Reading through the ages

[Kendra]

Reading through the ages
Feb 1st 2019 to Jan 31st 2020

Levels:
Historian: 10 books
Anthropologist: 15 books
Archaeologist: 20 books

32/20

Dates:

Ancient History

Post-Classical History

Middle Ages

1300-1399

1400-1499

1500-1599 - 1
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness - Nov. 13th, 2019

1600-1699

1700-1799 - 1
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth - May 23rd, 2019

1800-1899 - 4
Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Slayings Behind Our Romance with the Macabre by Michael Knox Beran - Aug. 9th, 2019
Boneyard by Seanan McGuire - July 26th, 2019
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - Mar. 10th, 2019
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - Oct. 20th, 2019

1900-1999 - 11
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris - Aug. 4th, 2019
Not Our Kind by Kitty Zeldis - July 7th, 2019
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle - July 13th, 2019
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn - June 23rd, 2019
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - July 30th, 2019
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste Merasty - June 13th, 2019
Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont - June 11th, 2019
Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends by Debbie Reynolds - Apr. 10th, 2019
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate - Mar. 13th, 2019
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara - Feb. 19th, 2019
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser - Aug. 26th, 2019

2000-2019 - 10
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott - June 24th, 2019
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan - June 23rd, 2019
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren - July 12th, 2019
The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn - July 4th, 2019
Beartown by Fredrik Backman - May 27th, 2019
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman - June 27th, 2019
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman - July 7th, 2019
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede - Mar. 27th, 2019
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman - Aug. 27th, 2019
Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire - Nov. 6th, 2019

2020+ - 5
City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams - Aug. 18th, 2019
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse - May 12th, 2019
Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse - Aug. 15th, 2019
Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik - Apr. 2nd, 2019
Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik - Nov. 10th, 2019

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos), Group Creator]

Way to Go Kendra

I will get your link updated today

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos), Group Creator]

Finished
Post 12

Reading through the ages
Feb 1st 2019 to Jan 31st 2020
Anthropologist
18/15

Dates
Ancient History
Post-Classical History
Middle Ages
1300-1399
1400-1499
1500-1599
1600-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899
1900-1999
2000-2019
2020+

Ancient History
Between Two Fires by Mark Noce 8/8/19

1900-1999
The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton 6/2/19
Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton 6/4/19
The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton 6/12/19
The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan 6/14/19
Dracula by Bram Stoker 8/19/19

2000-20019
Sadie by Courtney Summers 3/6/19
The Hollow by Jessica Verday4/8/19
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo 4/11/19
Mistletoe Cottage by Debbie Mason 4/14/19
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus 5/7/19
Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane 8/8/19
Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon 8/9/19
The First Time She Drowned by Kerry Kletter 9/7/19 Cassie O’Malley
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon 9/8/19
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride 9/9/19
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw 9/9/19


2020+
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff 9/4/19

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos), Group Creator]

Please let me know if I missed anyone that has finished

[JoAnne]

I tried to find books from what I read that was either set or published NOT in the 2000s....

FINISHED
Reading Through the Ages
Duration: Feb 1st 2019 - Oct 12 2019
Historian: 10 books
10/10

Dates
Ancient History
Post-Classical History
Middle Ages
1300-1399
1400-1499
1500-1599
1600-1699
1700-1799

1800-1899
The House of Closed Doors Jane Steen 10/4/19

1900-1999
Sacred Dennis Lehane 3/6/19
Darkness, Take My Hand Dennis Lehane 3/7/19
Tiny Little Thing Beatriz Williams 5/3/19
Along the Infinite Sea Beatriz Williams 5/21/19
Garnethill Denise Mina 8/10/19
Trick Or Treat Murder Leslie Meier 10/12/19

2000-2019
Haunting the Deep Adriana Mather 4/2/19 Parts of story in April 1912
The Mephisto Club Tess Gerritsen 6/10/19
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 6/12/19

2020+

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos), Group Creator]

Awesome JoAnne

[Melanie]

COMPLETION POST - 20 books

Reading through the ages
Duration: Feb 1st 2019 to Jan 31st 2020

Task
Read books that take you back or even forward in time. The books can be fiction to non fiction with everything in between. You can use the years more than once.

