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NPR's Best Books of 2019Jan 1, 2020- Dec 31, 2020
Level : Bookworm- 5-11 books
previously read:
2020
1. Queenie- DNF
2. Fumbled- 3/10/20
3. Evvie Drake Starts Over 1/01/20
4. Ask Again, Yes
5. The Right Swipe
NPR's Best Books of 2019January 1, 2020-December 31, 2020
Level: Reading Superhero
Progress: 18/25
My TBR Shelf
✔1.Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child 1/4
✔2.The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier 1/16
✔3.One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America 1/15
✔4.Recursion 2/2
✔5.All Systems Red 2/4
✔6.How We Fight For Our Lives 2/6
✔7.Gods of Jade and Shadow 2/25
✔8.Permanent Record 3/4
✔9.The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company 3/14
✔10.Queenie 3/24
✔11.The Dutch House 3/29
✔12.The Right Swipe 4/4
✔13.The Deep 4/9
✔14.Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed 5/25
✔15.What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays 8/26
✔16.The Raven Tower 09/03
✔17.Wanderers 09/16
✔18.In the Dream House 10/19
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I have at least 4 from the list on hold from Overdrive...I guess they will be January reads according to the wait time.
That's awesome, Laura! That reminds me to check my library as well :)
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Jan 1, 2020- Dec 31, 2020Level : Bookworm- 5-11 books
Read: 5/5
1. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
2. With the Fire on High
3. Recursion
4. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
5. Spin the Dawn
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Duration: January 1, 2020-December 31, 2020Just Getting Warmed Up: 1- 5 books
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Bookworm: 5-11 books
Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
Reading Superhero: 25+ books
NPR's Best Books of 2019 ChallengeDuration: January 1, 2020-December 31, 2020
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Level: Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
1. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow, read 1/28/20
2. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, read 3/22/20
3. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern
5. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
6. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
7. The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
8. Wilder Girls by Rory Powers
9. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
10. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
11. If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham
12. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
13. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
14. From the Oven to the Table by Diana Henry
15. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
16. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
17. Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
18. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
19. I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
20. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
21. The Good Egg by Jory John, read 1/11/20
22. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
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Best of 2019 January 2020-December 2020Ultimately Going for Superhero 25+ books. Now I just need to pick .... so many choices
Just getting warmed up
1. The Dead Queens Club 🔹1/30/20*
2. The Water Dancer 🔹 2/4/20****
3. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 🔹 2/21/20****
4. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
5. Disappearing Earth 🔹 5/21/20****
Bookworm
6. My Sister, the Serial Killer
7. Thick: And Other Essays
8. Black Leopard, Red Wolf
9. Bowlaway
10. Wilder Girls
11. American Spy
Catch me if you can
12. Middlegame
13. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
14. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
15. Gods of Jade and Shadow
16. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
17. The Starless Sea
✔️18. Ninth House 🔹 3/5/20****
19. They Called Us Enemy
20. Know My Name
21. Recursion
22. Gideon the Ninth
23. The Bird King
24. With the Fire on High
Reading superhero
25. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
NPR's Best Books of 2019 UPDATED with 2020-2022Jan 1, 2020- Dec 31, 2020
Level : Level: Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
I have already read >20 and have 14 I want to read so 12 seems reasonable
(11/12)
1. The Raven Tower -8/7-*****
2. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous -2/24-***
3. Out of Darkness, Shining Light - 2/5-****
4. Disappearing Earth - 7/21-****
5. The Starless Sea
6. A Memory Called Empire
7. I Can Make This Promise - 5/25-****
8. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - 12/17-****
9. I Wish You All the Best - 1/4/21-****
10. Pet -3/20 -****
11. With the Fire on High-12/10-****
12. The Lager Queen of Minnesota -5/14-****
13. Ninth House - 7/28/22-****
NPR's Best Books of 2020
Jan 1, 2021- Dec 31, 2021
Level : Level: Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
I read only 9 last year but want to aim for 12 this year. I have 19 I want to read and I read 24 from the list already in 2020.
