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Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIESJanuary 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Changed to 51, for now!
Shelves:
An Author:
1. Lisa Kleypas - 0/5
2. J.D. Robb - 0/10
3. Nalini Singh - 0/6
Book Length
1. Short (<200 pages) - 0/5
2. Long (>500 pages) - 0/5
A Place
1. Serbia/Serbian authors - 0/10
A Time
1. 19th century - 0/10
Martha☀ wrote: "I will commit to 16 titles (to start with). What a great way to plan on reading those TBRs.PS I am the other Martha☀."
Thanks for joining us, Martha.
To distinguish between participants with identical (or similar-to-me) names, the participation rosters will show both the names and original msg numbers, like this:
Martha (#30)
Martha (#43)
Welcome to all the new folks to Bookworms Take Shelvies!I'm so happy to see both familiar and new faces in this thread!
Everyone who's signed up so far appears in the Worms Larvae roster. Suggestions for a more tantalizing name for this roster are welcome. I guess Worm Eggs would be scientifically more accurate, but...yuck!
Let me know if I have your name or goal/progress wrong by posting a comment or messaging me.
Bookworms Take Shelfies Reading ChallengeSign me up for 24 books! Below are some titles proposed for each shelf, but are subject to change.
Progress: 21/24
√1. An Author – David Rosenfelt (3/3)
√The K Team (The K Team, #1)
√Animal Instinct (The K Team, #2)
√Citizen K-9 (The K Team, #3)
2. A Book Genre – Sci-fi > Post-apocalyptic/Zombies (0/3)
Zombie State (Death Squad, #2) - Charlie Dalton
Undead Assimilation (The Undead, #2) - Matthew Doggett
Zombie Dawn: Outbreak (Zombie Dawn Trilogy, #1) - Nick S. Thomas
√3. Book Length - under 200 pages (3/3)
√1. The Interchange - Andrew Orange
√2. DYING TO GET IN - Peter Interland
√3. Viking Private Investigation: Season One (Viking P.I., #1) - Tommy Ueland
4. Food & Beverage – Mysteries with a food/beverage theme (3/3)
√1. Three Shots to the Wind (Chloe Jackson, Sea Glass Saloon Mystery, #3) - Sherry Harris (beverage)
√2. Hour is Come (A Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery, #0.5) - Victoria Tait
√3. Death by Bubble Tea (LA Night Market, #1) - Jennifer J. Chow
√5. A Hobby or Pastime – Mysteries featuring a hobby or pastime (3/3)
√1. A Right Royal Revenge (Highland Horse Whisperer, #2) - R.B. Marshall (show jumping)
√2. Decoy Training (K-9s on Patrol, #1) - Caridad Piñeiro (dog agility/SAR)
√3. The World of Pondside - Mary Helen Stefaniak (online game)
√6. Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies (3/3)
√1. The Vanished Collection - Pauline Baer de Perignon
√2. A Little Dog's Adventures in a Big Dog's World: Following Winnie on the Path of K9 Scent Work and Life - Suzanne Catalano
√3. The Mad Girls of New York (Nellie Bly, #1) - Maya Rodale
√7. Nature and the Environment (3/3)
√1. TROPHY KILL (A Sidney Reed Mystery, #1) - R.J. Norgard
√2. Road Kill (A Sidney Reed Mystery, #2) - R.J. Norgard
√3. Toxic Soup - R.R. Rowley
√4. Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, #22) - C.J. Box
√8. A Place - Mysteries with an Asian setting (3/3)
√1. Death In The Walled City - Aditya Banerjee (India)
√2. The Old Woman with the Knife - Gu Byeong-mo (South Korea)
√3. A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (Inspector Singh Investigates, #1) - Shamini Flint (Malaysia)
I'm in! Please sign me up for 15. My books are TBD, but here are my shelves. Progress: 15/15
Author: Jane Austen - 5/5
Emma
Sanditon
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Sense and Sensibility
Genre: Classics - 3/3
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A Little Princess
A Christmas Carol
Diversity: LGBTQIA+ - 5/5
The Darkness Outside Us
The Love Hypothesis
Something Fabulous
Wolfsong
Ravensong
Place: Vietnam - 2/2
Lemongrass, Ginger and Mint Vietnamese Cookbook: Classic Vietnamese Street Food Made at Home
A Pho Love Story
Sign me up for 3956/39
An Author:
Colleen Hoover 4/3
Reminders of Him
Slammed
Verity
Lisa Jewell 2/3
The House We Grew Up In
James Patterson 1/2
A Genre:
Psychological Thriller: 15/8
The Look Alike Erica Spindler
The Last Flight Julie Clark
The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides
Little Fires Everywhere Celest Ng
Unmissing Minka Kent
Your Neighbours Wife Tony Parsons
The Best of Friends Lucinda Berry
The Perfect Nanny Cole Baxter
Still Missing Chevy Stevens
Behind Closed Doors B A Paris
The Patient's Secret Loreth Anne White
The Family Across the Street Nicole Trope
The Marriage K L Slater
The Dream House Jess Ryder
Mystery: 6/8
In The Clearing Robert Dugoni
The Trapped Girl Robert Dugoni
Romance/Romantic Suspense 14/6
Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid
Black Hills Nora Roberts
Bring Down the Stars Emma Scott
Long Live the Beautiful Hearts Emma Scott
One True Loves TJR
Come Back Tomorrow Amy Argent
Whatever Tomorrow Brings Amy Argent
Christmas After All Cece Louise
Snowed in for Christmas Sarah Morgan
Wish Upon a Christmas Star Karen McQuestion
Best Books of the Decade:
2010s: 1/2
Book Length:
Other 9/8
Firefly Lane Kristin Hannah
Summer of '69 Elin Hildebrand
Fly Away Kristin Hannah
Wish You Were Here Jodi Picoult
The Hiding Girl Dorian Box
The Girl in Cell 49B Dorian Box
Happyish Jeanette Escudero
Last Christmas Maria Frankland
Finished: 2024/01/21Signing up for this as well.
