A Pyramid of Books

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[.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•]

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TASKS
✔️1. Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.

✔️1 - - The Trouble with Twelfth Grave by Darynda Jones - 02/12/2021



✔️2. Read 2 books of 300+ pages.

✔️1 - 341 pgs - The Perfect Waltz by Anne Gracie - 23/08/2021
✔️2 - 344 pgs - The Perfect Stranger by Anne Gracie - 24/08/2021



✔️3. Read 3 books that are tagged romance.

✔️1 - Scrumptious by Amanda Usen - 20/11/2021
✔️2 - Luscious by Amanda Usen - 21/11/2021
✔️3 - Bitten by Kelley Armstrong - 25/11/2021



✔️4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series. The books have to have a decimal in their number count.

✔️1 - The Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy #0.5 - How to Catch a Wild Viscount by Tessa Dare - 29/08/2021
✔️2 - The Edge 1.1 - George and Jack in School by Ilona Andrews - 30/08/2021
✔️3 - Lords of Deliverance 5.5 - Azagoth by Larissa Ione - 09/09/2021
✔️4 - Lords of Deliverance 6.5 - Hades by Larissa Ione - 10/09/2021



✔️5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts.

✔️1 - The Unlikelies by Carrie Firestone - 11/10/2021
✔️2 - Skies of Steel by Zoe Archer - 01/11/2021
✔️3 - The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz - 08/11/2021
✔️4 - Meet Me on Love Lane by Nina Bocci - 10/11/2021
✔️5 - West End Girls by Jenny Colgan - 19/11/2021



✔️6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you.

✔️1 - Immortal Matchmakers, Inc. by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff - 12/09/2021
✔️2 - Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon - 15/09/2021
✔️3 - Guarding a Notorious Lady by Olivia Parker - 13/09/2021
✔️4 - Very Irresistible Playboy by Lila Monroe - 15/09/2021
✔️5 - In the Penalty Box by Lynn Rush - 17/09/2021
✔️6 - An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris - 20/09/2021



✔️7. Read 7 books that were written by a man.

✔️1 - On the Edge by Ilona Andrews - 30/08/2021
✔️2 - Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews - 03/09/2021
✔️3 - One Summer by David Baldacci - 19/10/2021
✔️4 - Night of Fire by Nico Rosso - 31/10/2021
✔️5 - Nights of Steel by Nico Rosso - 02/11/2021
✔️6 - Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard - 09/11/2021
✔️7 - Two By Two by Nicholas Sparks - 07/11/2021



✔️8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman.

✔️1 - Linger: Songbird / Stay With Me by Maya Banks - 17/10/2021
✔️2 - Unmasking the Duke's Mistress by Margaret McPhee - 28/10/2021
✔️3 - Colt by Lori Foster - 31/10/2021
✔️4 - Eighth Grave After Dark by Darynda Jones - 26/11/2021
✔️5 - The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones - 29/11/2021
✔️6 - The Curse of Tenth Grave by Darynda Jones - 30/11/2021
✔️7 - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 01/12/2021
✔️8 - Hungry Like the Wolf by Paige Tyler - 17/12/2021



✔️9. Read 9 books that has a cover you love.

✔️1 - Fractured Silence by Carrie Ann Ryan - 05/09/2021
✔️2 - Destiny Disgraced by Carrie Ann Ryan - 05/09/2021
✔️3 - Eternal Mourning by Carrie Ann Ryan - 06/09/2021
✔️4 - Strength Enduring by Carrie Ann Ryan - 06/09/2021
✔️5 - Forever Broken by Carrie Ann Ryan - 07/09/2021
✔️6 - Fury Unleashed by N.J. Walters - 18/09/2021
✔️7 - Arctic Bite by N.J. Walters - 19/09/2021
✔️8 - Burning Ash by N.J. Walters - 21/09/2021
✔️9 - Bjorn Cursed by N.J. Walters - 23/09/2021



✔️10. Read 10 books that take place in a city.

✔️1 - Freed by E.L. James - 29/08/2021
✔️2 - His Risk to Take by Tessa Bailey - 12/09/2021
✔️3 - Undercover Duke by Sabrina Jeffries - 14/09/2021
✔️4 - Tall, Dark, and Vampire by Sara Humphreys - 25/09/2021
✔️5 - Vampire Trouble by Sara Humphreys - 26/09/2021
✔️6 - Vampires Never Cry Wolf by Sara Humphreys - 28/09/2021
✔️7 - All It Takes by Kristen Proby - 08/10/2021
✔️8 - The Unlikely Mistress by Sharon Kendrick - 11/10/2021
✔️9 - Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh - 30/10/2021
✔️10 - One Night with a Quarterback by Jeanette Murray - 01/11/2021

[.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•]

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✔️11, Read 11 books that take place in a small town.

✔️1 - Disorderly Conduct by Rebecca Zanetti - 24/08/2021
✔️2 - Bailed Out by Rebecca Zanetti - 25/08/2021
✔️3 - Adverse Possession by Rebecca Zanetti - 27/08/2021
✔️4 - The Engagement Arrangement by Jaci Burton - 02/09/2021
✔️5 - The Breakup by Erin McCarthy - 11/09/2021
✔️6 - Take Me Fast by Vanessa Vale - 20/09/2021
✔️7 - Hold Me Close by Vanessa Vale - 20/09/2021
✔️8 - Kiss Me Crazy by Vanessa Vale - 08/10/2021
✔️9 - The Next Always by Nora Roberts - 27/10/2021
✔️10 - The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts - 28/10/2021
✔️11 - Her Renegade Cowboy by Lora Leigh - 29/10/2021



✔️12. Read 12 books that you choose.

✔️1 - On the Prowl by Patricia Briggs - 07/11/2021
✔️2 - Hot Stuff by Max Monroe - 23/11/2021
✔️3 - Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong - 29/11/2021
✔️4 - Summoned to Thirteenth Grave by Darynda Jones - 03/12/2021
✔️5 - Kodiak's Claim by Eve Langlais - 03/12/2021
✔️6 - Wolf's Capture by Eve Langlais - 07/12/2021
✔️7 - Grizzly Love by Eve Langlais - 08/12/2021
✔️8 - Out of the Shallows by Samantha Young - 13/12/2021
✔️9 - The Undead Next Door by Kerrelyn Sparks - 15/12/2021
✔️10 - All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks - 16/12/2021
✔️11 - Secret Life of a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks - 20/12/2021
✔️12 - Wolf Unleashed by Paige Tyler - 20/12/2021



✔️13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from? (Canada)

✔️1 - X Marks the Scot by Victoria Roberts - 31/08/2021
✔️2 - Impulse Control by Amanda Usen - 01/09/2021
✔️3 - Who Wants to Marry a Duke by Sabrina Jeffries - 13/09/2021
✔️4 - Always by Lynsay Sands - 06/10/2021
✔️5 - A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas - 21/10/2021
✔️6 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke - 08/11/2021
✔️7 - Vamps and the City by Kerrelyn Sparks - 11/11/2021
✔️8 - Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones - 17/11/2021
✔️9 - Unbound by Sara Humphreys - 18/11/2021
✔️10 - Undiscovered by Sara Humphreys - 19/11/2021
✔️11 - Sixth Grave on the Edge by Darynda Jones - 24/11/2021
✔️12 - Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones - 25/11/2021
✔️13 - Wolf Trouble by Paige Tyler - 17/12/2021



✔️14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own. If you are not in the United States any state.

✔️1 - Trace of Fever by Lori Foster - 08/09/2021
✔️2 - Savor the Danger by Lori Foster - 09/09/2021
✔️3 - A Perfect Storm by Lori Foster - 10/09/2021
✔️4 - Embraced in Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan - 12/09/2021
✔️5 - Lost Without You by Molly O'Keefe - 30/09/2021
✔️6 - Where I Belong by Molly O'Keefe - 01/10/2021
✔️7 - Ruin You by Molly O'Keefe - 02/10/2021
✔️8 - Confusing Hearts by Julie Trettel - 26/10/2021
✔️9 - Can't Be Love by Julie Trettel - 26/10/2021
✔️10 - In the Company of Wolves by Paige Tyler - 18/12/2021
✔️11 - Loving Him Off the Field by Jeanette Murray - 02/11/2021
✔️12 - Takes Two to Tackle by Jeanette Murray - 03/11/2021
✔️13 - Against the Storm by Kat Martin - 04/11/2021
✔️14 - Shadow and Ice by Gena Showalter - 05/11/2021



✔️15. Read 15 books in a series. (You can use the same series or different series)

✔️1 - Have Mercy by N.J. Walters - 22/08/2021
✔️2 - Sweet Charity by N.J. Walters - 22/08/2021
✔️3 - Black Magic Bear by Bianca D'Arc - 17/09/2021
✔️4 - The Good, the Bad, and the Vampire by Sara Humphreys - 29/09/2021
✔️5 - Make Me Yours by Vanessa Vale - 01/10/2021
✔️6 - Inked Obsession by Carrie Ann Ryan - 18/10/2021
✔️7 - Unforgiven by Lauren Kate - 20/10/2021
✔️8 - Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot - 06/11/2021
✔️9 - Romancing the Running Back by Jeanette Murray - 06/11/2021
✔️10 - Completing the Pass by Jeanette Murray - 07/11/2021
✔️11 - Be Still My Vampire Heart by Kerrelyn Sparks - 22/11/2021
✔️12 - Bastien by Tianna Xander - 23/11/2021
✔️13 - Haunted by Kelley Armstrong - 03/12/2021
✔️14 - Living with the Dead by Kelley Armstrong - 08/12/2021
✔️15 - Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong - 11/12/2021

[.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•]

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✔️16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre.

✔️1 - Lion's Quest by Eve Langlais - 28/08/2021
✔️2 - Delicate Freakn' Flower by Eve Langlais - 02/10/2021
✔️3 - Jealous And Freakn' by Eve Langlais - 03/10/2021
✔️4 - Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston - 05/10/2021
✔️5 - Already Freakn' Mated by Eve Langlais - 05/10/2021
✔️6 - Human and Freakn' by Eve Langlais - 07/10/2021
✔️7 - Jungle Freakn' Bride by Eve Langlais - 07/10/2021
✔️8 - Freakn' Cougar by Eve Langlais - 08/10/2021
✔️9 - Freakn' Out by Eve Langlais - 09/10/2021
✔️10 - Wolf's Mate by Celia Kyle - 12/10/2021
✔️11 - Tiger's Claim by Celia Kyle - 14/10/2021
✔️12 - Sacrificed to the Dragon by Jessie Donovan - 15/10/2021
✔️13 - One True Mate by Julie Trettel - 22/10/2021
✔️14 - Fighting Destiny by Julie Trettel - 23/10/2021
✔️15 - Forever Mine by Julie Trettel - 25/10/2021
✔️16 - To Love a Wolf by Paige Tyler - 19/12/2021



✔️17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title.

✔️1 - Eternal Flame by Cynthia Eden - 22/08/2021
✔️2 - Embracing Silence by N.J. Walters - 22/08/2021
✔️3 - Everlasting Desire by Amanda Ashley - 01/10/2021
✔️4 - The Perfect Hope by Nora Roberts - 30/10/2021
✔️5 - Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz - 31/10/2021
✔️6 - Sweeping Ashley by Eve Langlais - 11/11/2021
✔️7 - Untamed by Sara Humphreys - 16/11/2021
✔️8 - Undone by Sara Humphreys - 17/11/2021
✔️9 - Unclaimed by Sara Humphreys - 18/11/2021
✔️10 - Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones - 18/11/2021
✔️11 - Stolen by Kelley Armstrong - 27/11/2021
✔️12 - Broken by Kelley Armstrong - 04/12/2021
✔️13 - Outfoxed by Love by Eve Langlais - 06/12/2021
✔️14 - Polar Bared by Eve Langlais - 06/12/2021
✔️15 - Into the Deep by Samantha Young - 13/12/2021
✔️16 - Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong - 14/12/2021
✔️17 - Inked Devotion by Carrie Ann Ryan - 15/12/2021



✔️18. Read 18 books with a Red, White or Blue cover.

✔️1 - The Perfect Kiss by Anne Gracie - 25/08/2021
✔️2 - It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas - 27/08/2021
✔️3 - Bombshell by Sarah MacLean - 03/09/2021
✔️4 - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory - 14/09/2021
✔️5 - All the Way by Kristen Proby - 07/10/2021
✔️6 - Rogue Wolf by Paige Tyler - 16/10/2021
✔️7 - Issued to the Bride: One Navy SEAL by Cora Seton - 17/10/2021
✔️8 - Unmasking Kelsey by Kay Hooper - 28/10/2021
✔️9 - Skies of Fire by Zoe Archer - 30/10/2021
✔️10 - Archangel's Light by Nalini Singh - 05/11/2021
✔️11 - How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks - 10/11/2021
✔️12 - First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones - 12/11/2021
✔️13 - Unleashed by Sara Humphreys - 12/11/2021
✔️14 - Untouched by Sara Humphreys - 14/10/2021
✔️15 - Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones - 15/11/2021
✔️16 - Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones - 16/11/2021
✔️17 - Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong - 28/11/2021
✔️18 - No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong - 05/12/2021

[.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•]

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✔️19. Read 19 books that have an outdoor cover.

✔️1 - Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas - 07/09/2021
✔️2 - Nine Lives by Danielle Steel - 16/09/2021
✔️3 - The Good Luck Sister by Jill Shalvis - 01/10/2021
✔️4 - There with You by Samantha Young - 10/10/2021
✔️5 - Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - 12/10/2021
✔️6 - Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis - 13/10/2021
✔️7 - Then Came You by Jill Shalvis - 15/10/2021
✔️8 - Still the One by Jill Shalvis - 17/10/2021
✔️9 - Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas - 20/10/2021
✔️10 - Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts - 22/10/2021
✔️11 - Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft by Mandy M. Roth - 07/11/2021
✔️12 - Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong - 05/12/2021
✔️13 - The Awakening by Nora Roberts - 09/12/2021
✔️14 - Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong - 09/12/2021
✔️15 - Spell Bound by Kelley Armstrong - 12/12/2021
✔️16 - Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas - 26/08/2021
✔️17 - By Winter's Light by Stephanie Laurens - 04/10/2021
✔️18 - Under a Harvest Moon by Julie Trettel - 27/10/2021
✔️19 - Mile High with a Vampire by Lynsay Sands - 21/10/2021



✔️20. Read 20 books either set on the water, have water on the cover or are set in a coastal town. Tell us where.

✔️1 - cover - Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews - 01/09/2021
✔️2 - cover - Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews - 04/09/2021
✔️3 - cover - Our Italian Summer by Jennifer Probst - 08/09/2021
✔️4 - cover - The Wanderer by Robyn Carr - 21/09/2021
✔️5 - cover - The Newcomer by Robyn Carr - 22/09/2021
✔️6 - cover - The Hero by Robyn Carr - 23/09/2021
✔️7 - cover - The Chance by Robyn Carr - 24/09/2021
✔️8 - cover - The Promise by Robyn Carr - 26/09/2021
✔️9 - cover - The Homecoming by Robyn Carr - 27/09/2021
✔️10 - cover - One Wish by Robyn Carr - 28/09/2021
✔️11 - cover - A New Hope by Robyn Carr - 29/09/2021
✔️12 - cover - Wildest Dreams by Robyn Carr - 30/09/2021
✔️13 - cover - Rescue My Heart by Jill Shalvis - 13/10/2021
✔️14 - cover - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 18/10/2021
✔️15 - cover - Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts - 24/10/2021
✔️16 - cover - Island of Glass by Nora Roberts - 25/10/2021
✔️17 - waterfall on cover - The Becoming by Nora Roberts - 12/12/2021
✔️18 - cover - Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins - 20/12/2021
✔️19 - cover - Wake by Amanda Hocking - 21/12/2021
✔️20 - cover - Lullaby by Amanda Hocking - 22/12/2021

[Genevieve]

Welcome Christine

[.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•]

Genevieve wrote: "Welcome Christine"

Thanks Genevieve.

