Jenna's 2020 Challenge Home Base ⭐ Once More, With Feeling!

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

💙💙💙**2020 Sign-off Message: As I'm sure it did for many of us, this year blew up in my face. I'm a C***** Nurse. I'm not sure I need to say much more. Cheers to a more beautiful 2021** 💙💙💙


2020 GOALS, CHALLENGES, & PROGRESS
will likely have to read out of order... choices subject to change at any time on a moment's whim 🤷🏼‍♀️

💙💙💙Happy reading 2020 everyone! 🙋🏼‍♀️ 💙💙💙

MY 2020 READING GOALS
- Prioritize the books I already own (physical, digital, and audio)
- Make a dent in my TBRs (Goal of 50)
- Read more BIG books (Goal of at least 5 'Chonksters')
- Read and learn more about American history
- Read at least one book that challenges my views
- Read at least one book that is a classical literary beast
- Read at least one book in a language other than English
- Read at least one book that may be considered contentious
- Read at least one book that I do not WANT to read, but feel as though I MUST
- Finish as many in-progress reads as possible!
- Actually record, rate, and review more of what I read because I'm fairly sh*t at it 🙋🏼‍♀️

GROUP CHALLENGES
My 2020 ATY 52 Challenge
Completed: 13/52

Clear the Shelves (Books added before or in 2019)
Books read: 5/50

PopSugar 2020 Challenge Homepage Link
PopSugar 2020 Challenge Details
Main Challenge: 8/40
Advanced Challenge: 1/10

MM Re-Reading Group Challenge (5 rereads/month)
Books read: 0/60

MM Pushing Boundaries 2020 Challenge
Pages read: 120/10,000
Books read: 6/?

PERSONAL CHALLENGES
Chonksters aka Really Big Books
Books read: 4/5

Complete at least 5 Series
Completed: 0/5

Lifespan challenge
Books read: 6/36

BOOKTUBE MONTHLY CHALLENGES, READ-A-THON, or BOOK CLUB:
February: Historathon Bingo
~Hosted by Sarah/Sarah'sNightstand & Amanda/TheCurlyReader

KEY/LEGEND
🥂 read/finished
⏲ currently reading
⭐ TBR Read!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 steam factor (3+ explicit on-page sex)
📚 hardcover
📖 paperback
🎧 audiobook/audible
📱 kindle/digital
💌 borrowed/library
🎉 multi-challenge
♻️ re-read
🌈 m-m
👯‍♀️ buddy-read
👀 chonker
☠️ DNF'd

Ratings:
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
🧡🧡🧡🧡
💚💚💚
💙💙
💩

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ATY JANUARY PROMPTS ~ WK 1-5

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
🥂Noble📱 ⭐ 🌈
Completed: 2nd Jan 2020, 124p 💙💙💙💙
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
🥂Paper and Fire📖 ⭐
Completed: 8th Jan 2020, 400p 💙💙💙💙
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
🥂 Bone China 📚
Completed: 18th Feb 2020, 430 pages 💙💙💙💙💙
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
🥂A Handful of Heaven ⭐📖 ♻️
Completed: 5th Feb 2020, 261p 💙💙💙💙💙
5. The first book in a series that you have not started
⏲ Outlander 👀 ⭐ ♻️ 📖 & 🎧
*re-reading before continuing this series
Completed: _____ Mar 2020, 850p

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ATY FEBRUARY PROMPTS ~ WK 6-9

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
The Shores of Tripoli⭐📚 Sailing ship
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
The Station ⭐🌈📱
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
🥂The Vanishing📖💌
Finished 23rd Feb, 291p 💙💙
9. A book that can be read in a day
New Hampshire Book of the Dead:: Graveyard Legends and Lore⭐📖

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ATY MARCH PROMPTS ~ WK 10-14

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (582 pages) ⭐📚
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Down the Garden Path (1931)📚
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
⏲Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden📚
by Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
The Clan of the Cave Bear⭐ 📖
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
March📖💌

