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New 2 U Authors: 2015
Devil May Care[January]
The Horse Goddess - Morgan Llywelyn 1/4 ★★
Archer's Voice - Mia Sheridan 1/6 ★★★★★
The Monstrumologist - Rick Yancey 1/8 ★★★★
Moloka'i - Alan Brennert 1/18 ★★★★★
[February]
Antiques Flee Market - Barbara Allan 2/4 ★★
Shaedes of Gray - Amanda Bonilla 2/8 ★★★
Her Sky Cowboy - Beth Ciotta 2/13 ★★★★★
Heart of the Wolf - Terry Spear 2/13 ★★★★
Captured by the Pirate Laird - Amy Jarecki 2/25 ★★★★
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein 2/26 ★★
Seraphina - Rachel Hartman 2/28 ★★★★★
[March]
Dr. Franklin's Island - Ann Halam 3/6 ★★★
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - Gordon Dahlquist 3/7 ★★★
SEAL of Honor - Tonya Burrows 3/10 ★★★★
Up to Me - M. Leighton 3/12 ★★★★
Gypsy Brothers Series-Books 1-7 - Lili St. Germain 3/12 ★★★
Hell on Wheels - Julie Ann Walker 3/19 ★★★★★
Mind Fuck - Manna Francis 3/21 ★★★
[April]
Think of a Number - John Verdon 4/1 ★★★★
Curtain - Agatha Christie 4/2 ★★
Throne of Glass - Sarah Maas 4/4 ★★★★
The Truth of All Things - Kieran Shields 4/5 ★★★
Fatal Shadows - Josh Lanyon 4/6 ★★★
Iron House - John Hart 4/7 ★★★★
The Book of Names - Jill Gregory 4/13 ★★★
The Map of Time - Felix Palma 4/18 ★★
Cruel Beauty - Rosamund Hodge 4/19 ★★★
Kiss of Steel - Bec McMasters 4/24 ★★★★★
Sunrise at Sunset - Jaz Primo 4/25 ★★
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones - Jack Wolf 4/28 ★★
[May]
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern - Lilian Jackson Braun 5/2 ★★
Of Monsters and Madness - Jessica Verday 5/3 ★★★★
The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon 5/3 ★★★
Baby - J.K. Accinni 5/3 ★★★
Beware the Wild - Natalie Parker 5/4 ★★★★
Asylum - Madeleine Roux 5/5 ★★★
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters 5/6 ★★
The Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson 5/8 ★★★
Dinner with a Vampire - Abigail Gibbs 5/10 ★★★
Bees in the Butterfly Garden - Maureen Lang 5/17 ★★★
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent 5/20 ★★★
[June]
North of Beautiful - Justina Chen 6/4 ★★★
Darkhouse - Karina Halle 6/6 ★★
Forgotten Sins - Rebecca Zanetti 6/7 ★★★★
Murder Past Due - Miranda James 6/10 ★★★
Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt 6/11 ★★
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker - Leanna Renee Hieber 6/14 ★★★★
Courting Disaster - Joanne Pence 6/19 ★★★
The Archived - Victoria Schwab 6/21 ★★★
Zuriel's Fate - Serena Yates 6/22 ★★★
Shield of Fire - Boone Brux 6/26 ★★★★
Pinned for Murder - Elizabeth Lynn Casey 6/29 ★★
[July]
Trail of Kisses - Merry Farmer 7/5 ★★★
HIDE Omnibus - Jax Spenser 7/6 ★★★★★
Dragon Down Under - Angela Castle 7/7 ★★★★
Fifty Shades of Alice in Wonderland - Melinda DuChamp 7/9 ★★★
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach 7/11 ★★★
Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Laini Taylor 7/22 ★★★★★
Demon's Curse - Alexa Egan 7/30 ★★★★
[August]
Caught Read-Handed - Terrie Farley Moran 8/3 ★★★
Deadly Offerings - Alexa Grace 8/9 ★★★★
Ubik - Phillip Dick 8/9 ★★
Deadtown - Nancy Holzner 8/11 ★★★
Beauty and the Bounty Hunter - Lori Austin 8/23 ★★
Born in Chains - Caris Roane 8/30 ★★★
[September]
Touched by an Alien - Gini Koch 9/19 ★★★★
The Dairy Queen - Allison Rushby 9/22 ★★★
[October]
The Ghost Hunter - Lori Brighton 10/19 ★★
SEVEN-X - Mike Wech 10/24 ★★
[November]
Stuck on You - Patti Berg 11/1 ★★★
Temping Is Hell - Cathy Yardley 11/21 ★★★★
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell 11/22 ★★★
Lifelines - C.J. Lyons 11/26 ★★★
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo 11/27 ★★★★★
[December]
Fade to Black - Morgan Kearns ★★
Protecting What's His - Tessa Bailey 12/13 ★★★★
East - Edith Pattou 12/19 ★★★★
Bad Wolf - Nele Neuhaus 12/20 ★★★★
Eve of Darkness - S.J. Day 12/22 ★★
Spell Booked - Joyce & Jim Lavene 12/23 ★★★
Beg for Mercy - Jami Alden 12/24 ★★★
Frozen - Kate Watterson 12/28 ★★★
In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson 12/29 ★★★
CHALLENGE COMPLETE
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January
1. Juliet Anne Fortier 02/01/2015
2. We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 11/01/2015
3. What's So Amazing about Grace? Philip Yancey13/01/2015
4. Local Souls Alan Gurganus,/b> 14/01/2015
5. The Plague Albert Camus 20/01/2015
6. What Was Promised 27/01/2015
7. We Used to Be Kings Stewart Foster 29/01/2015
February
1. How Many Letters Are in Goodbye? 02/02/2015
2. A Journey Around My Room 02/02/2015
3. So B. It 04/02/2015
4. Let The Great World Spin 07/02/2015
5. In Movement There Is Peace 09/02/2015
6. What She Left Behind 13/02/2015
7. The Novelty Essays 16/02/2015
8. Sweet Baby Lover: A True Story of Love, Death, and Hope 19/02/2015
March
1. Christmas on the Move Out West 06/03/2015
2. Quite a Year for Plums 26/03/2015
3.The Scandal At Bletchley 27/03/2015
4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 27/03/2015
5. The State We're In 27/03/2015
6. I Know This Much Is True 31/03/2015
7. The Truth Seekers 02/04/2015
April
1. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 13/04/2015