Just a question - for the male authors, does it count if it is a writing duo and one is male? e.g. Ilona Andrews shows up on a Listopia list for male authors

[Genevieve]

.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*• wrote: "Genevieve wrote: "Welcome Christine"

Thanks Genevieve.

Just a question - for the male authors, does it count if it is a writing duo and one is male? e.g. Ilona Andrews shows up on a Listopia list..."
Sure I will allow that.

[Susan A]

COMPLETE -- my original post is broken. It won't let me update.

A Pyramid of Books
Categories: 20/20
Books: 210/210

1. title 5 words or more.
1. Teddy Spenser Isn't Looking for Love: An LGBTQ Romcom by Kim Fielding Apr 8 ★★★


2. 300+ pages
1. 454 pages, Four Letter Word by KM Neuhold Apr 9 ★★★
2. 350 pages, Happy Trail by Daisy Prescott May 22 ★★★★


3. tagged romance
1. The Last Thing He Needs by JH Knight May 30 ★★★★★
2. Jorg by Ava Ross Jun 5 ★★★
3. Don't Look Back by Josh Lanyon Jun 18 ★★★★


4. in-between novellas of series
1. #7.5 The Tribulations of Ross Young, Supernat PA, The After Show by AJ SherwoodMar 31 ★★★★
2. #2.6 Imago, Imagoes by NR Walker Apr 5 ★★★★
3. #6.4 Jarheads Homecoming, A Jarheads Short by Sean Michael Apr 19 ★★★
4. #4.5 Ice Planet Honeymoon: Rukh & Harlow by Ruby Dixon May 25 ★★★


5 .3+ colors cover
1. red, gold, white - Mate Challenge by Stormy Glenn and Olivia Black May 12 ★★★
2. pink, blue, white - Barbarian's Treasure by Ruby Dixon May 17 ★★★
3. green, white, yellow - Elf Defence by Lisa Henry and Sarah Honey May 18 ★★★★
4. pink, yellow, white The Dream Guy Next Door by Lauren Blakely Jun 8 ★★
5 pink, violet, yellow, brown - The Lady Most Likely... by Julia Quinn Jun 28 ★★★★


6. new to you author
1. Jaxon Knight, Rival Princes Mar 28 ★★★
2. Elin Peer, The Protector Apr 10 ★★
3. Eliott Griffen, What We Want Apr 11 ★★★
4. Becca Brayden, Alien King Crashes the Wedding May 7 ★★
5. PW Davies, Heart Shaped Fire May 16 ★★★
6. Ridley Pearson, Disney After Dark May 16 ★★★


7. male author
1. Shelter in Place by Simon Strange Mar 31 ★★★
2. Gay Freedom Day, 1977 by Frank W. Butterfield Apr 29 ★★★
3 Three Wrong Turns in the Desert by Neil Plakcy May 3 ★★★★
4. Feeding Frenzy by Michael P. Spradlin May 7 ★★★★★, water cover
5. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune May 11 ★★★★★
6 Dancing With The Tide by Neil Plakcy Jun 16 ★★★
7 Fairytales From Verania by TJ Klune Jun 30 ★★★


8. female author
1. Kensho by Lyn Gala Mar 29 ★★★★★
2. Crash by Kelly Fox Mar 29 ★★★
3. Lauren's Barbarian by Ruby DIxon Apr 6 ★★★★
4. Red Heir by Lisa Henry and Sarah Honey Apr 7 ★★★★
5. How to Lure a Hunter by Alice Winters Apr 30 ★★★
6. Pitch Please by Lani Lynn Vale May 10 ★★★
7. Taxes and Tardis by NR Walker May 14 ★★★★
8. Roommate by Sarina Bowen Jun 14 ★★★★


9. cover you love
1. Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox Mar 26 ★★★★
2. Jon's Spooky Corpse Conundrum by AJ Sherwood Jun 3 ★★★★
3. Jon's Boom Shaka Laka Problem by AJ SherwoodJun 6 ★★★★
4 Blind Side by Josj Lanyon Jun 23 ★★★★
5 Cherished by Frankie Love Jun 26 ★★★
6 Split: Coffin Nails MC by Miss Merikan Jun 27 ★★★★
7 Strange Love by Ann Aguirre Jul 6 ★★★★★
8 The Quarry Master by Amanda Milo Jul 19 ★★★★
9 The Mysterious and Amazing Blue Billings by Lily Morton Jul 26 ★★★★★


10. takes place in a city
1. London, Mistress by Amanda Quick Apr 11 ★★★★
2. San Francisco, Bell, Book and Scandal by Josh Lanyon Apr 15 ★★★★
3. Atlanta, Ex Meridian by AE Via Apr 16 ★★★★
4. Atlanta, A Nothing Special New Year by AE Via Apr 20 ★★★★
5. London, Affair by Amanda Quick Apr 20 ★★★★
6. London, Bitter Legacy by Dal MacLean Apr 28 ★★★★★
7. Dallas, Crashing Upwards by SC Wynne May 13 ★★★
8. Los Angeles, Drugged to Death by Meg Perry May 15 ★★★
9. NYC, The Mystery of the Bones by CS Poe May 31 ★★★★★
10. NYC, Fireman Derek's Crazy Pie Cheeseburger Baby

[Susan A]

11. Set in a small town.
1. Midsummer, AR Stay by Jessica Frances Apr 7 ★★★★
2. Alamogordo NM< Obsessed to Death by Meg Perry Apr 12 ★★★
3. English village, Pressure Head by JL Merrow Apr 16 ★★★★
4. Taco Town, The ABCs of Spellcraft Collection: Volume 1 by Jordan Castillo Price Apr 18 ★★★★★
5. small town in Oregon, Studmuffin Santa by Tawna Fenske Apr 26 ★★★★
6. Green Valley TN, Love in Deed LB Dunbar May 1 ★★★★
7. Beacon Hills CA, Last to Know Never_Says_DieMay 2 ★★★★
8. Garnet Run, WY Best Laid Plans by Roan Parrish May 4 ★★★
9. San Juan Islands, Conspiracy Theory by Elle Keaton May 13 ★★★★
10. English village, Heat Trap by JL Merrow May 28 ★★★★★
11. English village, Blow Down by JL Merrow Jun 1 ★★★★★


12. Free Choice
1 Mr. Impossible Jul 9 ★★★★★
2 Death's Ink-Black Shadow by John Wiltshire Jul 16 ★★★★★
3 One Bite With a Vampire by Louisa Masters Jul 18 ★★★★
4 Their Bounty by KA Merikan Jul 21 ★★★★
5 That One Time Aja Foxx Jul 23 ★★
6 One Step Too Close: Coffin Nails MC Louisiana by KA Merikan Jul 23 ★★★★
7 There is a Brotherhood by misuseonedayJul 25 ★★★★
8 Some Bunny to Love by Lorelei M. Hart and Aria Grace Jul 27 ★★★
9 Goal Lines & First Times by Eden Finely and Saxon Finley Aug 2 ★★★
10 Horny for His Omega by Stevie Shimmercox Aug 3 ★★★
11 Earth Husbands are Odd by Lyn Gala Aug 23 ★★★★★
12 Brownie Points by Jordan Castillo Price Aug 21 ★★★★★

13. Setting not in the US
1. Scotland, Haunted to Death by Meg Perry Mar 27 ★★★
2. Scotland, The Wedding by Julie Garwood Apr 1 ★★★★★
3. England, The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt Apr 4 ★★
4. France, You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister Apr 9 ★★★
5. UK, Spring Strings by Lily Morton Apr 10 ★★★★★
6. Australia, 'Roo and the Angel by Eve Langlais Apr 29 ★★★
7. Canada and Columbia, Match Grade - Criminal Delights: Assassins by GB Gordon May 9 ★★★
8. England, Relief Valve by JL Merrow May 26 ★★★★★
9. England, The Sugared Game by KJ Charles May 30 ★★★★★
10. England, Lock Nut by JL Merrow Jun 6 ★★★★★
11. Sweden, Where There's a Kilt, There's a Way by Ella Stainton Jun 12 ★★★★
12. France, Dead Run by Josh Lanyon Jun 23 ★★★★
13 The Bride by Julie Garwood Aug 28 ★★★★★


14. Not in NJ
1. TN: The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass Apr 1 ★★★★
2. AK: Wolf's Capture by Eve Langlais Apr 1 ★★★★
3. NV: Daddy by KM Neuhold Apr 9 ★★★
4. CA: Gabe: Partners in Grime by ZA Maxfield Apr 13 ★★★★
5. IL: Flirting with Fire Piper Rayne Apr 23 ★★
6. VT: Featherbed by Anabeth albert Apr 24 ★★★★
7. NY: Interlude: Snow & Winter Collection Volume One by CS Poe Apr 28 ★★★★★
8. VA: Bishop by AE Via Apr 29 ★★★
9. MT: The Deaf Bride by Stella Clark May 17 ★★
10. VT, Project Hero by Briar Prescott May 19 ★★★★
11. ME, Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Josh Lanyon Jun 2 ★★★★★
12. VT, Heartscape by Garrett Leigh Jun 4 ★★★★
13. IL, King's Gambit by Aiden Bates Jun 7 ★★★
14. NY, Steve Rogers. Cheerfully Slutty. by RelenalFanel Jun 13 ★★★★★


15. Series
1. Cyborgs: More Than Machines #2, F814 by Eve Langlais Apr 8 ★★★
2. The Hitman's Guide #3, The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot by Alice Winters Apr 11 ★★★★
3. Kodiak Point #5, Grizzly Love by Eve Langlais Apr 13 ★★★
4. The Underdogs #2, Just Here for the Pain by KA Merikan Apr 15 ★★★★
5. Icehome #2, Veronica's Dragon by Ruby Dixon Apr 16 ★★★★
6. Viking Warrior #2, Viking Wolf by Emmanuelle de Maupassant May 15 ★★★
7. The Bureau #5, Convicted by Kim Fielding May 22 ★★★★★
8. Icehome#4, Gail's Family by Ruby Dixon Jun 20 ★★★★
9. Dangerous Ground #2 Old Poison by Josh Lanyon, Jun 21 ★★★★
10. Dangerous Ground #3, Blood Heat by Josh Lanyon Jun 22 ★★★★
11 Forbidden Desires #7 Peregrine by Piper Scott & Virginia Kelly Jul 12 ★★★★
12 Love's Pride #1, The Reluctant Duke by GL Snodgrass Jul 13 ★★★
13 Diversion #1, Diversion by Eden Winters Jul 14 ★★★★★
14 Vino & Veritas #3, Headstrong by Eden Finley Jul 16 ★★★
15 Banded Brothers #3, To Enchant an Eagle by Amber Kell Jul 16 ★★★


16. Favorite genre. - historical
1. Bastille Day, 1957 by Frank W Butterfield Mar 27 ★★★★
2. Halloween, 1970 by Frank W Butterfield Mar 27 ★★★
3. 1933, A Little Piece of Heaven by Xondra Day Mar 28 ★★★
4. A Night Like This by Julia Quinn Mar 30 ★★★★
5. The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles Apr 2 ★★★★
6. To Marry a Morgan by Cinnamon Worth Apr 2 ★★★★
7. The Most Eligible Lord in London by Ella Quinn Apr 5 ★★★
8. The Soldier and the Spy by Annabelle Greene May 1 ★★★
9. Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles May 6 ★★★★★
10. The First Snow of Winter by Joanna Chambers May 8 ★★★
11. Restored by Joanna Chambers May 14 ★★★★
12. Magnus by Emmanuelle de Maupassant May 14 ★★★
13. Viking Thunder Emmanuelle de Maupassant May 15 ★★★
14. Viking Beast Emmanuelle de Maupassant May 17 ★★★
15. Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue by Marion Chesney May 26 ★★★★★
16. Back in Society by Marion Chesney Jun 20 ★★★★★

[Susan A]

17. E in the title
1. Colosseum Exhibition: Complete Collection by Drake Penn Apr 1 ★★★
2. The Geek Job by Eve Langlais Apr 18 ★★★
3. Ranger by KM Neuhold Apr 26 ★★★
4. Defender by Claire Cullen May 5 ★★★★
5. Demons Do It Better by Louisa Masters May 6 ★★★★
6. Willa's Beast by Ruby Dixon May 17 ★★★★
7. Dangerous Ground by Josh Lanyon Jun 18 ★★★★
8. Not Quite a Lady Jun 25 ★★★★
9 Laying Pipe by Kiki Clark Jun 26 ★★★
10 The Lion's Den by Jane Wallace-Knight Jul 1 ★★★
11 I Should Meet You Because I Love You by derekstilinski Ju1 2 ★★★★
12 The Labours of Lord Perry Cavendish by Joanna Chambers Jul 2 ★★★★
13 The Message by DandyboyDaniel Jul 5 ★★★★
14 Just a Little Danger by Merry Farmer Jul 6 ★★★
15 Alien Abduction for Beginners by Sky MacKinnon Jul 7 ★★★
16 Spaceboy by DiscontentedWinter Jul 7 ★★★★
17 This, You Protect by owlet Jul 8 ★★★★


18. Red, White or Blue cover
1. As Big as the Sky by Amy Aislinn Mar 31 ★★★
2. Imagines by NR Walker Apr 2 ★★★★
3. Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Apr 3 ★★★★★
4. A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James Apr 14 ★★
5. Beth's Stable by Amanda Milo Apr 24 ★★★★
6. The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley May 8 ★★★★
7. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli
8. Things Unseen, That Are Captured on Film by Scifigrl47Jun 2 ★★★★
9. Athelas Jun 15 ★★★★
10. the sirens and the thunder Jun 18 ★★★★11 King's Ex by EJ Russell Jul 3 ★★★★
12 Schooling the Jock by Eli Easton & Tara Lain Jul 4 ★★★★
13 Santa's Baby by Lorelei Hart Jul 5 ★★★
14 There Are No Wolves in California Jul 11 ★★★★★
15 Good Boy by Discontentedwinter Jul 21 ★★★★
16 . Infinite Space by Discontentedwinter Jul 22 ★★★★
17 The Hero and the Hidden Royal by Renae Kaye Jul 29 ★★★
18 Single You Out by Faleena Hopkins Jul 31 ★★★★
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19. Outdoor Cover
1. Fix It Up by Mary Calmes Apr 4 ★★★
2. Much Ado About You by Eloisa James Apr 19 ★★★★
3. Snow Twink by Sue Brown Apr 22 ★★★
4. Deserted to Death by Meg Perry Apr 22 ★★★★
5. The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass Apr 26 ★★★★★
6. Resigned to Death by Meg Perry May 19 ★★★
7. Best Laid Plans by Zoe Dawn May 24 ★★★★
8. Spooky Business by SE Harmon May 24 ★★★★★
9. . This Other Country by John Wiltshire Jun 24 ★★★★★
10 Their Kidnapped Bride by Vanessa Vale Jul 4 ★★
11 Undermined: a gay mystery by Ripley Hayes Jul 10 ★★★
12 The Bruise-Black Sky by John Wiltshire Ju1 11 ★★★★
13 Hannah's Hero xon Ruby Di Jul 29 ★★★
14 Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare Aug 5 ★★★
15 The Quiet House by Lily MortonAug 26 ★★★★
16 Be Still My Heart by Charlie CochetSept 6 ★★★
17 Death Checks In Sept 11 ★★★
18 Kiss the Rain Sept 11 ★★★★
19 The Resort Sept 11 ★★★


20. Set on the water, have water on the cover or are set in a coastal town. State where
1. His Horizon by Con Riley Mar 26 ★★★★ Cornwall coastal town
2. Three Thousand Miles by Meg Perry
3. The Not So Little Merman by CW Gray Apr 14 ★★ The Silver Isles
4. I Flipping Love You by Helen Hunting Apr 17 ★★★, beach front, The Hamptons
5. Battle Ship by Brittany Cournoyer Apr 18 ★★, cruise ship
6. An Offer She Can't Refuse by Emma Darcy Apr 20 ★★, set on Greek Island
7. Moby's Dick by AJ Llewllyn May 3 ★, water cover
8. Long Shadow by Elle Keaton May 23 ★★★★
9. coastal town Murder at Pirate's Cove by Josh Lanyon Jun 4 ★★★★
10. Red Dirt Heart 4 by NR Walker Jun 6 ★★★★★
11. Coddiwomple by SE Harmon Jun 9 ★★★
12. . No Souvenirs by KA Mitchell Jun 12 ★★★★★
13. The Monet Murders by Josh Lanyon Jun 15 ★★★★★
14. On the Run by May Archer Jun 17 ★★★★ - Whispering Key Island
15. Secret at Skull House by Josh Lanyon Jun 21 ★★★★ island
16. Angie's Gladiator by Ruby Dixon Jun 22 ★★★★ beach
17. Kick Start by Josh Lanyon Jun 23 ★★★★ water cover
18 Scandal at the Salty Dog by Josh Lanyon Jun 30 ★★★★
19 Off Key by May Archer Jul 14 ★★★
20 All at Sea Sept 2 ★★★

.

