard's Heart 5/12/18


5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
Leather Pants 17/2/18
Tailored for Trouble 5/2/18
Unzipped 11/3/18
Skinny Pants 27/4/18

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge; everyone!!

[Maggie]

I'd like to join!

Level: Easy (1 book per category)
Started: 12-FEB-2018
Completed:
Read: 8/15

Color: White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out - Christian Picciolini - 5/7/18
Sky:
Food/Drink:
Body of Water: Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man - Lynn Vincent - 6/17/19
First/Last Name: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - 9/14/23
Romantic Word: Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me - Adrienne Brodeur - 8/19/20
One Word Title: Caraval - Stephanie Garber - 10/28/18
Number in Title: One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season - Chris Ballard - 9/2/18
Type of Home:
Family Member: The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder - John Glatt - 5/23/22
Cultural:
Profession: The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjalian - 11/28/18
Animal:
Body Part:
Clothing:

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Welcome to the challenge; Maggie!

[Rayne]

It's All in the Title
Started March 1, 2018
Level: Easy (2 books per category)

Read 20/20

✓ 1. Color
One Lavender Ribbon - Mar 17
The Red Pyramid - Apr 19

✓ 2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
The Lightning Thief - May 12
Rain Shadow - Jul 28

✓ 3. Food or Drink
Imperial Stout - Aug 16
Gummy Bears & Grenades - Sept 14

✓ 4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
Stillhouse Lake - May 24
Killman Creek - Jun 18

✓ 5. Person’s First or Last Name
Jack: Grime and Punishment - Mar 06
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library - Mar 11

✓ 6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
An American Marriage - Mar 07
Patchwork Paradise - Mar 19

✓ 7. One Word Title
Prelude - Mar 09
Inferno - Mar 17

✓ 8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
Ready Player One - Mar 05
Red Dirt Heart 3 - Apr 18

✓ 9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
The Orange Houses - Nov 19
Tight Quarters - Oct 22

✓ 10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
Silent Child - Mar 21
The Secret Language of Sisters - May 06

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Brooke!

[Maysam]

Question: Does 'wife' count as a romantic word? I'm planning on reading The Wife Between Us

[Michelle]

It’s All In The Title
DURATION: Open Ended
Level - Easy 1-3 books per category

Categories
1. Color
WHITE Bone White by Tim McWhorter - 10/4/18
CRIMSON First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost - 8/11/19
BLUE Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry - 8/22/19

2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
WORLD The Burning World by Isaac Marion - 8./4/18
LIGHTNING Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse - 9/16/18
SKY The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi - 3/4/19

3. Food or Drink
WHISKEY SOUR Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath - 2/11/19
APPLE An Apple for the Creature by Charlaine Harris - 4/19/19
PUDDIN Puddin' by Julie Murphy - 8/19/19

4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
FALLS Thief River Falls by Brian Freeman - 3/7/20

5. Person’s First or Last Name
JENNY Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan - 7/16/18
SOOKIE STACKHOUSE The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories by Charlaine Harris - 7/21/18
ALBERT Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator by Homer Hickam - 8/6/18

6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
BRIDE The Vengeance of the Vampire Bride by Rhiannon Frater - 7/13/18
LOVER Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward - 8/14/18
MARRIAGE The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain - 9/9/18

7. One Word Title
VIXEN Vixen by Jillian Larkin - 7/26/18
HYSTERIA Hysteria by Megan Miranda - 2/13/19
CALLED Called by Robert J. Crane - 7/4/19

8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
FIRST Women & Children First by Gill Paul - 8/9/18
ONE One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus - 9/1/18
77 77 Days in September by Ray Gorham - 10/27/18

9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)

10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
DAUGHTER A Daughter's Hero by Julie Weber-Torres - 8/22/18
SISTER The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain - 8/22/18
SON Son by Lois Lowry - 10/14/19



Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.

1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
TAMARACK COUNTY Tamarack County by William Kent Krueger 0 7/24/18
EVERGREEN AVENUE Evergreen Avenue: 1970s by Amelia Keldan - 7/28/18
WINDIGO ISLAND Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger - 8/8/18

2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
TATTOOIST The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris - 11/14/19
[MINER book:Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: A Chinese Miner, California, 1852|25263] by Laurence Yep - 2/6/20
GRAVEDIGGER The Gravedigger's Son by Patrick Moody - 3/3/20


3. Animal
BIRD Bird Box by Josh Malerman - 3/22/19
WOLF Wolf Pack by C.J. Box - 4/1/19
DRAGONFLY Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon - 12/31/19

4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
EYE Eyewall by H.W. "Buzz" Bernard - 8/10/19
BONE Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi - 3/7/20
HEART Bless Her Dead Heart by Meg Collett - 4/3/20

5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
PyjamasThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne - 11/28/18

[Renee]

I started this challenge many years ago and just about finished it then but I'm going to do it all over.