2. The Ashgrove 17/04/20153, Underwood, Scotch, and Wry 19/04/2015
4. Unforgettable: Short Stories 23/04/2015
5. The Earthquake Doll 24/04/2015
6, A Life In A Moment 25/04/2015
7. Euphoria 29/04/2015
May
1. The Earth Hums in B Flat 07/05/2015
2. Rubbernecker 07/05/2015
3. The Rabbit Back Literature Society 10/05/2015
4. The Korean Word For Butterfly 10/05/2015
5, The Silver Sword 13/05/2015
6. Three Men in a Boat 14/05/2015
7. The Collector 29/05/2015
.june 2015
1. Decades 16/06/2015
2. Bed 05/06/2015
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4. Frankenstein 22/06/2015
5. The Memory of Water 25/06/2015
July
1. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
2. Vendetta Dreda Say Mitchell
3. No Hope for Gomez! Graham Parke 12/07/2015
4. The China Bird Byrony Doran 16/07/2015
5. Gumbeaux Kimberley Vargas 17/07/2015
6. Overlay - A Tale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas Marylana Glynn Brown 19/07/2015
7. Brief Lives 21/07/2015
8. Americanah 29/07/2015
9. Brenda Monk is Funny 30/07/2015
10. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 03/08/2015
11. Malbed Mews 03/08/2015
12. The Finkler Question 05/08/2015
August
1.The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrnate
2.The Man Who Never Was Hylton Smith
3.Memory of Water Emmi Itaranta
4.The Guide R K Narayan
5. Tick to the Tock Matthew Turner
September
1.A World I Never Made James Le Pore
2. A Lady in France Jennie Goutete
3.Fleeced Julia Wills
4.That Bear Ate My Pants! James Slater
5. Etta and Otto and Russell and James Emma Hooper
6.The Tangled Yarn Rita Lumpkin
7.The Girl With All the Gifts: Extended Free Preview M R Carey
8.After Me Comes The Flood Sarah Perry
9.Russian Winter Daphne Kalotay
10.The Hundred-Year Flood Matthew Salasees
11.Terribly Twisted Tales Martin H Greenberg
12.Chasing China; A Daughter's Quest for Truth Kay Bratt
13.The Town Traveller George Gissing
14.The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant Drew Hayes
October
1. The Mind of Payne Kent Breazale
2. Incognita William Congreve
3. Angel of Mercy: What Really Happens When You're a Nurse Fanny Maverick
4. The Raven Edgar allen Poe
5. Too Little, Too Late Marta Tandor
6. Faith's Reward B K Duncan
7. A Granny Is For Life, Not Just Christmas Maurenn Reil
8. You Won’t Remember This: Stories Kate Blackwell
9. The Alienist Caleb Carr
10. The Scatter Here is Too Great Bilal Tanweer
11. Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng
12. I Grew My Boobs in China Savannah Grace
13. Mosquitoland David Arnold
November
1. The Axeman's Jazz Ray Celestin
2. The Fig Orchard Layla Fiske
3. The Sweet Gum Tree Katherine Alred
4. The Undertaker's Cabinet David Haynes
5. The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twen Eng
6. X Out Of Wonderland David Allan Cates
7, Alice and the Fly James Rice
8. The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family Josh Hanagarne
9. The Art of Peeling an Orange Victoria Avilan
10. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
11. Journey To A Dream: A voyage of discovery from England's industrial north to Spain's rural interior Craig Briggs
12. Pretty Girls Karin Slaughter
13. Left Turn Lane Eva Ramona
14. The Hierophant's Bridge K J Bagley
15. Strangeville kenneth Tingle
16. Holding Avery Heidi Chandler
17. The Milk of Paradise Sean MacSivna
18. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
19. Six of Crows Leigh Burdago
20.The Painter J W Deas
December
1. The Last Voyage of Sigismund Skrik 01/12/2015
2.. A Two Pedal World: The Beginning[
3. [book:Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania|22551730] 13/12/2015
Duration: January 1, 2015-December 31, 2015
Come What May
Completed: 103/??
January : 9 Completed
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Completed January 1, 2015.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Completed January 2, 2015.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Completed January 17, 2015.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Completed January 19, 2015.
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert Completed January 20, 2015.
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Completed January 22, 2015.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Completed January 25, 2015.
UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn Completed January 27, 2015.
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan Completed January 31, 2015.
February : 5 Completed
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro Completed February 12, 2015.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Completed February 19, 2015.
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Completed February 24, 2015.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Completed February 25, 2015.
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel Completed February 28, 2015.
March : 8 Completed
The Martian by Andy Weir Completed March 5, 2015.
Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff Completed March 5, 2015.
