Elizabeth's 2018 Reading Challenges

[Elizabeth]

2018 Challenges
Completed:
Challenge Theme: Author
New 2 U authors 2018



On Going
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2018



Yearly
Challenge: Read the Alphabet (Yearly)



Reading Challenges
The Twelve Towers Challeng

[Elizabeth]

New 2 U authors 2018
(view spoiler)[ Devil May Care = 20 or more
20/20
1:Michelle Major1/5/18
2:Carter Wilson1/3/18
3:Lawrence H. Levy1/11/18
4:Brandon Witt1/2/18
5:Robert W. Chambers1/8/18
6:Wilkie Collins1/18/18
7:Derek Alan Siddoway 2/3/18
8:Mark Carlson 2/10/18
9:Eva Chase2/1/18
10:Stella Rae1/23/18
11:Robert Kurson1/25/18
12:T. Christian Miller2/10/18
13:Kerrelyn Sparks2/5/18
14:J.G. Hetherton2/18/19
15:Karla Hull2/19/18
16:Sheryl Browne2/12/18
17:Ramona Finn2/23/18
18:Mary Auclair2/24/18
19:Joan Hess 3/1/18
20:Madison Thorne Grey 3/4/18

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[Elizabeth]

Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2018
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Shock Wave
Poseidon's Arrow

2013(4)
5*
The Jungle
Devil's Gate
Subterranean
Ice Hunt


2015 :
Prey
The Howling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Black Echo
Dead Witch Walking
The Gift
Honor's Splendour
It
5*
Drink Deep
The Medici Letters: The Secret Origins of the Renaissance
4.5*
3/4/18 1* DNF series
Blood Rights
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
Every Which Way But Dead
A Fistful of Charms
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Hollow City
Entranced
Magic to the Bone
Magic in the Blood
Magic in the Shadows

2016:(25)
Blood Sport: Special Agents Flynn and Tanner, FBI
And Then There Were None
The Depths
Barbecue, Bourbon and Bullets
Silent Night
All the Missing Girls
Scottish Rite
The Killing Moon: The worst Australian serial killers you never knew existed
Blood Infernal
Executive
5*
3/6/18 4.5*
5*
3/18/18 5*
The Ghoul
Death of a Celebrity
5*
The Bone Chamber
Cut to the Bone
the big dinosaur book
Hunted Down
Ghost Stories: The Most Terrifying REAL ghost stories from around the world - NO ONE CAN ESCAPE FROM EVIL
The Bermuda Triangle: Unexplained Disappearances Beneath The Waves
Dead Man Calling
Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Rebel Queen
State of Fear
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth
The Exploits of Juve
Darkfever
I've Been Watching You
What Lurks Beneath
The Seven Stars
The Witch With No Name
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Affliction
All Fall Down
5*
The Bride
The Ghosts of Lakeforth Hotel
The Pillars of the Earth
Cheyenne Captive
Cheyenne Caress
Cheyenne Splendor
Cheyenne Song
5*
The Awakening
Defy Not the Heart
Lone Wolf Lawman
A Deeper Darkness
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
End of Watch: A Novel
Different Seasons: Four Novellas
Protection Detail
Hell's Gate
Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command
Guardian
Next
Intensity
Pirate Latitudes
Dragon Teeth
The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
Crimson Death
Colter's Journey
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Who Killed These Girls?: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop Murders
The Evil Inside
Into the Storm
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Vanity Fair
Dark Rivers of the Heart
The Bookworm
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Passion & Venom
Forever Charmed
The Big Book of Rogues and Villains
1*
Girls In White Dresses
5*
The Passion of Cleopatra
3.5*
The Return of Tarzan
One Wicked Night
Dunkirk
Bluegrass Undercover
Breaking Point
1*
Disturbed
Arminius: The Limits of Empire
5*
Inherit the Dead
book:The Apartment|30258322]
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life
4.5*
Typhoon Fury
Her Last Lie
Blood Brothers
Preacher's Kill
Survive the Night
5*
1*
5*
Ghost Towns
A Throne for Sisters
Snowfall on Haven Point
Christmas on the Run
Seventh Grave and No Body
Rooms
Duel: Terror Stories
Revival
The Last Magician
5*
4*
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[Elizabeth]

