Carol's 2020 Determination List

[Carol/Bonadie]

I just love typing 2020.
I think I will try to emulate Jan and pick books from my TBR pile. (Well except for #16, unless I buy something during the year.) But I don't have time to pick them out beforehand so will see how successful I am at doing it on the fly,

Books 1-10. Pick 10 books (audios, ebooks, whatever) that you either want to get off your To Be Read owned shelves or books you have been wanting to read for awhile and haven't.

1. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann.
2.The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
3.The Take by Christopher Reich.
4. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
5. The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller)
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The next 10 books is the Plus part of the challenge almost like a bonus. Below are the 10 categories you need to read a book for.

11. A new author's first book (could be also a new to you author that you haven't read before)
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves. Not a new author but one I've been wanting to read for awhile, first in series.

12. A book set in a different country than you live in.
Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen.

13. A book that is a different genre than your usual reading books (whatever you normally don't read try something out of your comfort zone if you want)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

14 & 15. Two books from a series you haven't completed yet (I'm sure we all have those, the books don't have to be the same series if you don't them to be)
The Crossing by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch)
A String of Beads by Thomas Perry (Jane Whitefield)


16. A book that comes out in 2020.
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson.

17. A book that was recommended to you.
Long Bright River by Liz Moore.

18. A book you meant to read in 2019 but never got around to it.
Becoming by Michelle Obama.

19. A book that came out before you were born. (I know this one might have been harder than the other's to do)

20. A book that is done by more than one author (You can take this one as a book that is short stories by different authors, or written by more like a James Patterson, Janet Evanovich and I'm sure there are other's).

[OMalleycat]

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "I think I will try to emulate Jan.."

Just repeating the part of your post I like best.

[Carol/Bonadie]

OMalleycat wrote: "Carol/Bonadie wrote: "I think I will try to emulate Jan.."

Just repeating the part of your post I like best."

I don't care what anyone else says about you Jan, you're not vain at all!

[Ann]

You two crack me up.
Carol, I like doing my determination books on the fly too. I have traditionally had trouble committing to my original choices, or my on the fly choices. I take determination lists seriously. Lol.

OMalleycat wrote: "Just repeating the part of your post I like best."

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "I think I will try to emulate Jan."

[Carol/Bonadie]

I just went through my books read in 2020 and found a number of additions to my list. I'm not sure I'll get through much more by the end of the year but I'm pretty satisfied!

[Ann]

Carol: you can't ask for much more than being satisfied you've read the "right" books for you! For the first time in my history of starting a determination list, I have just one to go. (And I'm reluctant to fill it in Lol)
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "I just went through my books read in 2020 and found a number of additions to my list. I'm not sure I'll get through much more by the end of the year but I'm pretty satisfied!"

[Donnajo]

wTG. Not too bad what you have left. It’s easier for top ones more than bottom. I might have finished my challenge but I still have a ways to go to reach my goodreads reading goal.