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett (3/8/15)
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton (3/9/15)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (3/12/15)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (3/22/15)
Hush Money by Susan Bischoff (3/25/15)
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard (3/31/15)
April : 8 Completed
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (4/6/15)
Touch of Death by Kelly Hashway (4/12/15)
Fallen by Lauren Kate (4/14/15)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (4/19/15)
If I Stay by Gayle Forman (4/22/15)
Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout (4/26/15)
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn (4/29/15)
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (4/30/15)
May : 14 Completed
Dahlia by Christina Channelle (5/6/15)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (5/7/15)
Stitch by Samantha Durante (5/8/15)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (5/13/15)
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (5/17/15)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (5/18/15)
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani (5/20/15)
The Program by Suzanne Young (5/22/15)
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman (5/24/15)
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (5/26/15)
Katherine by Anya Seton (5/27/15)
Leopard Moon by Jeanette Battista (5/30/15)
Existence by Abbi Glines (5/30/15)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (5/31/15)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (5/31/15)
June: : 19 Completed
Die for Me by Amy Plum (6/1/15)
Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton (6/3/15)
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (6/3/15)
The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long (6/6/15)
Angelina's Bachelors: A Novel with Food by Brian O'Reilly (6/7/15)
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (6/8/15)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (6/9/15)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (6/12/15)
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (6/13/15)
Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin (6/16/15)
Luna by Julie Anne Peters (6/19/15)
The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski (6/20/15)
House Broken by Sonja Yoerg (6/21/15)
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck (6/22/15)
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (6/24/15)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (6/25/15)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (6/29/15)
Life After Life by Jill McCorkle (6/29/15)
The Hedgewitch Queen by Lilith Saintcrow (6/30/15)
The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell (6/30/15)
July: 14 Completed
Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare (7/3/15)
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (7/7/15)
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (7/9/15)
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee (7/11/15)
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones (7/14/15)
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (7/17/15)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (7/17/15)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (7/20/15)
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (7/22/15)
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (7/24/15)
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (7/24/15)
The Vacationers by Emma Straub (7/25/15)
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (7/29/15)
Horns by Joe Hill (7/31/15)
August : 5 Completed
The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski (8/7/15)
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom (8/8/15)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (8/18/15)
The Cider House Rules by John Irving (8/27/15)
Truly, Madly by Heather Webber (8/28/15)
September : 6 Completed
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (9/2/15)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (9/4/15)
Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlay (9/6/15)
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (9/10/15)
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (9/24/15)
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (9/28/15)
October : 3 Completed
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (10/6/15)
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (10/15/15)
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama (10/24/15)
November : 7 Completed
The Tournament by Matthew Reilly (11/6/15)
The Child Thief by Brom (11/7/15)
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (11/17/15)
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (11/18/15)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (11/22/15)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (11/26/15)
Along Came a Duke by Elizabeth Boyle (11/27/15)
December : 4 Completed
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (12/14/15)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (12/25/15)
The Bear by Claire Cameron (12/30/15)
Beastly by Alex Flinn (12/31/15)
Come What May
Completed: 103/??
January : 9 Completed
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Completed January 1, 2015.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Completed January 2, 2015.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Completed January 17, 2015.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Completed January 19, 2015.
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert Completed January 20, 2015.
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Completed January 22, 2015.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Completed January 25, 2015.
UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn Completed January 27, 2015.
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan Completed January 31, 2015.
February : 5 Completed
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro Completed February 12, 2015.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Completed February 19, 2015.
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Completed February 24, 2015.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Completed February 25, 2015.
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel Completed February 28, 2015.
March : 8 Completed
The Martian by Andy Weir Completed March 5, 2015.
Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff Completed March 5, 2015.
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett (3/8/15)
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton (3/9/15)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (3/12/15)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (3/22/15)
Hush Money by Susan Bischoff (3/25/15)
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard (3/31/15)
April : 8 Completed
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (4/6/15)
Touch of Death by Kelly Hashway (4/12/15)
Fallen by Lauren Kate (4/14/15)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (4/19/15)
If I Stay by Gayle Forman (4/22/15)
Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout (4/26/15)
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn (4/29/15)
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (4/30/15)
May : 14 Completed
Dahlia by Christina Channelle (5/6/15)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (5/7/15)
Stitch by Samantha Durante (5/8/15)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (5/13/15)
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (5/17/15)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (5/18/15)
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani (5/20/15)
The Program by Suzanne Young (5/22/15)
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman (5/24/15)
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (5/26/15)
Katherine by Anya Seton (5/27/15)
Leopard Moon by Jeanette Battista (5/30/15)
Existence by Abbi Glines (5/30/15)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (5/31/15)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (5/31/15)
June: : 19 Completed
Die for Me by Amy Plum (6/1/15)
Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton (6/3/15)
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (6/3/15)
The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long (6/6/15)
Angelina's Bachelors: A Novel with Food by Brian O'Reilly (6/7/15)
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (6/8/15)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (6/9/15)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (6/12/15)
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (6/13/15)
Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin (6/16/15)
Luna by Julie Anne Peters (6/19/15)
The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski (6/20/15)
House Broken by Sonja Yoerg (6/21/15)
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck (6/22/15)
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (6/24/15)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (6/25/15)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (6/29/15)
Life After Life by Jill McCorkle (6/29/15)
The Hedgewitch Queen by Lilith Saintcrow (6/30/15)
The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell (6/30/15)
July: 14 Completed
Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare (7/3/15)
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (7/7/15)
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (7/9/15)
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee (7/11/15)
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones (7/14/15)
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (7/17/15)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (7/17/15)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (7/20/15)
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (7/22/15)
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (7/24/15)
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (7/24/15)
The Vacationers by Emma Straub (7/25/15)
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (7/29/15)
Horns by Joe Hill (7/31/15)
August : 5 Completed
The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski (8/7/15)
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom (8/8/15)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (8/18/15)
The Cider House Rules by John Irving (8/27/15)
Truly, Madly by Heather Webber (8/28/15)
September : 6 Completed
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (9/2/15)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (9/4/15)
Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlay (9/6/15)
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (9/10/15)
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (9/24/15)
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (9/28/15)
October : 3 Completed
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (10/6/15)
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (10/15/15)
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama (10/24/15)
November : 7 Completed
The Tournament by Matthew Reilly (11/6/15)
The Child Thief by Brom (11/7/15)
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (11/17/15)
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (11/18/15)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (11/22/15)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (11/26/15)
Along Came a Duke by Elizabeth Boyle (11/27/15)
December : 4 Completed
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (12/14/15)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (12/25/15)
The Bear by Claire Cameron (12/30/15)
Beastly by Alex Flinn (12/31/15)
New 2 U Author Challenge 2015Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Level: Devil May Care +20
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Welcome to the challenge Barbara, Marie, Kelsi & Tory ☺
New 2 U Authors~ Devil May Care10/20+
January:
1.Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos
2The Hundred-Year Houseby Rebecca Makkai
3Across a Green Oceanby Wendy Lee
4Epitaph by James Siegel
5Olive Kitteridgeby Elizabeth Strout
February:
1All For You: Halfway There / Buckhorn Ever After / The One You Want / One Perfect night -Bella Andre
2The Day Human Princeby B. Kristin McMichael
3Liars Allby Jo Bannister
4Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox
5The Guardiansby Jennifer Raygoza
March:
1.Pearl in the Sandby Tessa Afshar
2.The Death of Beesby Lisa O'Donnell
3.Her Royal SpynessbyRhys Bowen
4.Darksideby Belinda Bauer
5.Houndedby David Rosenfelt
April:
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Reading Challenges > New 2 U Authors 2015 Come What May = Let's see how many I read.