[Genevieve]

Congrats Susan A.

[Carolyn]

Finished

A Pyramid of Books
Open ended
55/55

1. Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.
a) Far Out Man: Tales of Life in the Counterculture by Eric Utne read 5/25/21

2. Read 2 books of 300+ pages.
a) If It Bleeds by Stephen King read 5/24/21 447 pages
b) The Push by Ashley Audrain read 6/10/21 317 pages

3. Read 3 books that are tagged romance.
a) The Secret Bride by Diane Haeger read 5/29/21
b) The Royal Bodyguard by Lindsay Emory read 6/7/21
c) Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison read 6/14/21

4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series. The books have to have a decimal in their number count.
a) The Hangman by Louise Penny read 4/3/2021 Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #6.5
b) The Queen by Kiera Cass read 9/5/21 the Selection #.4
c)The Prince by Kiera Cass read 9/5/21 the Selection #.5
d) The Guard by Kiera Cass read 9/5/21 the Selection #2.5

5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts.
a) Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlay read 5/2/21
b) A Pizza To Die For by Chris Cavender read 5/4/21
c) On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin read 5/31/21
d) Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston read 6/3/21
e) The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman read 6/5/21

6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you.
a) Tell Me Lies by J.P. Pomare read 4/20/21
b) Peach Cobbler Poison by Diana DuMont read 4/26/21
c) The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis read 4/30/21
d) Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid read 4/30/21
e) Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny read 5/14/21
f) A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik read 5/21/21

7. Read 7 books that were written by a man.
a) The History of Bourbon by Ken Albala read 5/24/21
b) Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I by Richard Ned Lebow read 6/27/21
c) Populuxe by Thomas Hine read 7/14/21
d) Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine by Paul A. Offit read 8/9/21
e) The Witches by Roald Dahl read 8/10/21
f) Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire read 8/14/21
g) Hawaii by James A. Michener read 8/18/21

8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman.
a) The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy read 7/19/21
b) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett read 8/4/21
c) Lemon Chiffon Lies by Diana DuMont read 8/8/21
d) Apple Crumble Assault by Diana DuMont read 8/9/21
e) Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs read 8/10/21
f) A True Princess by Diane Zahler read 8/14/21
g) Girl A by Abigail Dean read 8/18/21
h) The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter read 8/20/21

9. Read 9 books that has a cover you love.
a) True North: Travels in Arctic Europe by Gavin Francis read 4/8/2021
b) Devil and the Bluebird by Jennifer Mason-Black read 6/1/21
c) The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett read 6/3/21
d) Gild by Raven Kennedy read 6/16/21
e) Uprooted by Naomi Novik read 6/18/21
f) Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik read 7/6/21
g) Ink and Shadows by Ellery Adams read 7/11/21
h) The Master of Blacktower by Barbara Michaels read 7/19/21
i) Sea Glass Island by Sherryl Woods read 7/26/21

10. Read 10 books that take place in a city.
a) Rise of the Fallen by Donya Lynne read 4/16/21 set in Chicago
b) Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie read 5/13/21 set in London, England
c) The Camel Club by David Baldacci read 5/18/21 set in Washington DC
d) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde read 5/25/21 set in London
e) The Royal Sorceress by Christopher G. Nuttall read 6/7/21 set in London
f) Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith read 6/15/21 set in Paris
g) The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott read 7/7/21 set in Brooklyn New York
h) The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman read 7/13/21 set in Los Angeles
i) The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner read 7/17/21 set in London
j) Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim read 7/20/21 set in San Fransisco

[Carolyn]

A Pyramid of Books #2
Open ended
50/50

11, Read 11 books that take place in a small town.
a) How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny read 4/18/21 set in Three Pines
b) Down the Rabbit Hole by Evelyn Amber read 4/18/21 set in Ashbrook England
c) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer read 5/19/21 Forks, Washington
d) Southern Fried by Tonya Kappes read 5/29/21 set in Cottonwood, Kentucky
e) Psycho by Robert Bloch read 5/31/21 Fairvale, California
f) The Big Chili by Julia Buckley read 6/3/21 Pine Haven, Illinois
g) Cheddar Off Dead by Julia Buckley read 6/4/21 Pine Haven, Illinois
h) The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen read 6/12/21 Tiddleton-under-Lovey, England
i) Cheesecake and Confusion by Agatha Frost read 7/7/21 Peridale, England
j) Brownies and Bloodshed by Agatha Frost read 7/8/21 Peridale, England
k) Cocktails and Cowardice by Agatha Frost read 7/10/21 Peridale, England


12. Read 12 books that you choose.
a) The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells read 5/7/21
b) Grant by Ron Chernow read 5/23/21
c) The One by Kiera Cass read 5/27/21
d) The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington read 6/3/21
e) The Removed by Brandon Hobson read 6/6/21
f) Salt Houses by Hala Alyan read 6/11/21
g) Firefly Cloak by Sheri Reynolds read 6/11/21
h) Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane read 7/8/21
i) All Girls by Emily Layden read 7/8/21
j) We Kiss Them With Rain by Futhi Ntshingila read 7/10/21
k) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides read 7/15/21
l) Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J.V. Hart read 7/29/21

13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from? USA
a) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy read 4/7/2021 set in Russia
b) A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg by John Guy read 4/16/21 set in England
c) Blood & Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant read 4/22/21 set in Italy
d) Three Maids for a Crown by Ella March Chase read 4/23/21 set in England
e) Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia read 5/2/21 set in Mexico
f) The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe read 5/6/21 set in Poland
g) Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie read 5/19/21 set in Iraq
h) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas read 5/28/21 set in France
i) Strange Tales of Scotland by Jack Strange read 5/31/21 set in Scotland
j) Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England by Gemma Hollman read 6/4/21 set in England
k) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides read 6/8/21 set in England
l) Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen read 6/9/21 set in Romainia
m) Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton read 6/9/21 set in Australia

14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own. Illinois
a) Only Her Injured Stuntman by Cami Checketts read 4/4/2021 set in California
b) The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher read 5/1/21 set in Seattle Washington
c) Sugar and Vice by Eve Calder read 5/8/21 set in Florida
d) The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York by Patricia Cline Cohen read 5/13/21 set in New York
e) Hit the Road by Caroline B. Cooney read 5/21/21 set in Connecticut
f) Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter read 5/26/21 set in Indiana
g) Fixin' to Die by Tonya Kappes read 5/27/21 set in Kentucky
h) Murder Past Due by Miranda James read 6/11/21 set in Mississippi
i) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick read 6/21/21 set in California
j) The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal read 6/30/21 set in Aspen, Colorado
k) Never Enough Flamingos by Janelle Diller read 7/11/21 set in Kansas
l) Macaroni and Freeze by Christine Wenger read 7/16/21 set in New York
m) It's a Wonderful Knife by Christine Wenger read 7/16/21 set in New York
n) A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion read 7/21/21 set in Pennsylvania

A Pyramid of Books #3
Open ended
48/48

15. Read 15 books in a series. (You can use the same series or different series)
a) The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey read 4/12/21 The Monstrumologist #1
b) Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich read 4/14/21 Stephanie Plum #27
c) Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny read 4/26/21Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #14
d) A Better Man by Louise Penny read 4/27/21 Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #15
e) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis read 5/1/21 The Chronicles of Narnia #1
f) The 100-Year-Old Secret by Tracy Barrett read 5/8/21 The Sherlock Files #1
g) Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts by Agatha Christie read 5/15/21 Hercule Poirot #7
h) Gouda Riddance by Ally Roberts read 6/12/21 The Cheese Shop Mysteries #3
i) Old School by Jeff Kinney read 7/17/21 Diary of a Wimpy Kid #10
j) Profiteroles and Poison: A Cozy Murder Mystery by Agatha Frost read 7/21/21 Peridale Café #21
k) Scones and Scandal by Agatha Frost read 7/21/21 Peridale Café #22
l) Out of Circulation by Miranda James read 7/22/21 Cat in the Stacks #4
m) The Silence of the Library by Miranda James read 7/27/21 Cat in the Stacks #5
n) Through a Glass, Deadly by Sarah Atwell read 7/30/21 A Glassblowing Mystery #1
o) Raspberry Lemonade and Ruin by Agatha Frost read 8/1/21 Peridale Café #23

16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre. Cozy Mystery
a) Kneaded to Death by Winnie Archer read 4/5/2021
b) High Heels Are Murder by Elaine Viets read 4/9/2021
c) Accessory to Murder by Elaine Viets read 4/10/2021
d) The Sweet Smell of Murder by Cindy Bell read 4/25/21
e) A Deadly Delicious Delivery by Cindy Bell read 4/25/21
f) Birthday Pie Burial by Diana DuMont read 5/2/21
g) Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder by Chris Cavender read 5/3/21
h) Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay read 5/7/21
i) Do or Diner by Christine Wenger read 5/8/21
j) A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen read 6/5/21
k) Bed and Breakfast and Murder by Patti Larsen read 6/30/21
l) Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowen read 7/2/21
m) Classified as Murder by Miranda James read 7/3/21
n) File M for Murder by Miranda James read 7/4/21
o) Red Velvet and Revenge by Agatha Frost read 7/5/21
p) Vegetables and Vengeance by Agatha Frost read 7/6/21

17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title.
a) Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie read 4/1/2021
b) Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris read 4/1/2021
c) Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra by Peter Kurth read 4/2/2021
d) Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller read 4/4/2021
e) Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs read 4/5/2021
f) Open by Andre Agassi read 4/9/2021
g) Dance in the Dust by Denise Robins read 4/24/21
h) Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman read 5/5/21
i) Me by Elton John read 5/12/21
j) The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan read 6/17/21
k) A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare read 7/1/21
l) The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess---in Her Own Words by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan read 7/18/2021
m) A Song of Sixpence: The Story of Elizabeth of York and Perkin Warbeck by Judith Arnopp read 7/18/21
n) November 9 by Colleen Hoover read 7/22/21
o) The American Drive-In Movie Theatre by Don Sanders read 7/27/21
p) 1st to Die by James Patterson read 8/3/21
q) The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner read 8/8/21

[Genevieve]

Congrats Carolyn

[Danielle]

This will take me forever. :/ I have a huge TBR though.. so it should be fun!

1. Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.


2. Read 2 books of 300+ pages.

3. Read 3 books that are tagged romance.

4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series. The books have to have a decimal in their number count.
1.Chili Cauldron Curse by Lynn Cahoon (Kitchen Witch Mysteries #0.5)



5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts.

6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you.

7. Read 7 books that were written by a man.

8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman.

9. Read 9 books that has a cover you love.

10. Read 10 books that take place in a city.

11, Read 11 books that take place in a small town.

12. Read 12 books that you choose.

13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from?

14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own. If you are not in the United States any state.

15. Read 15 books in a series. (You can use the same series or different series)
1. Cookies and Clairvoyance by Bailey Cates (Magical Bakery Mysteires #8)



16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre.

17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title.

18. Read 18 books with a Red, White or Blue cover.

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I'm not sure if I am going to do 19 & 20 Yet.

19. Read 19 books that have an outdoor cover.

20. Read 20 books either set on the water, have water on the cover or are set in a coastal town. Tell us where.

[Genevieve]

Danielle you might want to reserve a few more places. If you want to move down so you can put them together.

[Genevieve]

Welcome Danielle.

[Helen]

Open Ended

Starting March 27, 2021

20 out of 20 levels FINISHED


TASKS

++1. Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more. FINISHED
Classic Tales in California History Alton Pryor 7-30-21 (5 words)

++2. Read 2 books of 300+ pages. FINISHED
1) More Than You Can Handle: A Rare Disease, a Family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine That Cured the Incurable Miguel Sancho 8-8-21 (336 pages)
2) Never Never James Patterson 8-11-21 (363 pages)

++3. Read 3 books that are tagged romance.
++1) Christmas Letters Debbie Macomber 9-21-21
++2) The Amish Midwife's Hope Barbara Cameron 10-2-21
++3) Christmas Masquerade Debbie Macomber 10-4-21


++4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series. The books have to have the .5 in their place in the series. FINISHED
++1) Zoo 2 James Patterson 8-22-21 (Zoo series #1.5)
++2) The Princess Present Meg Cabot 8-22-21 (Princess Diaries #6.5)
++3) Project Princess Meg Cabot 9-5-21 (Princess Diaries #4.5)
++4) Young Zaphod Plays It Safe Douglas Adams 9-5-21 (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #0.5)

++5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts. FINISHED
1) Hi, Pizza Man!Virginia Walter 6-22-21
2) Z Goes First: An Alphabet Story Z-to-A Sean Lamb 7-13-21
3) Him Standing Richard Wagamese 7-30-21
4) Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse Leo Lionni 8-3-21
5) Noisy Nora Rosemary Wells 8-7-21

++6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you. FINISHED
1) Historic California: Its Colorful Names and How It Got Them Alton Pryor 7-3-21 (Alton Pryor)
2) Nothing Rhymes with Orange Adam Rex 7-3-21 (Adam Rex)
3) Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness Anastasia Higginbotham 7-13-21 (Anastasia Higginbotham)
4) Night Animals Gianna Marino 8-3-21 (Gianna Marino)
5) Nobody Likes a Goblin Ben Hatke 8-3-21 (Ben Hatke)
6) Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Michael Eric Dyson 8-8-21

++7. Read 7 books that were written by a man. FINISHED
1) No Roses for Harry! Gene Zion 8-7-21 (Gene)
2) Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies Edward O. Wilson 8-8-21 (Edward)
3) How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology Léo Grasset 8-9-21 (Leo)
4) Who Was Ernest Shackleton? James Buckley Jr. 8-11-21 (James)
5) Out of the Maze: An A-Mazing Way to Get Unstuck Spencer Johnson 8-11-21 (Spencer)
6) Living with Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think Dean H. Hamer 8-14-21 (Dean)
7) Doorway into Time and other stories from Masterpiece of Science Fiction Sam Moskowitz 8-14-21 (Sam)

++8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman. FINISHED
1) Walking Toward Peace: The True Story of a Brave Woman Called Peace Pilgrim Kathleen Krull 8-8-21 (Kathleen)
2) Steve and Bindi Irwin Amy E. Breguet 8-9-21 (Amy)
3) Patricia's Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight Michelle Lord 8-10-21 (Michelle)
4) Argentina Christina Leaf 8-10-21 (Christina)
5) Hawai'i Karen Durrie 8-11-21 (Karen)
6) We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know Traci Sorell 8-11-21 (Traci)
7) Siha Tooskin Knows the Best Medicine Charlene Bearhead 8-20-21 (Charlene)
8) The Field Guide to the Global Economy Sarah Anderson 8-22-21 (Sarah)

++9. Read 9 books that have a cover you love. FINISHED
1) Cat Talk Patricia MacLachlan 6-25-21
2) I Knead My Mommy: And Other Poems by Kittens Francesco Marciuliano 6-27-21
3) The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea Sy Montgomery 8-8-21
4) Odd and Unusual Tales from the Old West Alton Pryor 8-9-21
5) New Zealand Rebecca E. Hirsch 8-11-21
6) Mi corazón se llena de alegría Monique Gray Smith 8-20-21
7) Flubby Is Not a Good Pet! Jennifer E. Morris 8-20-21
8) The Contented Cat Nobuo Honda 8-28-21
9) Letters from Father Christmas J.R.R. Tolkien 9-11-21


++10. Read 10 books that take place in a city. FINISHED
1) Nana in the City Lauren Castillo 7-11-21
2) NewsPrints Ru Xu 7-25-21
3) Trouble Is What I Do Walter Mosley 8-7-21 (NYC)
4) Golden Gate Park, an A to Z Adventure Marta Lindsey 8-10-21 (SF)
5) Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 8-14-21 (Bombay)
6) Hardie Grant Books 8-20-21 (Washington, D.C.)
7) Little Known Tales in San Francisco History Alton Pryor 8-20-21 (San Francisco)
8) Nothing Personal James Baldwin 9-3-21 (NYC)
9) Recursion Blake Crouch 9-5-21 (NYC)
10) One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow 9-5-21 (Cambridge, Mass.)