The Twelve Towers Challenge
list done:
10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose) Completed

books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
15/75
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The Twelve Towers:

12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)

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1The Unfleshed: Tale of the Autopsic Bride
2The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
3Border War
4Orca Rising
5Island of the Mad
6The Darwin Variant
7And the Trees Crept In3/8/18
8Preacher: The Legendary Mountain Man: How It All Began
9Dark Lies
10The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan Before Pearl Harbor
11American Detective: Behind the Scenes of Famous Criminal Investigations
12Out of the Darkness & Night Moves
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11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)

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1:Drink Deep- 3/9/18
2:Magic in the Blood
3:Blood Rights
4:The Covenant of Genesis
5:The Pyramid of Doom
6:The Sacred Vault
7:Empire of Gold
8:Dead Witch Walking
9:Magic to the Bone
10Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth
11;The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
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10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose) Completed


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1:Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home3/11/18
2:The Stalking Death3/10/18
3:Magnificence 3/4/18
4:Pride v. Prejudice 3/1/1
5:The High Tide Club 3/6/18
6:Violent Crimes 3/3/18
7;Bring Me Back 3/1/18
8;Coffin, Scarcely Used3/11/18
9;Deadly Night 3/18/18
10;Ancient Egypt Secrets Explained!: The Influences Behind Egyptian History, Mythology & The Impact On World Civilization 3/18/18
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9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs

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1:Hollow City
2:Barbecue, Bourbon and Bullets
3:The Return of Tarzan
4;The Exploits of Juve
5:The Himalayan Codex
6:Magic in the Blood
7:Magic in the Shadows
8:Flesh and Blood
9"Return to Atlantis

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8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

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1:Different Seasons: Four Novellas
2:No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories
3:Blood Brothers
4:Duel: Terror Stories
5:
6;
7:
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7 books that everyone seems to have read but you


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1:End of Watch: A Novel
2:Revival
3:The Gunslinger 3/23/18
4:My Cousin Rachel 3/16/18
5:State of Fear
6:Swan Song
7:Red Dragon
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6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

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1:Darkfever
2:Next
3:55 Graves
4:White Houses
5:The Bookworm
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4 books that you started but never finished:


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1;It
2:Scottish Battles: From Mons Graupius (AD 84) to Culloden
3:One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
4:
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3 books that you've already read before


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1:The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
2:Subterranean
3:Ice Hunt
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2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books

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1:Baby Teeth3/1/18
2:
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1 book that intimidates you

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Vanity Fair
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[Elizabeth]

Read All the Alphabet

Librarian: 18 - 25 letters
Bibliophile: All 26 letters

Done :17
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A :And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich 3/8/18
B:The Blood Gospel by James Rollins 1/28/18
C:The Culling by Ramona Finn 2/23/18
D:The Devil's Grin by Annelie Wendeberg 2/20/18
E:Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon by Kerrelyn Sparks 2/5/18
F
GThe Grievance Collectors: Dead Day by Karla Hull 2/19/18
H:Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill 1/30/18
I:I, Ripper: A Novel by Stephen Hunter 2/1/18
J
K:The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers 1/18/18
L:The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston2/27/18
M:Magnificence by Madison Thorne Grey 3/4/18
N:The New Guinea Job by Vince Milam 1/17/18
O
P:Pride v. Prejudice by Joan Hess
Q
R :The Romanov Ransom by Clive Cussler 1/17/18
S:Shattered Mirror by Iris Johansen 2/12/18
T:Terrifying Tales by Edgar Allan Poe 2/19/18
U
V
W:The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1/18/18
X
Y
Z
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[Elizabeth]