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New 2 U Authors 2015Level: Risk Taker - 15 - Completed
Devil May Care - 20
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January
1. Fallen Beauty by Erika Robuck *****
2. The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz ***
3. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton **
4. Courting Cate by Leslie Gould ***
5. One Plus One by Jojo Moyes ****
6. The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak ****
7. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson ****
February
8. You by Caroline Kepnes ***
9. The Wonder of All Things by Jason Mott ****
10. Poisoned Apples by Christine Heppermann ****
11. Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler ****
March
12. This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper **** 3-8-15
13. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr **** 3-30-15
April
14. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin **** 4-8-15
15. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng *** 4-10-15
16. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins *** 4-21-15
17. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan **** 4-27-15
18. The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman ***** 4-29/15
I would like to do the fresh face level!New 2 U Authors Challenge 2015 - Fresh Face
0/5 Completed
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Welcome to the challenge Kme_17, ❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥, AndaM, Kathy & Tearsa ☺
I'm in for the Come What May level. I'm curious just how many new authors I will discover.New 2 U Author Challenge 2015
UPDATED 1/12/2016 -- I ended up reading 125 new authors in 2015. Yippee!
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Level: Come What May = Let's see how many I read.
Progress: 125
January
1. John Green - The Fault in Our Stars 1/6/15
2. Orly Krauss-Winer - Almost Perfect 1/13/15
3. Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 1/15/15
4. Aaron Paul Lazar - Devil's Lake 1/15/15
5. Wayne Stinnett - Fallen Out 1/17/15
6. Nancy Jensen - The Sisters 1/21/15
7. Josh Malerman - Bird Box 1/23/15
8. Charles Finch - A Beautiful Blue Death 1/30/15
9. Erin Lindsay McCabe - I Shall be Near to You 1/31/15
February
10. John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2/2/15
11. Kate Mosse - The Winter Ghosts 2/5/15
12. Mary Kubica - The Good Girl 2/7/15
13. Steven Konkoly - Black Flagged 2/11/15
14. Jane Kirkpatrick - A Clearing in the Wild 2/11/15
15. Nancy E. Turner - My Name Is Resolute 2/20/15
16. Lily King - Euphoria 2/25/15
17. Nora Roberts - Blue Dahlia 2/27/15
March
18. John Connolly - The Wolf in Winter 3/3/15
19. Matthew Quick - Boy21 3/5/15
20. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina 3/12/15
21. Laura McHugh - The Weight of Blood 3/13/15
22. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 3/18/15
23. William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom! 3/22/15
24. Irène Némirovsky - Suite Française 3/29/15
25. Arto Paasilinna - The Year of the Hare 3/30/15
April
26. Laura Bates - Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard 4/3/15
27. Carla Caruso - A Pretty Mess 4/8/15
28. Toni Morrison- Sula 4/8/15
29. Bernhard Schlink - The Reader 4/11/15
30. Kathy Hepinstall - Sisters of Shiloh 4/13/15
31. Christina Baker Kline - Orphan Train 4/19/15
32. Rainbow Rowell - Landline 4/27/15
33. Jeff Hobbs - The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League 4/27/15
34.Leslye Walton - The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 4/28/15
35. Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School 4/28/15
36. Sandra Brown - Mean Streak 4/29/15
May
37. James Dashner - The Maze Runner 5/6/15 and The Scorch Trials 5/13/15 and The Death Cure 5/24/15
38. George Eliot - Silas Marner 5/6/15
39. Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane 5/15/15
40. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness 5/19/15
41. Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch 5/30/15
June
42. Robin Sloan - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore 6/16/15
43. Kate White - Eyes on You 6/18/15
44. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest 6/18/15
45. Jennifer McMahon - The Winter People 6/20/15
46. Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles 6/21/15
47. Aphra Behn - Oroonoko 6/21/15
48. Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford 6/27/15
49. Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey 6/29/15
July
50. Cary Elwes - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 7/8/15
51. Marilynne Robinson - Home 7/8/15
52. Marissa Meyer - Cinder 7/9/15 and Scarlet 7/13/15
53. Wayne Caldwell - Cataloochee 7/11/15
54. Noël Coward - Fallen Angels 7/14/15
55. Amy Poehler - Yes Please 7/18/15
56. Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad 7/19/15
57. Erdrich, Louise - The Plague of Doves 7/21/15
58. Kate Chopin - The Awakening7/24/15
59. Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 7/27/15
60. Erika Swyler - The Book of Speculation 7/28/15
61. Ian McEwan - Atonement 7/30/15
August
62. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird 8/1/15
63. Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 8/2/15
64. Saint-Exupery Antoine de - The Little Prince 8/3/15
65. Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger 8/5/15
66.Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee 8/5/15
67. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 8/7/15
68. Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants 8/8/15
69. Genevieve Cogman - The Invisible Library 8/10/15
70. Nadia Hashimi - The Pearl that Broke Its Shell 8/12/15
71. Grace McCleen - Land of Decoration, The: A Novel 8/14/15
