Ann's second year challenge plus rejects and around the world

[Ann]

I am going to try and read in order this year and not get too far ahead. I won't even post more than 4 books at a time to make sure I don't screw up. Since I have other challenges, this may slow me down a bit.
The 2019 List is DONE 😄 👏
✔ 1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy Take Out won the Agatha Mystery Award
✔ 2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, what, where, when, why) The Dog Who Danced
✔ 3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y Death Comes To Kurland Hall
✔ 4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc) Dangerous Minds
✔ 5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare Much Ado About Murder
✔ 6. A book with a dual timeline The Alice Network
✔ 7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: both books written by James Patterson Book #1 The Medical Examiner
✔ 8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2 Manhunt
✔ 9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror) ✔ Collared Mystery
✔ 10. A book featuring an historical figure Hitler etc... The Orphan's Tale
✔ 11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject) Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness
✔ 12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer My Bibliofile: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers
✔ 13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list Kingdom of the Blind
✔ 14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term Sirius About Murder
✔ 15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country This Rough Magic
✔ 16. A book told from multiple perspectives
Nine Perfect Strangers from nine perspectives
✔ 17. A speculative fiction (ie fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia) Ella Enchanted
✔ 18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements The Silver Star
✔ 19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR Sheila Connelly The Lost Traveller
✔ 20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country Outback Midwife
✔ 21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes- more obscure holiday Mardi Gras Murders: A Novel
✔ 22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover The Woman in Cabin 10
✔ 23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ectoplasmic Man
✔ 24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New Where the World Ends First book I ever bought by contacting a book seller in a different country and having it sent
✔ 25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed Borrower of the Night
✔ 26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue Tumble & Blue
✔ 27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list- TAKE A WILD CARD Becoming Beatrice
✔ 28. A book related to something cold (could be theme, title, author, cover) Winter Sisters
✔ 29. A book published before 1950 The Four-Story Mistake written in 1942
✔ 30. A book featuring an elderly character Night of Miracles
✔ 31. A children’s classic you’ve never read Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back
✔ 32. A book with more than 500 pages 530 pages Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
✔ 33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet The Atomic City Girls
✔ 34. A book with a person's name in the title Betty and Friends: My Life at the Zoo
✔ 35. A psychological thriller In the Woods
✔ 36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
✔ 37. A book set in a school or university Death Comes to the School
✔ 38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc) The Smell of Other People's Houses
✔ 39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
✔ 40. A book you stumbled upon Celtic Empire
✔ 41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards Where the Crawdads Sing
✔ 42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character The Librarian of Auschwitz
✔ 43. A book related to STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) [fiction or nonfiction] What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
✔ 44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed (same topic, same era, book appeared in the show/movie, etc.) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Saw the movie and watched the T.V. series, season 1
✔ 45. A multi-generational saga The Death of Mrs. Westaway
✔ 46. A book with a (mostly) black cover Summer Constellations
✔ 47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.) Turkey Day Murder
✔ 48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year The Pox Party
✔ 49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country When Spring Comes to the DMZ
✔ 50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual) Tilly and the Bookwanderers
✔ 51. A book published in 2019 Murder on Cape Cod
✔ 52. A book with a weird or intriguing title The Island of Sea Women

[Ann]

Rejects Challenge with Book Club 1 YAY DONE ☀
✔ 1. A book about an obscure holiday a reject I wanted
Mardi Gras Murder

✔ 2. Three books linked by having the same word in the title The Trouble with Christmas

✔ 3. Christmas Camp

✔ 4. Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery

✔ 5. Books of the four seasons...summer The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate


✔ 6. fall Sweetbriar Autumn

✔ 7. winter Winter Sisters

✔ 8. spring When Spring Comes to the DMZ

✔ 9. A book about the arts Stained Glass Summer

✔ 10. A book about your occupation Death Comes to the School

✔ 11. A book related to your bucket list The Book Artist

✔ 12. A book with a month in the title Cats In May

[Ann]

☀ DONE Around the World challenge with book club two.
Read one fiction or non-fiction book that takes place in each continent or area. Then document three facts that you learned about the area that you didn’t know before or found interesting.

Continents or land areas;

✔ 1. North America except the United States (Canada, Greenland, Mexico) PEI The Red Door Inn
✔ 2. Europe The Prime Minister's Secret Agent
✔ 3. Central and South America Death on the Patagonian Express
✔ 4. Africa The Colors of All the Cattle and the non-fiction Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
5. ✔ Asia (Russian countries, China, Japan) The Island of Sea Women
✔ 6. S.E. Asia (Thailand area, Philippines, Indonesia) Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness
✔ 7. Middle East (South Asia and Northern Africa, including India) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
✔ 8. Australia and New Zealand including New GuineaOutback Midwife
✔ 9. The polar regions; which includes above the Arctic Circle in Russia, Scandinavia and Canada, Iceland and Antarctica Arctic Blue Death: A Meg Harris Mystery
✔ 10. An island anywhere in the world, even a made up one Where the World Ends
✔ 11. A make believe place Cat Seeing Double
✔ 12. A country that no longer exists such as Russia, Ottoman Republic, Persia, Atlantis, Pompeii, Rhodesia etc… or a more obscure country we don't hear much about. Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations

[Ann]

Yay DONE ☀ More Obscure Award Challenge from dalex
✔ 1. Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK. The Sea

✔ 2. Carnegie Medal
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction recognizes the best fiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year. Where the World Ends

✔ 3. Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize is awarded to the best debut novel of the year. Land of Love and Drowning

✔ 4. Costa Book Award Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

✔ 5. Dylan Thomas Prize
The Dylan Thomas Prize is a leading prize open to published writers in the English language who are under the age of forty. The Essex Serpent

✔ 6. Goldsmiths Prize
The Goldsmith Prize rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form. Crudo

✔ 7. Lambda Literary Award
The Lambda Literary Awards identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year. Taken by the Wind

✔ 8. National Book Award
The National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation. Brown Girl Dreaming

✔ 9. National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards to promote the finest books published in English. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

✔ 10. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author published during the preceding calendar year.
All the Light We Cannot See

✔ 11. Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Scotiabank Giller Prize is an award that goes to the author of a Canadian novel or short story fiction collection published in English (including translation) deemed by a jury to be the best published in the previous year. Boys in the Trees: A Memoir

✔ 12. Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English. Bel Canto


HISTORICAL FICTION

✔ 13. Walter Scott Prize
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is a British literary prize that celebrates quality, innovation and longevity of writing in the English language. Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves

MYSTERY
✔ 14. Agatha- The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the cozy mystery subgenre. Take Out

✔ 15. Dagger- Dagger Awards are given annually to celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing. Pardonable Lies

✔ 16. Dilys- The Dilys Award was presented every year from 1992 to 2014 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. It was given to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. Princess Elizabeth's Spy


✔ 17. Mystery and Mayhem Prize- The Mystery & Mayhem Awards writing competition recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Cozy Mysteries and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries. Under an English Heaven

✔ 18. Edgar- named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year. In the Woods

TEEN- Young Adult
✔ 19. Michael Printz Award- excellence in young adult literature The Pox Party

✔ 20- Newbery Prize for Children- Hello, Universe

[Ann]

Cover Collage-

[Tracy]

Looks like a cover to me ;-)

[Ann]

Book Club at Senior Center
✔ January- As Good as Gone
✔ February-Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
✔ March- The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
✔ April- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
✔ May- The Prime Minister's Secret Agent
✔ June- Music of the Ghosts
✔ July- The Hundred-Foot Journey
✔ August- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
✔ Sept- Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
✔ October- The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
✔ November- Before the Wind
✔ December- The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed