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Dina | 236 comments THE 2022 LIST

Read: 52/52

January
✔ 1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y: The Wee Free Men - Tiffany - 4/30/2022
✔ 2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021: Rhythm of War - 3/23/2022
✔ 3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title: The Overdue Life of Amy Byler - 4/1/2022
✔ 4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list: A book you meant to read in 2021: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - 3/15/2022
✔ 5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name: Ryder Carroll; The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future - 1/18/2022

February
✔ 6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover: The Book of Cold Cases - 5/9/2022
✔ 7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind: Act Your Age, Eve Brown - main characters are autistic - 3/16/2022
✔ 8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1: The Last Passenger - Europe - 4/29/2022
✔ 9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2: Daisy Jones & The Six - North America - 4/27/2022

March
✔ 10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3: Kiss Hard - Oceania - 5/4/2022
✔ 11. A book from historical fiction genre: The Vanishing Man - 4/22/2022
✔ 12. A book related to glass: How Lucky - (windows of house) - 3/8/2022
✔ 13. A book about a woman in STEM: The Lost Apothecary - 5/25/2022

April
✔ 14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads: A River Enchanted - 3,046 - 2/23/2022
✔ 15. A book without a person on the cover: The Bone Farm - 4/11/2022
✔ 16. A book related to Earth Day: Once There Were Wolves - 5/29/2022
✔ 17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge: 2021 - People We Meet On Vacation - 4/3/2022

May
✔ 18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author: Before the Coffee Gets Cold - 7/14/22
✔ 19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history: Storm Echo - 8/10/22
✔ 20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951: The Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery - 10/26/2022
✔ 21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover: Purgatory Ridge - 6/7/22
✔ 22. A book with a Jewish character or author: House of Sky and Breath - 3/1/22

June
✔ 23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship: Razorblade Tears - 2/22/22
✔ 24. A book related to inclement weather: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
✔ 25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages: Book Love - 3/24/22
✔ 26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1: Royal Assassin - 8/5/22

July
✔ 27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2: Assassin's Quest - 8/8/2022
✔ 28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards: The Night Masquerade - 8/16/2022
✔ 29. A book set on or near a body of water: Pacific Vortex! - 1/15/2022
✔ 30. A book related to mythology: The Maidens - 11/2022

August
✔ 31. A book published at least 10 years ago: Iron Lake - 5/20/2022
✔ 32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer: Origin in Death - 6/11/2022
✔ 33. The next book in a series: The Match - 5/2/2022
✔ 34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role: True Biz - 10/1/2022
✔ 35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1: Of Mutts and Men

September
✔ 36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2: The Boy from the Woods - 4/17/2022
✔ 37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name: Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams - 2/6/2022
✔ 38. A book by a Latin American author: Part of Your World - 8/16/2022
✔ 39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time: I Must Betray You - using this book by Ruta Sepetys in place of Salt to the Sea - 6/19/2022

October
✔ 40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards: The Devil's Punchbowl - (The Devil) - 3/11/2022
✔ 41. A book with a theme of food or drink: Nobody's Fool - 3/7/2022
✔ 42. A book with a language or nationality in the title: American Gods - 3/31/2022
✔ 43. A book set in a small town or rural area: A Little Hope - 2/18/2022
✔ 44. A book with gothic elements: The Haunting of Hill House - 2/16/2022

November
✔ 45. A book related to a game: The World Played Chess - 2/12/2022
✔ 46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters: Heart of Barkness - (dog) - 2/4/2022
✔ 47. A book with handwriting on the cover: Verity - 2/1/2022
✔ 48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022: Malibu Rising - (July 2021) - 1/24/2022

December
✔ 49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons": The Shadow of the Gods - 1/8/2022
✔ 50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - 1/12/2022
✔ 51. A book published in 2022: The Magnolia Palace - (January 2022) - 1/10/2022
✔ 52. A book with a time-related word in the title: Later - 1/19/2022


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1. Read most of the BOTM books I currently owned: 17/31

-- Pachinko (Feb '17)
-- Sleeping Beauties; Stephen King
-- The Chestnut Man; Søren Sveistrup (Sept '19)
-- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz; Erik Larson (Mar '20)
-- The Vanishing Half; Brit Bennett (2020 Book of the Year)
-- The Four Winds; Kristin Hannah (Feb '21)
-- Firekeeper's Daughter; Angeline Boulley
-- The Maidens; Alex Michaelides (June '21)
-- The Lincoln Highway; Amor Towles (Oct '21)
-- The Cartographers (March '22)
-- Take My Hand (May '22)
-- The Lies I Tell (June '22)
-- Upgrade (July '22)
-- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (July '22)

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2. At least 5 of the classics that I own: 3/19

The Haunting of Hill House
American Gods
The Blind Assassin

East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Crime and Punishment
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Lord of the Flies
Catch-22
Dracula
The Color Purple
The Handmaid's Tale
A Prayer for Owen Meany
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Middlesex
The Secret History
Foundation
I, Robot
The Martian Chronicles