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ATY APRIL PROMPTS ~ WK 15-18

15. A book set in a global city
The Golem and the Jinni NYC📚
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
🥂Texas Destiny 💌📖
Finished 1st Mar, 384p 💙💙💙
17. A book with a neurodiverse character
🥂Carte Blanche📱 🌈 *OCD, social anxiety
Finished 7th Jan, 57p 💙💙💙💙💙
18. A book by an author you've only read once before
The Girl in the Tower⭐📚

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ATY MAY PROMPTS ~ WK 19-22

19. A fantasy book
🥂 A Curse So Dark and Lonely 📖
Finished 20th Mar, 496p 💙💙💙💙
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
#20 on my Clear Your Shelves Challenge list
A Natural History of North American Trees⭐📖
#20 Physical HF shelf: In Falling Snow
#20 Physical MA shelf: The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene
#20 Fantasy Shelf: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
#20 Library/Borrowed/JustHauled shelf: Labyrinth
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
Song of the Navigator set in space ⭐📱🌈
22. A book with the major theme of survival
🥂 The Nightingale 📖
Completed: 6th Feb 2020, 564p 💙💙💙💙💙

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ATY JUNE PROMPTS ~ WK 23-27

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
🥂Tough Guy⭐ 🎧 🌈
Completed 13th Jan, 262p 💙💙💙💙
24. A book with an emotion in the title
House of Salt and Sorrows 📚
25. A book related to the arts
The Civil War in Art ⭐📚
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Winter Witch ⭐📚
27. A history or historical fiction
🥂Silence for the Dead 💌
Completed 5th March, 374p 💙💙💙💙

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ATY JULY PROMPTS ~ WK 28-31

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
⏲ Hell Ship 🎧
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
🥂The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For🎧
Completed 3rd Jan; 176p 💙💙💙💙
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Spinning Silver ⭐💌
31. A book inspired by a leading news story
¡Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole ⭐ 📖

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ATY AUGUST PROMPTS ~ WK 32-35

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
The Teahouse Fire
33. A book about a non-traditional family
Dads With Benefits
*placeholder, this one might change
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name JENNAutobiography
A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York ⭐📚
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
The Forgotten Room 📖

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ATY SEPTEMBER PROMPTS ~ WK 36-39

36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
🥂Assassin's Apprentice🎧
Read for: #elderlingalong
Completed: 18th Mar 2020, 435p 💙💙💙💙
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
The Victory Garden 💌
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
Survival in the Killing Fields 💌
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski 📖

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ATY OCTOBER PROMPTS ~ WK 40-44

40. A book with a place name in the title
🥂The Paris Architect ⭐ 📖
Completed: 11th Feb 2020, 374p 💙💙💙💙
41. A mystery
🥂The Little Stranger⭐📱
Completed: 5th Feb 2020, 482p 💙💙💙💙
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
The Night Circus⭐🎧 Women's Prize Nominee
Shortlist for UK Author, 2018
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Death and Dying, War, Pestilence, Famine
🥂 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ⭐📚🎧 (#5)
Completed: 20th Mar 2020, 870p 💙💙💙💙
44. A book related to witches
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ⭐📚 (#6)

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ATY NOVEMBER PROMPTS ~ WK 45-48

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
Ash and Quill⭐ 📚
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Man's Search for Meaning⭐ 📖
47. A classic book you've always meant to read
East of Eden ⭐ 📖
48. A book published in 2020
Darling Rose Gold
*subject to change

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ATY DECEMBER PROMPTS ~ WK 49-52

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
The Turn of the Key
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
⏲ The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves⭐📚
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
The Haunting of Hill House
52. A book related to time
🥂Dragonflight📖 *time travel
Completed: 13th Jan 2020, 299p 💙💙💙💙💙

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What I Actually Read in 2020 - Monthly Summaries

✨Months transferred to the bottom of the list once complete✨

🥂⭐⭐⭐🌬March Cover Collage - Completed Books🌬⭐⭐⭐🥂


ATY: 2 (view spoiler)[ Texas Destiny Silence for the Dead Assassin's Apprentice (hide spoiler)]
Clear the Shelves:
PopSugar 2020 Challenge: 2 (view spoiler)[ Texas Destiny Silence for the Dead (hide spoiler)]
MM Re-Reads:
MM Pushing Boundaries:
Chonksters:
Series Completed:
Lifespan: 1 (view spoiler)[ Texas Destiny Assassin's Apprentice (hide spoiler)]
March page total: 384+

🥂⭐⭐⭐🌷🐣April Cover Collage - Completed Books🐣🌷⭐⭐⭐🥂
ATY:
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🥂⭐⭐⭐🐝May Cover Collage - Completed Books🐝⭐⭐⭐🥂
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🥂⭐⭐⭐🌸June Cover Collage - Completed Books🌸⭐⭐⭐🥂
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🥂⭐⭐⭐🍃☀️July Cover Collage - Completed Books☀️🍃⭐⭐⭐🥂
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🥂⭐⭐⭐🌻August Cover Collage - Completed Books🌻⭐⭐⭐🥂
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🥂⭐⭐⭐🍁September Cover Collage - Completed Books🍁⭐⭐⭐🥂
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🥂⭐⭐⭐🍂🥅🏒October Cover Collage - Completed Books🥅🏒🍂⭐⭐⭐🥂
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🥂⭐⭐⭐🌧November Cover Collage - Completed Books🌧⭐⭐⭐🥂
ATY:
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🥂⭐⭐⭐🌲☃️December Cover Collage - Completed Books☃️🌲⭐⭐⭐🥂
ATY:
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🥂⭐⭐⭐❄️January Cover Collage - Completed Books🌧⭐⭐⭐🥂




January page total: (view spoiler)[124+400+57+ 176+299+262+120+265+226+312+221 (hide spoiler)]= 2,462

ATY: 6 (view spoiler)[ Noble
Paper and Fire
Carte Blanche
Tough Guy
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
Dragonflight (hide spoiler)]
Clear the Shelves: 3 (view spoiler)[ Noble
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
Carte Blanche (hide spoiler)]
PopSugar 2020 Challenge: 3 (view spoiler)[ Tough Guy
Dragonflight
Paper and Fire (hide spoiler)]
MM Re-Reads: 1 (view spoiler)[ Details of the Hunt
After the Crash
Just a Bit Dirty
Details of the Hunt
Sub Mission
Blown Down (hide spoiler)]
Chonksters: 1 (view spoiler)[ Paper and Fire (hide spoiler)]
Series Completed: 0
Lifespan: 0

🥂⭐⭐⭐💝February Cover Collage - Completed Books💝⭐⭐⭐🥂




February page total: (view spoiler)[512+261+564+153+250+171+154+213+264+374+433+291 (hide spoiler)]= 3,640p

ATY: 6 (view spoiler)[A Handful of Heaven
The Nightingale
The Little Stranger
The Paris Architect
Bone China
The Vanishing (hide spoiler)]
Clear the Shelves: 1 (view spoiler)[The Little Stranger (hide spoiler)]
PopSugar 2020 Challenge: 3 (view spoiler)[The Nightingale
A Handful of Heaven
The Paris Architect (hide spoiler)]
MM Re-Reads: 3 (view spoiler)[Hard Ridin'
Redemption of a Slave
Wrong Way Home - Criminal Delights: Taken (hide spoiler)]
MM Pushing Boundaries: 5 (view spoiler)[Hard Ridin'
Handyman
The Sea Monster's Mate
Redemption of a Slave
Wrong Way Home - Criminal Delights: Taken (hide spoiler)]
Chonksters: 3 (view spoiler)[Bone ChinaThe Little StrangerThe Nightingale (hide spoiler)]
Series Completed: 0
Lifespan: 4 (view spoiler)[The Little Stranger
A Handful of Heaven
The Nightingale
The Lion and the Crow (hide spoiler)]
February Historathon: 6 (view spoiler)[The Little Stranger
A Handful of Heaven
The Nightingale
The Lion and the Crow
The Paris Architect
Bone China
(hide spoiler)]

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Chonkster List, idea borrowed from AnnaG with a some modification/adaptation 🐱

🥂🥂 2020 Completed Chonks - Cover Collage 🥂🥂


😺LIL' CHONK (400-500 pages... RIP Lil' Bub 💕)
400p 🥂Paper and Fire 📖 January 2020
400p If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman 📖
400p The Last of the Wine
400p The Foundling
400p The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
400p The Miniaturist
400p The Room on Rue Amélie
400p The Forbidden Garden
400p The Other People
400p Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
400p The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
401p Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World
401p Worlds Apart
403p We Were the Lucky Ones
403p House of Salt and Sorrows
404p The Snow Child
404p Victoria
408p Linemates
416p Swedish Folktales and Legends
416p What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
416p The Dollmaker
416p The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
422p The Essex Serpent
422p Beautiful Chaos
425p Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 📖
430p Crime and Punishment
430p Demon from the Dark
432p Ash Princess
432p The Wish Granter
432p The Bone Witch
432p The Shadowy Horses
432p The French Gardener
432p Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience
433p 🥂Bone China 📚 February 2020
434p Bellewether
435p Uprooted
435p The Great Alone
436p Flight Behavior
440p Broken Wing
440p A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650-1800
440p Avalon
441p The Rose Garden
444p Children of Dune
445p Safety Net
446p Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
447p The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
448p Fawkes
448p The Bell in the Lake
448p In Falling Snow
448p Smoke and Iron
449p The Expected One
450p The Seer and the Scholar
453p Becoming Marie Antoinette
454p Winter Garden
459p American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are
461p Origin 🎧
464p The Shores of Tripoli 📚
464p A Whisper of Bones
464p The Witches of St. Petersburg
464p The Lost Ones
467p The Narrow Road to the Deep North
468p Raven Stole the Moon
475p The Shoemaker's Wife
479p Firefly Lane
480p Spinning Silver'
480p A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
480p Seasons of the Storm
481p Clockwork Angel
484p The Secret Keeper
484p A Curse So Dark and Lonely
485p The Clockmaker's Daughter
485p City of Bones
486p The Golem and the Jinni
487p The Shadow of the Wind
489p The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
490p Hood
495p The Lake House

😸CHONK-A-DONK (501-600)
502p The Lady of the Rivers
509p The Witch Elm
512p 🥂The Little Stranger 📱 February 2020
512p A Natural History of North American Trees 📖
512p The Fountains of Silence
512p The Starless Sea
512p The Clan of the Cave Bear
515p Labyrinth
515p Survival in the Killing Fields
516p Beneath the Apple Leaves
523p The Quick
523p The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
525p Beowulf & Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures
527p The Lost Queen
528p A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
531p The Angel's Game
531p Life After Life
533p Flowers from the Storm
534p Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation
544p Chain of Gold
544p Hild
552p The Book Thief
560p The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need
560p Bellagrand
561p The Queen of the Night
562p The Book of English Magic 📖
564p 🥂The Nightingale 📖 February 2020
575p The Crimean War: A History
576p This Other Eden
580p Pagan Celtic Britain
584p Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature 📚
585p The Sergeant
592p The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicines
594p Lionheart
596p Thunderclaw
599p The House at Riverton

😻HE CHONK (601-700 pages)
601p East of Eden 📖
602p Taken by the SEAL
604p Dune
605p The Burning Chambers
608p Sandstorm
608p The Gulag Archipelago, Volume Three
609p Children of Dune
614p Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
624p The Bone Clocks
640p ⏲ Outlander 📖
640p Resistance Women
640p The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Notes from the French Countryside
652p Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
688p The Federalist Papers
688p Dune
698p Lady Midnight

😽HEFTYCHONK (701-800 pages)
704p The Historian
704p The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
721p The Naked and the Dead
741p The Gilded Hour
736p Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints Sages: A Guide to Asking for Protection, Wealth, Happiness, and Everything Else!
743p Dragonfly in Amber
752p The Gulag Archipelago: V. 2
759p Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
763p The Years of Rice and Salt
783p Ulysses
784p When Christ and His Saints Slept

😼MEGACHONKER (801-900)
816p House of Earth and Blood
834p The Luminaries
840p The Golden Bough
848p The Priory of the Orange Tree
850p Fall of Giants
858p The Bones of the Earth
870p 🥂Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
March 2020
880p Ship of Magic
884p The Mists of Avalon
887p The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft

😹OH LAWD HE COMIN' (900-1000)
901p The Crimson Petal and the White
964p Anna Karenina 🎧📱
976p The Pillars of the Earth 📖

🙀CHONK-QUAKE (1100+ Pages)
1014p World Without End 📖
1125p War and Peace 📖🎧📱

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Duology/Trilogy/Series I'm working through or plan to read

- Core volumes only as they are my main focus
- Title changed to cover once read

Duologies (2 books)

The Fairmile Series - Philippa Gregory
Tidelands
Dark Tides: A Novel

A Thousand Nights - E.K. Johnston
A Thousand Nights
Spindle

Seasons of the Storm - Elle Cosimano
Seasons of the Storm

The Burning Chambers - Kate Mosse
The Burning Chambers
The City of Tears

The Golem and the Jinni - Author
The Golem and the Jinni
The Iron Season

Crescent City - Sarah J. Maas
House of Earth and Blood
Untitled

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Trilogies/Series (3 books)

Kingsbridge Trilogy - Ken Follett
The Pillars of the Earth 📖
World Without End 📖
A Column of Fire

Century Trilogy - Ken Follett
Fall of Giants
Winter of the World
Edge of Eternity

Texas Trilogy - Lorraine Heath

Texas Glory
Texas Legacy

Marie Antoinette Series - Juliet Grey
Becoming Marie Antoinette
Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow
Confessions of Marie Antoinette

Magdalene Line Trilogy - Kathleen McGowan
The Expected One
The Book of Love
The Poet Prince

The Infernal Devices - Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Prince
Clockwork Princess
After the Bridge

The Dark Artifices - Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
Lord of Shadows
Queen of Air and Darkness

The Last Hours - Cassandra Clare
Chain of Gold
Chain of Iron
Chain of Thorns

The Eldest Curses - Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
The Lost Book of the White
The Black Volume of the Dead

Three Parts: The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 2
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 3

The Lost Queen - Signe Pike
The Lost Queen 📖
The Forgotten Kingdom
#3 Untitled

All Souls Trilogy - Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
Shadow of Night 📖
The Book of Life 📖

Pharmako - Dale Pendell
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft 📖
Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, & Herbcraft 📚
Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path 📚

Ash Princess - Laura Sebastian
Ash Princess
Lady Smoke
Ember Queen

Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine - Sharon Kay Penman
When Christ and His Saints Slept
Time and Chance
Devil's Brood

Languedoc - Kate Mosse
Labyrinth
Sepulchre
Citadel

Cursebreakers - Brigid Kemmerer
A Curse So Dark and Lonely
A Heart So Fierce and Broken
A Vow So Bold and Deadly

Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure Series - James L. Haley
The Shores of Tripoli 📚
A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
The Devil in Paradise: Captain Putnam in Hawaii

The Bone Witch - Rin Chupeco
The Bone Witch
The Heart Forger
The Shadowglass

Jock Row - Sara Ney


Pern - Anne McCaffrey


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Avg Length Series (4-10 books)

How to Date a Douchebag - Sara Ney

The Coaching Hours


The Dune Chronicles - Frank Herbert
Dune 📖
Dune Messiah 📖
Children of Dune📚
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune

The Great Library - Rachel Caine

Ash and Quill 📚
Smoke and Iron
Sword and Pen

Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 📚
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 📚
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two not reading this

The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels
City of Lost Souls
City of Heavenly Fire

An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir

⏲ A Reaper at the Gates
Untitled

The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Mists of Avalon
The Forest House
Lady of Avalon
Priestess of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
Ravens of Avalon
Sword of Avalon

The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
Children of Liberty
Bellagrand
The Bronze Horseman
Tatiana and Alexander
The Summer Garden

Earth's Children - Jean M. Auel
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Valley of Horses
The Mammoth Hunters
The Plains of Passage
The Plains of Passage
The Land of Painted Caves

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
The Angel's Game
The Prisoner of Heaven
The Labyrinth of the Spirits

Kingfountain - Jeff Wheeler

☠️Series DNF'd☠️

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons
The Winds of Winter
A Dream of Spring


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Long Series (>10 books)

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
⏲Outlander 📖
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
An Echo in the Bone
The Space Between
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

The Foxfire Books - Eliot Wigginton
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing
Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living
Foxfire 3
Foxfire 4
Foxfire 5
Foxfire 6
Foxfire 7
Foxfire 8
Foxfire 9
Foxfire 10
Foxfire 11
Foxfire 12

The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels - Philippa Gregory
The Lady of the Rivers
The White Queen
The Red Queen
The Kingmaker's Daughter
The White Princess
The Constant Princess
The King's Curse
Three Sisters, Three Queens
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Taming of the Queen
The Queen's Fool
The Virgin's Lover
The Last Tudor
The Other Queen

Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
The Assassin and the Healer
The Assassin and the Desert
The Assassin and the Underworld
The Assassin and the Empire
Throne of Glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of Fire
Queen of Shadows
Empire of Storms
Tower of Dawn
Kingdom of Ash

Realm of the Elderling - Robin Hobb

Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest
Ship of Magic
The Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
Fool's Errand
Golden Fool
Fool's Fate
The Dragon Keeper
Dragon Haven
City of Dragons
Blood of Dragons
Fool's Assassin
Fool's Quest
Assassin's Fate

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Lifetime Challenge - For fun, reading a book published every year since I've been born, including my birth year (1985). I'll likely take a few years to tick these off but thought I'd start tracking them here

Books read: 16/36

🧁1985:
1 1986:
2 1987:
3 1988:
4 1989:
5 1990:
🥂1991: read Feb 2020 A Handful of Heaven
7 1992:
8 1993:
9 1994:
10 1995:
🥂1996: read Mar 2020 Assassin's Apprentice
🥂1997: read Mar 2020 Texas Destiny
13 1998:
14 1999:
15 2000:
16 2001:
17 2002:
🥂 2003: read Mar 2020 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
19 2004:
🥂2005: read Jan 2020 Dragonflight
21 2006:
🥂2007: read Jan 2020 Details of the Hunt
23 2008:
24 2009:
🥂2010: read Feb 2020 The Little Stranger
🥂2011: read Jan 2020 Blown Down
27 2012:
🥂2013: read Feb 2020 The Lion and the Crow
🥂2014: read Jan 2020 Carte Blanche
🥂2015: read Feb 2020 The Nightingale read Feb 2020
🥂2016: read Jan 2020 His Favorite Color Is Blood: Coffin Nails MC
🥂2017: read Jan 2020 The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
🥂2018: read Jan 2020 Private Charter
🥂2019: read Feb 2020 Bone China
🥂2020: read Feb 2020 Danger Zone

