Rusty's 2021 Challenge Goals

[Rusty]

plan to work on including more classics this year and read books from the groups to which I belong either book of the month or from the shelves. Here goes:

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs:

2. Book group

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf)

4. New acquisition

JANUARY

1.. Classic: The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 1/5/2021. Also Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2007), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2007), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2006), The Quill Award for General Fiction (2007), Puddly Award for Fiction (2010) (Believer Book Award (2006), Tähtivaeltaja Award (2009), Cena Akademie SFFH for Kniha roku (Book of the Year) (2008), Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (2009), International Dublin Literary

2. Book group The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson from Addicted to YA bookshelf, 1/16/2021

3. TBR: Jacaranda (The Clockwork Century, #6) by Cherie Priest, 1/7/2021

4, New acquisition: Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince, 1/6/2021

IN ADDITION: 2 big books: In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George, 535 pages, 1/4/2021 and Treachery's Tools by L.E. Modesitt Jr., 622 pages, 1/23/2021



February

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain, 2/8/2021

2. Book group The Huntress by Kate Quinn, Historical Fictionists Bookshelf, 2/7/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf) The Paris Winter by Imogen Robertson, 2/24/2021

4. New acquisition Murder at the Breakers by Alyssa Maxwell, 2/4/2021

Big books: The Collectors
by David Baldacci, 338 pages; The Jewel of St. Petersburg by Kate Furnivall. 455 pages



March

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs; The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason, 2/4/2021 (not included in classic lists I find but I think it belongs here)

2. Book group Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Book Addicts), 3/22/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf) A Plague of Poison by Maureen Ash, 3/18/2021

4. New acquisition Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah, 3/20/2021

Large books: What the Dead Leave Behind by Rosemary Simpson, 416 pages, 3/15/2021
An Artless Demise by Anna Lee Huber, 3/29/2021, 372 pages



APRIL

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs; Women of the Vine: Inside the World of Women Who Make, Taste, and Enjoy Wine by Deborah Brenner, 4/14/2021

2. Book group: (Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Shelf) Moon of the Crusted Snow ] by Waubgeshig Rice, 3/9/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf): Saving June by Hannah Harrington, 4/4/2021

4. New acquisition: Truthseeker by C.E. Murphy, 4/28/2021



MAY

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs:
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, 5/9/2021

2: Book group (Historical fiction) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 5/17/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf); We Were the Lucky Ones (reread), 5/4/2021, Sarah's Key by by Tatiana de Rosnay, 5/10/2021

4. New acquisition: The Rain Watcher, 5/2/2021

Big Books: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, 5/9/2021



JUNE

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs: J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter by Marc Shapiro, 5/2/2021

2: Book group: (Historical Mystery Lovers) Fallen Into the Pit by Ellis Peters, 6/13/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf); Bloodshot by Cherie Priest, 6/5/2021 The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White, 5/11/2021

4. New acquisition: The Lost Stories by John Flanagan, 6/3/2021

Big book and Pulitizer Prize winner: Empire Falls by Richard Russo, 483 pages, 6/22/2021



JULY

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs: The Chord of Steel: Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone by Thomas B. Costain, 7/12/2021

2. Book group: Addicted to YA, Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix, 7/30/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf): A Cruel Deception by Charles Todd, 7/9.2021; Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner, 7/19/2021

4. New acquisition: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune, 7/1/2021

Big book and Pulitzer prize winner: The Overstory by Richard Powers, 7/6/2021, 502 pages
Big book" Arctic Drift, 8/29/2021, 515 pages



AUGUST

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs: Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters, 8/8//2021

2. Book group: Historical Fictionists, Lamentation by C.J. Sansom, 9/10/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf): Orchard by Larry Watson, 8/12/2021

4. New acquisition: Moriarty Anthony Horowitz, 8/3/2021, The Tudor Vendetta by C.W. Gortner, 8/5/2021



SEPTEMBER

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs: My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian: Mushing Across Alaska in the Iditarod--the World's Most Grueling Race by Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, 9/4/2021

2. Book group The Life of a Book Addict The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, 9/17/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf) The Mad King 9/2/2021 by Edgar Rice Burroughs

4. New acquisition Marlena by Julie Buntin, 9/5/2021, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 9/2/2021, A Matter of Justice by Charles Todd, 9/7/2021



OCTOBER

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs: The Man Who Lives with Wolves by Shaun Ellis, 10/14/2021

2. Book group: Classic The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, 10/14/2021, and The Last Tycoon, an Unfinished Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 10/11/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf): The Shadow Queen by Sandra Gulland, 10/17/2021

4. New acquisition: Hell or High Water by Joy Castro, 10/6/2021, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner, 10/7/2021



NOVEMBER

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs: Historical Fictionistis: Death Comes to the Village by Catherine Lloyd, 12/1/2021

2. Book group - Addicted to YA: Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan, 11/11/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf): Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell, 11/11/2021, The Crime of Julian Wells by Thomas H. Cook

4. New acquisition: Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina, 11/26/2021



DECEMBER

1. Classic or nonfiction including biographies and memoirs: Break the Surface by Daniel Parker (Biography), 12/3/2021

2. Book group, The Life of a Book Addict: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood, 12/16/2021

3. TBR (not all of these are on my GR shelf) The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson, 12/9/2021

4. New acquisition: The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch, 12/5/2021

Big book: A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas, 12/14/2021, 737 pages

[Elyse, Moderator]

Welcome back, Rusty! Looking forward to seeing what you read! I like your setup to achieve your goals!

[Juli, Moderator]

Rusty wrote: "I plan to work on including more classics this year and read books from the groups to which I belong either book of the month or from the shelves. Here goes:

1. Classic or nonfiction including bio..."

The Road is one of my all-time favorites!