++11. Read 11 books that take place in a small town. FINISHED
1) Nanette's Baguette Mo Willems 7-11-21
2) Nancy's Mysterious Letter Carolyn Keene 8-7-21 (Midwest)
3) Can Liberal States Accommodate Indigenous Peoples? Duncan Ivison 8-28-21 (Indian, aboriginal reservations)
4) raisins in milk david coven 9-5-21 (rural Florida)
5) Praise Song for the Butterflies Bernice L. McFadden 9-5-21 (African village)
6) Lost at Khe Sanh Steve Watkins 9-5-21 (Vietnamese villages)
7) Vietnam Emily Rose Oachs 9-6-21 (2/3 live in countryside)
8) Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World’s Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive Dorothy Hinshaw Patent 9-7-21 (Tasmania)
9) I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 Lauren Tarshis 9-7-21 (rural Washington state)
10) Inuit Cherry Alexander 9-11-21 (Inuit villages)
11) The Bolivian Diary: Authorized Edition Ernesto Che Guevara 9-21-21 (Bolivian villages)


++12. Read 12 books that you choose. FINISHED
1) Cowboy & Octopus Jon Scieszka 6-16-21
2) Once I Ate a Pie Patricia MacLachlan 6-26-21
3) Laugh Lines Are Beautiful: And Other Age-Defying Truths Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant 6-26-21
4) Seven Kisses in a Row Patricia MacLachlan 7-3-21
5) Interstellar Cinderella Deborah Underwood 7-6-21
6) Antiracist Baby Ibram X. Kendi 7-6-21
7) Scrappy Little Nobody Anna Kendrick 7-7-21
8) The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 7-7-21
9) War Is Never Just David Cn Swanson 7-11-21
10) My Father's Words Patricia MacLachlan 7-11-21
11) Wondrous Rex Patricia MacLachlan 7-13-21
12) The Pooh Perplex Frederick C. Crews 7-28-21

[Helen]

Helen, cont.

++13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from? I'm from the USA. FINISHED
1) Beyond the Great Mountains: A Visual Poem about China Ed Young 6-5-21 (China)
2) The Knowledge of Good & Evil Glenn Kleier 6-7-21 (Vatican City)
3) Lala Salama: A Tanzanian Lullaby Patricia MacLachlan 6-10-21 (Tanzania)
4) Slumdog Millionaire Vikas Swarup 6-16-21 (India)
5) India Celebrates! (An Around the World Holiday Book) Jane Werner Watson 6-27-21 (India)
6) Samba Alma Guillermoprieto 7-6-21 (Brazil)
7) The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde 7-10-21 (European country)
8) Soccer Star Ronaldinho John A. Torres 7-11-21 (Brazil)
9) Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives Elizabeth Rusch 7-11-21 (Indonesia)
10) Soccer's greatest records Emily Jankowski 7-11-21 (Pele: Brazil)
11) Narwhal on a Sunny Night Mary Pope Osborne 7-28-21 (Greenland)
12) Who Was Stephen Hawking? Jim Gigliotti 8-7-21 (England)
13) Merrymaking in Great Britain Margaret Chittenden 8-8-21 (Great Britain)


++14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own. If you are not in the United States any state. I'm in California FINISHED
1) The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm Patricia MacLachlan 6-6-21 (Eastern US state)
2) Meg Cabot 6-6-21 (New York)
3) Dave Barry Talks Back Dave Barry 6-21-21 (Hawaii)
4) Dave Barry Turns Forty Dave Barry 6-21-21 (Florida)
5) Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary Timothy Snyder 6-25-21 (Connecticut)
6) Indian No More Charlene Willing McManis 6-26-21 (Oregon)
7) Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson 7-20-21 (Texas)
8) Judge & Jury James Patterson 7-20-21 (New York)
9) Toxic Risks: Science, Regulation, and Perception Ronald E. Gots 7-20-21 (Louisiana)
10) The Defense Steve Cavanagh 7-25-21 (New York)
11) The Lost Girl Anne Ursu 7-25-21 (Minnesota)
12) Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson 7-28-21 (Tennessee)
13) No Talking Andrew Clements 7-30-21 (New Jersey)
14) Dog Scouts of America Shelley Bueche 8-7-21 (Indiana)

++15. Read 15 books in a series. (You can use the same series or different series) FINISHED
1) Ms. Joni Is a Phony! Dan Gutman 3-28-21 (My Weirdest School #7)
2) Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat Sy Montgomery 6-17-21 (Scientists in the Field #8)
3) Fire Dogs Donna Latham 6-17-21 (Hero Dogs #12)
4) Ground Zero Dogs Meish Goldish 6-21-21 (Hero Dogs #13)
5) Military Dogs Frances E. Ruffin 6-21-21 (Hero Dogs #18)
6) Lifeguard Dogs Natalie Lunis 6-21-21 (Hero Dogs #16)
7) Private L.A. James Patterson 6-22-21 (Private #6)
8) Forever Princess Meg Cabot 6-22-21 (Princess Diaries #10)
9) Soccer in South America Mike Kennedy 6-25-21 (Smart about Sports #1)
10) Joan Baez Hedda Garza 6-26-21 (Hispanics of Achievement #5)
11) Royal Wedding Meg Cabot 7-7-21 (The Princess Diaries #11)
12) Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island Loree Griffin Burns 7-10-21 (Scientists in the Field #29)
13) Soccer Star Kaka Jeff Burlingame 7-10-21 (Goal!: Latin Stars of Soccer #5)
14) Nurses Christina Leaf 7-11-21 (Community Helpers: Nurses #12)
15) Soccer Star Lionel Messi John A. Torres 7-11-21 (Goal! Latin Stars of Soccer #2)

++16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre. (Nonfiction) FINISHED
1) Doing What's Right: How to Fight for What You Believe--And Make a Difference Tavis Smiley 4-8-21
2) It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff Peter Walsh 5-29-21
3) Rescue Tails: Portraits of Dogs and Their Celebrities Brian Nice 6-5-21
4) Meish Goldish 6-6-21
5) Gorillas Meish Goldish 6-7-21
6) Poisoned Air: Bhopal, India Meish Goldish 6-7-21
7) God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens 6-8-21
8) Frida Kahlo: The Story of Her Life Vanna Vinci 6-8-21
9) Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland Dave Barry 6-12-21
10) Daring Dogs: 30 True Tales of Heroic Hounds Kimberlie Hamilton 6-12-21
11) Salvador Joan Didion 6-12-21
12) Furry Logic Laugh at Life Jane Seabrook 6-16-21
13) Thank You Notes Jimmy Fallon 6-17-21
14) Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It Michael J. Trinklein 6-20-21
15) Comfort Dogs Natalie Lunis 6-20-21
16) Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck, and a Few Turtles Rescue Ink 6-20-21

[Helen]

Helen, cont.

++17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title. FINISHED
1) She Lives: A Screenplay Elizabeth Gill 3-31-21 (shE)
2) Heroes: People Who Made a Difference in Our World Harold J. Sala 4-8-21 (hEroEs)
3) Sweet Sixteen Princess Meg Cabot 4-8-21 (swEEt)
4) The Institute Stephen King 4-20-21 (thE institutE)
5) Shelter Dogs Traer Scott 4-30-21 (shEltEr)
6) A Shot in the Arm! Don Brown 4-30-21 (thE)
7) The Pigeon Needs a Bath! Mo Willems 5-1-21 (thE pigEon nEEds)
8) Police Dogs Frances E. Ruffin 5-2-21 (policE)
9) Peru Leslie Jermyn 5-3-21 (pEru)
10) Buddy and Earl Maureen Fergus 5-9-21 (Earl)
11) Buddy and Earl Go Exploring Maureen Fergus 5-13-21 (buddy and Earl go Exploring)
12) The Willoughbys Return Lois Lowry 5-13-21 (thE willoughbys rEturn)
13) Buddy and Earl Go to School Maureen Fergus 5-17-21 (buddy and Earl)
14) Biscuit Meets the Class Pet Alyssa Satin Capucilli 5-17-21 (biscuit mEEts)
15) The Forest Song Lesia Ukrainka 5-19-21 (thE forEst song)
16) Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 5-29-21 (spoon rivEr anthology)
17) Toy Poodle: Oodles of Fun Meish Goldish 5-29-21 (toy poodlE)


++18. Read 18 books with a Red, White or Blue cover. FINISHED
1) The Red House Mystery A.A. Milne 3-28-21
2) Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age John Lithgow 3-28-21
3) Everything Organize Your Home Jason R. Rich 4-7-21
4) Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope Mark Manson 4-20-21
5) Tony Baloney Pam Muñoz Ryan 4-24-21
6) Perfect Princess Meg Cabot 5-1-21
7) The Paddington Treasury Michael Bond 5-2-21
8) The Circle Dave Eggers 5-3-21
9) The Dalai Lama's Cat David Michie 5-11-21
10) My First Karate Class: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1 Alyssa Satin Capucilli 5-17-21
11) A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them, What They Have Against Foreskins, How Come They Carry Each Other ... Water, and Much More. Maybe Too Much More Dave Barry 6-6-21
12) Class Lucinda Rosenfeld 6-7-21
13) Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale Adam Minter 6-7-21
14) Dave Barry Does Japan Dave Barry 6-7-21
15) Dave Barry in Cyberspace Dave Barry 6-8-21
16) Lunatics Dave Barry 6-10-21
17) The 50 Funniest American Writers: According to Andy Borowitz Andy Borowitz 6-10-21
18) White Fur Flying Patricia MacLachlan 6-21-21


++19. Read 19 books that have an outdoor cover. FINISHED
1) Operation: Secret Recipe Geronimo Stilton 3-31-21
2) The Willoughbys Lois Lowry 4-7-21
3) Pam Munoz Ryan Jill C. Wheeler 4-14-21
4) How Do You Raise a Raisin? Pam Muñoz Ryan 4-14-21
5) The Eternal Soldier: The True Story of How a Dog Became a Civil War Hero Allison Crotzer Kimmel 4-24-21
6) Gray Wolves Christina Leaf 4-24-21
Patterns in Peru: An Adventure in Patterning Cindy Neuschwander 4-24-21
8) Stella: The Dog with the Big Heart Thea Feldman 4-24-21
9) Hero Dog!: A Branches Book Hilde Lysiak 4-26-21
10) Nacho and Lolita Pam Muñoz Ryan 4-26-21
11) Tony Baloney: Pen Pal Pam Muñoz Ryan 4-26-21
12) The Elephant Keeper: Caring for Orphaned Elephants in Zambia Margriet Ruurs 4-30-21
13) The Dreamer Pam Muñoz Ryan 5-2-21
14) A Pinky is a Baby Mouse: And Other Baby Animal Names Pam Muñoz Ryan 5-9-21
15) Fred and Ted Go Camping Peter Eastman 5-9-21
16) Sold on a Monday Kristina McMorris 5-11-21
17) Buddy and Earl Meet the Neighbors Maureen Fergus 5-14-21
18) Dogs Meish Goldish 5-19-21
19) Bobcat Meish Goldish 5-29-21


++20. Read 20 books either set on the water, have water on the cover or are set in a coastal town. Tell us where. FINISHED
1) Princess in Training Meg Cabot 3-31-21 (NYC)
2) Party Princess Meg Cabot 4-7-21 (NYC)
3) The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes Marcus Sakey 4-14-21 (LA)
4) Burglars Can't Be Choosers Lawrence Block 4-20-21 (NYC)
5) Hello Ocean Pam Muñoz Ryan 4-24-21
6) The Poppy Project: How Fiji's Most Famous Dog Got Saved! Fiona Ingram 5-1-21 (Set in coastal towns in Fiji & Australia: Nadi, Fiji and the Sunshine Coast of Australia)
7) Refugee 87 Ele Fountain 5-3-21
8) Don't Pigeonhole Me!: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook Mo Willems 5-9-21 (NYC)
9) Holiday Princess Meg Cabot 5-9-21 (NYC)
10) Reel Culture: 50 Movies You Should Know About Mimi O'Connor 5-9-21 (LA)
11) Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
Ben Fountain 5-11-21 (Haiti)
12) Valentine Princess Meg Cabot 5-13-21 (NYC)
13) The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss Anderson Cooper 5-14-21 (NYC)
14) I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood Dave Barry 5-14-21 (Miami, FL)
15) Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry Dave Barry 5-19-21 (Miami, FL)
16) Princess on the Brink Meg Cabot 5-29-21 (NYC)
17) Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus Dave Barry 5-29-21 (Miami, FL)
18) Dave Barry's Greatest Hits Dave Barry 6-5-21 (Miami, FL)
19) Mammal Menu Meish Goldish 6-6-21 (Trinidad & Tobago)
20) Princess Mia Meg Cabot 6-6-21 (NYC)

[Genevieve]

Congrats Helen

[Emma R.]

A Pyramid of Books
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[Genevieve]

Welcome Emma R.