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

🧁🍰🍭🍪Popsugar 2020🍫🍦🍩🍬

Main Challenge: 8/40
Advanced Challenge: 1/10

Main Challenge
1. A book that's published in 2020
🥂 Tough Guy ⭐ 🎧 🌈
Completed 13th Jan, 262p 💙💙💙💙
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author
☠️ Winter Hearts 🌈 📱
Sadly this was a DNF and therefore I will not rate. I wanted to love this but I just couldn't stand one of the main characters, wasn't able to get invested in their relationship, and the sex was uninspiring at best. If I have time, I'll circle back and read Red, White & Royal Blue instead 🌈
3. A book with a great first line
🥂 Texas Destiny 📖 💌
Finished 1st Mar, 384p 💙💙💙
His was not a face women carried with them into their dreams.
4. A book about a book club
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
The Shadow of the Wind ⭐
6. A bildungsroman
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 📚 (#7)
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
The Lost Queen ⭐ 📖
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
Life After Life
9. A book with a map
🥂 Dragonflight 📖
Completed: 13th Jan 2020, 299p 💙💙💙💙💙
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club
🥂 Assassin's Apprentice
Completed: 18th Mar 2020, 374p 💙💙💙💙
11. An anthology
Legends, Lore and Secrets of Western New York ⭐ 📖
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test
🥂 Silence for the Dead 🎧
Finished 5th March, 374p 💙💙💙💙
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
🥂 The Vanishing 💌 📖
Finished 23rd Feb, 291p 💙💙
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
The Darkest Part of the Forest - Holly Black ⭐ 📚
15. A book about or involving social media
Strong Signal 📱 ♻️🌈
MCs meet through twitch
16. A book that has a book on the cover
The Shadow of the Wind
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (#6) ⭐ 📚
17. A medical thriller
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
18. A book with a made-up language
Watership Down 📖 ♻️
19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
Station Eleven
Him ♻️📱🌈
20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies ⭐ 📖
21. A book published the month of your birthday
Dune ⭐ 📖
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
23. A book that won an award in 2019
The Night Circus ⭐ 🎧
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about
Survival in the Killing Fields 💌 📚
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics
The Gulag Archipelago Abridged An Experiment in Literary Investigation ⭐
26. A book with a pun in the title
The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us about Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
East of Eden ⭐ 📖
28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
Machines Like Me
29. A book with a bird on the cover
🥂 The Nightingale 📖
Completed: 6th Feb 2020, 564p 💙💙💙💙💙
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
Becoming Marie Antoinette
31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title
Darling Rose Gold
32. A book by a WOC
Infidel ⭐ 🎧
33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
🥂Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (#5) ⭐ 📚Finished: 21st Mar 2020, 870p 💙💙💙💙
34. A book you meant to read in 2019
The Bone Houses 📚
35. A book with a three-word title
🥂Paper and Fire ⭐ 📖
Finished: 8th Jan 2020, 400p 💙💙💙💙💙
36. A book with a pink cover
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 📖
37. A Western
🥂A Handful of Heaven 📖 ♻️
Completed: 5th Feb 2020, 261p 💙💙💙💙💙
38. A book by or about a journalist
Cartier's Hope
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
(September 27 - October 3)
⭐City of Bones
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
2015 Prompt #11: One word title
⏲ Outlander ⭐📖👀
Completed: ________ 2020, 850p

Advanced
1. A book written by an author in their 20s
The Priory of the Orange Tree
2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
3. A book with a character with a enhanced or impaired vision
⭐The Starless Sea 📚
4. A book set in the 1920s
Life After Life
The Ghost in the Glass House
5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics

6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
⭐Clockwork Angel
7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title
A History of Kitchen Gardening 📖
8. A book published in the 20th century
East of Eden
The Secret Garden
Dune
The Shining
Man's Search for Meaning
The Mists of Avalon
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
9. A book from a series with more than 20 books
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern 25 works
10. A book with a main character in their 20s
🥂 Bone China 📚
Completed: 18th Feb 2020, 430 pages 💙💙💙💙💙


