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PBT tags:January: Action-adventure - Heroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail
February: Life - Taurus: The Art of Living Well and Finding Happiness According to Your Star Sign, Little, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
March: Debut - The House on Mango Street
April: History - Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
May: Beautiful - American Gods
June: Retellings - Macbeth
July: London - The Other Boleyn Girl
August: 21st century - The Golden Age of Murder
September: Cultural
October
November
December
Trim the TBR:January: #19 In Farleigh Field
February: #17 The Hangman's Daughter
March: #34 Verdict of Twelve
April: #12 Dead Simple
May: #24 Macbeth
June: #30 See What I Have Done
July: #23 A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion
August: #16 The Golden Age of Murder
September: #3 Big Little Lies
October
November
December
1. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie ~ Joi
2. The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr
4. An Almond for a Parrot - Elizabeth Foyster
5. A Burnable Book - Bruce Holsinger
6. The Breaker - Minette Walters
7. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway ~ Barbara
8. The Chatelet Apprentice - Jean-Francois Parot
9. Crime's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary But True Stories from Over Five Centuries of Legal History - Peter J Seddon
10. The Crow Girl - Erik Axl Sund
11. Dead Letters - Caite Dolan-Leach
13. Dangerous Women - George R R Martin
14. The Fatal Tree - Jake Arnott
15. Gentleman Captain - J D Davies
17. The Hangman's Daughter - Oliver Potzsch
18. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
20. Jane Austen at Home - Lucy Worsley
21. The Einstein Girl - Philip Snelton
22. Gilgamesh - Joan London
24. Macbeth - Jo Nesbo
25. How to be a Woman - Cait Morlan
26. Necropolis: London and Its Dead - Catharine Arnold
27. Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
28. A Plague on Both Your Houses - Susanna Gregory
29. Raising the Dead: The Men Who Created Frankenstein - Andy Dougan
31. The Mistress - Danielle Steel
32. Swimming Lessons - Claire Fuller
33. Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson
35. Versailles - Elizabeth Massie
36. The Wardrobe Mistress - Patrick McGrath
A-Z Stage AdaptationsB - The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
C - Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
D - Death Comes to Pemberley - P D James
F - The Favourite - Ophelia Field
G - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
H - The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
I - The Idiot - Fyoder Dostoevsky
J - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
L - Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
M - Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
N - Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
P - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
R - A Room With A View - E M Forster
S - A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
T - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Joel Dicker
U - Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
V - The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
W - The Witness for the Prosecution - Agatha Christie
Y - A Connecticut Yankee in New York - Mark Twain
Z - Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Booked 2019A seasonal book challenge that happens on Litsy
Winter (Oct-Dec)
1. Female Detective - Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters
2. Fairy Tale Retelling - The Woodcutter - Kate Danley
4. Features on a Podcast - A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
5. Set in Ireland/Written by an Irish Author - The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
6. New to You Author - Long Way Home - Eva Dolan
Spring (Jan-Mar)
8, Cli-fi - The Fifth Season - N K Jemisin
9. Indigineous Author - Life Among the Piutes - Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
10. Features a Musician - A Minor Deception - Nupur Tustin
11. Social Media Focus - #MeToo - Lori Perkins
12. Has Food or Drink on the Cover - Strawberries & Creme Murder - Susan Gillard
Summer (Apr-Jun)
14. Written by a Muslim author/Has a Muslim as a Main Character - The Language of Secrets - Ausma Zehanat Khan
15. Book to Movie - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
16. Comic/Graphic Novel - X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Christopher Yost
17. Gifted - The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse - Herman Hesse
18. Diverse Middle Grade - Refugee - Alan Gratz
Modern Mrs DarcyA book about a topic that fascinates you - Burke's Last Witness - C J Dunford
A book in the backlist of your favourite author - Very Good Lives - J K Rowling
A book recommended by someone with great taste - Heroines and Harlots - David Cordingly
Three books by the same author - Death Comes to Pemberley,
A book you chose for the cover - The Mitford Murders - Jessica Fellowes
A book by an author who is new to you - Long Way Home - Eva Dolan
A book outside your (genre) comfort zone - The Last Werewolf - Glen Duncan
A book published before you were born - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Reading Gifts 2019Books that have been given to me as presents!
A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
At Bertram's Hotel / The Thirteen Problems - Agatha Christie
The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
Buried in a Book - Lucy Arlington
The Grace of Kings - Ken Liu
The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert
Jane and the Damned - Janet Mullany
The Mitford Murders - Jessica Fellowes
Mythos - Stephen Fry
Sherlock: A Study in Pink - Steven Moffat
Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel
Still Life - Louise Penny
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - Theodora Goss
The Strangler Vine - M J Carter
The Witness for the Prosecution - Agatha Christie
Serial Reader 2019A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
At Bertram's Hotel / The Thirteen Problems - Agatha Christie
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Buried in a Book - Lucy Arlington
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
The Fifth Season - N K Jemisin
Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert
Jane and the Damned - Janet Mullany
The Last Werewolf - Glen Duncan
Long Way Home - Eva Dolan
The Mitford Murders - Jessica Fellowes
Mythos - Stephen Fry
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Sherlock: A Study in Pink - Steven Moffat
Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel
Snobbery with Violence - Marion Chesney
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - Theodora Goss
The Strangler Vine - M J Carter
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman - P D James
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Christopher Yost
Social Justice 2019 (also includes my Listopia "Books White People Need to Read")Black and British - David Olusoga
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
Desire - Haruki Marakami
Fifty Shades of Feminism - Lisa Appignanesi
Freedom - Margaret Atwood
The Gender Games - Juno Dawson
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla
I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin
Injustice - Richard Wright
Liberty - Virginia Woolf
Love - Jeanette Winterson
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House - Audre Lorde
Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell
On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Passing - Nella Larsen
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
The Souls of Black Folk - W E B Du Bois
Trans Britain - Christine Burns
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
War - Sebastian Faulks
Women & Power - Mary Beard
You've got to be a speed reader! There's no way I'd be able to get through half these lists at my slow pace...plus, wow! All I can say is best of luck!
Anita has language of flowers on her list of 36. Jenny, I hope you have a healthy and wonderful year!
Thanks Amy for helping people find matches. You're wonderful.I loved Language of Flowers. Jenny, let me know if you switch it, and I'll create a buddy read list for you.
Play Book Tag
Books mentioned in this topic
Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley (other topics)The Other Boleyn Girl (other topics)
The House on Mango Street (other topics)
Heroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail (other topics)
Verdict of Twelve (other topics)
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I hope to read 130 books this year, but I'm adding an extra 12 just in case I have to 'dnf' or none of my planned books fit the tag so 142 in total.