[Ana]

A Pyramid of Books

210/210 - finished

✔Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.
Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men|08/11/21

✔Read 2 books of 300+ pages.
Poison Study|01/11/21
The Rake|02/11/21

✔Read 3 books that are tagged romance.
A Touch of Darkness|28/10/21
Beast's Castle|19/11/21
Bound to the Alien|25/11/21

✔4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series.
For I Have Sinned|09/11/21
Aftershocks|18/11/21
Wickedest Witch|09/12/21
Filthy Gods|27/12/21

✔5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts.
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✔6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you.
Accidentally in Love with...a God? - 09/11/2021
Devil's Ridge - 15/11/2021
Monstress #1 - 15/11/2021
Gideon Falls #1 - 15/11/2021
THE TROUBLE WITH MY BOSS, Vol. 1 - 15/11/2021
The Old Guard #1 - 16/11/2021

✔7. Read 7 books that were written by a man.
The Crystal Egg - 14/11/2021
Fatale #1 - 15/11/2021
Isola #1 - 15/11/2021
Kill Shakespeare #1 - 15/11/2021
Deadly Class #1 - 16/11/2021
Saga #1 - 16/11/2021
Descender #1 - 16/11/2021

✔8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman.
Dead Island #1 - 16/11/2021
Pretty Deadly #1 - 16/11/2021
Freeing Luka - 26/11/2021
Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night - 11/12/2021
Won by an Alien - 16/12/2021
Claimed by the Horde King - 18/12/2021
Reap - 23/12/2021
Abducted - 30/12/2021

✔9. Read 9 books that has a cover you love.
- 03/11/2021
- 14/12/2021
- 19/12/2021
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✔10. Read 10 books that take place in a city.
Dracula Everlasting Vol. 1 - 02/12/21
Fallen Academy: Year One - 06/12/21
Love Bites - 19/12/21
Broken Earth - 29/12/21
Biting Cold - 06/01/22
The Magic Fish: A Graphic Novel - 19/01/22
O Colecionador de Ossos - 05/02/22
Batman, Vol. 1: The Court of Owls - 19/02/22
Siren's Song - 01/03/22
Single White Vampire - 12/03/22

✔11. Read 11 books that take place in a small town.
Grave Memory - 07/11/21
Nice Girls Don't Live Forever - 05/01/22
A Sombra da Inocência - 25/03/22
Fallen Academy: Year Two - 03/05/22
Shift Out of Luck - 14/05/22
Get Your Shift Together - 29/05/22
Margaridas na Primavera - 30/05/22
Barbarian's Lady - 19/06/22
Até a Noite Acabar - 15/06/22
Constelação - 13/06/22
Como NÃO ressuscitar uma ex-namorada MORTA: PARTE 1 - 16/06/22

✔12. Read 12 books that you choose.
Amazing Agent Luna Vol. 3|22/11/21
魔道祖師 一 Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 1 |13/12/21
A Influencer que Conquistou o CEO: LIVRO ÚNICO|06/04/22
A Luz que Há Entre Nós|22/04/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 21|09/05/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 23|12/05/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 24|14/05/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 25|15/05/22
One-Punch Man, Vol. 1|15/05/22
Monkey High!, Vol. 4|15/05/22
Zombie-Loan, Vol. 3|17/05/22
Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1|26/05/22

✔13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from? Brazil
The Love and Creed of Sae Maki #1 - 16/11/2021 Japan
Harem Days: The Seven-Starred Country: Chapter 1 - 16/11/2021 Japan
The Castle of Otranto - 25/11/2021 Italy
The Darkest Night - 02/12/2021 Hungary
A Discovery of Witches - 11/01/2022 England
I Wanna Text You Up - 15/04/2022 USA
Um acordo com o cowboy indecente - 08/04/2022 USA
Vicious Prince - 31/03/2022 - England
Monkey High!, Vol. 1 - 09/05/2022 Japan
Monkey High!, Vol. 2 - 10/05/2022 Japan
Monkey High!, Vol. 3 - 12/05/2022 Japan
Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage - 28/05/2022 Scotland
Tokyo Babylon, Vol. 1 - 15/05/2022 Japan

✔14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own.
Moon Called|24/11/21
Rejected|28/11/21
Enemies|30/11/21
Vampire's Kiss|04/12/21
Seduzida por Contrato - O Grego e a Sugar Baby: Irmãos Kostanidis - Livro 1|22/04/22
Undead and Unemployed|11/05/22
Get Lucky|16/05/22
Damon|27/06/22
Dramacon manga volume 3|21/06/22
Dramacon manga volume 2|21/06/22
Shift Just Got Real|20/06/22
Dramacon manga volume 1|19/06/22
Lazy Son|13/06/22
Sunstone Vol. 7|11/06/22

✔15. Read 15 books in a series.
Undead and Unwed|15/12/21
Ruth's Bonded|25/01/22
Gron's Fated|29/01/22
All Systems Red|14/02/22
Madness of the Horde King|18/02/22
Pirate's Gold|07/03/22
Artificial Condition|13/03/22
Garotos Mortos Não Sangram|31/03/22
The Darkest Kiss|18/04/22
The Risk|22/04/22
Sidetracked|20/05/22
Defekt|15/05/22
Heartstopper: Volume Four|13/05/22
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life|22/05/22
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World|24/05/22

✔16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre. Fantasy
Hunting Season|15/02/22
Reclaimed|24/03/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 2|22/04/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 3|24/04/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 4|25/04/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 5|27/04/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 11|29/04/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 12|01/05/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 13|03/05/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 14|03/05/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 16|05/05/22
Zombie-Loan, Vol. 1|05/05/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 17|07/05/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 18|08/05/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 19|08/05/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 20|09/05/22

✔17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title.
Amazing Agent Luna Vol. 2|22/11/21
AOI House Vol. 1|27/11/21
Amazing Agent Jennifer Vol. 2|10/12/21
Vampire Cheerleaders vol. 1|13/12/21
Craved by an Alien|13/01/22
Runed|19/01/22
The Purple Alien Prince's Pregnant Captive|23/01/22
Unnatural Selection|31/01/22
Gilded|17/02/22
Fused in Fire|17/02/22
Forged in Blood|19/02/22
A senhora do lago: Volume I|19/02/22
O Homem de Giz|27/02/22
Todas as suas meias noites|12/03/22
Sinestesia|12/03/22
Sunstone Vol. 4|15/03/22
Garotos Mortos Não Contam Mentiras|21/03/22

✔18. Read 18 books with a Red, White or Blue cover.
09/11/21
18/11/21
19/11/21
06/12/21
07/12/21
10/12/21
05/02/22
03/03/22
04/03/22
13/03/22
19/03/22
10/04/22
27/04/22
28/04/22
02/05/22
04/05/22
09/05/22
10/05/22

✔19. outdoor cover.
12/11/21
01/01/22
07/01/22
21/02/22
13/04/2022
04/04/22
27/04/22
28/04/22
28/04/22
28/06/22
07/07/22
01/07/22
12/07/22
23/07/22
27/08/22
26/08/22
14/08/2022
12/08/22
06/08/22

✔20. Read 20 books either set on the water, have water on the cover, or are set in a coastal town.
Submerged #115/11/21
Make Me Bad15/11/21
The Cyborg Merman25/06/22
Attack on Titan, Vol. 2725/06/22
Attack on Titan Vol. 2606/06/22
A Senhora do Lago: Volume II05/08/22
Water for Alien Were-Dinos21/08/2022
Attack on Titan, Vol. 2928/08/2022
One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn25/08/2022
A Senhora do Lago: Volume II05/08/2022
Attack on Titan Vol. 3121/11/2022
Matched To The Monster19/11/2022
Os Mesmos Mares e as Mesmas Ondas15/11/2022
Broken by the Horde King29/10/2022
One Piece, Volume 3: Don't Get Fooled Again09/10/22
One Piece, Volume 2: Buggy the Clown10/09/22
The Never King15/01/23
Blind Beast Mate12/12/22
Delicates11/12/22
Sheets08/12/22

[Genevieve]

Welcome Ana

[Amber J (Thereadingwitch)]

Duration: Open ended from your start date.
Tasks DO NOT have to be done in order.

TASKS
1. Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.
2. Read 2 books of 300+ pages.
3. Read 3 books that are tagged romance.
4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series. The books have to have a decimal in their number count.
5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts.
6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you.
7. Read 7 books that were written by a man.
8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman.
9. Read 9 books that has a cover you love.
10. Read 10 books that take place in a city.
11, Read 11 books that take place in a small town.
12. Read 12 books that you choose.
13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from?
14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own. If you are not in the United States any state.
15. Read 15 books in a series. (You can use the same series or different series)
16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre.
17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title.
18. Read 18 books with a Red, White or Blue cover.
19. Read 19 books that have an outdoor cover.
20. Read 20 books either set on the water, have water on the cover or are set in a coastal town. Tell us where.
Sweet Temptation by Wendy Higgins 11/3/21 - LA, California

[Genevieve]

Welcome Amber J

[Shelly]

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[Shelly]

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[Genevieve]

Welcome Shelly

[JoAnne]

FINISHED
A Pyramid of Books
Duration: March 27, 2021-December 2, 2021
Read: 210/210

Tasks:
1. Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.
1. The Bookstore on the Beach Brenda Novak 5/15/21

2. Read 2 books of 300+ pages.
1. Vanished Kendra Elliot 4/12/21 337 pages
2. 514 pages If I Should Die Allison Brennan 5/24/21

3. Read 3 books that are tagged romance.
1. Consumed by You Lauren Blakely 4/2/21
2. Someday Beach Jill Sanders 4/9/21
3. Here Comes the Sun Marie Force 4/11/21

4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series. The books have to have the .5 in their place in the series.
1. Love Is Murder Allison Brennan 5/25/21 (Lucy Kincaid #0.5)
2. After the Climb Kristen Ashley 5/28/21 (River Rain #0.5)
3. The Dress of the Season Kate Noble 6/25/21 (The Blue Raven #4.5)
4. The Sixth Wedding Elin Hilderbrand 8/29/21 (28 Summers #1.5)

5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts.
1. Fiona's Flame Rachael Herron 4/10/21
2. Bridged Kendra Elliot 4/14/21
3. Spiraled Kendra Elliot 5/6/21
4. Dream Spinner Kristen Ashley 5/27/21
5. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not Iris Morland 6/23/21

6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you.
1. The Farmer's Wife Lori Handeland 4/18/21
2. The Sweet Gum Tree Katherine Allred 4/27/21
3. Seabreeze Inn Jan Moran 4/22/21
4. Lover's Leap Emily March 4/29/21
5. The Seaside Cafe Rochelle Alers 5/6/2
6. No Longer Yours Sara LaFontain 5/14/21

7. Read 7 books that were written by a man.
1. Redemption David Baldacci 6/17/21
2. The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis 7/31/21
3. The Cocktail Waitress James M. Cain 8/11/21
4. How to Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered Mark Bittman 8/16/21
5. Paws in the Action: Psychic Sleuths and Talking Dogs Max Parrott 9/6/21
6. Walk the Wire David Baldacci 11/3/21
7. Long Road to Mercy David Baldacci 12/2/21

8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman.
1. Obsession Helen Hardt 9/10/21
2. Driftwood Bay Irene Hannon 9/29/21
3. Changing Tides Meredith Summers 9/29/21
4. Fall into Me K.M. Scott 10/2/21
5. Duel to the Death J.A. Jance 10/13/21
6. Feels Like Falling Kristy Woodson Harvey 10/14/21
7. Wild Sign Patricia Briggs 10/15/21
8. Disappeared Linda Castillo 10/16/21


9. Read 9 books that has a cover you love.
1. Boardwalk Summer Meredith Jaeger 7/19/21
2. The Color of a Memory Julianne MacLean 7/21/21
3. Firefly Nights Katie Winters 9/14/21
4. A Vineyard White Christmas Katie Winters 9/16/21
5. Wild Love Lauren Accardo 9/17/21
6. High Tide Jill Sanders 9/17/21
7. Making Waves Meredith Summers 9/30/21
8. The Sweet Taste of Muscadines Pamela Terry 10/7/21
9. The Summer Cottage Viola Shipman 10/8/21

10. Read 10 books that take place in a city.
1. Rule of Three Kelly Jamieson 4/5/21
2. Reed Sawyer Bennett 5/21/21
3. Marek Sawyer Bennett 5/22/21
4. Rock Me Carly Phillips 6/3/21
5. Mischief and the Masters Cherise Sinclair 6/4/21
6. Fatal Affair Marie Force 6/5/21
7. Hard Hitter Sarina Bowen 6/9/21
8. Pipe Dreams Sarina Bowen 6/9/21
9. Brooklynaire Sarina Bowen 6/10/21
10. Petal Plucker Iris Morland 6/23/21

[JoAnne]

11. Read 11 books that take place in a small town.
1. Seabreeze Summer Jan Moran 4/23/21
2. Seabreeze Sunset Jan Moran 4/26/21
3. Before We Were Strangers Brenda Novak 5/7/21
4. Loving You: A Small Town Second Chance Romance Leah Busboom 5/17/21
5. Wanting You Leah Busboom 5/18/21
6. Driven to Distraction Lori Foster 5/20/21
7. The Kindred Spirits Supper Club Amy E. Reichert 5/21/21
8. The Magnolia Inn Carolyn Brown 5/23/21
9. The Secret to Southern Charm Kristy Woodson Harvey 5/31/21
10. The Stolen Marriage Diane Chamberlain 6/6/21
11. The Hideaway Lauren K. Denton 6/11/21

12. Read 12 books that you choose.
1. Break the Rules Roxie Noir 8/6/21
2. Dirty Lies Emma Hart 10/16/21
3. Fallen Linda Castillo 10/18/21
4. The Reunion at Halfpoint Celia K. Nott 10/19/21
5. The Vineyard at Painted Moon Susan Mallery 10/20/21
6. Wicked Wish Sawyer Bennett 10/22/21
7. Say You'll Stay Susan Mallery 10/21/21
8. End Game Toni Aleo 10/24/21
9. The Marriage Effect Karla Sorensen 10/25/21
10. Catch Us When We Fall: A Novel Juliette Fay 10/27/21
11. Justice Divided Olivia Jaymes 10/29/21
12. Seeking Justice Olivia Jaymes 10/30/21

13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from? U.S.A.
1. Good Boy Sarina Bowen 4/18/21 Canada
2. The Little Cornish Kitchen Jane Linfoot 4/21/21 Cornwall, UK
3. Stay Sarina Bowen 4/22/21 Canada
4. Music From Home Geraldine O'Neill 5/3/21 England and Ireland
5. Under Ten Thousand Stars Samantha Wood 7/13/21 Australia
6. Hidden Valley Annie Seaton 7/28/21 Australia
7. Summer at the Highland Coral Beach Kiley Dunbar 7/29/21 Scotland
8. Smoldered Annie Dyer 8/3/21 England
9. Stirred Annie Dyer 8/17/21 England
10. The Rake's Irish Lady Barbara Monajem 8/18/21 England
11. Shaken Annie Dyer 9/21/21 England
12. Currawong Creek Jennifer Scoullar 10/6/21 Australia
13. The Guest List Lucy Foley 10/10/21 Ireland

14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own. (Pennsylvania)
1. Pucked Love Helena Hunting 4/5/21 Illinois
2. A Family Affair Mary Campisi 4/6/21 Illinois
3. A Family Affair: Spring Mary Campisi 4/7/21 Illinois
4. Forever, Alabama Susan Sands 4/30/21 Alabama
5. Home to the Harbor: A Novel Lee Tobin McClain 5/2/21 Maryland
6. Missing and Endangered J.A. Jance 5/4/21 Arizona
7. Down River Karen Harper 5/5/21 Alaska
8. The Inn At Seagrove Rachel Hanna 5/10/21 South Carolina
9. The Wedding At Seagrove Rachel Hanna 5/11/21 South Carolina
10. A Seagrove Christmas Rachel Hanna 5/12/21 South Carolina
11. Lucky's Beach Shelley Noble 5/13/21 Delaware
12. Crossing The Line Kay Stockham 5/14/21 Tennessee
13. Noel, Alabama Susan Sands 5/16/21 Alabama
14. Finding You Leah Busboom 5/17/21 Minnesota

15. Read 15 books in a series.
1. Ghost Town Rachel Caine 4/3/21 (The Morganville Vampires #9)
2. Dirty Past Emma Hart 5/26/21 (The Burke Brothers #2)
3. Beneath the Scars Cherise Sinclair 6/7/21 (Masters of the Shadowlands, #13)
4. The Shameless Hour Sarina Bowen 6/8/21 (The Ivy Years #4)
5. The Fifteenth Minute Sarina Bowen 6/8/21 (The Ivy Years #5)
6. Brody: The Montana McKennas Jan Scarbrough 6/13/21 (The Montana Ranchers #2)
7. Till There Was You Marie Force 6/20/21 (Butler, Vermont #4)
8. All My Loving Marie Force 6/22/21 (Butler, Vermont #5)
9. Oopsie Daisy Iris Morland 6/24/21 (The Flower Shop Sisters #3)
10. Van Sawyer Bennett 7/1/21 (Cold Fury Hockey #9)
11. Sucker Punch Laurell K. Hamilton 7/12/21 (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #27)
12. Thankful in Good Hope Cindy Kirk 7/22/21 (Good Hope #11)
13. Craving Helen Hardt 8/1/21 (Steel Brothers Saga #1)
14. Enemies With Benefits Roxie Noir 8/4/21 (Loveless Brothers #1)
15. Him Sarina Bowen 8/20/21 (Him #1)

[JoAnne]

16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre. - Mystery/Thriller
1. The Wives Tarryn Fisher 4/15/21
2. Baltimore Blues Laura Lippman 7/31/21
3. Big Summer Jennifer Weiner 8/14/21
4. All the Missing Girls Megan Miranda 8/22/21
5. Lighthouse Reef Vickie McKeehan 8/24/21
6. One Woman's Junk J.B. Lynn 8/23/21
7. Starlight Dunes Vickie McKeehan 9/4/21
8. A Witch Too Late Paula Lester 10/4/21
9. The Dressmaker's Dowry Meredith Jaeger 9/8/21
10. Edge of the Heat Lisa Ladew 9/11/21
11. Beneath Winter Sand Vickie McKeehan 9/24/21
12. A Pelican Pointe Christmas Vickie McKeehan 9/26/21
13. The Boathouse Vickie McKeehan 9/27/21
14. The Beachcomber Vickie McKeehan 9/28/21
15. On His Watch Katie Ruggle 10/4/21
16. Death on Tap Ellie Alexander 10/7/21

