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Trying for Level VII
DURATION: February 2nd 2020-February 21st 2021
TOTAL READ: 155/155
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i finished the highest level last year and it was such a struggle. i felt like i was spending hours just trying to find books for a few of the years [apparently nothing i want to read was published in 2004 lol] so this year i decided not to stress about it and just see what happens.

Decades Challenge 2020 (Feb 2, 2020-Feb 21, 2021)
Level: L-9 = 55 books
2011
1. Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire - 3/17/20
2012
1. The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie - 2/9/20
2. Aurora Sky by Nikki Jefford - 4/1/20
2013
1. Curran POV Collection by Gordon Andrews - 2/20/20
2. The Book of Riley 1 by Mark Tufo - 2/11/20
3. Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry - 4/10/20
2014
1. The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness - 2/11/2020
2. The King by J.R. Ward - 3/11/20
3. The Book of Riley 4 by Mark Tufo - 3/24/20
4. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti - 4/6/20
2015
1. Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant - 3/22/20
2. Predator One by Jonathan Maberry - 4/29/20
3. The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon - 4/29/20
4. The Blue Jay by Michelle Schlicher - 5/15/20
5. Extreme Medical Services by Jamie Davis - 5/27/20
2016
1. Born To Be Wilde by Jenn Stark - 4/21/20
2. Cascadia by H.W. "Buzz" Bernard - 6/2/20
3. Lost Soul by Adam J. Wright - 6/17/20
4. Buried Memory by Adam J. Wright - 6/20/20
5. Under Their Skin by Margaret Peterson Haddix - 7/1/20
6. Staked by Kevin Hearne - 7/30/20
2017
1. Secrets of the Demon by Diana Rowland - 2/17/20
2. The Gravedigger's Son by Patrick Moody - 3/3/20
3. The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne - 4/14/20
4 Joe Ledger: The Official Companion by Dana Fredsti - 4/30/20
5 Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve - 5/1/20
6 Cold Reign by Faith Hunter - 8/27/20
7 - In Over Their Heads by Margaret Peterson Haddix - 9/7/20
2018
1.Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews - 2/24/20
2. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi - 3/7/20
3. Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews - 3/27/20
4. Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman - 5/12/20
5. What a Wolf Desires by Amy Pennza - 5/13/20
6. Strain of Vengeance by Michelle Bryan - 5/20/20
7. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor - 7/21/20
8. Tailspin by Sandra Brown - 10/1/20
2019
1. Resolve by Owen Baillie - 3/2/20
2. Bless Her Dead Heart by Meg Collett - 4/3/20
3. Bless His Cursed Soul by Meg Collett - 4/9/20
4. Bless Their Shallow Graves by Meg Collett - 4/23/20
5. Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris - 5/20/20
6. Eruption by E S Richards - 6/9/20
7. Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi - 6/11/20
8. Full Throttle by Joe Hill - 6/23/20
9. Day Zero by Kelly deVos - 6/28/20
2020
1. Thief River Falls by Brian Freeman - 3/7/20
2. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers - 5/25/20
3. Long Range by C.J. Box - 6/1/20
4. One of Us Is Next by Karen M McManus - 6/30/20
5. Sucks To Be Me by Kristen Painter - 9/3/20
6. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks - 9/14/20
7. The Deep by Alma Katsu - 11/13/20
8. Jingle all the Slay by Dakota Cassidy - 11/29/20
9. Sweep with Me by Ilona Andrews - 12/4/20
10 - The Snow by Flint Maxwell - 12/7/20

Thanks!

I technically finished a while ago, but there were a couple of books from 2016 & 2017 that I wanted to replace, such as a collection whose contents were not all originally published in the exact year, or a 130 page novella swapped in for a long novel. Stuff like that. I am weird. 🙃

I technically finished a while ago, but there were a couple of books from 2016 & 2017 that I wanted to replace, such as a collection whose contents were not all originally published in t..."
Congratulations Alysa!


Ha! So are you?
I need to do another update... I was down to 10 books left to complete the millennium level last check. I'm almost there!!!


Have you decided if Decades 2021 is going to start on Feb 22?
It looks like some years have covered Jan1-Dec31, but the most recent years have started later in Jan or Feb...
Eh, maybe you haven't thought about it yet, but some of us with a certain OCD would love to plan ahead, LOL.
It's planned to start in February, I can't give you an exact date yet though. I hope that enough to appease the planners amongst you

Great, I am on my last book for 2020 and looking forward to starting the 2021 challenge.