Level: Moderate (5 books per category)

Color:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Sky (cloud, star, moon, etc .):

1. Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor 2/6/19
2.
3.
4.
5.



Food or Drink:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Body of Water:

1. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield 1/31/19
2.
3.
4.
5.



Persons First or Last Name:

1. Saving Grace by Jane Green 1/7/19
2. Calico Joe by John Grisham 1/15/19
3. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore 2/4/19
4. Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams By Louisa Thomas 3/4/19
5.



Romantic Words (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.):

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.


One Word Title:

1. Fellside by M.R.Carey 2/25/19
2.
3.
4.
5.



Number In The Title (once, twice, etc can count):

1. Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones 2/19/9
2.
3.
4.
5.



Type of Home:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle...):

1. My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry
2.
3.
4.
5.



Bonus Categories

Cultural (A real place, language, people group):

1. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez 1/16/19
2.
3.
4.
5.



A Profession (doctor, solider, preacher, cowboy, etc.):

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Animal:

1. Cry Wolf by Tami Hoag 2/11/19
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
3.
4.
5.



Body Part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc):

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Clothing:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

[Sammy]

I'm in, going the whole hog!

Difficult: 12 books per category

179/180


1. Color
1. A Rose-Red City
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Woman in White
4. Dragonfly In Amber
5. The Color Purple
6. Black Dog
7. Red Rising
8. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
9. The Ruby Knight
10. The Sapphire Rose
11. All Systems Red
12. Black Beauty


2. Sky
1. The Name of the Wind
2. Podkayne of Mars
3. Double Star
4. The Sirens of Titan
5. The Light Fantastic
6. Empire of the Sun
7. The Martian
8. The End of the World Running Club
9. Pandora's Star
10. Agent to the Stars
11. The Moonstone
12. All These Worlds


3. Food or Drink
1. Chamomile Honey & Murder
2. Dandelion Wine
3. Roadside Picnic
4. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
6. Poison Fruit
7. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
8. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
9. His Banana
10. Breakfast of Champions
11. The Priory of the Orange Tree
12. Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams


4. Body of Water
1. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
2. The Swimming-Pool Library
3. The Waves
4. The Sound of Waves
5. Red Seas Under Red Skies
6. Frenchman's Creek
7. Heaven's River
8. Rivers of London
9. The Secret Seaside Escape
10. The House by the Sea
11. Rain and Other South Sea Stories
12. The River of Souls


5. Person’s First or Last Name
1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. Life of Pi
3. Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic FreakShow
4. Frankenstein
5. Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting
6. Rasputin: A Short Life
7. The Devil Wears Prada
8. Private Tucker's Boer War Diary
9. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
11. Don Quixote
12. Madame Bovary


6. Romantic Word
1. Classic Love Poems
2. Spark Joy
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
4. Morality for Beautiful Girls
5. Wanderlust
6. The End Of The Affair
7. Once Upon a Christmas Wedding
8. The Line of Beauty
9. The Robber Bride
10. Dream More
11. Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume 1
12. Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume Two


7. One Word Title
1. Artemis
2. Verity
3. Lolita
4. Grass
5. Carrie
6. Hannibal
7. Wintersmith
8. Legendary
9. Prudence
10. Matched
11. Rebecca
12. Imprudence


8. Number in Title
1. Portal of a Thousand Worlds
2. Station Eleven
3. 10-Minute Declutter
4. Once Were Warriors
5. Three Types of Solitude
6. The Fifth Season
7. Ajax Penumbra: 1969
8. Four Past Midnight
9. 1Q84
10. The Thirty-Nine Steps
11. The Thirteenth Tale
12. A Tale of Two Cities


9. Type of home
1. Charlotte's Web
2. A Room with a View
3. Bleak House
4. Ninth House
5. The Castle of Otranto
6. The Institute
7. The Old Curiosity Shop
8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
9. The House of Mirth
10. Two on a Tower
11. Northanger Abbey
12. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall


10. Family Member
1. Daughter of the Pirate King
2. Daughter of the Empire
3. Daughter of Smoke and Bone
4. Not My Father's Son
5. Parent Hood
6. The Godfather
7. Golden Son
8. Travels with My Aunt
9. The Murderer's Son
10. Children of Time
11. The Children of Men
12. Their Lost Daughters