72. Jacqueline Woodson - Brown Girl Dreaming 8/15/15
73. James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice 8/19/15
74. Philip Roth - American Pastoral 8/20/15
75. Jennifer L. Holm - The Fourteenth Goldfish 8/21/15
76. Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 8/22/15
September
77. David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas 9/4/15
78. John Fowles - The Collector 9/9/15
79. Kathleen Grissom - The Kitchen House 9/10/15
80. Michelle Knight - Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings 9/13/15
81. Rolland Love - Blue Hole 9/22/15
82. Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 9/23/15
83. Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 9/23/15
84. Bill Branon - Devils Hole 9/24/15
85. Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business 9/25/15
86. Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak 9/26/15
87. S.K. Epperson - Green Lake 9/28/15
88. Janet Evanovich - Top Secret Twenty-One 9/28/15
89. Alan Bradley - The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 9/28/15
90. Gillian Flynn - Dark Places 9/30/15
October
91. James Thompson - Snow Angels 10/1/15
92. Kristi Helvig - Burn Out 10/2/15
93. Jo Nesbø - The Son 10/3/15
94. Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You 10/5/15
95. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire 10/8/15
96. Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus 10/8/15
97. Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train 10/11/15
98. Kristin Hannah - The Nightingale 10/11/15
99. Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth 10/13/15
100. James McIvor - God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story 10/14/15
101. Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven 10/16/15
102. Claudia Gray - A Thousand Pieces of You 10/20/15
103. Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See 10/21/15
104. P.J. Tracy - Snow Blind 10/23/15
105. Kathleen Kent - The Heretic's Daughter 10/25/15
106. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 10/25/15
107. Gwen Florio - Montana 10/25/15
108. Lois Lowry - Number the Stars 10/26/15
109. M.R. Carey - The Girl with All the Gifts 10/27/15
110. Howard Norman - What Is Left the Daughter 10/28/15
111. David Ebershoff - The 19th Wife 10/29/15
November
112. Lee Child - Running Blind 11/4/15
113. Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot 11/5/15
114. Marie Lu - Legend 11/7/15
115. Debbie Macomber - Starry Night 11/10/15
116. John Banville - The Sea 11/10/15
117. Mary Higgins Clark - I've Got You Under My Skin 11/11/15
118. Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North 11/14/15
119. Karin Slaughter - Pretty Girls 11/21/15
120. James Patterson - Honeymoon 11/23/15 & Second Honeymoon 11/24/15
121. Howard Roughan - Co-authored Honeymoon 11/23/15 & Second Honeymoon 11/24/15
December
122. Rosamund Hodge - Cruel Beauty 12/2/15
123. Helen Simonson - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 12/6/15
124. Barbara Delinsky - While My Sister Sleeps 12/7/15
125. Lauren Willig - The Mischief of the Mistletoe 12/22/15
January 1st to December 31st 2015LEVEL: Come What May = Let's see how many I read.
Completed:
January:
Bound By Honor by Cora Reilly
Blind Passion by Bonnie Dee
The Club by Lauren Rowe
Under His Touch by Jeffe Kennedy
Fate Accompli ( Spicy Version) by M.M. Jaye
The Awakening of Ivy Leavold by Sierra Simone
Covert by G.K. Moore
A Second Chance at Paris by Cole McCade
Quakes by R.L. Ugolini
Throb by Vi Keeland
Whipped by Karpov Kinrade
February:
Intoxicate by Tessa Teevan
Rebel by Callie Hart
The Next Sin by Georgia Cates
Forbidden Gems 1: Hasty Introductions
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
Fighting Silence by Aly Martinez
Sliding Into Second by Ella Jade
The Reality O by Candy Sloane
Chasing Desire by Joya Ryan
March:
Controlling Her Pleasure by Lili Valente
Rule Breaker by Harper Kincaid
Thane's Redemption by Nina Crespo
Unblocked - Episode One by Marni Mann
The Frenchman by Lesley Young
Possessed - Part One by Coco Cadence
Naughty King by Michelle A. Valentine
Jack Hammer by Tabatha Vargo
Tiger Lily by Amélie S. Duncan
Colin by Sotia Lazu
Consolation by Corinne Michaels
Ricochet: Locked & Loaded by Heather C. Leigh
April:
Lost Wishes by Kelly Gendron
Once An Alpha (The S Files: Book 1 - BBW Paranormal Romance) by Callie McKenna
The Traveling Man by Jane Harvey-Berrick
Playing with Temptation by Erika Wilde
Entice by S. Layne
Better With Sugar by Katrina Kirkpatrick
Desiring Death by C.P. Mandara
Property Of by C.P. Smith
Kissing Madeline by Lex Martin
The Werewolf Wears Prada by Kristin Miller
May:
Monica's Match by Katya Armock
Then by Marie York
Protecting Shaylee by Elle Christensen
Hunted by Eva Wilder
Spencer by Kerry Heavens
Attraction by Penny Reid
Badass by Linda Barlow
Taken By Desire by Valerie Twombly
Ride Me Hard by Shari Slade
Taming His Beast by Sennah Tate
June:
Men and Martinis, Girlfriends of Gotham 1 by Delancey Stewart
Tiger Billionaire: Book Three - Captured by Suki Selborne
His Plaything by Ava Jackson
Vintage by Lisa Suzanne
The Consequence of Revenge by Rachel Van Dyken
Crossing the Line: Without a Trace series by Ally Bishop
King by T.M. Frazier
Deacon by Cheryl Douglas
Big Bad Wolfe by Elle Doolittle
Kinkaid by Rie Warren
Remind Me by Ann Marie Walker & Amy K. Rogers
Witness to Passion by Naima Simone
The Do It List by Jillian Stone
The Pleasure Principle by Kimberly Adkins
Surrendered to the Pack: Paranormal Shapeshifter Werewolf Romance by Anna Craig
Our Moon by Jennifer L. Allen
July:
Easy Silence by Beth Rinyu
Team Lucas by Ally Adams
Meeting the Step by Ash Adams
Bang Switch by Lani Lynn Vale
The Perfect Bargain by Julia London