Great, I am on my last book for 2020 and lookin..."
One book left? Awesome!

Duration: February 2, 2020 to February 21, 2021
LIGHT
Level L-9 = 55 books.
COMPLETED
2020
1/ The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #2) by Natasha Pulley (05/13/20)
2/ Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children #5) by Seanan McGuire (05/19/20)
3/ The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips (05/24/20)
4/ Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn (07/02/20)
5/ Rachel Maddow: A Biography by Lisa Rogak [070.92 or Biography/921] (07/13/20)
6/ The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner (07/23/20)
7/ The Paris Hours by Alex George (male) (08/13/20)
8/ The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert B. Reich [322.309] (09/12/20)
9/ The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are by Libby Copeland [929.107] (09/23/20)
10/ Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson [910.45] (10/11/20)










2019
1/ More Walls Broken by Tim Powers (02/04/20)
2/ In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4) by Seanan McGuire (02/08/20)
3/ The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1) by A.J. Hackwith (female) (04/01/20)
4/ Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge #2) by Elizabeth Strout (05/06/20)
5/ Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller [Biography/921] (06/06/20)
6/ Twenty-one Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks (06/21/20)
7/ Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death by Anthony Everitt [Biography/921] (07/04/20)
8/ An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley (Young Adult) (07/13/20)
9/ How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse (The Thorne Chronicles #1) by K. Eason (female) (08/18/20)









2018
1/ Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan by Ted Scheinman [823.7] (02/18/20)
2/ Anachronism by Jennifer Lee Rossman (04/03/20)
3/ Meghan: A Hollywood Princess by Andrew Morton [Biography/921] (04/09/20)
4/ Milkman by Anna Burns (04/18/20)
5/ Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories by May-lee Chai (10/15/10)
6 / A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery #1) by Dianne Freeman (11/08/20)
7/ Earthlings by Sayaka Murata; translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori (12/20/20)
8/ Hope Never Dies (Obama Biden Mysteries #1) by Andrew Shaffer (01/13/21)








2017
1/ Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney (05/11/20)
2/ Sourdough by Robin Sloan (male) (05/14/20)
3/ A Long Day in Lychford (Lychford #3) by Paul Cornell (06/28/20)
4/ The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford (07/22/20)
5/ The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz (11/02/20)
6/ Dr. Potter's Medicine Show [ANGRY ROBOT] by Eric Scott Fischl (12/30/20)
7/ Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose (2017) by Joe Biden [973.932] (01/22/21)







2016
1/ Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa; translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (07/26/20)
2/ Iron Cast by Destiny Soria (Young Adult) (01/19/21)
3/ A Dark and Stormy Murder (A Writer's Apprentice Mystery #1) by Julia Buckley (01/24/21)
4/ The Last One by Alexandra Oliva (01/31/21)
5/ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (02/07/21)
6/ The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies (02/10/21)






2015
1/ Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South by Christopher Dickey [921] (02/26/20)
2/ The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Albino's Treasure (The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) by Stuart Douglas (03/15/20)
3/ Off the Page (Between the Lines #2) by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer (Young Adult) (03/23/20)
4/ To Brew or Not to Brew (Brewing Trouble #1) by Joyce Tremel (04/19/20)
5/ Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper Cypher #1) by Daniel José Older (Young Adult) (08/26/20)





2014
1/ Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen (02/25/20)
2/ The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor #1) by Katherine Addison (03/13/20)
3/ City of Stairs (The Divine Cities #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett (06/24/20)
4/ The White Magic Five and Dime (Tarot Mystery #1) by Steve Hockensmith with Lisa Falco (07/17/20)




2013
1/ Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado (08/25/20)
2/ A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams (12/21/20)
3/ Topped Chef (Key West Food Critic Mystery #3) by Lucy Burdette (02/14/21)



2012
1/ Ruins (Pathfinder #2) by Orson Scott Card (Young Adult) (08/07/20)
2/ An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer (02/18/21)


2011
1/ Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress (06/14/20)


& earning my first Diamond Coin!!