17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title.
1. Let It Be Marie Force 6/22/21
2. Tempt Me Carly Phillips 6/26/21
3. Ember Emma Renshaw 7/3/21
4. One Bride for Five Mountain Men Jess Bentley 8/3/21
5. Best Fake Fiancé Roxie Noir 8/5/21
6. Carter Reed Tijan 9/12/21
7. August Sunsets Katie Winters 9/15/21
8. A Vineyard Thanksgiving Katie Winters 9/15/21
9. Sea Glass Cottage Vickie McKeehan 9/19/21
10. A Vineyard Vow Katie Winters 9/20/21
11. A Vineyard Lullaby Katie Winters 9/20/21
12. Christmastime Cowboy Maisey Yates 9/22/21
13. Crash into Me K.M. Scott 10/1/21
14. Wild Devotion Mari Carr 10/3/21
15. Keep Me Warm at Christmas Brenda Novak 10/9/21
16. Texas Twosome Debbie White 10/11/21
17. Texas Homecoming Maggie Shayne 10/12/21

18. Read 18 books with a Red, White or Blue cover.
1. Needing You Leah Busboom 5/20/21
2. Silver Girl Elin Hilderbrand 5/29/21
3. Big Lies in a Small Town Diane Chamberlain 5/30/21
4. Slightly South of Simple Kristy Woodson Harvey 5/31/21
5. What You Wish For Katherine Center 6/18/21
6. Hearts in Motion Edie Ramer 7/14/21
7. Family Reunion Nancy Thayer 7/30/21
8. Glam Squad & Groomsmen Samantha Chase 8/2/21
9. Wild Ride Cowboy Maisey Yates 8/9/21
10. The Thing About Love Julie James 8/10/21
11. Moments Like This Anna Gomez 8/12/21
12. Saving Sandcastles Meredith Summers 9/2/21
13. I Flipping Love You Helena Hunting 9/9/21
14. Alaska Skies: Brides for Brothers / The Marriage Risk Debbie Macomber 9/17/21
15. Last Chance Harbor Vickie McKeehan 9/18/21
16. Sandcastles Under the Christmas Moon Vickie McKeehan 9/23/21
17. Keeping Cape Summer Vickie McKeehan 9/25/21
18. The Coast Road Home Vickie McKeehan 9/26/21

19. Read 19 books that have an outdoor cover.
1. The Southern Side of Paradise Kristy Woodson Harvey 6/2/21
2. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 6/6/21
3. The Forever Girl Jill Shalvis 6/14/21
4. The Color of Heaven Julianne MacLean 6/19/21
5. A Family Affair: Summer Mary Campisi 6/20/21
6. A Family Affair: Fall Mary Campisi 6/21/21
7. A Family Affair: Christmas Mary Campisi 6/21/21
8. Angel's Rest Emily March 7/18/21
9. The Color of a Dream Julianne MacLean 7/18/21
10. Sparks Fly in Good Hope Cindy Kirk 7/23/21
11. Lighthouse Cove Rachel Hanna 7/27/21
12. Slow Burn Cowboy Maisey Yates 8/7/21
13. Down Home Cowboy Maisey Yates 8/8/21
14. Rip Current Jill Sanders 8/25/21
15. In Too Deep Jill Sanders 8/26/21
16. Swept Away Jill Sanders 8/27/21
17. The One You're With Lauren K. Denton 9/3/21
18. Pelican Point Irene Hannon 9/7/21
19. The Sunrise Cove Inn Katie Winters 9/14/21

20. Read 20 books either set on the water, have water on the cover or are set in a coastal town. Tell us where.
1. The Bookshop at Peony Harbor Rosie Summers 6/12/21 Aster Island
2. The Color of Destiny Julianne MacLean 6/19/21 Maine and Canada
3. A Summer of Surprises Judith S. Keim 6/26/21 Florida
4. Lavender Beach Vickie McKeehan 6/29/21 California
5. Under the Southern Sky Kristy Woodson Harvey 6/30/21 Florida
6. Set in Sea Glass Cove, Oregon The Abalone Shell Suzie O'Connell 7/2/21
7. The Driftwood Promise Maren Ferguson 7/2/21 Oregon
8. Newport Harbor House Cindy Nichols 7/3/21 California
9. Newport Beginnings Cindy Nichols 7/3/21 California
10. Promise Cove Vickie McKeehan 7/4/21 California
11. Hidden Moon Bay Vickie McKeehan 7/4/21 California
12. Dancing Tides Vickie McKeehan 7/6/21 California
13. Echoes of Summer Laura D. Bastian 7/9/21 California
14. Imagine Summer Shelley Noble 7/11/21 Rhode island
15. The Color of Hope Julianne MacLean 7/15/21 Massachusetts
16. No Sunshine When She's Gone Kate Angell 7/21/21 Florida
17. The Beach House Rochelle Alers 7/25/21 Florida
18. Gulf Coast Cottage Maggie Miller 7/26/21 Florida
19. Gulf Coast Secrets Maggie Miller 7/26/21 Florida
20. Gulf Coast Reunion Maggie Miller 7/27/21 Florida

[Julia]

A Pyramid of Books

Challenge Accepted: December 3, 2021
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: ???
17/ books completed

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Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.
✔1. The Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters (8/31/22)

Read 2 books with 300+ pages.
✔1. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson (1/19/22)
✔2. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (4/4/22)

Read 3 books tagged romance.
✔1. Street of the Five Moons by Elizabeth Peters (8/19/22)
✔2. Silhouette in Scarlet by Elizabeth Peters (8/14/22)
✔3. Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters (8/26/22)

Read 4 in-between novellas of series (.5 books).
1. Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 (within the world of the Lunar Chronicles)
2. Wires and Nerve, Volume 2: Gone Rogue (see above)
✔3. Ghost Girl in the Corner (Shadowshaper Cypher 1.5) (1/4/22)
4. UnBound (UnWind #4.5) or UnStrung (UnWind #1.5)

Read 5 books with at least three colors on their cover.
1. ✔2. (12/24/21) ✔3. (8/2/22) 4. 5.

Read 6 books by a new to you author.
1. Gilgamesh: Joan London
2. Afterparties: Anthony Veasna So
✔3. A Night in the Lonesome October: Roger Zelazny (1/7/22)
✔4. The Vanishing Half: Brit Bennett 6/9
✔5. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains: Kerri Arsenault
6. Jack: Marilynne Robinson

Read 7 books by an author who identifies as male.
✔1. Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (12/22)
2. any book by Michael Pollan
3. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story: Michael Lewis
4. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother: James McBride
✔5. Strange Library: Haruki Murakami (1/31/23)
6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Philip K. Dick
7. The Toll: Neal Shusterman

Read 8 books by an author who identifies as female.
1. The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage: Joan D. Chittister
2. Going There: Katie Couric
3. Wholehearted Faith: Rachel Held Evans
4. A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure: Hoa Nguyen
5. Somebody's Daughter: Ashley C. Ford
6. a book by Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin: Jill Lepore
8. The Pull of the Stars: Emma Donoghue

Read 9 books that has a cover you love.
1. 2. ✔3. (11/1/22) 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9.

Read 10 books with an urban setting.
1. When No One is Watching
2. The City We Became
3. The Vixen
✔4. The Personal Librarian (2/1)
5. Interior Chinatown
6. The Library Book
✔7. Tell the Wolves I'm Home (4/18)
8. Perdido Street Station
9. The Bell Jar
10. Wish You Were Here

Read 11 books with a small town setting.
1. Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts
2. a book by Sharyn McCrumb
3. a book by Julia Spencer-Fleming
4. A Lesson Before Dying
5. All Over Creation
6. Wolf Hollow
7. Jacob Have I Loved
8. Year of Wonders
9. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
✔10. The Autumnal by Daniel Kraus (12/5)
11.

Read 12 free choice books.
1. The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly
2. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
3. Piranesi
✔4. I Couldn't Love You More (3/27)
5.
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.

Read 13 books set outside the US.
✔1. Ghostwritten (1/1/2022)
2. The Lost Apothecary
3. Foreign Bodies: Poems
4. A Burning
5. Year of the Rabbit
6. Life After Life
7. Half a World Away
8. The Paying Guests
✔9. The Rose Code (12/14)
10. The Kite Runner
11. Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
✔12. The Cellist of Sarajevo (12/18)
13. White Teeth

Read 14 books set in states other than Missouri.
1. Bad Romance
✔2. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (12/5)
3. a book by Julia Spencer-Fleming
4. a book by Sharyn McCrumb
5. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
✔6. WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration (12/9)
7. A Tale for the Time Being
8. The Book of Form and Emptiness
9. The Nickel Boys
10. The Bluest Eye
11. The Buddha in the Attic
12. UnSouled
13. UnDivided
14. Agatha of Little Neon

Read 15 series books.
1. The Hunger Games (#1)
2. Catching Fire (#2)
3. Out of the Silent Planet (#1)
4. A Test of Wills (#1)
5. Mockingjay (#3)
✔6. Kiss Quotient #2: The Bride Test 5/16
✔7. Kiss Quotient #3: The Heart Principle 5/18
8. The Curse of the Pharaohs (#2)
9. Crocodile on the Sandbank (#1)
10. books by Daniel José Older
11. Isn't It Bromantic? (#4)
12. Children of Blood and Bone (#1)
13. Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Children of Blood and Bone #2)
14. Perelandra (#2)
15. That Hideous Strength (#3)

Read 16 (more) romance books.
✔1. The Laughter of Dead Kings Elizabeth Peters (6/11)
✔2. Be Buried in the Rain Barbara Michaels (6/12)
3. Act Your Age, Eve Brown
4. Not Here to Be Liked
5. Honey Girl
✔6. Spoiler Alert 4/1
✔7. All the Feels 4/3
8. Gilded
9. Heartless
✔10. The Love Hypothesis 2/17
11. You've Reached Sam
✔12. Eleanor & Park (1/6/22)
✔13. Fangirl (12/24)
14. This Close to Okay
15. I Wish You All the Best
✔16. The Kiss Quotient 5/15

Read 17 books that have an E in the title.
1. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
2. Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
3. My Beloved World
4. Pale Fire
5. Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week
6. Parable of the Talents
7. The Fire Next Time
8. The Memory Police
9. Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act
10. A Circle of Quiet
11. The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
12. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
13. The Screwtape Letters
14. The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community
15. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
16. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
17. The Remains of the Day

Read 18 books with a red, white or blue cover.
✔1. 5/4 ✔2. 12/20 3. 4. 5. 6. ✔7. 2/12
8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
15. 16. 17. 18.

Read 19 books have a cover depicting the outdoors.
✔1. 2/7 2. 3. 4. (#4) 5. (#3) 6. 7.
8. 9. ✔10. 2/1 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. ✔17. 3/6 18. 19.

Read 20 books with a coastal town setting, a setting on/near the water, or showing water on the cover.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. ✔19. 5/5 20.
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[Genevieve]

Congrats JoAnne and Welcome Julia

[Mint]

Start date: December 2, 2021

TASKS
1. Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.
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The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by Mike Rothschild - 12/25/21
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2. Read 2 books of 300+ pages.
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2. Alien Warrior's Bounty by Lizzy Bequin - 1/8/22 (302 pgs)
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3. Read 3 books that are tagged romance.
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1. The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg - 12/03/21
2. Tempting the Unicorn by R.J. Lyon - 12/06/21
Who Wants to Marry a Duke by Sabrina Jeffries - 1/12/22
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4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series. The books have to have a decimal in their number count.
5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts.
6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you.
7. Read 7 books that were written by a man.
8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman.
9. Read 9 books that has a cover you love.
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1. - Incriminating Imprint by Isabella Bassett - 1/5/22
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10. Read 10 books that take place in a city.
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1. Villainy in Vienna by Kelly Oliver - 1/2/22 - Vienna
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11, Read 11 books that take place in a small town.
12. Read 12 books that you choose.
13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from? - Books not set in Canada
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14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own. If you are not in the United States any state. - Any state, I am Canadian
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15. Read 15 books in a series. (You can use the same series or different series)
16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre - mystery
17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title.
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1. Needled to Death by Maggie Sefton - 12/16/21
2. Chocolate with a Side of Murder by Meredith Potts - 1/7/22
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18. Read 18 books with a Red, White or Blue cover.
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1. - Bagels and Blackmail by C.A. Phipps - 1/11/22
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19. Read 19 books that have an outdoor cover.
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1. - #FollowMe for Murder by Sarah E. Burr - 1/3/22
2. - The Icing on the Corpse by Liz Mugavero - 1/4/22
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20. Read 20 books either set on the water, have water on the cover or are set in a coastal town. Tell us where.
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1. - Death on the Danube: A New Year's Murder in Budapest by Jennifer S. Alderson - 12/28/21 - on the Danube River
2. Plum Tea Crazy by Laura Childs - 1/1/22 - Charleston, South Carolina
3. A Fatal Booking by Victoria Gilbert - 1/9/22 - Beaufort, North Carolina
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Reserved, just in case of overflow

[Mint]

And another, just in case

[Genevieve]

Welcome Mint

[Stephanie]

I am so down for this one.

December 2nd- May 23rd

TASKS
1. Read 1 book whose title has 5 words or more.
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher 12/2/21
2. Read 2 books of 300+ pages.
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce (328 Pages) 12/3/21
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim (320 pages) 12/7/21
3. Read 3 books that are tagged romance.
Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Ngan 12/16/21
Spellbreaker by Charlie N. Holmberg 12/26/21
Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown 12/28/21
4. Read 4 books that are in-between novellas of series. The books have to have a decimal in their number count.
Shadow Me by Tahereh Mafi (Shatter Me 4.5) 12/18/21
Reveal Me by Tahereh Mafi (Shatter Me 5.5) 12/18/21
Secret History by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn 3.5) 12/19/21
Dancing the Warrior by Marie Brennan (Doppleganger 0.5) 12/29/21
5. Read 5 books that have at least three colors on their cover. Title and author coloring counts.
The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen 21/4/21
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne 12/5/21
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver 12/8/21
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson 12/9/21
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie 12/10/21

6. Read 6 books by an author who is new to you.
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman 12/6/21
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 12/22/21
Jade City by Fonda Lee 1/4/22
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom 1/10/22
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao 1/14/22
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach 1/21/22
7. Read 7 books that were written by a man.
Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro 12/6/21
Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life by Mark Goulston 12/9/21
The Free Bastards by Jonathan French 12/15/21
Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov 12/18/21
Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy 12/23/21
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson 12/24/21
Starsight by Brandon Sanderson 12/30/21
8. Read 8 books that were written by a woman.
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler 12/29/21
Warrior by Marie Brennan 12/31/21
Crooked House by Agatha Christie 1/1/22
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie 1/6/22
Of Snow and Roses by T.M. Franklin 1/25/22
Goldheart by Kenley Davidson 2/3/22
I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting by Rebecca Harrington 2/7/22
Pirouette by Kenley Davidson 2/10/22
9. Read 9 books that has a cover you love.
Believe Me by Tahereh Mafi 1/6/22
Stars by Colleen Oakes 1/24/22
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik 2/26/22
Djinn City by Saad Hossain 3/14/22
Super Mario Adventures by Kentaro Takekuma 3/27/22
Outlawed by Anna North 3/31/22
Roxy by Neal Shusterman 4/6/22
Youngbloods by Scott Westerfeld 4/7/22
The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper 4/8/22

10. Read 10 books that take place in a city.
Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov 12/20/21
Bad Lands by Stacey Marie Brown 12/28/21
Jade War by Fonda Lee 1/9/22
Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee 1/16/22
Blood Lands by Stacey Marie Brown 1/26/22
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 2/19/22
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki 2/25/22
The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester 3/4/22
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain 3/10/22
Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay 3/12/22
11. Read 11 books that take place in a small town.
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge 12/11/21
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore 12/12/21
Daughter of Lies by Kenley Davidson 2/16/22
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard 2/26/22
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover 3/7/22
Crowbones by Anne Bishop 3/18/22
The Light of the Midnight Stars by Rena Rossner 3/20/22
Heartwood Box by Ann Aguirre 3/28/22
The Long Game by K.J. Parker 4/1/22
Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente 4/2/22
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa 4/5/22

[Stephanie]

12. Read 12 books that you choose.
The Third Mrs. Durst by Ann Aguirre 3/20/22
Honor Lost by Rachel Caine 4/5/22
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin 4/18/22
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie 4/20/22
Blood for Blood by Ryan Graudin 4/22/22
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman 5/2/22
Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 5/6/22
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne 5/8/22
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 5/8/22
Torn by Rowenna Miller 5/9/22
Post Office by Charles Bukowski 5/13/22
Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban 5/15/22
13. Read 13 books in a country other than your own. Where are you from? (I'm from Canada)
Nigeria - Noor by Nnedi Okorafor 12/17/21
England - A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny 12/25/21
Hungary - Savage Lands by Stacey Marie Brown 12/26/21
Japan - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 1/2/22
Germany - The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley by Mercedes Lackey 1/12/22
Botswana - The Joy and Light Bus Company by Alexander McCall Smith 1/22/22
Pakistan - Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal 1/23/22
France - Rebel Rose by Emma Theriault 2/5/22
Ecuador - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova 2/7/22
Egypt - The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty 2/9/22
United States - Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols 2/27/22
Nepal - The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Hossain 3/6/22
Bangladesh - Cyber Mage by Saad Hossain 3/9/22
14. Read 14 books set in a state other than your own. If you are not in the United States any state. (Canadian)
Illinois - Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala 12/22/21
Wyoming - Where the Wind Blows by Caroline Fyffe 12/25/21
Ohio - A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow 1/3/22
Vermont - Verity by Colleen Hoover 1/5/22
New York - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 1/11/22
DC - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 1/14/22
Nevada - Seducing Cinderella by Gina L. Maxwell 1/22/22
Maine - Cujo by Stephen King 1/28/22
California - The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore 1/30/22
Kansas - Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige 2/11/22
Pennsylvania - We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix 2/12/22
Louisiana - Three Trials by Kristy Cunning 2/21/22
Texas - The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 2/22/22
Hawaii - Rules of Entanglement by Gina L. Maxwell 2/23/22
15. Read 15 books in a series. (You can use the same series or different series)
Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson 1/6/22
ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson 1/7/22
The Storm's Whisper by T.A. White 1/19/22
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson 1/29/22
Evershore by Brandon Sanderson 2/8/22
Four Psychos by Kristy Cunning 2/21/22
Inside Man by K.J. Parker 3/5/22
Impostors by Scott Westerfeld 3/5/22
The Best Thing You Can Steal by Simon R. Green 3/14/22
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard 3/15/22
Strange Love by Ann Aguirre 3/16/22
Love Code by Ann Aguirre 3/19/22
Renegade Love by Ann Aguirre 3/21/22
Mirror's Edge by Scott Westerfeld 3/24/22
Beyond the Eyes of Mars: Starship's Mage Book Twelve by Glynn Stewart 3/25/22
16. Read 16 books from your favorite genre. (Fantasy)
Witch by Marie Brennan 1/1/22
The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson 1/18/22
The Hills Have Spies by Mercedes Lackey 1/31/22
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor 2/1/22
This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi 2/4/22
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 2/24/22
Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire 3/1/22
League of Liars by Astrid Scholte 3/3/22
The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout 3/30/22
The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty 4/3/22
The Wizard Returns by Danielle Paige 4/10/22
Heart of Tin by Danielle Paige 4/11/22
Ruler of Beasts by Danielle Paige 4/12/22
Order of the Wicked by Danielle Paige 4/12/22
The Queen of Oz by Danielle Paige 4/14/22
The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige 4/15/22

[Stephanie]

17. Read 17 books that have an E in the title.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 1/13/22
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover 4/4/22
The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past by Julie Lindahl 3/8/22
Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine 3/27/22
Yellow Brick War by Danielle Paige 4/16/22
A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Olson 4/16/22
The End of Oz by Danielle Paige 4/17/22
Diversity and Exclusion: Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis by Lindsay Shepherd 4/21/22
How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You by Matthew Inman 4/23/22
Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard 4/24/22
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 4/26/22
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha 4/28/22
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park 4/30/22
The Unbound Empire by Melissa Caruso 4/30/22
Nemesis by Isaac Asimov 5/4/22
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte 5/4/22
The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso 5/6/22
18. Read 18 books with a Red, White or Blue cover.
Shadow by Colleen Oakes 1/27/22
Traitor's Masque by Kenley Davidson 2/2/22
Shadow and Thorn by Kenley Davidson 2/15/22
Mind Bullet by Jeremy Robinson 2/20/22
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty 2/28/22
14 Ways to Die by Vincent Ralph 3/9/22
November 9 by Colleen Hoover 3/22/22
Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes 4/3/22
Honor Bound by Rachel Caine 4/4/22
Blood of Wonderland by Colleen Oakes 4/8/22
No Place Like Oz by Danielle Paige 4/9/22
The Witch Must Burn by Danielle Paige 4/10/22
War of the Cards by Colleen Oakes 4/10/22
The Straw King by Danielle Paige 4/11/22
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 4/13/22
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel 4/13/22
Unwind by Neal Shusterman 4/19/22
The Defiant Heir by Melissa Caruso 4/21/22

19. Read 19 books that have an outdoor cover.
Eye Spy by Mercedes Lackey 2/13/22
Path of Secrets by Kenley Davidson 2/17/22
Spy, Spy Again by Mercedes Lackey 2/17/22
Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson 3/2/22
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith 3/26/22
Death's Dancer by Jasmine Silvera 4/14/22
Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin 4/18/22
Clockwork Samurai by Jeannie Lin 4/25/22
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James 4/27/22
Buried Memories by Simon R. Green 5/1/22
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith 5/10/22
The Quicksilver Court by Melissa Caruso 5/11/22
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 5/12/22
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar 5/16/22
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson 5/17/22
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith 5/18/22
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith 5/19/22
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 5/19/22
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 5/21/22

20. Read 20 books either set on the water, have water on the cover or are set in a coastal town. Tell us where.
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (water on cover) 12/14/21
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen (water on cover) 12/21/21
Wild Lands by Stacey Marie Brown (water on cover) 12/17/21
Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller (water on cover) 12/30/21
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire (water on cover) 1/4/22
Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller (water on cover) 1/17/22
Seas by Colleen Oakes (water on cover) 1/25/22
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson (water on cover) 2/14/22
The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty (water on cover) 3/12/22
Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Hossain (Coastal town - Chittagong) 3/16/22
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (set on the ocean) 3/17/22
Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld (Coastal town - Paz) 3/22/22
Dark Side of the Rainbow by Danielle Paige (Coastal town - Rainbow Falls) 4/13/22
The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso (Coastal town - Raverra) 4/17/22
The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee (Coastal town - Janloon) 4/30/22
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox (water on cover) 5/3/22
Fray by Rowenna Miller (seaside town - Galitha City) 5/14/22
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George (set on the ocean) 5/16/22
Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee (set on the ocean) 5/22/22
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods by Danna Staaf (set in the ocean) 5/23/22

[Genevieve]

Welcome Stephanie

[Barb]

Finished :

A PYRAMID OF BOOKS, no deadline
20/20 COMPLETE

✔ 20. READ 20 BOOKS SET ON THE WATER/WATER ON THE COVER/SET IN A COASTAL TOWN
1. Cape Bay : Margaritas, Marzipan and Murder (Cape Bay Café #3), by Harper Lin, finished 4/5/21 ★★★.5
2. private island : The King is Dead (Ellery Queen Detective #23), by Ellery Queen, finished 4/9/21 ★★★
3. Treasure Island, Florida : The Newcomer, by Mary Kay Andrews, finished 4/13/21 ★★★.5
4. Nantucket : Family Reunion, by Nancy Thayer, finished 4/16/21 ★★★.5
5. lake on cover : Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes, by Curt Stager, finished 5/13/21 ★★★.5
6. Hemlock Falls : A Pinch of Poison (Hemlock Falls #3), by Claudia Bishop, finished 5/27/21 ★★★.5
7. Carmel-by-the-Sea CA : A Tangled Yarn (Yarn Retreat #5), by Betty Hechtman, finished 5/31/21 ★★★★
8. water on cover : H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy, by Tom Chaffin, finished 6/6/21 ★★★.5
9. Norfolk : The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway #13), by Elly Griffiths, finished 6/12/21 ★★★★
10. water on cover : Dark Tiger (Stoney Calhoun #3), by William G. Tapply, finished 6/15/21 ★★★.5
11. water on cover : Murder at the Lakeside Library (Lakeside Library #1), by Holly Danvers, finished 6/28/21 ★★★.5
12. water on cover : A Walk Along the Beach, by Debbie Macomber, finished 8/14/21 ★★★.5
13. set on an island : Oh Say Can You Fudge (Candy-Coated #3), by Nancy Coco, finished 8/18/21 ★★★★
14. water on cover : The Good Turn (Cormac Reilly #3), by Dervla McTiernan, finished 8/24/21 ★★★★
15. water on cover, set on an island : A Fatal Vineyard Season (Martha's Vineyard #10), by Philip R. Craig, finished 8/29/21 ★★★★
16. Whisper Cove NY : A Brush with Murder (Paint by Murder #1), by Bailee Abbott, finished 8/30/21 ★★★
17. water on cover, set in Galveston : Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, by Erik Larson, finished 9/3/21 ★★★★
18. Cape Cod MA : An Eggnog to Die For (Cape Cod Foodie #2), by Amy Pershing, finished 9/28/21 ★★★.5
19. water on cover : Lethal Letters (Books by the Bay #6), by Ellery Adams, finished 9/30/21 ★★★★
20. set on an island : The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (Mysterious Benedict Society #2), by Trenton Lee Stewart, finished 10/8/21 ★★★.5



✔ 19. READ 19 BOOKS THAT HAVE AN OUTDOOR COVER
1. Death Without Company (Walt Longmire #2), by Craig Johnson, finished 4/2/21 ★★★★
2. Lemon Drop Dead (Amish Candy Shop #6), by Amanda Flower, finished 4/3/21 ★★★★
3. Eaves of Destruction (Fixer-Upper #5), by Kate Carlisle, finished 4/14/21 ★★★.5
4. Death by Bridle (Josiah Reynolds #3), by Abigail Keam, finished 4/19/21 ★★★
5. Pall in the Family (Family Fortune #1), by Dawn Eastman, finished 4/25/21 ★★★.5
6. The Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger, finished 5/8/21 ★★★★
7. Bitter Harvest (Orchard #5), by Sheila Connolly, finished 5/14/21 ★★★★
8. Monument to the Dead (Museum #4), by Sheila Connolly, finished 6/17/21 ★★★★
9. Off Season, by Anne Rivers Siddons, finished 6/19/21 ★★★
10. Dove in the Window (Benni Harper #5), by Earlene Fowler, finished 8/3/21 ★★★★
11. A Darkness Absolute (Rockton #2), by Kelley Armstrong, finished 8/13/21 ★★★★
12. Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59 #1), by Attica Locke, finished 8/22/21 ★★★.5
13. Digging Up Trouble (Sweet Fiction Bookshop #1), by Kitt Crowe, finished 9/4/21 ★★★
14. street scene, set up for festival : Caught Bread-Handed (Bakeshop #4), by Ellie Alexander, finished 9/6/21 ★★★.5
15. Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival, by Tom Clavin, finished 9/11/21 ★★★★
16. Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II, by Mitchell Zuckoff, finished 10/3/21 ★★★★
17. Pulp Friction (Cider Shop #2), by Julie Anne Lindsey, finished 10/11/21 ★★★★
18. Marriage Can Be Mischief (Amish Matchmaker #3), by Amanda Flower, finished 11/3/21 ★★★★
19. Deadly Nightshade (Martha's Vineyard #1), by Cynthia Riggs, finished 11/7/21 ★★★



✔ 18. READ 18 BOOKS WITH A RED, WHITE OR BLUE COVER
1. blue : How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng, finished 4/6/21 ★★★.5
2. white : Murder in the Cookbook Nook (Book Retreat #7), by Ellery Adams, finished 4/7/21 ★★★★
3. blue : The King is Dead (Ellery Queen Detective #23), by Ellery Queen, finished 4/9/21 ★★★
4. white : Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin, finished 4/10/21 ★★★.5
5. all three : Truck: A Love Story, by Michael Perry, finished 4/21/21 ★★★
6. blue : The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree (Darling Dahlias #1), by Susan Wittig Albert, finished 4/24/21 ★★★★
7. red : Woman with a Gun, by Philip Margolin, finished 5/4/21 ★★★.5
8. all three : Breakup (Kate Shugak #7), by Dana Stabenow, finished 5/5/21 ★★★★
9. white : Is This Anything?, by Jerry Seinfeld, finished 5/10/21 ★★★
10. white : Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put In Us and On Us, by George Zaidan, finished 5/21/21 ★★★.5
11. red : Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks, by Keith Houston, finished 5/29/21 ★★★.5
12. white : The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics, by John Pollack, finished 6/4/21 ★★★
13. white : The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics, by Daniel M. Russell, finished 6/23/21 ★★★
14. white : The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2), by Richard Osman, finished 7/16/21 ★★★★
15. red : Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations, by Garson O'Toole, finished 7/19/21 ★★★
16. blue : The Last Mona Lisa, by Jonathan Santlofer, finished 7/23/21 ★★★.5
17. blue : The Secret Staircase (Victorian Village #3), by Sheila Connolly, finished 8/5/21 ★★★★
18. blue : Bodily Harm (David Sloane #3), by Robert Dugoni, finished 8/17/21 ★★★★

[Barb]

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✔ 17. READ 17 BOOKS THAT HAVE AN E IN THE TITLE
1. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by Mary Norris, finished 9/24/21 ★★★.5
2. How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages, by Cait Stevenson, finished 10/2/21 ★★★
3. Killer Research (Library Lovers #12), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 10/14/21 ★★★★
4. The Sisters Café (Cadillac #1), by Carolyn Brown, finished 10/21/21 ★★★
5. The Bodies Left Behind, by Jeffery Deaver, finished 10/22/21 ★★★.5
6. Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over, by Geraldine Brooks, finished 10/23/21 ★★★
7. Unzipped (Chrissy McMullen #1), by Lois Greiman, finished 10/24/21 ★★
8. Berry the Hatchet (Cranberry Cove #2), by Peg Cochran, finished 10/25/21 ★★★★
9. A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About), by Spike Carlsen, finished 10/26/21 ★★★★
10. The Inconvenient Corpse (Grace Cassidy #1), by Jackie King, finished 10/28/21 ★★
12. A History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage, finished 11/5/21 ★★★.5
13. Rescue Road: One Man, Thirty Thousand Dogs and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway, by Peter Zheutlin, finished 11/11/21 ★★★.5
14. Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes (Daisy's Tea Garden #1), by Karen Rose Smith, finished 11/13/21 ★★★.5
15. Body on Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #2), by Vicki Delany, finished 11/15/21 ★★★
16. A Plus One for Murder (Friend for Hire #1), by Laura Bradford, finished 11/16/21 ★★★.5
17. The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend, by Jennifer Skiff, finished 11/25/21 ★★★.5