(15/12)
1. The Space Between Worlds-12/6/22-****
2. Interior Chinatown-4/3/23-***
3. The Midnight Bargain
4. Winter Counts - 1/2-****
5. Moonflower Murders
6. Hench - 4/22-****
7. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 7/6-***
8. The Searcher - 8/15-****
9. To Calais, in Ordinary Time
10. The Only Good Indians-11/8-**
11. Ghost Squad - 6/3-****
12. Transcendent Kingdom - 3/15/22-****
13. A Children's Bible - 6/9-***
14. Black Sun
15. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot-4/4/23-****
16. King and the Dragonflies - 2/9/22-****
17. Piranesi - 10/6 -*****
18. Anxious People - 3/6-***
19. Memorial-1/6/21-***
NPR's Best Books of 2021
Jan 1, 2022- Dec 31, 2022
Level : Level: Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
I only read 5 this year but want to read 16 and aiming for 12 again
(9/12)
1. Victories Greater Than Death-11/16-***
2. Six Crimson Cranes
3. The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West - 1/29/22-****
4. The Chosen and the Beautiful - 5/3/22-****
5. The Gilded Ones
6. Razorblade Tears - 1/8/22-***
7. Harlem Shuffle
8. No Gods, No Monsters - 9/15-***
9. Notes from the Burning Age
10. One Last Stop-11/29-***
11. Noor - 3/16-****
12. Cloud Cuckoo Land - 9/12-****
13. Skin of the Sea
14. A Marvellous Light-1/18/23-****
15. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
NPR's Best Books of 2022
Jan 1, 2023- Dec 31, 2023
Level : Level: Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
(8/12)
I read 9 this year but want to read 13
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau-3/19-***
2. The Monsters We Defy
3. The Light Pirate-3/1-****
4. When the Angels Left the Old Country-3/30-****
5. When We Were Birds-9/16-****
6. Sea of Tranquility-1/8-****
7. Black Cake
8. Tread of Angels-1/1-****
9. Nona the Ninth
10. Less Is Lost - 7/13-****
11. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions-1/30-****
12. The Book Eaters
13. Our Wives Under the Sea
I'm in! This is one of my favorite challenges on NBRC. Every year I get exposed to so many books I otherwise wouldn't have thought to pick up on my own.
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Books on the List I read in 2019
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Rachel... we are happy to hear that you love this challenge. I also read [bookcover:Recursion|42046112] this year; what did you think of it? ( Laura)
I'm on Bookworm status now :) Will go for Catch Me if You Can✔ The Starless Sea Finished 1/11
✔Red, White & Royal Blue Finished 1/18
✔ Daisy Jones & The Six
✔. They Called Us Enemy
✔. Pet
6. Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores
7. Double Awesome Chinese Food: Irresistible and Totally Achievable Recipes from Our Chinese-American Kitchen
✔. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
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NPR's Best Books of 2019Duration: Jan 1, 2020- Dec 31, 2020
Working my way through the levels....
Levels:
✔︎ Just Getting Warmed Up: 1- 5 books
Bookworm: 5-11 books
Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
Reading Superhero: 25+ books
1. Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera ★★★★★ Read: 2/4/20
2. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar ★★★ Read: 3/30/20
3. The Moon Within by Aida Salazar ★★★★ Read: 4/4/20
4. Middlegame by Seanan McGuire ★★★★ Read: 5/31/20
5. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★★ Read: 9/3/20
6. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates ★★★★ Read: 9/11/20
7. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston ★★★ Read: 11/6/20
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1. The Ten Thousand Doors of January | ★★★★ read 1.7.20
2. Ninth House | ★★★★ read 1.31.20
3. The Austen Playbook | ★★★ read 2.6.20
4. Normal People | ★★★ read 7.20.20
5. On the Come Up | ★★★★★ read 8.8.20
6. Red, White & Royal Blue ★★★ read 8.13.20
7. Evvie Drake Starts Over ★★★★ read 9.10.20
8. A Memory Called Empire ★★★ read 9.23.20
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Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Rachel... we are happy to hear that you love this challenge. I also read this year; what did you think of it? ( Laura) Laura, it wasn't my favorite Blake Crouch but it was still really entertaining! I don't know where he comes up with this stuff... What did you think?
Rachel wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Rachel... we are happy to hear that you love this challenge. I also read this year; what did you think of it? ( Laura) Laura, it wasn't m..."
That was my second read by Crouch. He is a great storyteller that's for sure. I enjoyed the book even though it confused the heck out of me.
I loved the Right Side up challenge - can we still join this one? If so I’m excited and want to push hard for “Catch Me If You Can” please!
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Enjoy and welcome.
I would also like to join this challenge. I'm not exactly sure what to do (excuse my ignorance). Do I just like my books here and then edit it when I want to update it?Thanks for your help! I'm shooting for Reading Super Hero. I hope to end up around 25. Just thought I'd put all my options down.
1. Queenie
2. Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
4. It Would Be Night in Caracas
5. Quichotte
6. The Witches Are Coming
7. Where Reasons End
8. Magic for Liars
9. The Ruin of Kings
10. The Starless Sea
11. Recursion
12. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
13. Three Women
14. Gingerbread
15. This Is How You Lose the Time War
16. The Future of Another Timeline
17. We Cast a Shadow
18. The Need
19. American Spy
20. The Topeka School
21. The Grand Dark
22. Heaven, My Home
23. Horror Stories
24. The Silence Between Us
25. The Stationery Shop
26. The Wolf and the Watchman
27. A Memory Called Empire
28. Mrs. Everything
29. Lady in the Lake
30. The Dutch House
31. Ask Again, Yes
32. The Bird King
33. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
✔️34. Know My Name: A Memoir - Finished 12/14
35. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
36. The Wedding Party
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Hi Patty,
No worries, everyone is great to help out and explain. Yes, you can use your first post ( #31), edit it, and if you are a planner you can link the books you want to read ( list is at the top of the page). Once you read the book come back and mark as read ( either by adding the date, adding a check mark, etc) or you can add the book(s) as you go along.