Level: Archaeologist: 20 books

Dates
Ancient History
Fires of Alexandria - Thomas K. Carpenter - 2/8/2019

1700-1799
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette - Carolly Erickson - 10/24/2019

1900-1999
Emma and I - Sheila Hocken - 2/15/2019 - 1960s - 1970s.
Her Mother's Secret - Natasha Lester - 2/25/2019 - 1919-1939
Red Lotus - Pai Kit Fai - 3/30/2019 - 1900-1946
Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes - 4/18/2019 - 1970s onwards.
Briar Rose - Jane Yolen - 4/21/2019 - WWII
The Pianist - Władysław Szpilman - 5/7/2019 - WWII
The Sisters of Alameda Street - Lorena Hughes - 5/27/2019 - 1960s
U Is For Undertow - Sue Grafton - 6/8/2019 - 1980s
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel - 6/17/2019 - 1910
Midnight Sun - Jo Nesbø - 6/21/2019 - 1970s
The Lost Girls of Paris - Pam Jenoff - 6/29/2019 - 1940-1960s
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd - 7/13/2019 - 1960s
Beach House Memories - Mary Alice Monroe - 7/22/2019 - 1975
Q Is For Quarry - Sue Grafton - 8/31/2019 - 1980s
X - Sue Grafton - 9/11/2019 - 1980s
A Letter From Italy - Pamela Hart - 9/14/2019 - 1917
Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa - 9/21/2019 - 1948-2002

2020+
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 - Andrea White - 5/23/2019 - 2083

[Bonita]

Finished!

Reading through the ages
Feb 1st 2019 to Jan 31st 2020

Task
Books have the power to take the reader to a different place and time. So for this challenge read 10 to 20 books that take you back or even forward in time. The books can be fiction to non fiction with everything in between.

Levels
Archaeologist: 20 books

Dates
Ancient History
Post-Classical History
Middle Ages
1300-1399
1400-1499
1500-1599

1600-1699
Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning 7/23/19
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 9/30/19

1700-1799
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon 2/17/19
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon 7/2/19

1800-1899
It's in His Kiss by Julia Quinn 3/31/19
The Tale of Holly How by Susan Wittig Albert 6/8/19
Longbourn by Jo Baker 11/27/19

1900-1999
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra 3/8/19
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren 3/29/19
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie 7/3/19
Tippy Toe Murder by Leslie Meier 8/7/19
The Case of the Lucky Legs by Erle Stanley Gardner 8/22/19
The Secret of Red Gate Farm by Carolyn Keene 9/12/19
Murder in Three Acts by Agatha Christie 9/18/19
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 10/29/19
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

2000-2019
Rocky Mountain Home by Vivian Arend 8/9/19
Lip Action by Virna DePaul 8/12/19
Everything Bared by Kristine Cayne 12/5/19

2020+
Shadow Falling by Rebecca Zanetti 8/20/19

[Rina]

Finished!

Reading through the ages
Feb 1st 2019 to Jan 31st 2020

Task
Books have the power to take the reader to a different place and time. So for this challenge read 10 to 20 books that take you back or even forward in time. The books can be fiction to non fiction with everything in between. You can use the years more than once.

Level:
Archaeologist: 20 books

Completed: 25

Dates
Ancient History
Post-Classical History

Middle Ages
Two Rivers, Zoe Saadia, 24.02.2019

1300-1399
1400-1499
1500-1599
1600-1699
Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton, 11.01.2020

1700-1799

1800-1899
Ein verhängnisvoller Auftrag, Y.S. Lee, 02.02.2019
Further Observations of Lady Whistledown, Julia Quinn, 03.02.2019
Lady Charlotte's Marquess, Fiona Miers, 20.02.2019
A Curious Beginning, Deanna Raybourn, 31.05.2019
The Perfect Stranger, Anne Gracie, 28.06.2019
The Perfect Kiss, Anne Gracie, 16.08.2019
Das Geheimnis des Tanzmeisters, Julie Klassen, 15.10.2019
Vom Winde verweht, Margaret Mitchell, 27.10.2019
Just Like Heaven, Julia Quinn, 09.12.2019
Unveiled, Courtney Milan, 26.12.2019
Heartbreak and Honor, Collette Cameron, 05.01.2020
How to Capture a Duke, Bianca Blythe, 09.01.2020

