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We have 32 participants and have read 58 books!
NEVER HIT THE STAGE
Duration January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
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Duration January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
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I don't know why I was missing this challenge, but sign me in for 26 books in English and 26 books in Spanish, please!!
PROGRESS: 52/52
❎ENGLISH: 26/26
A- The Quilter's Apprentice
B- The Book of Air and Shadows
C- The Chase
D-Duplicate Death
E- Entangled
F- Flight Behavior
G- The Girl You Left Behind
H- The Heist
I- I Am a Taxi
J- The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
K- The Friday Night Knitting Club
L- Lost Lake
M- The Muse
N- Wedding Night
O- Open City
P- Sunset in Central Park
Q- The Sugar Queen
R- A Red Death
S- Sleepless in Manhattan
T- Turbulence
U- Lover Unbound
V- The Ventriloquist's Tale
W- In the Woods
X- I Am Madame X
Y- Crazy On You
Z- Zodiac
❎SPANISH: 26/26
A- ¡Azúcar! La nueva biografía de Celia Cruz
B- Bestiario
C- La casa en Mango Street
D- Un día de cólera
E- Ella, Maldita Alma
F- Hija de la fortuna
G- Olvidado rey Gudú
H- Hombres de maíz
I- Inés del Alma Mía
J- El juego del ángel
K- Kafka en la orilla
L- Libra
M- Cartas a mamá desde el infierno
N- Sin noticias de Gurb
O- Ojos azules
P- El lejano país de los estanques
Q- Dime quién soy
R- El reino de este mundo
S- El secreto
T- Tigre blanco
U- En busca del unicornio
V- Segundo Verano En Vaqueros
W- La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao
X- Huérfano X
Y- Yo
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Here is the update to the end of March:
We have 33 participants and have read 162 books!
Great job everyone!

Great fun - loved this challenge, and the A-Z spin was a nice twist 👍

Great fun - loved this challenge, and the A-Z spin was a nice twist 👍"
Congratulations Mie! Great job!

A.L.Rossmaur - 0 /26
Ash (Geek_Aflame) - 1 /30
Ashley - 6 /26
Aubrey - 8 /13
Blagica - 0 /10
bookescape - 0 /6
Carmen - 21 /52
Carrie - 0 /15
Chalmation - 1 /25
Cindy III - 1 /5
Debra - 0 /26
Den - 0 /26
Franci - 4 /20
Gretchen - 0 /10
Janet - 3 /8
Jennifer - 10 /26
Jess - 8 /26
Jessica - 0 /30
Jordynn - 3 /26
Kadijah Michelle - 0 /26
Lindsay - 21 /20
Maca - 5 /26
Meaghan - 3 /26
Michaela - 10 /23
Mie - 20 /20
oshizu - 21 /22
Paul - 0 /26
Rebekah - 0 /20
ReGina - 2 /26
Rina - 15 /20
Sarah - 0 /5
Savannah - 12 /26
Vishaka - 21 /26

Please sign me up for 12! (Updated to 22)
And I will also try the A-Z approach suggested by Kadijah, but I will probably cheat and move books around as I go.
Progress: 24/22 (Completed 4 June 2019)
✔️A- The Astonishing Color of After (Emily Pan)
✔️B- Heart Berries (Terese Marie Mailhot)
✔️C- Failure to Communicate (Kaia Sønderby)
✔️D- Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
✔️E- Elantris (Brandon Sanderson)
✔️F- Feint of Art (Hailey Lind)
✔️G- An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)
✔️H- Huntress (A. E. Radley)
✔️I- Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
✔️J- Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (Zora Neale Hurston)
✔️K- My Sister, the Serial Killer (Oyinkan Braithwaite)
✔️L- Dead Letter Office (Kira Snyder)
✔️M- The Night Masquerade (Nnedi Okorafor)
✔️N- To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
✔️O- State of the Onion (Julie Hyzy)
✔️P- Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler)
✔️Q- Not Quite Narwhal
✔️R- The Round House (Louise Erdrich)
✔️S- Sugar (Bernice L. McFadden)
✔️T- Testing Pandora (Kaia Sønderby)
✔️U- Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Misty Copeland)
✔️V- VietnamEazy: A Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Food (Trami Nguyen Cron)
✔️W- Warcross (Marie Lu)
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✔️Y- What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (Elizabeth Catte)
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Your progress will be updated in msg #5 of this thread, starting where Winter left off last month.
Please give me a little time to get set up and organized. :D
We are all going to get this challenge dusted and done!!!

Great progress! You're exactly half done! 👍
@Carmen
You've set yourself a double challenge goal and you're making great progress, too!

Heaven's My Destination
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
Secrets
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
I have finished 8 out of my initial goal of 8 but I am increasing my goal to 11 books.
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I would like to change my goal to 20
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