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2022 Topic Discard Challenge:
1. From the 2021 GR Choice Awards:
2. Has an orange cover: Sick
3. Related to The Twilight Zone: The Poser
4. By an indigenous author: The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History
5. About a missing person: The Return
6. Set in Eastern Europe: Billie
7. Set in the Arab world: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
8. Related to the Year of the Tiger: Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball: Lizzie Arlington, Alta Weiss, Lizzie Murphy, Edith Houghton, Jackie Mitchell, Babe Didrikson
9. An author with three names: Tumbling
10. A character that has a disability: The Gargoyle
11. A child protagonist: The Woman Upstairs
12. 3 books related to rock, paper, scissors (Scissors): Leaving Cecil Street
13. 3 books related to rock, paper, scissors (Paper): The Ghost Bride
14. 3 books related to rock, paper, scissors (Rock): Red Fox
15. 3 books related to the primary colors (Red): Kin
16. 3 books related to the primary colors (Blue): The Silver Star
17. 3 books related to the primary colors (Yellow): Gal: A True Life
18. From one of Obama's reading lists: The Power
19. About or involving a ritual or ceremony: Shadows Over Innsmouth: The Return of the Deep Ones
20a. An autobiography, biography, or memoir: Mothertrucker
20b. An autobiography, biography, or memoir: The Unbreakable Child
21a. An autobiography, biography, or memoir: How to Escape From Jehovah's Witnesses
21b. An autobiography, biography, or memoir: Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder
22. A book from the year I (or someone in the family) turned 22 (Aaron): Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
23. Has the name of a US state in the title: Alaska
24. A true crime book: Murder in Little Egypt
25. A true crime book: The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town
26. Related to the film Soylent Green: Bookworm
27. Related to Beijing: Lost in Translation
28. Published when you were a teenager: Griffin and Sabine
29. Published when you were a teenager: The Room
30. Related to the Wizard of Oz: Satan's Harvest
31. A parody of The Wizard of Oz: The Undead World of Oz: L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz Complete with Zombies and Monsters
32. Featuring a character with paranormal or supernatural abilities: Ghost Hunters
33. Has a theme of revenge: Vicious
34. Has a theme of redemption: The Keeper of Night
35. Related to the film The Princess Bride: A Wicked Thing
36. A book mentioned on the reading women podcast: Those Girls
37. A banned book: All Together Dead
38. Features mental health: Roxy
39. Has a character on a journey: The Giver of Stars
40. Has a character on a journey: The Book of Flying
41. Has a comedic aspect: Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
42. About women or a woman who changed history: Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue
43. A book with/about nomads: Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present
44. From a genre given by the random genre generator: The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys, The True Story
45. Features drug or alcohol abuse: The Last Affair
46. From the first 22 in your TBR: The Happy Prince
47. Adapted by the BBC: The Girl Before
48. Connected to the 7 Chakras (Crown/Spiritual): The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
49. Connected to the 7 Chakras (Third Eye/Intuition & Imagination): Proven Guilty
50. Connected to the 7 Chakras (Throat/Communication): The Turn of the Key
51. Connected to the 7 Chakras (Heart/Love): Nowhere Is a Place
52. Connected to the 7 Chakras (Solar Plexus/Confidence & Self-Esteem): Perfect Peace
53. Connected to the 7 Chakras (Sacral/Sexual & Creative Energy): Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
54. Connected to the 7 Chakras (Root/Security & Stability): The Other Mrs.
55. About an organized crime or a crime family: The Collective
56. Features a secret society or club: Forty Acres
57. Featuring a prophecy: Among the Shrouded
58. Has a theme of exploration: Darkhouse
59. From your favorite genre: The Haunted: One Family's Nightmare
60. Fiction book about a real person: Christopher Columbus and the Lost City of Atlantis
61. Related to one of the Wonders of the World: The Gold Eaters
62. Related to the song "It's the End of the World...", by REM: Loonies
63. An adventure book: Bridge of Birds
64. Related to a nursery rhyme: Fables, Vol. 6: Homelands
65. About a locked room or closed-circle mystery: What You Did
66. A fantasy novel: The Stolen Child
67. A fantasy novel: The Babysitters Coven
68. Has an anti-hero: White Night
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Books mentioned in this topic
Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder (other topics)Mothertrucker (other topics)
How to Sell a Haunted House (other topics)
Darkhouse (other topics)
Forty Acres (other topics)
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To see brief reviews of my reads and a full list of all my reading challenges, check out the "1 Million Reading Challenge" link in my profile.
Reading Challenge:
1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y: The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021: The Demonologist
3a. A book with 22 or more letters in the title: The Last House on Needless Street
3b. A book with 22 or more letters in the title: The Breadwinners: A Family Saga
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list: Werewolf
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name: The Four Winds
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover: The Prophets
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind:Anxious People
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1: The Devil of Nanking
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2: The Guest List
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3: The Lost Man
11. A book from the historical fiction genre: The Lincoln Highway
12. A book related to glass: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
13. A book about a woman in STEM: The Green Glass Sea
14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads: The Chaos Gambit
15. A book without a person on the cover: The Grip of It
16. A book related to Earth Day: The Last Policeman
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge: The Last Runaway
18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author: House of Sticks
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history: The Peripheral
20a. A nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
20b. A fiction book that is set during 1900 -1951: The Kitchen Front
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover: The Girls with No Names
22. A book with a Jewish character or author: The Book of Lost Names
23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship: The Glass-House Murder
24. A book related to inclement weather: Songs of Willow Frost
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages: Riot Baby
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1: Please See Us
27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2: Please Don't Tell
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards: The Ballad of Black Tom
29. A book set on or near a body of water: Packrafting! An Introduction and How-To Guide
30a. A book related to mythology: Gods of Jade and Shadow
30b. A book related to mythology: The Monarch of the Glen
31. A book published at least 10 years ago: The Pilo Family Circus
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer: Still Life
33. The next book in a series: Agency
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role: Nothing to See Here
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1: Suicide Forest
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2: Miss Benson's Beetle
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name: Molly Pepper and the Night Train
38. A book by a Latin American author: The Japanese Lover
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time: Whistling Past the Graveyard
40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards: The Space Between Worlds
41. A book with a theme of food or drink: The Sacred Place
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title: Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights
43. A book set in a small town or rural area: Midnight at the Blackbird Café
44. A book with gothic elements: Graveyard
45. A book related to a game: The Testing
46a. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters: Dead Beat
46b. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters: D'Arc
47. A book with handwriting on the cover: About a Boy
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022: The Startup Wife
49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons": The Girl in Red
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
51. A book published in 2022: How to Sell a Haunted House
52. A book with a time-related word in the title: Project Hail Mary