Bonus

1. Cultural
1. Manhattan In Reverse
2. The Greek Myths
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
4. Down and Out in Paris and London
5. A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485
6. Homage to Catalonia
7. Journey to the Center of the Earth
8. A Passage to India
9. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
10. Orlando
11. Burmese Days
12. Crazy Rich Asians


2. A profession
1. The Little Prince
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3. Death of a Salesman
4. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
5. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
6. Pirate Cinema
7. The Alchemist's Apprentice
8. The Shepherd's Tale
9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
10. Servant of the Empire
11. The Runner and the Kelpie
12. The Blind Assassin


3. Animal
1. Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
2. The Reptile Room
3. War of the Wolf
4. Cat's Cradle
5. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
6. The Leopard
7. The Raven
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
9. Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
10. The Birds
11. Swan Song
12. Dogs of War


4. Body part
1. Heart of Darkness
2. How To Watch Football
3. Skeleton Crew
4. Steelheart
5. Autumn Bones
6. Faceless Killers
7. The Eyes of Darkness
8. Sheriff Got Your Tongue?
9. The Left Hand of Darkness
10. The Heart Goes Last
11. City of Bones
12. For Your Eyes Only


5. Clothing
1. The Man in the Brown Suit
2. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
3. Redshirts
4. The Painted Veil
5. From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
6. The Overcoat and Other Russian Tales
7. Dark Suits and Sad Songs
8. Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
9. Dead Over Heels
10. Luuurve Is a Many Trousered Thing
11. Pippi Longstocking
12.

[Sana]

Update post #343
Completed

Really enjoyed this challenge. Will definitely going to do it again. I wish this was a gem coin challenge.

[Keely]

Guess I found another challenge to join in. I'm going to go all in, even though it will take me a while.

It's All in the Title
Duration: 5/12/18 -> Finished
Level: Difficult 8-12 books per category

Categories

Color
1. The Amber Spyglass 18/10/19
2. The Emerald City of Oz 20/4/20
3. The Little Marmalade Cat Book 23/4/20
4. The Color Purple 6/5/20
5. The Opal Deception 15/7/20
6. The Silver Chair 20/12/20
7. Anne of Green Gables 28/4/21
8. Black Beauty 2/5/21
9. The Woman in White 12/7/21

Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
1. Northern Lights 27/12/18
2. The Lightning Thief 23/3/19
3. Stardust 11/10/20
4. Isadora Moon Goes to School 3/11/20
5. The Snow Queen 15/11/20
6. In Charge of Moonlight 13/12/20
7. The Thunder Girls 31/3/21
8. The Pull of the Stars 29/4/21
9. Midnight Sun 28/5/21

Food or Drink
1. Stone Soup 23/4/20
2. The Cool Bean 29/4/20
3. James and the Giant Peach 30/5/20
4. Each Peach Pear Plum 16/6/20
5. Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party 17/10/20
6. The Chocolate Tree 26/11/20
7. Anansi and the Pot of Beans 19/12/20
8. Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble 1/10/21

Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
1.The Sea of Monsters 12/6/19
2. Children of the Sea, Volume 1 11/6/20
3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 21/8/20
4. Smiley Shark and other Ocean Adventures 17/10/20
5. The House in the Cerulean Sea 30/7/21
6. A Girl by the Sea, Vol 1 26/9/21

Person’s First or Last Name
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 24/1/19
2. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 2/2/19
3. What Katy Did 8/5/19
4. Josie Under Fire 6/9/19
5. Charlotte's Web 8/11/19
6. Adolf Hitler: A Life From Beginning to End 29/11/19
7. Artemis Fowl 30/12/19
8. Mog's Christmas 7/1/20
9. Ozma of Oz 13/1/20
10. Schindler's List 15/2/20
11. Coraline 16/3/20
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray 18/3/20
13. Mog the Forgetful Cat 14/4/20
14. Harry Potter - The Ultimate Book of Facts 12/5/20
15. The Brockets Get a Dog 4/7/20

Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
1. Allure: State Of Desire 15/11/19
2. Love's Labour's Lost 19/7/20
3. Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Love 31/7/20

One Word Title
1. Prescribed 26/6/19
2. Titanic 23/7/19
3. Devotion: Book One 27/10/19
4. Pleasure 13/11/19
5. Crave 17/11/19
6. Metamorphosis 16/1/20
7. Devour 27/3/20
8. Dandylion 29/4/20
9. Matilda 9/5/20
10. Owned 1/6/20
11. Euphoria 6/6/20
12. Kidnapped 15/6/20
13. Paddington 13/7/20
14. Circe 22/7/20
15. Untamed 23/8/20

Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
1. Fifty Shades Darker 19/2/19
2. The Third Wish 17/3/19
3. Fifty Shades Freed 29/11/19
4. Five Children and It 11/1/20
5. The Two Towers 5/2/20
6. Twelfth Night 16/3/20
7. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 6/6/20
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 22/6/20
9. 10 Little Rubber Ducks 3/7/20
10. Pete the Cat: Five Little Ducks 1/9/20
11. The First Music 4/12/20
12. Three Men in a Boat 23/7/21
13. The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 1 7/8/21
14. Richard III 23/8/21
15. Shakespeare Tales: Twelfth Night 28/8/21

Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
1. The Grim Grotto 5/11/19
2. Too Close to Home 17/2/20
3. The Workhouse Waif 23/3/20
4. Mogie: The Heart of the House 25/5/20
5. Pete the Cat and the Tip-Top Tree House 17/10/20
6. Bleak House 2/6/21
7. House of Hollow 23/10/21

Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
1. The Magician's Nephew 7/7/19
2. My Sister's Keeper 7/11/19
3. How it Works: The Sister 10/12/19
4. How it Works: The Brother 14/12/19
5. The Merry Wives of Windsor 23/12/20
6. Good Wives 24/3/21
7. Firekeeper's Daughter 1/7/21
8. Daddy-Long-Legs 27/9/21

Bonus - I might not do all of these, but I'll remove any I don't want to do at a later date.

Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
1. The Holocaust 25/7/19
2. The Little Book of Essex 4/3/20
3. What Happens In Vegas 14/4/20
4. The Arctic Incident 14/4/20
5. Blitz: The Diary of Edie Benson, London, 1940-1941 19/5/20
6. The Cold War: A Beginner's Guide 25/5/20
7. Norwegian by Night 29/6/20
8. The Time-Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle 26/9/20
9. The Tattooist of Auschwitz 28/9/20
10. Shanghai Tango 28/9/20
11. Norse Mythology 2/11/20
12. Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide 11/11/20
13. Wartime at Woolworths 16/11/20
14. Viking London 8/5/21
15. Auschwitz: A History 1/6/21

A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
1. The Alchemist 14/4/19
2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 13/6/19
3. Secretary 19/10/19
4. The Return of the King 11/2/20
5. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz 20/3/20
6. A Little Princess 12/6/20
7. The Lost Princess of Oz 31/8/20
8. The Tin Woodman of Oz 1/9/20
9. The Lion King: The Novelization 9/9/20
10. The Merchant of Venice 16/9/20
11. The Haberdasher Prince 4/12/20
12. Kings And Queens 2/3/21
13. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 10/5/21
14. How to Be a Writer 4/9/21
15. The Worst Witch 6/9/21

Animal
1. The Book of Dragons 5/12/18
2. Little Wolf's Postbag 30/7/19
3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 9/8/19
4. Cat on the Mat 15/1/20
5. The Rescued Kitten 30/1/20
6. The Unicorn 19/2/20
7. The Tale of Peter Rabbit 20/2/20
8. A Kitten Called Tiger 25/6/20
9. The Horse and His Boy 26/2/20
10. The Boy Who Drew Cats 23/4/20
11. Stinky Winky Silly Willy Off-key Donkey: A Fun Rhyming Animal Bedtime Book For Kids 24/4/20
12. The Homeless Kitten 10/5/20
13. When Turtle Grew Feathers: A Tale from the Choctaw Nation 11/5/20
14. How The Camel Got His Hump 11/5/20
15. Mr Chicken Collection 15/5/20

Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
1. The Magic Finger 4/7/20
2. Goggle-Eyes 30/7/20
3. Pete the Cat and the Lost Tooth 30/7/20
4. Funnybones: The Collection 1/9/20
5. How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin 13/12/20
6. Why Spider Has a Thin Waist 14/12/20
7. Yorick and Bones 4/9/21

Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
1. The Charm Bracelet 4/2/19
2. The Fellowship of the Ring 4/1/20
3. Little Red Riding Hood 14/12/20
4. The Hat Full of Secrets 29/12/20
5. The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 2: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle, and the Years That Defined Elizabeth II 29/3/21

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Congratulatons Sana! ( and welcome back)

Welcome to the challenge everyone.

[Tiffany]

Categories
1. Color
Spinning Silver
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
3. Food or Drink
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
Unashamed: Rahab
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
7. One Word Title
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
3. Animal
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)

[LaurLa]

Finished challenge! This was fun - I will probably be back for 2019 :-P
Original challenge post: MY It’s All In The Title Challenge (msg 344)

Moderate Level: 4 books per category
60 of 60 Books Read

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Tiffany!

Congratulations LaurLa! ( and welcome back!)