Goodreads Goal:265
Total read: 60
Note:
X DNF 100%
✔ finished
Netgalley Books
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older then 7 months
✔Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life1*
Her Last Lie
✔Preacher's Kill 5*
The Bookworm
The Big Book of Rogues and Villains
The Passion of Cleopatra
✔Arminius: The Limits of Empire 4*
Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home 5*
XThe Culling DNF 100% ( read 18%)
✔The Marines' Lost Squadron The Odyssey of VMF-422 5*
✔Shattered Mirror5
✔Mister Tender's GirlDNF 100% ( read 20% )
✔The King in Yellow 3*
✔Wolf Tales 12 Exposed5*
✔Dead Day 1*

Current titles
The Evil Trance
Redeeming The Pirate: A Women's Action & Adventure Romance
Forsaken
The Sixth Day
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The Unfleshed: Tale of the Autopsic Bride
Orca Rising
Island of the Mad
The Darwin Variant
Preacher: The Legendary Mountain Man: How It All Began
The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan Before Pearl Harbor
The Luck of the Bride
A Duke Like No Other
SIDETRACKED: The Betrayal And Murder Of Anna Kithcart
Pirate Heiress
American Detective: Behind the Scenes of Famous Criminal Investigations
Dead Fish
Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
Sky in the Deep
Blood Demons
Pitchfork Pass
White Houses
My Lady Captor
The Legend of Perley Gates
Dark Lies
Creature From The Crevasse
Inquisition
High Alert
Last Night
The Hunger
After Anna
✔Wintersong 4.5*
✔The New Guinea Job 5*
✔Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon 3*
✔The Crooked Staircase 4.5*
✔Baby Teeth 5*
XCoffin Scarcely Used DNF 100% series ( read 67%)
✔Dragon's Guard5*
✔The Babysitter4.5*
✔Last Girl Gone: A Laura Chambers Mystery 4.5*
✔Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon 5*
High Alert
✔Touch of Ice 5*
✔Nyxia Unleashed 4.5*
✔Buckhorn 5*
✔Ace of Shades 3/22/18 3.5*
✔The Stalking Death 3/10/18 5*
✔Bring Me Back5*
Survive the Night 3/20/18 5*
If You Go Down to the Woods1*
The Neighbor
The Chuckwagon Trail
Ride the Savage Land
No Justice in Hell
Graves of Wrath
The Sheikh's Captive American
One Last Breath
Our House
Deadly Secrets
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising
Something In The Water
The Good Twin


Netgalley Rereads
✔MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II 1/22/18
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Disturbed
Subhuman
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[Elizabeth]

E-books
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Kindle books
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
✔The Medici Letters: The Secret Origins of the Renaissance3/30/18 4.5*
✔The Devil's Grin 4*
Entranced
Blood Sport: Special Agents Flynn and Tanner, FBI
The Depths
Barbecue, Bourbon and Bullets
Silent Night
Scottish Rite
The Killing Moon: The worst Australian serial killers you never knew existed
✔The Dolocher 3/6/18
✔Mark of the Dagger1/23/18
✔Ancient Egypt Secrets Explained!: The Influences Behind Egyptian History, Mythology & The Impact On World Civilization3/18/18 *****
The Ghoul
Hunted Down
Ghost Stories: The Most Terrifying REAL ghost stories from around the world - NO ONE CAN ESCAPE FROM EVIL
The Bermuda Triangle: Unexplained Disappearances Beneath The Waves
Dead Man Calling
The Exploits of Juve
Darkfever
I've Been Watching You
The Seven Stars
Forever Charmed
The Ghosts of Lakeforth Hotel
Intensity
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Vanity Fair
Girls In White Dresses
Passion & Venom
The Woman in White✔3.5*
The Return of Tarzan
One Wicked Night
Dunkirk
Bluegrass Undercover
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
✔Windsworn5*
✔Submerging Inferno4*
✔Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 30005*
The Bride
Honor's Splendour
Swan Song
Warrior's Woman
State of Fear
Executive
Ransom
Omega Dog

