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Joy D's 84 in 2019
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Books 41 - 80:41. American Rust by Philipp Meyer - completed 4/16/19 - 5 stars - My Review
42. Inland by Téa Obreht - completed 4/19/19 - 5 stars - My Review
43. The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr - completed 4/21/19- 3 stars - My Review
44. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - completed 4/22/19 - 4 stars - My Review
45. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - completed 4/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review
46. The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain by James Fallon - completed 4/25/19 - 4 stars - My Review
47. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - completed 4/28/19 - 4 stars - My Review
48. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer - completed 5/1/19 - 4 stars - My Review
49. The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel - completed 5/3/19 - 4 stars - My Review
50. Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World by Christina Rickardsson - completed 5/5/19 - 3 stars - My Review
51. The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder - completed 5/8/19 - 4 stars - My Review
52. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - completed 5/13/19 - 5 stars - My Review
53. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - completed 5/18/19 - 4 stars - My Review
54. To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey - completed 5/20/19 - 5 stars - My Review
55. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay - completed 5/21/19 - 3 stars - My Review
56. The Hours by Michael Cunningham - completed 5/23/19 - 5 stars - My Review
57. All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy - completed 5/25/19 - 4 stars - My Review
58. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - completed 5/26/19 - 3 stars - My Review
59. City of Thieves by David Benioff - completed 5/29/19 - 4 stars - My Review
60. Winter Journey by Rick Mallery - completed 5/30/19 - 4 stars - My Review
61. The Address by Fiona Davis - completed 6/1/19 - 2 stars - My Review
62. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg - completed 6/2/19 - 4 stars - My Review
63. The Rainmaker by John Grisham - completed 6/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review
64. Watermelon Snow: A Cli-Fi Novel by William A. Liggett - completed 6/5/19 - 2 stars - My Review
65. Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell - completed 6/9/19 - 4 stars - My Review
66. Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood - completed 6/11/19 - 4 stars - My Review
67. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski - completed 6/14/19 - 4 stars - My Review
68. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - completed 6/18/19 - 4 stars - My Review
69. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter - completed 6/19/19 - 4 stars - My Review
70. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende - completed 6/21/19 - 4 stars - My Review
71. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper - completed 6/25/19 - 3 stars - My Review
72. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher - completed 6/26/19 - 3 stars - My Review
73. The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester - completed 6/27/19 - 5 stars - My Review
74. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - completed 6/29/19 - 2 stars - My Review
75. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy - completed 7/3/19 - 4 stars - My Review
76. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick - completed 7/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review
77. Atonement by Ian McEwan - completed 7/7/19 - 5 stars - My Review
78. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick - completed 7/8/19 - 3 stars - My Review
79. K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts - completed 7/10/19 - My Review
80. White Teeth by Zadie Smith - completed 7/14/19 - 4 stars - My Review
Books 81 - 120:81. Divergent by Veronica Roth - completed 7/16/19 - 3 stars - My Review
82. Testimony of Two Men by Taylor Caldwell - completed 7/21/19 - 4 stars - My Review
83. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - completed 7/23/19 - 4 stars - My Review
84. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - completed 7/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review
85. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake - completed 7/27/19 - 3 stars - My Review
86. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee - completed 7/28/19 - 4 stars - My Review
87. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon - completed 7/31/19 - 5 stars - My Review
88. Quichotte: A Novel by Salman Rushdie - completed 8/2/19 - 4 stars - My Review
89. The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse - completed 8/4/19 - 3 stars - My Review
90. The Brothers K by David James Duncan - completed 8/9/19 - 4 stars - My Review
91. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong - completed 8/11/19 - 3 stars - My Review
92. Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman - completed 8/13/19 - 4 stars - My Review
93. The Girl from the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor - completed 8/15/19 - 3 stars - My Review
94. Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson - completed 8/17/19 - 4 stars - My Review
95. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak - completed 8/20/19 - 5 stars - My Review
96. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood - completed 8/21/19 - 4 stars - My Review
97. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - completed 8/26/19 - 4 stars - My Review
98. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - completed 8/28/19 - 5 stars - My Review
99. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa - completed 8/29/19 - 4 stars - My Review