3. Read at least 10 of the nonfiction books that I own: 7/10

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
Bamboozled By Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Greenlights
Baby Steps Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth-- and How You Can Too
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
--> What's Next?: The Journey to Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, and Make a Difference
--> Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism


7. Complete or unhaul the books that I have started but haven't finished:

The Whisper Man
Lovecraft Country
I, Robot
Pachinko
The Dark Tower
True Biz

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8. Oldest books I own (unread books moved forward from 2021 list) : 6/30

Cutting for Stone
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Pillars of the Earth
The Street Lawyer
The Happiness Manifesto
Les Miserables: Sheet Music
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
The Secret History
Pachinko
Crime and Punishment
Night Film
Empire Falls
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
The House of God
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Nix
Sleeping Beauties
The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage, #5)

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Dina | 236 comments Goals:

1. Completed Series

Michael J Sullivan
- The Riyria Revelations

N.K. Jemisin
- The Broken Earth Trilogy

Nalini Singh
- Psy-Changeling; Season 1
- Rock Kiss
- Hard Play

Nnedi Okorafor
- The Night Masquerade Trilogy

Robin Hobb
- Farseer Trilogy

Talia Hibbert
- Brown Sisters Trilogy

2. Series that are completed and I just need to finish them:

Dark Tower; Stephen King
--> 7. The Dark Tower

Legends of the First Empire; Michael J. Sullivan
1. Age of Myth
2. Age of Swords
3. Age of War
4. Age of Legend
5. Age of Death
6. Age of Empyre

Liveship Trader's Trilogy; Robin Hobb
1. Ship of Magic
2. The Mad Ship
3. Ship of Destiny

The Passage; Justin Cronin
✔ 1. The Passage
2. The Twelve
3. The City of Mirrors

The Poppy War; R.F. Kuang
✔ 1. The Poppy War
2. The Dragon Republic
3. The Burning God

3. Series that I need to catch up on:

Argeneau Vampire series:
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✔ 11. The Immortal Hunter
✔ 12. The Renegade Hunter
✔ 12.5 Vampire Valentine
✔ 13. Born to Bite
✔ 14. Hungry for You
✔ 15. The Reluctant Vampire
✔ 15.5 The Bite Before Christmas - ("The Gift")
--> 16. Under a Vampire Moon
17. The Lady is a Vamp
18. Immortal Ever After
19. One Lucky Vampire
✔ 20. Vampire Most Wanted

The Bloodsworn Saga; John Gwynne
✔ 1. The Shadow of the Gods
2. The Hunger of the Gods
3. out ???

Charles Lenox; Charles Finch - caught up as of 5/2022

Chet and Bernie; Spencer Quinn
✔ 1. Dog on It
✔ 2. Thereby Hangs a Tail
✔ 3. To Fetch a Thief
✔ 4. The Dog Who Knew Too Much
✔ 5. A Fistful of Collars
✔ 6. The Sound and the Furry
✔ 7. Paw and Order
✔ 8. Scents and Sensibility
✔ 9. Heart of Barkness
✔ 10. Of Mutts and Men
--> 11. Tender Is the Bite
12. It's a Wonderful Woof
13. Bark to the Future

Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor; William Kent Krueger
✔ 0.5. Lightning Strike
✔ 1. Iron Lake
✔ 2. Boundary Waters
✔ 3. Purgatory Ridge
✔ 4. Blood Hollow
✔ 5. Mercy Falls
✔ 6. Copper River
✔ 7. Thunder Bay
✔ 8. Red Knife
✔ 9. Heaven's Keep
✔ 10. Vermilion Drift
--> 11. Northwest Angle
12. Trickster's Point
13. Tamarack County
14. Windigo Island
15. Manitou Canyon
16. Sulfur Springs
17. Desolation Mountain
18. Fox Creek

Crescent City; Sarah J. Mass
✔ 1. House of Earth and Blood
✔ 2. House of Sky and Breath
3. out ?

Dave Robicheaux; James Lee Burke
✔ 1. The Neon Rain
2. Heaven's Prisoners
3. Black Cherry Blues
4. A Morning for Flamingos
5. A Stained White Radiance: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
6. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

Dirk Pitt; Clive Cussler
✔ 1. Pacific Vortex!
2. The Mediterranean Caper
3. Iceberg
4. Raise the Titanic!