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20 from 2020
1: The Better Liar-Tannen Jones 3/15/2020
2: One Perfect Summer-Brenda Novak 5/11/2020
3: The Sun Down Motel-Simone St. James 5/6/2020
4: Drugged on Deck-Susan Harper 4/29/20
5: French Twist: An Amelia Feelgood Mystery-Beth McElla 4/29/20
6: Easter Egg Hunt Murder-Rachel Woods 4/25
7:The Tourist Attraction-Sarah Morgenthaler 5/18
8: The Vineyards of Champagne-Juliet Blackwell 8/5
9: Conjure Women-Afia Atakora 8/4
10: Tiny Imperfections-Allie Frank 9/4
11: Smoke Bitten-Patricia Briggs 9/8
12: Ghosts of Harvard-Francesca Serritella 9/3
13: These Women-Ivy Pachoda
14: A Spell for Trouble-Esme Addison 9/12
15: A Bad Day for Sunshine-Darynda Jones 11/8
16: Lord Holt Takes a Bride-Vivienne Lorret 10/16
17: The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained-Colin Dickey
18: Mexican Gothic-Silvia Moreno-Garcia 10/27
19: Behind the Red Door-Megan Collins 10/24
20: Trouble the Saints-Alaya Dawn Johnson 11/5
19 from 2019
1: The Other Mrs. Miller-Allison Dickson 1/16/21
2: The Secrets We Kept-Lara Prescott 2/21
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5: The Unhoneymooners-Christina Lauren 4/4/20
6: Sapphire Flames-Ilona Andrews 7/11
7:Happy Trail-Daisy Prescott 7/10
8: When Brooklyn Was Queer-Hugh Ryan 6/20
9:Peril in Pensacola-Lucy Quinn 6/20
10: The Paragon Hotel-Lyndsay FAye
11:The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs-Katherine Howe 8/12
12: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper-Hallie Rubenhold
13: Arsenic in the Azaleas-Dale Mayer 9/15
14: Bewitched and Betrothed-Juliette Blackwell 9/16
15: Archangel's War-Nalini Singh 10/30
16: Bones in the Begonias-Dale Mayer 10/5
17: Acid for the Children-Flea 12/2
18:Murder in an Irish Pub-Carleen O'Connor 12/15
19:The Body in the Gravel-Judi Lynn
18 from 2018
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5:Once Upon a Duke-Erica Ridley 3/21/2020
6: Haunted Be the Holidays-Heather Graham 4/30/20
7: Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend-Molly Harper 4/29/20
8:Murder at Archly Manor-Sara Rosett 4/28
9: Diamond Fire-Ilona Andrews 7/12
10: Iron and Magic-Ilona Andrews 8/20
11: Arson at the Art Gallery-Grace York 7/31
12: The Lost Carousel of Provence-Juliet Blackwell 7.20
13: One Tequila-Tricia O'Malley
15: Murder in an Irish Churchyard-Carlene O'Connor 11/24/2020
16: The Whispered Word-Ellery Adams 12/12
17: Murder at the Flamingo-Rachel McMillan 1/6/21
18: A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson-Laura Thompson 1/16/21
17 from 2017
1: American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land-Monica Hesse 1/20/21
2: A Secret History of Brands: The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love-Matt McNabb
3: What the Dead Leave Behind-Rosemary Simpson 3/8
4: A Novel Murder-Elizabeth Penney 4/24
5: The Secret, Book & Scone Society-Ellery Adams 4/20/20
6: Every Last Lie-Mary Kubica 4/17/20
7: Devil in Spring-Lisa Kleypas 4/7/20
8: Hallow Be the Haunt-Heather Graham 4/30/20
9: Parlez-Vous Murder?-Susan Kiernan-lewis 4/27/20
10: The Keeper of Lost Things-Ruth Hogan 4/26
11: In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire Peter Hellman
12: Wildfire-Ilona Andrews
13: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World-Laura Spinney
14: In the Midst of Winter-Isabelle Allende
15: Under Pressure-Lori Foster 6/20
16: If We Were Villains MI Rio 6/20
17: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo-6/20
16 from 2016
1: A Christmas Message-Anne Perry 1/14/21
2: Sinful Secrets-Samantha Holt 2/23/2020
3: Jarek-Erin Tate 3/26/2020
4: Marrying Winterborne-Lisa Kleypas 3/24/20
5: Letters from Paris-Juliet Blackwell 4/23/20