1900-1999
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, Loung Ung, 22.02.2019
Children to a Degree: Growing Up Under the Third Reich, Horst Christian, 06.03.2019
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, 06.03.2019
The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway, 20.06.2019
The Lost Girls of Paris, Pam Jenoff, 25.06.2019
Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos, 02.07.2019
Der Angstmann, Frank Goldammer, 17.08.2019
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay, 10.09.2019
The Dressmaker, Rosalie Ham, 15.09.2019
Jerry of the Islands, Jack London, 20.09.2019

2000-2019
Once Upon Stilettos, Shanna Swendson, 23.06.2019

2020+

[Diane Brown]

This was such an interesting challenge. I covered more centuries than I remembered. The reading time period was January 7, 2019 through December 30, 2019.

Dates

Ancient History
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by Stephen Brusatte

Post-Classical History

Middle Ages
Birds Without Wings
by Louis de Bernières

1300-1399
The Winter of the Witch
by Katherine Arden

The Map of Salt and Stars
by Zeyn Joukhadar

1400-1499
1500-1599
1600-1699


1700-1799
Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
by Stephanie Dray

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
by Imogen Hermes Gowar

1800-1899
Dracul
by Dacre Stoker, J.D. Barker

The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland

Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan

Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
by Herman Melville

The Last Days of Night
by Graham Moore

1900-1999
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson

Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson *

The Patron Saint of Liars
by Ann Patchett

Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens

The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead

The Reef [with Biographical Introduction]
by Edith Wharton

The Lonely Hearts Hotel
by Heather O'Neill

2000-2019
Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim

My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite

All We Ever Wanted
by Emily Giffin


2020+
Artemis
by Andy Weir

Lightless
by C.A. Higgins

Iron Gold
by Pierce Brown

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
by Lauren James

[Celia]

Completion Post: Archaeologist

I'll count the first 4 books from every period I read, and then add in some of the more modern ones later if I need them. (I did 5 each for future and present day)

20 books

Dates

Ancient History

Post-Classical History

Middle Ages

1300-1399

1400-1499

1500-1599

1600-1699
5/23 (1650s)
1700-1799
8/8 (unspecified 1700s)
8/19 (1722)
9/16 (1729)
1800-1899
3/1 (1880s)
6/29 (unspecified 1800s)
✔️ 1900-1999
(view spoiler)[ 2/22 (1920s)
3/12 (1990s)
4/4 (1984)
4/28 (1980s - 90s) (hide spoiler)]
✔️ 2000-2019
(view spoiler)[ 3/4 (present day)
3/15 (present day)
3/27 (present day)
4/24 (present day)
1/17 (hide spoiler)]
✔️ 2020+
(view spoiler)[ 3/22 (distant future)
4/13 (distant future)
5/15 (near future)
7/30 (distant future)
1/4 (sometime after 2030) (hide spoiler)]

[[deleted user]]

Reading through the ages COMPLETED
Feb 1st 2019 to Jan 31st 2020
I'm going to try for Anthropologist.
Read 20/15, so therefore an archaeologist

1500-1599
• Tapestry of Treason – anne o’brien 10.10.19


1600-1699
• The Sealwoman’s Gift Sally Magnusson 08.02.19


1700-1799
• The place of secrets – Rachel hore – 17.08.19


1800-1899
• Black beauty – anna sewell – 01.02.19
• A marriage of opposites – alice Hoffman – 08.03.19
• Dracula – bram stoker 14.03.19
• Around the world in eighty days – jules verne – 17.03.19
• The five – Hallie rubenhold – 18.03.19
• War – peter lerangis 13.08.19
• The girl with no home – shelia newberry – 31.10.19



1900-1999
• Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult – 3 Feb 2019
• The tiger’s wife – tea obreht – march 2019
• Dubliners – james joyce – march 2019
• The book thief – markus sudak – march 2019
• Punch and judy girl – shelia newberry 27.10.19


2000-2019
• The Rest of Us Just Live Here – Patrick Ness – 7 Feb 2019
• Michelle Obama – becoming – 16.03.19
• Nevertheless – Alec Baldwin 01.10.19
• My brothers name is Jessica – john boyne 30.10.19
• Sofia khan is not obliged – ayisha malik – 18.10.19

[JoAnne]

WOOHOO Rina, Diane, Celia and Den!!