Bootycall by J.D. Hawkins
The Voyeur Next Door by Airicka Phoenix
Mayhem by Jamie Shaw
Lucky by Ryanne Hawk
Finding Us byDebra Presley
August:
Desecrated Beauty by Kyleigh Castronaro
Strong Enough by M. Leighton
Metal & Lace by Lena Black
Desire Me Now by Tiffany Clare
Play Nice by L.P. Maxa
Own Me by Lexi Scott
Ryker by Geri Glenn
Heart Breaker by Cole Saint Jaimes
On Paper by Shae Scott
Midnight Run by Charity Hillis
Big Girl Panties by S.J. Sawyer
September:
Burning Ember by Darby Briar
Temptation Parts 1-3 by Ivy Smoak
A Wife in Every Sense by Joanne Walsh
Pushing the Limits by Brooke Cumberland
Head Over Heels for the Boss by Susan Meier
The CEO by Shealy James
Grit by Margaret McHeyzer
Delicious Complication by Sabrina Sol
October:
Ryan's Letters by Jax Jillian
Confessions of a Punk Rocker by Nessie Strange
WANT by Emma Rider
Cousins: An Alpha Bad Boy Romance by Lisa Lang Blakeney
More Than A Friend by Amber Nation
Dirty English by Ilsa Madden-Mills
The Beauty of Lies by Brinda Berry
Scattered Ashes by Annie Anderson
November:
Tempted by a Vampire by Susan Griscom
Kellan: A Bad Boy Military MMA Romance by Sienna Valentine
Licked by Brooke Blaine
A Touch of Blackmail (A Romantic Comedy - with a Twist!) by Tara Crescent
JAX: A Rockstar Stepbrother Romance by Vivian Lux
Saved by Her by Michelle Horst
The Corset Maker Volume One by K.T. Frederick
HOSTILE: A Military Romance Novel by Leila Haven
December:
Compromising Her Position by Samanthe Beck
Foster by Jessica Ashe
Fooling Around With Cinderella by Stacy Juba
The Woodsman by Belle Scarlett
Wildest Dream by R.C. Boldt
Playing Games by Donna Alam
Unwanted Love
Marcus: A Mafia Bad Boy Romance
Welcome to the challenge TerryJane & Nicole ☺
New 2 U Authors Challenge 2015Level: Risk Taker (hoping for Devil May Care)
Duration: January 1-December 31, 2015
Progress: */15
January:
February:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
Welcome to the challenge Korky ☺And welcome to the group also. Hope you'll have fun with us here. :)
Thank you very much, ❀Tea❀. :) I look forward to it.
I'm in! Hoping to really spread my reading wings this year!New 2 U Author Challenge - 2015
Duration: January 1st, 2015 - December 31st, 2015
Level: Devil May Care
January (24)
Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle)
Ayana Mathis (The Twelve Tribes of Hattie)
Alain Mabanckou (Letter to Jimmy)
Lily King (Euphoria)
Firoozeh Dumas (Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America)
Kwei Quartey (Wife of the Gods)
Jesmyn Ward (Men We Reaped: A Memoir)
Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus)
Darina Al-Joundi (The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing)
Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming)
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno (Slamming Open the Door)
bell hooks (Black Looks: Race and Representation)
Laura Yes Yes (How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps)
Nella Larsen (Passing)
Christopher McDougall (Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, The Ultra-runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen)
Andrea Davis Pinkney (Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa)
Julia Alvarez (Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA)
Rebecca Musser (The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice)
Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
Diane Wei Liang (The Eye of Jade)
Sandra Tsing Loh (Aliens in America)
Erica Jong (Fear of Flying)
Bich Minh Nguyen (Pioneer Girl)
February (25)
Danielle Paige (Dorothy Must Die)
Rebecca West (The Return of the Soldier)
Brian Copeland (Not a Genuine Black Man: Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbs)
Nell Zink (The Wallcreeper)
Ellen Oh (Prophecy)
Shamini Flint (A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder)
Ken Liu (The Paper Menagerie)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries)
Drew Hayden Taylor (Me Funny)
Jenny Offill (Dept. of Speculation)
James McBride (The Good Lord Bird)
Jonathan Hickman (East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise)
S.D. Nelson (Coyote Christmas: A Lakota Story)
Mallory Ortberg (Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters)
Yu Hua (China in Ten Words)
James Weldon Johnson (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man)
Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven)
Rosie Schaap (Drinking with Men: A Memoir)
Paula Hopkins (The Girl on the Train)
Aman Sethi (A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi)
Hector Tobar (Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free)
Jamie Kilstein & Allison Kilkenny (Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will)
Molly Guptill Manning (When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II)
Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures)
Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You)
March (29)
Anne George (Murder on a Girls' Night Out)
Malala Yousafzai (I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban)
Meghan Daum (The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion)
Kim Gordon (Girl in a Band)
Jang Jin-Sung (Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea)
Paul Fischer (A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power)
Samantha Ellis (How To Be a Heroine)
Siddhartha Mukherjee (The Emperor of All Maladies)
Issa Rae (The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl)
Julie Maroh (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Isabel Quintero (Gabi, a Girl in Pieces)
Madeleine Flores (Help Us! Great Warrior #1)
Kazuo Ishiguro (The Buried Giant)
Gail Simone (Batgirl, Vol. 1: The Darkest Reflection)
Marion Meade (Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?)
