08. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"

[Alesha]

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Dinner by Herman Koch

2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt?
Nope. I had at least 15 on my TBR that fit this prompt.

I ended up rating this book 3 stars. Very mediocre and not nearly as thrilling as I was expecting.

[Stephanie]

I read The Inn

[Kathy]

I read The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary which I mail ordered from an independent bookstore as we began the quarantine. I needed something uplifting, which it was, althrough there are some heavier issues worked into the plot.

[Heather]

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
Iy didn't take much scrolling through my tbr to find something.

[Kim]

1. What are you reading for this category?
2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt? I'm not sure where I stumbled across this, but it fit several prompts from different challenges and I could download it through Libby.

[Angela]

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Weekend, by Charlotte Wood


2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt?
It was a little hard, but this one was suggested by my book club.

[Sherri]

What did you read for this prompt? The Hideaway by Lauren K. Denton.
Was it hard to find a book for this prompt? Yes it was hard. Luckily I was searching for my next read on Hoopla & saw it.

[Ashley]

I read The Woman. There were a lot of choices for this prompt, but I have had this book for awhile and finally read it.

[Pam]

I am re-reading, after several decades, The Stand by Stephen King. I have lots of other options if I don’t use this one.

[Emily]

I read The Flatshare and I actually wasn't thinking about how it would fit this prompt until I was nearly done with it. So I guess it wasn't that hard for me to fill the prompt.

[MN]

I read Walter Scott, The Monastery for this prompt - and thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Bana AZ]

For this prompt I started with The Luminaries but couldn't get into it, considered The Outsiders but I might put that in the classic book always meant to read prompt, and now I'm currently reading

The Godfather by Mario Puzo for this and I think I'll stick with it. I'm only about 30 pages in but I really like it so far. I haven't seen the movie yet and even though the movie is in a lot of "must-see" lists, I read somewhere that the book is still better than the movie, so here I am.

[Suzanne]

1. What are you reading for this category?

I read The Cactus.

2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt?

I had numerous options on my to-be-read list for this prompt. I'm not sure why I ended up choosing this one. It had been on my list for a while.

[Emily]

I just finished The Wives for this category. it was a fast- paced easy read and the category was one of the easiest I though as I had tons of books that were two words with 'The' first!

[Jana]

The Stand
Believe it or not, there was only one book on my TBR list that fit this prompt. And reading it during our current pandemic was ... interesting.

[Sarah]

I've chosen to read The Guardians by John Grisham.
This prompt was a bit difficult for me to find a book for but I have never read Joh Grisham so it was an easy choice once I saw it.

[Tracy]

I read The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. It was among a large handful of choices from my TBR list.

[Wendy]

I read The Trespasser by Tana French for this one. That was the last Tana French book I hadn't read yet, but lucky for me she has a new one out in October called The Searcher. Maybe I'll slot that one into the "mystery" or "400-600 pages" category. She's one of the few authors that I will read anything she writes.

I didn't have a hard time finding a book for this category. The Overstory and The Terror were on my shortlist, along with about a dozen other titles.

[Stacey]

I read The Virgins by Pamela Erens. There were plenty of other choices for this prompt, but I chose the book because it had been on my TBR shelf for a while.

[Joan]

1. What are you reading for this category? The Confession
2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt? No, I had several that would have fit this prompt. I was going to read The Help but I needed some help catching up in the challenge so I went with an audio book. The Confession was a good audio book to listen to.

[Hannah]

I'm currently making my way through The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee for this prompt (ignoring the subtitle). It definitely lives up to its name: it's a very detailed history of science book about the development of the idea of the gene. It's a bit dense (lots of names to keep track of!) but I'm learning a lot and it's got tons of fascinating information.

It wasn't too hard to find a book, except for the fact that it's impossible to sort the goodreads TBR lists to find titles that start with "the"!

[GailW]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The Dry by Jane Harper
2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt? Unfortunately, not at all. I already owned way too many that I hadn't read. It was, however, hard to pick which one to read.

[Karissa]

1. What are you reading for this category? The Unpassing
2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt? No, I had so many on my TBR

[Maggie]

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac

2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt?
Not really. I didn't have a book for this prompt, but after reading another of Balzac's books, I wanted to read The Chouans, and it nicely fit this prompt.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

This was surprisingly hard for me to find for my 2nd go-round this year. I thought I would read The Power because it has been on my shelf for a year or more but I started it and found it too dark. So I switched to the French book Les Fourmis, which means The Ants, and that turned out to be really creepy. I made myself finish it because I needed it for 2 different challenges but I don't recommend it.

[Virginia]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The Shadows.


2. Was it hard to find a book to fit this prompt?
No, I also read The Switch, The Bees, and The Original, and I had several more on my TBR to choose from.

[Andrea]

For this task, I read The Binding by Bridget Collins. It was not difficult to find a book of interest to satisfy this prompt's requirement. In fact, I still have The Unseen, The Alienist, The Idiot, and several more on my shelf!

[Nikki]

My last prompt of the 52! The Child by Fiona Barton