Em's Reading Challenges, 2022

[Em Lost In Books]

A-Z challenge Character Name & Location

A - Avery - Before We Were Yours
A - Ayodhya - Kaikeyi

B - Bryce - House of Sky and Breath
B

C - Charlie - Flowers for Algernon
C - China - She Who Became the Sun

D - Daunis - Firekeeper's Daughter
D

E - Elizabeth - Lessons in Chemistry
E - England - No-Show

F - Fable - Fable
F - France - Lie With Me

G - George - Sweetness of Water
G - Germany - The Reader

H - Honeybee - Honeybee
H - Hollywood - Dark Sacred Night

I - Ibrahim - Thursday Murder Club
I - India - The Golden Son

J - Jalan - Wheel of Oshiem
J - Japan - Miracles of Namiya General Store

K - Kevin - We Need to Talk About Kevin
K - Kabul - Sparks Like Stars

L - Lily - Last Night at the Telegraph Club
L - London - Picture of Dorian Gray

M - Moon - How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love With the Universe
M - Maine - The Pet Sematary

N - Nora - Book Lovers
N - New York - A Show for Two

O - Ox - The Stranger Times
O

P - Paige - The Yearbook
P - Pakistan - All My Rage

Q
Q

R - Rooney - Loveless
R - Russia - A Gentleman in Moscow

S - Sarawat - 2gether
S - Sausalito - Last Thing He Told Me

T - Teddy - Daisy Jones and the Six
T - Texas - The Bodyguard

U
U

V - Valancy - The Blue Castle
V - Vietnam - The Mountains Sing

W - Willow - Write My Name Across the Sky
W - Wyoming - Happiness for Beginners

X - Xingyin - Daughter of Moon Goddess
X

Y - Yennefer - Blood of Elves
Y

Z - Zak - An Ember in Ashes
Z

[Em Lost In Books]

Challenge started in 2019

~Finished in 2020~

Read 5 Non-Fiction
1) Know My Name: A Memoir
2) Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
3) Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
4) The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
5) City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

Discover 10 New Authors
1) An American Marriage
2) The Masqueraders
3) Long Bright River
4) The Sun Down Motel
5) Enemies
6) This Is How It Always Is
7) Only Mostly Devastated
8) The Alice Network
9) The Bonesetter's Daughter
10) The Palace of Illusions

Read 5 Debuts
1) Well Met by Jen DeLuca
2) The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
3) Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
4) My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
5) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Read 10 translations
1) Kafka on the Shore
2) A Man Called Ove
3) The Story of a New Name
4) Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
5) The Story of the Lost Child
6) Beartown
7) Us Against You
8) The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
9) ) The War of the End of the World
10) Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

~Finished in 2019~

Read 5 New To Me authors
1) Wendelin Van Draanen
2) Madeline Miller
3) Ashley Poston
4) Robert Dugoni
5) John Wyndham

Read 5 debuts
1) The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
2) The Astonishing Color of After
3) Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
4) On the Island
5) The Spirit Thief

Read 5 Books released in 2019
1) The Kiss Thief
2) The Risk
3) Pretty Reckless
4) Motion
5) Space

Read 5 Tomes
1) 11/22/63
2) Winter
3) The Sunne in Splendour
4) A Column of Fire
5) It

[Em Lost In Books]

(view spoiler)[2001-2020

2001
1 Flipped
2 Mystic River
3 Tell No One
4 Dance upon the Air
5 Heaven and Earth
6 Peace Like a River
7 The Bonesetter's Daughter
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2002
1 Kafka on the Shore
2 Face the Fire
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2003
1 East
2 Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix
3 Mao's Last Dancer
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2004
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2005
1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2 Blue Bistro
3 Elantris
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2006
1 Lords of the North
2 Jelicoe Road
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2007
1 Sword Song
2 Halfway to the Grave
3 Agnes and the Hitman
4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
5 Still Alice
6 Someone Knows My Name
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2008
1 The Palace of Illusions
2 The Likeness
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2009
1 The Burning Lands
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2010
1 Hellhound on His Trail
2 Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
3 The Spirit Thief
4 Spirit Rebellion
5 Spirit Eater
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2011
1 Everybody Sees Ant
2 11/22/63
3 On the Island
4 Rules of Civility
5 Spirit War
6 Spirit's End
7 The Absolutist
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2012
1 Cold Days
2 Captured
3 Renegade
4 Malice
5 The Secret Keeper
6 Cinder
7 Gone Girl
8 A Man Called Ove
9 Defending Jacob
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10) Whispers Under Ground
11) Story of a New Name

2013
1 A Memory of Light
2 Mine to Take
3 The Rosie Project
4 A Different Blue
5 Scarlet
6 Omens
7 Whistling Past the Graveyard
8 Broken Homes
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9) Those who Leaves and Who Stays
10) Boys in the Boat

2014
1 Skin Game
2 The Rosie Effect
3 Cress
4 Visions
5 You
6 Foxglove Summer
7 Burn for Me
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8) Story of the Lost Child
9) Dreams of Gods and Monsters
10) Foxglove Summer
11) The Shadow of What was Lost

2015
1 Counsellor
2 Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin
3 Fairest
4 Winter
5 Deceptions
6 By Any Other Name
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7) Innocence
8) Acquisition
9) The Lake House
10) Secrets of a Charmed Life