Nando Parrado (Miracle in the Andes)
Mohja Kahf (E-mails from Scheherazad)
Joe Keatinge & Leila Del Duca (Shutter, Vol. 1: Wanderlost)
Lucy Worsley (The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock)
Misty Copeland (Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina)
Cristina Henriquez (The Book of Unknown Americans)
Tavis Smiley (Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year)
Nikki Giovanni (My House)
Jill Leovy (Ghettoside: A Story of Murder in America)
Benjamin Alire Saenz (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe)
Chad Brewster (Bob's Burgers)
Phil Klay (Redeployment)
Euny Hong (The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture)
Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being)
April (27)
Grace Lin (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon)
Catherine Price (Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection)
Lynsey Addario (It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War)
Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger)
Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried)
Ovidia Yu (Aunty Lee's Delights)
Kwame Alexander (The Crossover)
Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman)
Karen Armstrong (Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence)
Aasif Mandvi (No Land's Man)
Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
Emily Raboteau (Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora)
Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)
Masha Gessen (The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin)
Haruki Murakami (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Raina Telgemeier (Smile)
John B. Keane (Big Maggie)
Erik Larson (Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania)
Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
Rafia Zakaria (The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan)
Sophia Amoruso (#GIRLBOSS)
Flann O'Brien (The Third Policeman)
Jennifer Teege (My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past)
Ramita Navai (City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran)
Ernest J. Gaines (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
Judy Blume (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret)
May (23)
Yiyun Li (Kinder Than Solitude)
Zeina Abirached (A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return)
Shigeru Mizuki (Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths)
Arigon Starr (Super Indian, Vol. 1)
Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer)
Noelle Stevenson (Lumberjanes, Vol. 1)
N.K. Jemisin (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
Hana Yanagihara (The People in the Trees)
Malinda Lo (Ash)
Keigo Higashino (The Devotion Of Suspect X)
Carrie Fisher (Shockaholic)
Maz Jobrani (I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man)
Rachel Swaby (Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World)
Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
Qiu Xiaolong (Death of a Red Heroine)
Andy Weir (The Martian)
Kao Kalia Yang (The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir)
Farnaz Fassihi (Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq)
Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation)
Kanae Minato (Confessions)
Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)
John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra)
Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)
June (27)
Alan Weisman (The World Without Us)
Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption)
Marie Kondo (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing)
Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer)
Irvin D. Yalom (Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy)
Suzanne Rindell (The Other Typist)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (We Should All Be Feminists)
Fuminori Nakamura (The Thief)
Natsuo Kirino (Real World)
Sabaa Tahir (An Ember in the Ashes)
Emma Hooper (Etta and Otto and Russell and James)
Jason Reynolds (When I Was the Greatest)
Pablo Neruda (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair)
Sarah Lotz (The Three)
Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
Timur Vermes (Look Who's Back)
Nelson Mandela (Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela)
Brittany Gibbons (Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It)
J. Michael Straczynski (Rising Stars: Born in Fire)
Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky)
Marjorie M. Liu (Black Widow: The Name of the Rose)
Anne Holt (1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel)
Xiaolu Guo (Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth)
Jen Lin-Liu (Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China)
Aziz Ansari (Modern Romance)
Na Liu (Little White Duck : a childhood in China)
Lisa Wilde (Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look At High Schoool)
July (15)
Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act)
Begum Rokeya (Sultana's Dream)
August Wilson (The Piano Lesson)
Y.S. Lee (A Spy in the House)
Jack Weatherford (The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire)
Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians)
Becky Cloonan (Gotham Academy, Vol. 1: Welcome to Gotham Academy)
John Layman (Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice)
Shirley Jackson (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
Arnaldur Indrioason (Jar City)
Traci Mann (Secrets from the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again)
Joy Harjo (Crazy Brave: A Memoir)
Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend)
Carrie Vaughn (After the Golden Age)
Mardi Jo Link (Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm)
Good luck in spreading your wings. Just don't go near the sun. Welcome to the challenge Megan ☺
Come What May6/?
Completed Fresh Face
Working on Adventurer
1. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
2. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
3. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
4. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
5. Landline by Rainbow Rowell
6. Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
Novel Books & Reading ChallengesNew 2 U Authors 2015
Duration: 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015
Progress: 20 out of 20
1. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan - *** - 1/6/2015 - 340 Pages
2. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - ***** - 1/14/2015 - 369 Pages
3. Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan - *** - 1/15/2015 - 388 Pages
4. Simply Unforgettable by Mary Balogh - **** - 1/24/2015 - 422 Pages
5. Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn - ***** - 1/25/2015
6. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - ***** - 1/26/2015 - 408 Pages
7. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - ***** - 2/1/2015 - 835 Pages
8. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - **** - 2/22/2015 - 387 Pages
9. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran - *** - 2/26/2015 - 463 Pages
10. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith - ***** - 3/1/2015 - 235 Pages
11. Wallbanger by Alice Clayton - **** - 3/10/2015 - 384 Pages
12. Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman - ***** - 3/22/2015 - 128 Pages
13. Forgotten Sins by Rebecca Zanetti - **** - 3/29/2015 - 384 Pages
14. Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl - ***** - 4/6/2015 - 304 Pages
15. Written in Red by Anne Bishop - ***** - 4/9/2015 - 433 Pages
16. Return to Me by Justina Chen - **** - 4/10/2015 - 352 Pages
17. Little Bee by Chris Cleave - *** - 4/14/2015 - 266 Pages
18. Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion - **** - 4/19/2015 - 239 Pages
19. Meet Me at the Cupcake Café by Jenny Colgan - ***** - 4/23/2015 - 456 Pages
20. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay - ***** - 4/28/2015 - 288 Pages
1/1-12/31/15Devil May Care
3/20+
①January
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Susanna Kearsley-
Zoraida Córdova-
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I'm going with Come What May8/?