100. Five Seasons by Roger Angell - completed 8/31/19 - 4 stars - My Review
101. The Way of Beauty by Camille Di Maio - completed 9/1/19 - 2 stars - My Review
102. Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer - completed 9/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review
103. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - completed 9/6/19 - 3 stars - My Review
104. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - completed 9/8/19 - 4 stars - My Review
105. The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence - completed 9/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review
106. Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi - completed 9/12/19 - 3 stars - My Review
107. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley - completed 9/16/19 - 5 stars - My Review
108. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer - completed 9/21/19 - 3 stars - My Review
109. The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton- completed 9/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review
110. The Overstory by Richard Powers - completed 9/30/19 - 4 stars - My Review
111. The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton - completed 10/3/19 - 4 stars - My Review
112. The Humans by Matt Haig - completed 10/5/19 - 5 stars - My Review
113. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute - completed 10/6/19 - 4 stars - My Review
114. Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent - completed 10/8/19 - 4 stars - My Review
115. Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward - completed 10/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review
116. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert - completed 10/12/19 - 3 stars - My Review
117. The Dry by Jane Harper - completed 10/14/19 - 3 stars - My Review
118. Melmoth by Sarah Perry - completed 10/16/19 - 4 stars - My Review
119. The Snow Gypsy by Lindsay Ashford - completed 10/17/19 - 3 stars - My Review
120. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - completed 10/19/19 - 3 stars - My Review
Books 121 - 160:121. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: A Novel by Ron Hansen - completed 10/21/19 - 3 stars - My Review
122. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - completed 10/23/19 - 4 stars - My Review
123. Tangier by Stephen Holgate - completed 10/25/19 - 4 stars - My Review
124. Peony: A Novel of China by Pearl S. Buck - completed 10/27/19 - 5 stars - My Review
125. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton - completed 10/29/19 - 3 stars - My Review
126. Apeirogon: A Novel by Colum McCann - completed 11/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review
127. Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin - completed 11/7/19 - 4 stars - My Review
128. Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris - completed 11/12/19 - 3 stars - My Review
129. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway - completed 11/13/19 - 4 stars - My Review
130. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - completed 11/16/19 - 4 stars - My Review
131. A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial by James Reston Jr. - completed 11/18/19 - 4 stars - My Review
132. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson - completed 11/21/19 - 5 stars - My Review
133. The Vegetarian by Han Kang - completed 11/23/19 - 3 stars - My Review
134. The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: A Novel by Michael David Lukas - completed 11/24/19 - 3 stars - My Review
135. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner - completed 11/26/19 - 5 stars - My Review
136. Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes - completed 11/28/19 - 3 stars - My Review
137. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers - completed 11/29/19 - 4 stars - My Review
138. Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman by Mary Mann Hamilton - completed 12/1/19 - 3 stars - My Review
139. The Doctor's Daughter: Journey to Justice by Belle Blackburn - completed 12/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review
140. The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor - completed 12/6/19 - 4 stars - My Review
141. The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes - completed 12/7/19 - 4 stars - My Review
142. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez - completed 12/9/19 - 4 stars - My Review
143. The Holidays by Mike MacDonald - completed 12/11/19 - 1 star - My Review
144. The Sea by John Banville - completed 12/12/19 - 4 stars - My Review
145. In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills by Jennifer Haupt - completed 12/13/19 - 4 stars - My Review
146. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - completed 12/15/19 - 3 stars - My Review
147. The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible by Chanan Tigay - completed 12/18/19 - 4 stars - My Review
148. The Welsh Girl: A Novel by Peter Ho Davies - completed 12/21/19 - 4 stars - My Review
149. Salt Houses by Hala Alyan - completed 12/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review
150. The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan - completed 12/27/19 - 4 stars - My Review
151. A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - completed 12/30/19 - 4 stars - My Review
That's a wrap for 2019!
Joy D wrote: "I am selecting 84 books. I've read more than this each of the last 2 years, but I want to set a goal where it will be reachable if I decide to read lengthier books than in the past."
Sounds good Joy! Good luck & happy reading!
Susy wrote: "Sounds good Joy! Good luck & happy reading!"..."Thanks, Susy!
Wishing you the best of luck in 2019 and the remainder of 18.
Blagica wrote: "Wishing you the best of luck in 2019 and the remainder of 18."Thank you, Blagica!
Doing great so far ! Do you have a book That you can't wait to start?