🥂⭐⭐⭐Cover Collage - Completed Books⭐⭐⭐🥂



KEY/LEGEND
🥂 read/finished
⏲ currently reading
⭐ TBR Read!
💙💙💙💙💙 rating
📚 hardcover
📖 paperback
🎧 audiobook/audible
📱 kindle/digital
💌 borrowed/library
🎉 multi-challenge
♻️ re-read
🌈 m-m
👯‍♀️ buddy-read
👀 wow that's long
☠️ DNF

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

BOOKTUBE READING CHALLENGES

2020 Elderling-along (all year)
The Farseer Trilogy
March: ⏲ Assassin's Apprentice
April & May: Royal Assassin
June & July: Assassin's Quest
August & September: Ship of Magic
October & November: The Mad Ship
December & January: Ship of Destiny

March:
Backlist-A-Thon (3/9-3/15)
Shortest BL title: Le Petit Prince
Most intimidating BL title: The Pillars of the Earth or Dune
BL Recommended by someone else: Assassin's Apprentice
BL title most excited for: Ash and Quill or Labyrinth
Diverse BL title: Counterpunch
BL w/blue on cover: The Lost Queen

Middle-Grade-March Maybes
⏲ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Anne of Green Gables
Le Petit Prince
Fog Magic

February:
February Historathon Bingo Prompts:
Hosted by Sarah/Sarah'sNightstand & Amanda/TheCurlyReader
~A Book With a Male on the Cover
🥂 The Little Stranger ⭐📱
Read: Feb 3rd 2020 💙💙💙💙
~A Book Set Before 1900
🥂 The Lion and the Crow 1200s 📱🌈
Read: Feb 7th 2020 💙💙💙💙 🔥🔥🔥🔥
~A Book With Dual Timelines
🥂 The Nightingale 📖
Read: Feb 6th 2020 💙💙💙💙💙
~A Book Set In a Country Outside the US and Europe
The Forgotten Garden Australia and UK 📖
The Station Australia ⭐📱🌈
~Group Read
The Fountains of Silence
~A Book with a Child as a Character
🥂 Bone China
Read: Feb 18th 2020 💙💙💙💙💙
~A Book Concerning a Time/Event You are Unfamiliar With
🥂 A Handful of Heaven 1896... Yukon territories/1900s Alaska 📖 ♻️
Read: Feb 5th 2020 💙💙💙💙💙 🔥🔥🔥
~A Book Featuring a Real Historical Person
⏲ Victoria 📖
~A Book with a Location in the Title
🥂 The Paris Architect 📖
Completed: Feb 11th 2020 💙💙💙💙

BINGO Totals (Historathon Bingo Board)
Bingo #1 🏆 Feb 6th : Male on Cover & Before 1900 & Dual Timelines
Bingo #2 🏆 Feb 18th : Dual Timelines & Child Character & Place Name

[Udari]

WOW! This is amazing. The Lifetime Challenge sounds very interesting and I'm gonna steal that from you to give it a try. I am very excited to see what books you choose throughout the year.

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Udari wrote: "WOW! This is amazing. The Lifetime Challenge sounds very interesting and I'm gonna steal that from you to give it a try. I am very excited to see what books you choose throughout the year."

Thanks Udari! It's going to be an adventure! Have fun with the lifetime challenge 🎉

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Autumn wrote: "You are planning on reading so many I have absorbed like a damn sponge! Some of my favorites."

Great to hear! Since we seem to have similar tastes I'm going to keep tabs on what you end up reading and loving this year!

[Celeste]

So pretty! I'm commenting so that way others will see your amazing lists! (o.n]

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Celeste wrote: "So pretty! I'm commenting so that way others will see your amazing lists! (o.n]"

Thank you! I really get into it haha 🤓

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

This is some impressive challenge undertaking! Looking forward to watching your progress!

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

💙💙💙**2020 Sign-off Message: As I'm sure it did for many of us, this year blew up in my face. I'm a C***** Nurse. I'm not sure I need to say much more. Cheers to a more beautiful 2021** 💙💙💙

[Laurel]

Thank you for your work, Jenna. Hope your 2021 is much, much better.