Jan 2015
1. My Dear I Wanted to Tell You ****
2. Life of Pi *****
3. The Winter House ***
4. The Night Rainbow ***
5. The Resurrectionist **
6. Mariana ****
7. The Orchid House ***
8. The Bridesmaid Pact ***
February 2015
thank you for the welcomes
Welcome to the challenge ❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ & Bella ☺And welcome to the group Bella! :)
I'm in!New 2 U Challenge 2015
Level: Devil May Care
20/20
January:
Armed and Outrageous by Madison Johns
Whiskey Rebellion by Liliana Hart
Dead Wrong by Leighann Dobbs
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
February:
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Psych's Guide to Crime Fighting for the Totally Unqualified by Shawn Spencer
Death Checks Inn by Sara Robbins
The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson
Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
March:
Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell
The Deadliest Monster: A Christian Introduction to Worldviews by J.F. Baldwin
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
The Cellar by Natasha Preston
The Last Call by George Wier
This sounds cool!I'm gonna do.... Come What May :)
Jan 2015
1. Lockdown, by Alexander Gordon Smith
2. Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
3. Siege and Storm, by Leigh Bardugo
4. Ruin and Rising, by Leigh Bardugo
5. The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau
5/?
Welcome to the challenge Caroline and Tularula789 ☺
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Welcome to the challenge Caroline and Tularula789 ☺"Thanks! :)
1/1-12/31/15Devil May Care
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①January
Deborah Cooke-
Susanna Kearsley-
Zoraida Córdova-
Theo Lawrence-
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❀Tea❀ wrote: "Welcome to the challenge ❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ & Bella ☺And welcome to the group Bella! :)"
thanks
I'll do the Devil May Care Level13/20
January
The Martian
Marooned!
Does Third Grade Last Forever?
Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?
Night Terrors
Stung
If We Survive
The Fox Inheritance
February
Merry Christmas, Geronimo!
Pillar to the Sky
How I Live Now
What's Left of Me
Brain Camp
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
November
December
1/1-12/31/15Devil May Care
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①January
Deborah Cooke-
Susanna Kearsley-
Zoraida Córdova-
Theo Lawrence-
James Dashner-
Sara Raasch-
②February
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Come What MayDuration: January - December 2015
1/1-12/31/15Devil May Care
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①January
Deborah Cooke-
Susanna Kearsley-
Zoraida Córdova-
Theo Lawrence-
James Dashner-
Sara Raasch-
Cat Clarke-
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I'm looking at everyone's lists thinking Oo a new one for me to try to!
I'm looking at everyone's lists thinking Oo a new one for me to try to!
2015 NEW TO YOU AUTHORS CHALLENGE.DEVIL MAY CARE....BOOKS READ 3.
JANUARY
Debora Geary: A Modern Witch ★★
M J Rose: The Reincarnationist ★★★☆
Kathryn Stockett: The Help ★★★★
Bella wrote: "I'm looking at everyone's lists thinking Oo a new one for me to try to!"*snikers*
Well that's the point of this one, isn't it :P Everyone is finding someone new to read.
I finished 9 new to me authors in January:
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Completed January 1, 2015.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Completed January 2, 2015.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Completed January 17, 2015.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Completed January 19, 2015.
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert Completed January 20, 2015.
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Completed January 22, 2015.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Completed January 25, 2015.
UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn Completed January 27, 2015.
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan Completed January 31, 2015.
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Completed January 1, 2015.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Completed January 2, 2015.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Completed January 17, 2015.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Completed January 19, 2015.
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert Completed January 20, 2015.
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Completed January 22, 2015.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Completed January 25, 2015.
UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn Completed January 27, 2015.
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan Completed January 31, 2015.
1/1-12/31/15Devil May Care
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①January
Deborah Cooke-
Susanna Kearsley-
Zoraida Córdova-
Theo Lawrence-
James Dashner-
Sara Raasch-
Cat Clarke-
②February
Sarah J. Maas-
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Definitely but at this rate I will have to never leave my house for the next 100 years to even attempt finishing my TBR!
Definitely but at this rate I will have to never leave my house for the next 100 years to even attempt finishing my TBR!
I updated Message #13. I read 11 new authors for the month of January.1. Maggie Shipstead - Astonish Me, 1/3/15
2. Sally Clements - Catch Me a Catch, 1/11/15
3. Lucy Kevin - The Wedding Gift, 1/16/15
4. Caroline Mickelson - Miss Kane's Christmas, 1/18/15
5. Karen Cantwell - The Chronicles of Marr-nia, 1/18/15
6. Tina Folsom - Lawful Escort, 1/18/15
7. Lacy Camey - The Last Page, 1/18/15
8. Morgan Mandel - Girl Of My Dreams, 1/24/15
9. Laurie Cass - Lending a Paw, 1/25/15
10. Linda Goodnight - A Very Special Delivery, 1/27/15
11. Julie Smith- Death Turns a Trick, 1/31/15
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