Blagica wrote: "Doing great so far ! Do you have a book That you can't wait to start?"Thank you! I have so many I want to start. I'm looking forward to reading these soon:
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Look at you go! Keep up the great reading.
Blagica wrote: "Look at you go! Keep up the great reading."Thanks, Blagica, I hope to!
Doing great keep up the great reading!
Blagica wrote: "Doing great keep up the great reading!"Thanks for the encouragement, Blagica!
You are incredible! How do you read one book that’s 300+ pages and 3 days later complete another that’s the same length?! You are smashing this goal!How far are you from 80?
Genevieve wrote: "You are incredible! How do you read one book that’s 300+ pages and 3 days later complete another that’s the same length?! You are smashing this goal!How far are you from 80?"
Thanks, Genevieve. Sarah's Key was an audiobook that I listened to on a recent trip. I do read a lot though, and my insomnia "helps." :-) I have read 55 so far this year, so 25 to go.
Hoping you are having a good year with books and in life. Keeping busy turning pages look at you go.
Blagica wrote: "Hoping you are having a good year with books and in life. Keeping busy turning pages look at you go."Thank you, Blagica! I plan to!
Blagica wrote: "Awesome progress Joy!"Thanks, Blagica, I may get to 145 or so by the end of the year.
2022 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
White Teeth (other topics)Atonement (other topics)
In the Time of the Butterflies (other topics)
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (other topics)
The God of Small Things (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
John Banville (other topics)Pearl S. Buck (other topics)
John Grisham (other topics)
Yann Martel (other topics)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (other topics)
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Challenge Completed 7/24/19 - will continue to update this list through year-end
Books 1 - 40:
1. The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt - completed 1/2/19 - 4 stars - My Review
2. The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar - completed 1/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review
3. Winter Journey by Diane Armstrong - completed 1/7/19 - 3 stars - My Review
4. Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck - completed 1/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review
5. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides - completed 1/15/19 - 5 stars - My Review
6. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - completed 1/17/19 - 4 stars - My Review
7. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez - completed 1/21/19 - 4 stars - My Review
8. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - completed 1/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review
9. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - completed 1/28/19 - 4 stars - My Review
10. Discover Oil Painting: Easy Landscape Painting Techniques by Julie Gilbert Pollard - completed 1/31/19 - 4 stars - My Review
11. Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request by Mitch Albom - completed 2/1/19 - 3 stars - My Review
12. We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt - completed 2/2/19 - 2 stars - My Review
13. The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay - completed 2/3/19 - 3 stars - My Review
14. Caraval by Stephanie Garber - completed 2/5/19 - 4 stars - My Review
15. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne - completed 2/7/19 - 4 stars - My Review
16. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande - completed 2/9/19 - 4 stars - My Review
17. Without a Country by Ayşe Kulin - completed 2/10/19 - 3 stars - My Review
18. The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan - completed 2/12/19 - 4 stars - My Review
19. In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende - completed 2/15/19 - 4 stars - My Review
20. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster - completed 2/17/19 - 4 stars - My Review
21. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks - completed 2/20/19 - 4 stars - My Review
22. Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende - completed 2/25/19 - 4 stars - My Review
23. Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo - completed 2/28/19 - 3 stars - My Review
24. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - completed 3/4/19 - 3 stars - My Review
25. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester - completed 3/9/19 - 3 stars - My Review
26. The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker - completed 3/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review
27. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende - completed 3/13/19 - 4 stars - My Review
28. The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell - completed 3/16/19 - 3 stars - My Review
29. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob - completed 3/20/19 - 4 stars - My Review
30. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - completed 3/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review
31. Private Life by Jane Smiley - completed 3/24/19 - 3 stars - My Review
32. Pickle's Progress by Marcia Butler - completed 3/25/19 - 1 star - My Review
33. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford - completed 3/27/19 - 4 stars - My Review
34. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue - completed 3/27/19 - 4 stars - My Review
35. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - completed 3/31/19 - 4 stars - My Review
36. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck by Gary Kinder - completed 4/3/19 - 4 stars - My Review
37. And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life by Jane Christmas - completed 4/5/19 - 4 stars - My Review
38. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden - completed 4/8/19 - 4 stars - My Review
39. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism by John U. Bacon - completed 4/11/19 - 5 stars - My Review
40. Educated by Tara Westover - completed 4/13/19 - 4 stars - My Review