Google Play
The Pillars of the Earth
Cheyenne Captive
Cheyenne Caress
Cheyenne Splendor
Cheyenne Song
✔Deadly Night 3/18/18 5*
The Awakening
✔Terrifying Tales4.5*
Defy Not the Heart
Dragonflight
A Throne for Sisters
Red Dragon
The Serial Killer's Daughter
55 Graves
The Killer's Handbook

Nook Book
Death of a Celebrity
XMagnificence ( DNF series after reading 24 pages 3/4/18)
The Howling

Harlequin romance ebooks
Lone Wolf Lawman
A Deeper Darkness
Protection Detail
The Evil Inside
Snowfall on Haven Point

eBooks
The Bone Chamber
Cut to the Bone
✔KILL THE GRIFFIN 5* ARC
✔Code Name: Griffin5*ACR
Rebel Queen
The Last Magician
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal (hide spoiler)]

[Elizabeth]

Physical books
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Christmas on the Run
Shock Wave
Poseidon's Arrow
The Jungle
Devil's Gate
✔Her Soldier of Fortune5*
The Black Echo
✔Hard Bitten 5*
✔Drink Deep5*
✔Hollow City5*
✔Innocent Blood5*
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
End of Watch: A Novel
Different Seasons: Four Novellas
What Lurks Beneath
Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command
Next
Pirate Latitudes
Dragon Teeth
Crimson Death
Colter's Journey
Who Killed These Girls?: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop Murders
Dark Rivers of the Heart
✔The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story 4.5*
✔The Romanov Ransom 5*
Breaking Point
Unseen
✔Inherit the Dead 2*
The Apartment
Typhoon Fury
Blood Brothers
Ghost Towns
Seventh Grave and No Body
Rooms
Duel: Terror Stories
Revival
✔Last Stop in Brooklyn5*
Altar of Bones. Philip Carter
Sun River / Bannack
✔Violent Crimes 5*
The Bourne Retribution
Pride v. Prejudice 4.5*
Testament
✔Deadly Day in Tombstone 5*
✔A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America 5*
✔Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson & the Conquest of the American West 5*
Magic to the Bone
Magic in the Blood
Magic in the Shadows
Blood Rights
Flesh and Blood
Hang Him Twice
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories
✔Secrets in Death 5*
Firestick
The Himalayan Codex
The Golden Lion
The Change
Haunted
Affliction
the big dinosaur book
Encyclopedia of dinosaurs prehistoric life
All Fall Down
The Witch With No Name
✔The Gunslinger 3.5*
✔The Kill Room 5*
The Lunatic Cafe
Shadow of the Hawk
Nest of Serpents
Storm of Sharks
Every Which Way But Dead
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
A Fistful of Charms
✔My Cousin Rachel 5*
Out of the Darkness & Night Moves
✔And the Trees Crept In5*
The Covenant of Genesis
The Pyramid of Doom
Empire of Gold
Return to Atlantis
✔Border War3/19/18 5*
✔Rattle 5*
The Morganville Vampires, Volume 2Kill Decision
The Frontiersman
The Last Mile
The Third Twin
Survive the Night
The Merciless
Into the Storm


Rereads:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Subterranean
Ice Hunt
✔The Blood Gospel 5*
And Then There Were None
All the Missing Girls
Blood Infernal
✔I, Ripper5*
Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Guardian Angel
The Gift
Prey
Hell's Gate
Scottish Battles: From Mons Graupius (AD 84) to Culloden
Dead Witch Walking
Rage of Lions
✔Rise of the Wolf 5*
The Hunt for Atlantis
The Tomb of Hercules
The Secret of Excalibur
The Silent Corner
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Netgalley Books read:
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eBooks read
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nook books


DNF 100%





Harlequin romance ebooks




ebooks
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Physical books