2016
1 Magnate
2 Sovereign
3 Truthwitch
4 Win Some Lose Some
5 Wall of Winnipeg and Me
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6) An Exaltation of Larks
7) Sweetest Sorrow
8) Salt to the Sea
9) Every Heart is a Doorway
10) One in a Million Boy
11) The Hanging Tree
12) Beartown
13) One
14) Born a Crime
15) Punk 57
16) Hanging Tree
17) One In A Million
18) Every Heart a Doorway
19) Beartown

2017
1 Geekerella
2 Windwitch
3 What to Say Next
4 A Skinful of Shadows
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5) Bear and the Nightingale
6) Dating Disasters of Emma Nash
7) Assassin's Fate
8) Norse Mythology
9) Eliza and Her Monsters
10) Ninth Rain
11) The Nowhere Girls
12) A Column of Fire
13) Us Against You
14) White Hot
15) Wildfire
16) This is How it Always is
17) Strange the Dreamer
18) Unbound Empire
19) Less
20) Us Against You

2018
1 Circe
2 Simple Wild
3 Astonishing Color of After
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4) Lies
5) Ache for You
6) Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
7) Circe
8) The Bitter Twin
9) The Infernal Battalion
10) Matchmaking for Beginners
11) An American Marriage
12) Verity
13) Lies Sleeping
14) Muse of Nightmares
15) The Defiant Heir
16) Verity

2019
1 The Kiss Thief
2 The Wicked King
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3) Arranged
4) The Risk
5) Pretty Reckless
6) Motion
7) Space
8) Time
9) Frenzy
10) Poison Song
11) Jersey Six
12) Queen of the Underworld
13) Sapphire Flames
14) Butterfly in Frost
15) Spin the Dawn
16) The Ten Thousand Doors of January
17) Sorcery of Thorns
18) The Institute
19) Regretting You (2020)
20) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous


2020
1 Only Mostly Devastated
2 Vampire Debt
3 Death Game
4 Dear Ava
5 My Dark Vanessa
6 House of Blood and Earth
7 A Favor for A Favor
8 Sun Down Motel
9 Bright Long River
10 Beach Read
11 Hands Down
12 Peace Talks
13 Only Mostly Devastate

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[Em Lost In Books]

@Mods - Did not know which folder to put this in. If this is not the right folder, please move this to the right one. Thanks. :D

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "@Mods - Did not know which folder to put this in. If this is not the right folder, please move this to the right one. Thanks. :D"

This is fine :)

[Kavitha]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "So I will use this thread to tracking the following challenges:

Read 5 translations
Bring down TBR to 330 (currently at 353)
Read 5 Standalones
Read 5 Recommendations
Read 5 Books released in 201..."

Love your list :) Planning to start and finish some series in 2019. Any reco?

[Em Lost In Books]

Thanks, Kavitha.:)

Shadow Campaigns The Thousand Names
Kingsbridge The Pillars of the Earth
Realm of the Elderlings Assassin's Apprentice
Divine Cities City of Stairs

[Kavitha]

Thank you, Em :) Wow, hearing three of them for the first time! I am a big fan of Ken Follett and have read first two books of Kingsbridge series. May have to read all the three as it had been many years ago :)

[Kavitha]

Are you planning to read any of the series in January?

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Kavitha wrote: "Thank you, Em :) Wow, hearing three of them for the first time! I am a big fan of Ken Follett and have read first two books of Kingsbridge series. May have to need all the three as it had been many..."

Pillars of Earth is in my list for next year as well.. Let me know when you plan to read this Kavitha.... I'll try to join..

[Em Lost In Books]

Kavitha wrote: "Thank you, Em :) Wow, hearing three of them for the first time! I am a big fan of Ken Follett and have read first two books of Kingsbridge series. May have to read all the three as it had been many..."

only 3rd books remains unread in Kingsbridge for me.

[Em Lost In Books]

Kavitha wrote: "Are you planning to read any of the series in January?"

which series?

[Kavitha]

Em*Greedy* (Ini) wrote: "Kavitha wrote: "Thank you, Em :) Wow, hearing three of them for the first time! I am a big fan of Ken Follett and have read first two books of Kingsbridge series. May have to need all the three as ..."

Sure!

[Kavitha]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Kavitha wrote: "Are you planning to read any of the series in January?"

which series?"

The four series that you recommended me....

Only now I noticed that the third book was released last year. I haven't been reading any of Ken Follett books since 2010...so missed third one.

[Em Lost In Books]

I started those series before 2018 and have already few books from them.

1) Daughter of Smoke and Bone - am on third book
2) Shadow Campaigns - fifth book
3) Fionavar Tapestry - third book
4) Kingsbridge - third book
5) Broken Earth - second book

I guess you can join me in standalones. let me know if you like any of those titles. will ping you before starting them.

[Kavitha]

Ok 😊

[Barry]

You could read the winners of Nebula/Hugo/Locus awards between 1990-1999 and cover that challenge.

[Em Lost In Books]

Barry wrote: "You could read the winners of Nebula/Hugo/Locus awards between 1990-1999 and cover that challenge."

I am planning to hunt down all the award winner lists for this challenge. :D