6: Murder in an Irish Village-Carleen O'Connor
7: No Gun Intended-Zoe Burke 6/20
8: One Night Charmer-Maisey Yates 7/30
9: The Trouble with Dukes-Grace Burrowes 7/29
10: Sweet Little Lies-Jill Shalvis-9/26
11: Rookie Move-Sarina Bowen 10/1
12: Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils-Lydia Pine 12/8
13: The Trouble with Mistletoe-Jill Shalvis 12/26
14:Textile Collage: Using Collage Techniques in Textile Art-Mandy Pattullo 10/2
15: A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles [2/21)
16: [book:The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum|25845800]-Kirsten Weiss 2/21
15 from 2015
1: Slade House-David Mitchell 4/9
2: Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth-Peyser and Dwyer
3: Murder in Cuba-Dianne Harmon 4/27
4:Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America-David O Stewart
5:Seduction Game-Pamela Clare
6:Pretty Girls-Karin Slaughter 8/17
7: Basket Case-Nancy Haddock 8/16
8: The Case of the Dotty Dowager-Cathy Ace 7/20
9: The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World-Anthony Amore 9/28
10: A Concise History of Japan-Brett Walker 12/6
11: One Tequila-Tricia O'Malley 12/31
12: A Christmas Escape-Anne Perry 12/30
13: A Little Thing Called Love-Cathy Maxwell 12/21
14: Unexpected Art: Serendipitous Installations, Site-Specific Works, and Surprising Interventions-Jenny Moussa Spring 12/16/20
15: Stitch Stories: Personal Places, Spaces and Traces in Textile Art-Cas Holmes 10/13
14 from 2014
1: The Cowboy's Reluctant Bride-Katherine Garbera 2/23/2020
2: Blueprint for a Kiss-Nancy Warren 3/3/0/2020
3: Magic Breaks-Ilona Andrews 8/20
4: A Cold Dark Place-Toni Anderson 8/7
5: Werewolf in Las Vegas-Vicki Lewis Thompson 3/20
6: Shifting Shadows-Patricia Briggs
7: Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side-Margot Adler
8: Creative Image Transfer Any Artist, Any Style, Any Surface: 16 New Mixed-Media Projects Using Tap Transfer Artist Paper-Lesley Riley 10/20
9: A New York Christmas-Anne Perry 1/21
10: Everything I Never Told You-Celeste Ng 2/21
11: You and Only You-Sharon Sala 2/21
12: Caught Dead Handed-Carol Perry 2/21
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13 from 2013
1: Secrets on the Sand-Roxanne St. Claire 3/23/20
2: Crazy Rich Asians-Kevin Kwan 3/16
3: Jump the Gun-Zoe Burke
4: Striking Distance-Pamela Clare
5: Magic Rises-Ilona Andrews 7/31
6: A Good Man Gone-AW Hartoin
7:Pumpkins in Paradise-Kathi Daley 11/1
8: The Sound of Broken Glass-Deborah Crombie 11/20
9: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald-Therese Anne Fowler 12/5
10: The Darkness Knows-Cheryl Honigford 1/23/21
11: Letter from a Rake-Sasha Cottman 2/21
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12 from 2012
1: Lord's Fall-Thea Harrison 3/11
2: If You See Her-Shiloh Walker 8/2
3: It Takes a Witch-Heather Blake
4: In Rides Trouble-Julie Ann Walker 10/19
5: The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino-Matt Birbeck 11/30/2020
6: Murder in Christmas River-Meg Muldoon 12/31
7: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore-Robin Sloan 1/13/21
8: Mad River-John Sandford 2/21
9: The Prophet-Amanda Stevens 2/21
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11 from 2011
1: The Sweetest Thing-Jill Shalvis 2/21
2: Yours to Keep-Shannon Stacey 2/21
3:Once Upon a Winter's Eve-Tessa Dare 3/28
4:Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children-Ransom Riggs 3/28
5: Exchanging Grooms-Terry Spear 3/4
6: Wicked Autumn-GM Maillet 4/15
7: Guarding a Notorious Lady 6/20
8: A Fatal Winter-GM Maillet
9: Shock Wave-John Sandford 8/1
10: Burning Up-Anne Marsh 7/24
11: Saint's Gate-Carla Neggers 9/28
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