Here is a link to Lexi's post . I like how she sets up her challenge.
Also if you want another idea to set up your challenge here is Teddie's post from NPR 2018.
Hope that helps and if not feel free to shout out with any other questions.
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I'm in! Reading Superhero: (1/25)1. The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais ✔ 5/29/20
2. On the Come Up ✔ 6/22/20
3. In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids ✔ 7/19/20
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NPR's Best Books of 2019Duration: Jan 1, 2020- Dec 31, 2020
I'll also try and work my way through the levels....
Read: 2
Levels:
Just Getting Warmed Up: 1- 5 books
Bookworm: 5-11 books
Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
Reading Superhero: 25+ books
1. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
2. Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
3. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (6/7/2020)
4. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
5. Nobody's Looking at You: Essays by Janet Malcolm (27/9/2020)
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NPR's Best Books of 2019January 1 - December 31, 2020
My plan is to work my way through the levels.
Levels:
✔Just Getting Warmed Up: 1- 5 books
✔Bookworm: 5-11 books
Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
Reading Superhero: 25+ books
1. Happiness Is Baking | Maida Heatter - Feb 11
2. Steel Crow Saga | Paul Krueger - Apr 11
3. The Deep | Rivers Solomon - Apr 21
4. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion | Jia Tolentino - May 3
5. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks | Jason Reynolds - Aug 7
6. Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir - Oct 19
7. Daisy Jones & The Six | Taylor Jenkins Reid - Nov 8
8. Small in the City | Sydney Smith - Nov 23
9. Death Wins a Goldfish | Brian Rea - Nov 23
NPRs Best Books of 2019 Reading ChallengeChallenge Accepted: March 12, 2020
Challenge Completed: May 2020
Just Getting Warmed Up: 1- 5 books
NPR's Best Books of 2019January 1, 2020-December 31, 2020
Level: Reading Superhero
Progress: 4/25
Planning
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1. Children of Virtue and Vengeance 1/16
2. The Bride Test 2/7
3. On the Come Up 2/28
4. Wilder Girls 5/21
5. Enchantée 7/23
Nothing But Reading ChallengesNPR's Best Books of 2019 Reading Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2020-December 31, 2020
Progress: 13 out of 25
Just Getting Warmed Up: 1- 5 books
Bookworm: 5-11 books
Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
Reading Superhero: 25+ books
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NPR (National Public Radio) has published their list of the staff's favorite reads of 2019. With over 300 titles on the list, there is sure to be something for everyone.
My NPR 2019 Shelf
NPR's Best Books of 2019
1. The Good Egg by Jory John - ***** - 4/14/2019
2. Another by Christian Robinson - ***** - 5/4/2019
3. My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero - ***** - 8/18/2019
4. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei - ***** - 10/29/2019
5. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki - ***** - 11/14/2019 - 289 Pages
6. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams - ***** - 12/19/2019 - 330 Pages
7. Guts by Raina Telgemeier - ***** - 1/7/2020 - 144 Pages
8. How Do You Dance? by Thyra Heder - ***** - 1/27/2020
9. Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea - ***** - 2/15/2020
10. Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki - ***** - 5/31/2020 - 196 Pages
11. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips - *** - 6/19/2020 - 264 Pages
12. Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard - ***** - 7/1/2020
13. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - ***** - 10/2/2020 - 498 Pages
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Managed to read 22 books from the list this year! Not enough for the coin (darn it), but still my best showing yet. Hopefully 2021 will be my year!Some of my favorites:
I have only read 9 of the books this year but I enjoyed all but one of them so I am going to try for 12 again next year and just make a new post in this thread if that is easier. My favorite was The Raven Tower.
Got 9 books read this year for the Bookworm Level. 1. Happiness Is Baking | Maida Heatter - Feb 11
2. Steel Crow Saga | Paul Krueger - Apr 11
3. The Deep | Rivers Solomon - Apr 21
4. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion | Jia Tolentino - May 3
5. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks | Jason Reynolds - Aug 7
6. Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir - Oct 19
7. Daisy Jones & The Six | Taylor Jenkins Reid - Nov 8
8. Small in the City | Sydney Smith - Nov 23
9. Death Wins a Goldfish | Brian Rea - Nov 23
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Back again, because you, the readers, requested this challenge!
NPR (National Public Radio) has published their list of the staff's favorite reads of 2019. With over 300 titles on the list, there is sure to be something for everyone.
NPR's Best Books of 2019