✔ 16. READ 16 BOOKS FROM YOUR FAVORITE GENRE | MYSTERY
1. Blanche Among the Talented Tenth (Blanche White #2), by Barbara Neely, finished 9/5/21 ★★★★
2. The Big Chili (Undercover Dish #1), by Julia Buckley, finished 9/13/21 ★★★.5
3. A Body to Spare (Odelia Grey #10), by Sue Ann Jaffarian, finished 9/23/21 ★★★.5
4. A Cup of Jo (Maggy Thorsen #6), by Sandra Balzo, finished 9/26/21 ★★★.5
5. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce #7), by Alan Bradley, finished 9/29/21 ★★★★
6. Organized for Masked Motives (Organized #2.5), by Ritter Ames, finished 10/1/21 ★★★
7. Deadlier Than the Pen (Diana Spaulding #1), by Kathy Lynn Emerson, finished 10/4/21 ★★.5
8. Designer Dirty Laundry (Samantha Kidd #1), by Diane Vallere, finished 10/7/21 ★★★
9. Brush with Death (Gray Whale Inn #5), by Karen MacInerney, finished 10/13/21 ★★★★
10. Death on the Shelf (Haunted Library #5), by Allison Brook, finished 10/18/21 ★★★★
11. Murder Under a Blue Moon (Mona Moon #1), by Abigail Keam, finished 10/31/21 ★★★.5
12. The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion (Haunted Bookshop #5), by Alice Kimberly, finished 11/6/21 ★★★★
13. Naughty in Nice (Royal Spyness #5), by Rhys Bowen, finished 11/8/21 ★★★★
14. The Midnight Hour (Stephens & Mephisto/Brighton #6), by Elly Griffiths, finished 11/12/21 ★★★★
15. The Pawful Truth (Cat in the Stacks #11), by Miranda James, finished 11/20/21 ★★★★
16. Redemption (Amos Decker #5), by David Baldacci, finished 11/28/21 ★★★★.5

✔ 15. READ 15 BOOKS FROM A SERIES
1. Ready Player Two (Ready Player One #2), by Ernest Cline, finished 4/17/21 ★★★.5
2. Framed in Lace (Needlecraft #2), by Monica Ferris, finished 8/2/21 ★★★.5
3. No Time Like the Past (Chronicles of St. Mary's #5), by Jodi Taylor, finished 8/10/21 ★★★★.5
4. Scrabbling for the Culprit (Board Games #1), by Jane Wallace, finished 8/16/21 ★★★.5
5. To Thine Own Self Be True (Stella Crown #3), by Judy Clemens, finished 8/19/21 ★★★.5
6. Tombstone Courage (Joanna Brady #2), by J.A. Jance, finished 8/21/21 ★★★★
7. Except the Dying (Detective Murdoch #1), by Maureen Jennings, finished 8/27/21 ★★★
8. Clause & Effect (Deadly Edits #2), by Kaitlyn Dunnett, finished 8/31/21 ★★★★
9. A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell #2), by Deanna Raybourn, finished 9/12/21 ★★★★
10. Mango, Mambo, and Murder (Caribbean Kitchen #1), by Raquel V. Reyes, finished 9/20/21 ★★★
11. Footprints in the Sand (Wedding Cake #3), by Mary Jane Clark, finished 10/10/21 ★★★.5
12. Diners, Drive-Ins and Death (Comfort Food #3), by Christine Wenger, finished 10/17/21 ★★★.5
13. Turn for the Bad (County Cork #4), by Sheila Connolly, finished 10/19/21 ★★★★
14. Tearoom for Two (Tearoom #1), by Susan Page Davis, finished 10/20/21 ★★★.5
15. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Chronicles of St. Mary's #6), by Jodi Taylor, finished 10/27/21 ★★★★

✔ 14. READ 14 BOOKS SET IN A STATE OTHER THAN YOUR OWN | PENNSYLVANIA
1. Virginia : Hen of the Baskervilles (Meg Langslow #15), by Donna Andrews, finished 4/15/21 ★★★★
2. Ohio : The Body on the Barstool (Top Shelf #1), by Lolli Powell, finished 4/22/21 ★★★.5
3. New Jersey : First Degree (Andy Carpenter #2), by David Rosenfelt, finished 4/27/21 ★★★.5
4. Alaska : Murphy's Slaw (Alaskan Diner #3), by Elizabeth Logan, finished 5/15/21 ★★★.5
5. Kentucky : Draw and Order (Paint & Shine #2), by Cheryl Hollon, finished 6/7/21 ★★★.5
6. New Mexico : Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee #3), by Tony Hillerman, finished 6/18/21 ★★★★
7. South Carolina : Pekoe Most Poison (Tea Shop #18), by Laura Childs, finished 6/26/21 ★★★★
8. Wisconsin : Tradition of Deceit (Chloe Ellefson #5), by Kathleen Ernst, finished 6/29/21 ★★★★
9. California : A Few Drops of Bitters (Savannah Reid #26), by G.A. McKevett, finished 7/2/21 ★★★★
10. Illinois : A House Divided (Lincoln & Speed #4), by Jonathan F. Putnam, finished 7/9/21 ★★★★
11. US southern states : 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South, by Bill Steigerwald, finished 7/12/21 ★★★.5
12. New Hampshire : A Deadly Deletion (Booktown #15), by Lorna Barrett, finished 7/13/21 ★★★★
13. Massachusetts : Gone to the Dogs (Dog Lovers #6), by Susan Conant, finished 7/14/21 ★★★
14. Illinois : Writing a Wrong (Writer for Hire #2), by Betty Hechtman, finished 8/12/21 ★★★.5

✔ 13. READ 13 BOOKS SET IN A COUNTRY OTHER THAN YOUR OWN | USA
1. England : The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson, finished 4/8/21 ★★★.5
2. England, Egypt and more : A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St. Mary's #4), by Jodi Taylor, finished 4/12/21 ★★★★
3. England : Anthem for Doomed Youth (Daisy Dalrymple #19), by Carola Dunn, finished 4/18/21 ★★★★
4. Israel : Day After Night, by Anita Diamant, finished 6/5/21 ★★★
5. India : The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry #2), by Sujata Massey, finished 6/8/21 ★★★★
6. England : Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (Mycroft Holmes & Sherlock #3), by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, finished 6/14/21 ★★★★
7. England : A Fatal Footnote (Open Book #2), by Margaret Loudon, finished 6/21/21 ★★★.5
8. Ireland : In Dublin's Fair City (Molly Murphy #6), by Rhys Bowen, finished 7/1/21 ★★★★
9. Turkey & France : Last Train to Istanbul, by Ayşe Kulin, finished 7/6/21 ★★★.5
10. Austria : Mozart's Last Aria, by Matt Rees, finished 7/7/21 ★★★
11. Denmark : The Keeper of Lost Causes (Dept. Q #1), by Jussi Adler-Olsen, finished 7/15/21 ★★★★
12. Scotland : Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth #2), by M.C. Beaton, finished 7/17/21 ★★★.5
13. Ghana : Wife of the Gods (Darko Dawson #1), by Kwei Quartey, finished 7/18/21 ★★★★

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✔ 12. READ 12 BOOKS THAT YOU CHOOSE
1. The Library Book, by Susan Orlean, finished 10/6/21 ★★★★
2. No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America, by Gail Collins, finished 10/30/21 ★★★
3. Repair to Her Grave (Home Repair is Homicide #4), by Sarah Graves, finished 11/2/21 ★★★★
4. Born in Fire (Born in Triology #1), by Nora Roberts, finished 11/4/21 ★★★.5
5. Savage Run (Joe Pickett #2), by C.J. Box, finished 11/10/21 ★★★★
6. Dark Night (Alaska Wild #3), by Paige Shelton, finished 11/14/21 ★★★★
7. The Dog Who Knew Too Much (Chet & Bernie #4), by Spencer Quinn, finished 11/17/21 ★★★★
8. Mind Your Own Beeswax (Queen Bee #2), by Hannah Reed, finished 11/18/21 ★★★
9. Stitched in Crime (Craft Fair Knitters #2), by Emmie Caldwell, finished 11/19/21 ★★★.5
10. Appointment in May (Dave Garrett #5), by Neil Albert, finished 11/23/21 ★★★
11. Driving Heat (Nikki Heat #7), by Richard Castle, finished 11/27/21 ★★★★
12. Moriarty Returns a Letter (Baker Street Letters #4), by Michael Robertson, finished 11/29/21 ★★★

✔ 11, READ 11 BOOKS SET IN A SMALL TOWN
1. Excelsior MN : Crewel World (Needlecraft #1), by Monica Ferris, finished 4/30/21 ★★★.5
2. Sprocket OR : Pint of No Return (Ice Cream Shop #1), by Dana Mentink, finished 5/7/21 ★★★.5
3. Pennycross MA : The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking (Family Skeleton #6), by Leigh Perry, finished 5/9/21 ★★★★
4. Cold Sassy GA : Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, finished 5/11/21 ★★★.5
5. Westbury MA : Farmed and Dangerous (Local Foods #3), by Edith Maxwell, finished 5/17/21 ★★★.5
6. Blight ID : The Double-Jack Murders (Sheriff Bo Tully #3), by Patrick F. McManus, finished 5/22/21 ★★★★
7. Willow Bluff WI : Dogged by Death (Furry Friends #1), by Laura Scott, finished 5/26/21 ★★★.5
8. Reardon (state not specified) : Stump Speech Murder (Pamela Barnes #4), by Patricia Rockwell, finished 6/25/21 ★★★★
9. Calender (state not specificed) : Jeopardy in January (Calendar Mysteries #1), by Camilla Chafer, finished 7/10/21 ★★★.5
10. Lake Eden MN : Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder (Hannah Swensen #27), by Joanne Fluke, finished 7/29/21 ★★★
11. Emberstowne (state not specified) : Grace Sees Red (Manor House #7), by Julie Hyzy, finished 8/7/21 ★★★★

✔ 10. READ 10 BOOKS SET IN A CITY
1. New York City : Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet, by H.P. Wood, finished 4/26/21 ★★★
2. London : The Vanishing Man (Charles Lenox #0.2), by Charles Finch, finished 5/12/21 ★★★★
3. Paris : The Paris Spy (Maggie Hope #7), by Susan Elia MacNeal, finished 5/18/21 ★★★★
4. London : The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn #3), by Ngaio Marsh, finished 5/20/21 ★★★.5
5. San Francisco : Backfire (FBI #16), by Catherine Coulter, finished 6/9/21 ★★★★
6. London : A Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder (Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder #1), by Victoria Hamilton, finished 6/30/21 ★★★★
7. New York City : Dead Cold Brew (Coffeehouse #16), by Cleo Coyle, finished 7/4/21 ★★★★
8. London : The Baker Street Translation (Baker Street Letters #3), by Michael Robertson, finished 7/11/21 ★★★
9. Denver : Taking the Wrap (Mandy Dyer #7), by Dolores Johnson, finished 7/25/21 ★★★
10. Boston : A Void in Hearts (Brady Coyne #7), by William G. Tapply, finished 7/31/21 ★★★.5

✔ 9. READ 9 BOOKS THAT HAS A COVER YOU LOVE
1. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World, by Haemin Sunim, finished 4/10/21 ★★★
2. The Dog Who Healed a Family: And Other True Animal Stories That Warm the Heart and Touch the Soul, by Jo Coudert, finished 4/11/21 ★★★.5
3. One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, by Charles Fishman, finished 5/6/21 ★★★★
4. A Glimmer of a Clue (Fairy Garden #2), by Daryl Wood Gerber, finished 6/1/21 ★★★.5
5. 84 Paws: A Life with Old Labs, by Barbara Travis Osgood, finished 6/22/21 ★★★★
6. Ghost in the Wind (Haunted Guesthouse #7), by E.J. Copperman, finished 8/25/21 ★★★★
7. The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop #1), by Jenny Colgan, finished 9/2/21 ★★★.5
8. Love and Lavender, by Josi S. Kilpack, finished 9/16/21 ★★★
9. Waterfalls of Pennsylvania: A Guide to 182 Falls in the Keystone State, by Jim Cheney, finished 9/19/21 ★★★.5


✔ 8. READ 8 BOOKS BY A FEMALE AUTHOR
1. author Alice Eve Cohen – The Year My Mother Came Back, finished 7/28/21 ★★★
2. author Naomi Novik – Spinning Silver, finished 8/4/21 ★★★.5
3. author Olivia Newton-John – Don't Stop Believin', finished 8/8/21 ★★★.5
4. author Nancy Marie Brown – The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women, finished 8/15/21 ★★★
5. author Freya Sampson – The Last Chance Library, finished 8/20/21 ★★★.5
6. author Gina LaManna – Sprinkled (Lacey Luzzi Mafia #1), finished 9/7/21 ★★
7. author Margaret Powell – Below Stairs, by Margaret Powell, finished 9/8/21 ★★★
8. author Deborah Blum – The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, finished 9/11/21 ★★★★

✔ 7. READ 7 BOOKS BY A MALE AUTHOR
1. author Mark Manson – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, finished 4/20/21 ★★★
2. author Alex Trebek – The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life, finished 4/23/21 ★★★★
3. author Emmanuel Acho – Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, by Emmanuel Acho, finished 4/28/21 ★★★.5
4. author Brad Meltzer – The Escape Artist (Escape Artist #1), finished 9/17/21 ★★★★
5. author Dick Francis – Odds Against (Sid Halley #1), finished 9/22/21 ★★★.5
6. author H.W. Brands – The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom, finished 10/5/21 ★★★★
7. author Ian Urbina – The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, finished 10/16/21 ★★★★

✔ 6. READ 6 BOOKS BY A NEW-TO-YOU AUTHOR
1. author Una McCormack – The Last Best Hope (Star Trek: Picard #1), finished 4/1/21 ★★★.5
2. author Mary Roach – Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, finished 4/4/21 ★★★.5
3. author Mackenzie Lee – Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World, finished 4/4/21 ★★★★
4. author Will Hunt – Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet, finished 5/24/21 ★★★.5
5. author Edward Allan Faine – Serendipity Doo-Dah: True Stories of Happy Musical Accidents, finished 6/24/21 ★★★★
6. author Trevor Noah – Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, finished 7/26/21 ★★★★

✔ 5. READ 5 BOOKS WITH AT LEAST THREE COLORS ON THEIR COVER
1. Fatal Brushstroke (Aurora Anderson #1), by Sybil Johnson, finished 7/21/21 ★★★.5
2. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #2), by Ellis Peters, finished 8/6/21 ★★★.5
3. Claws for Alarm (Nick and Nora #2), by T.C. LoTempio, finished 8/28/21 ★★★
4. Final Sentence (Cookbook Nook #1), by Daryl Wood Gerber, finished 9/27/21 ★★★.5
5. Shelved Under Murder (Blue Ridge Library #2), by Victoria Gilbert, finished 10/9 ★★★.5


✔ 4. READ 4 BOOKS HALF-STEP NOVELLAS OF SERIES
1. Rogue One (Star Wars #3.5), by Alexander Freed, finished 5/3/21 ★★★.5
2. Organized for Masked Motives (Organized #2.5), by Ritter Ames, finished 10/1/21 ★★★
3. All I Want for Christmas is Fudge (Candy-Coated #3.5), by Nancy Coco, finished 10/2/21 ★★★.5
4. An Open Spook (Haunted Guesthouse #4.5), by E.J. Copperman, finished 10/10 ★★★.5

✔ 3. READ 3 BOOKS THAT ARE TAGGED ROMANCE
1. My Dear Hamilton, by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, finished 7/5/21 ★★★.5
2. The Santa Suit, by Mary Kay Andrews, finished 8/23/21 ★★★.5
3. A Chance for Sunny Skies (What's in a Name? #1), by Eryn Scott, finished 10/9/21 ★★★

✔ 2. READ 2 BOOKS WITH 300+ PAGES
1. 432 pages : A Gambling Man (Archer #2), by David Baldacci, finished 7/22/21 ★★★★
2. 384 pages : The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital, by Alexandra Robbins, finished 8/9/21 ★★★

✔ 1. READ 1 BOOK WHOSE TITLE HAS 5 WORDS OR MORE
1. Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations, by Roy Blount Jr., finished 5/2/21 ★★★.5


***** CHALLENGE COMPLETE 11/29/21 *****