Elements of Cadence; Rebecca Ross
✔ 1. A River Enchanted
2. A Fire Endless - out 12/2022

Gaslight Mystery; Victoria Thompson
✔ 1. Murder on Astor Place
✔ 2. Murder on St. Mark's Place
✔ 3. Murder on Gramercy Park
✔ 4. Murder on Washington Square
✔ 5. Murder on Mulberry Bend
✔ 6. Murder on Marble Row
✔ 7. Murder on Lenox Hill
✔ 8. Murder in Little Italy
✔ 9. Murder in Chinatown
✔ 10. Murder on Bank Street
✔ 11. Murder on Waverly Place
✔ 12. Murder on Lexington Avenue
✔ 13. Murder on Sisters' Row
--> 14. Murder on Fifth Avenue
15. Murder in Chelsea
16. Murder in Murray Hill
17. Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
18. Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue
19. Murder in Morningside Heights
20. Murder in the Bowery
21. Murder on Union Square
22. Murder on Trinity Place
23. Murder on Pleasant Avenue
24. Murder on Wall Street
25. Murder on Madison Square
26. Murder on Bedford Street (out 4/2023)

Hercule Poirot; Agatha Christie
- Sad Cypress
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Evil Under the Sun
- Five Little Pigs
- The Hollow
- The Labors of Hercules
- Taken at the Flood
- The Under Dog and Other Stories
- Mrs. McGinty's Dead
- After the FuneralHickory Dickory Dock
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- The Clocks
- Third Girl
- Elephants Can Remember
- Curtain

Hidden Legacy; Ilona Andrews
✔ 1. Burn for Me
✔ 2. White Hot
✔ 3. Wildfire
✔ 3.5. Diamond Fire
✔ 4. Sapphire Flames
✔ 5. Emerald Blaze
✔ 6. Ruby Fever
Arabella's Story - out ?

in Death; J.D. Robb
✔ 15. Purity in Death
✔ 16. Portrait in Death
✔ 17. Imitation in Death
✔ 17.5. Big Jack
✔ 18. Divided in Death
✔ 19. Visions in Death
✔ 20. Survivor In Death
✔ 21. Origin in Death
✔ 22. Memory in Death
--> 22.5. Haunted in Death
23. Born in Death
24. Innocent in Death
25. Creation in Death

Lady Darby Mystery; Anna Lee Huber
✔ 1. The Anatomist's Wife
✔ 2. Mortal Arts
✔ 3. A Grave Matter
✔ 4. A Study in Death
✔ 4.5 A Pressing Engagement
✔ 5. As Death Draws Near
✔ 6. A Brush with Shadows
✔ 7. An Artless Demise
✔ 8. A Stroke of Malice
✔ 9. A Wicked Conceit
10. A Perilous Perspective
11. A Fatal Illusion (out 4/2023)

Miss Marple; Agatha Christie
✔ 1. The Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery
2. The Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mystery
3. The Moving Finger

Natchez Burning; Greg Iles
✔ 3.5. The Death Factory
4. Natchez Burning
5. The Bone Tree
6. Mississippi Blood
7. Southern Man - out June '23

Psy-Changeling Trinity; Nailini Singh
✔ 1. Silver Silence
✔ 2. Ocean Light
✔ 3. Wolf Rain
✔ 4. Alpha Night
✔ 5. Last Guard
✔ 6. Storm Echo

Virgil Flowers; John Sandford:
next book: 14. Righteous Prey - out 10/2022

Sigma Force; James Rollins
✔ 1. Sandstorm
2. Map of Bones
2.5. Kowalski's in Love
3. Black Order
4. The Judas Strain
5. The Last Oracle
6. The Doomsday Key
6.5. The Skeleton Key


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Dina | 236 comments Total ATY prompts completed: 52

ATY October and November's Currently Reading:

ebook:

Audible:
We Are Legion (We Are Bob), #1

Physical book:


Books read for ATY 2022:

34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role: True Biz
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951: The Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery
30. A book related to mythology: The Maidens

Prompts Left To Read to complete challenge: 2

done

Read in September/October for ATY Challenge: 3
Total from owned books/TBR pre-2022: 0
New books (library/newly bought): 0/0

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Other reads:

Highest Rated: The Nightingale
Lowest Rated: The Poe Shadow
Highest Page Count: New York (880 pgs)
Shortest Page Count: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (128 pgs)
Oldest book:
Newest book:

Side Reads:
Righteous Prey
The Bodyguard

DNF:

Series:
Burn for Me (re-read)
White Hot (re-read)


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New to me authors - 2022:
- Fiona Davis
- Clive Cussler
- Atul Gawande
- Ryder Carroll
- John Gwynne
- Robert Dugoni
- Yvonne Orji
- Robert Dugoni** - definitely read more of
- S.A. Cosby
- Rebecca Ross** - read next in series
- Richard Russo
- Will Leitch
- James Clear
- Kelly Harms
- William Kent Krueger

Series currently reading:

- Argeneau Vampire Series: next book: Under a Vampire Moon, #16
- Bloodsworn Saga - next book: The Hunger of the Gods, #2
- Chet and Bernie - next book: Tender Is the Bite, #11
- Cork O'Connor - next book: Northwest Angle, #11
- Elements of Cadence - next book: A Fire Endless - out: 12/2022
- Gaslight Mystery - next book: Murder on Lexington Avenue, #12
- in Death - next book: Haunted In Death, #22.5
- Mistborn - The Lost Metal, #7 - (out 11/15/2022)
--> Virgil Flowers -Righteous Prey

Awaiting next book release date:
- Crescent City - book #3
- Stormlight Archives - book #5
- Wilde - book #3

Completed:


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