Total: 46/46
An Author: Oscar Wilde 4/4
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✓A Listopia: The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written 5/5
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✓Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies: 3/3
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Jessica wrote: "please sign me up for 20. Shelves and books TBD!An Author:
Colleen Hoover 0/2
Lisa Jewell 0/2
James Patterson 0/2
A Genre:
Psychological Thriller: 0/3
Mystery: 0/3
Romantic Suspense 0/3
Book Length:
Greater than 400 0/3
Listopia:
Best books of the decade 2010s: 0/2
Updated msg #53Added shelves and changed my goal to 51! 😂
Okay, I'm going to take a shot at this. I haven't thought this out properly yet, but I think I'm going to choose 48 books. I like all the shelves and I am trying to expand my reading so I'll do 2 in each but I've expanded the shelves a littleTotal Read 40/48
*An Author
Author 1 Sarah J. Maas
✓1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
✓2. A Court of Frost and Starlight
Author 2 Jenny Han
✓1. It's Not Summer Without You
✓2. We'll Always Have Summer
*A Book Genre
Genre 1 - Fantasy
✓1. Belle Morte by Bella Higgin
✓ 2. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
Genre 2 Romance
✓1. Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
✓2. The Decoy Girlfriend by Lillie Vale
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
under 200
✓1. Phantom Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
✓2. Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert
500+
✓1. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
✓2. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
*Celebrations
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2.
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
✓1. By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
✓2. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
✓1. The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks
✓2. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
✓1. Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon
✓2. After Life by Melissa de la Cruz
*Film & Theater
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2.
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
✓1. Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks
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*Food & Beverage
✓1. Boards and Spreads: Shareable, Simple Arrangements for Every Meal by Yasmin Fahr
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*Heritage & Culture
✓1. The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
✓2. The Truth About Everything by Bridget Farr
*A Hobby or Pastime
✓1. Nordic Knits: 42 Beautiful Patterns to Knit and Keep You Cozy by Sue Flanders
✓2. Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders
*A Listopia
List 1 Popsugar 2022
✓1. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
✓2. Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie
List 2 Goodreads Choice Award Winners
✓1, A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
✓2, House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
*A Literary Award
✓1. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
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*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
✓1. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
✓2. Bad Republican by Meghan McCain
*Nature and the Environment
✓1. Small Game by Blair Braverman
✓2. None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive: A Novel by Carolyn Prusa
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
✓1. My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan
✓2. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
*Science & Technology
✓1. Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton
✓2. Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
✓1. Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
✓2. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
*Travel
✓1. City of Time and Magic by Paula Brackston
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Sign me up for 71 books71/71-COMPLETED
An Author-William Shakespeare-5/5
✅1)Othello(22/1/22)
✅2)King Lear(12/2/22)
✅3)Julius Caesar(24/1/22)
✅4)The Taming of the Shrew(26/1/22)
✅5)As You Like It(23/2/22)
A Book Genre-Romance-5/5
✅1)It Ends with Us(26/2/22)
✅2)Wish You Were Here(26/8/22)
✅3)People We Meet On Vacation(9/9/22)
✅4)The Holiday Swap(24/8/22)
✅5)The Fastest Way to Fall(8/11/22)
Book Length(Under 200 pages)-20/20
✅1)Fahrenheit 451(4/1/22)
✅2)The Postman Always Rings Twice(13/4/22)
✅3)Night(27/1/22)
✅4)Lord of the Flies(28/1/22)
✅5)The Pearl(29/1/22)
✅6)Letters to a Young Poet(4/1/22)
✅7)Daisy Miller(29/1/22)
✅8)The Member of the Wedding(29/1/22)
✅9)A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works(11/4/22)
✅10)Here is New York(17/3/22)
✅11)Lady Susan(4/1/22)
✅12)Dolly(30/1/22)
✅13)The Bookshop(30/1/22)
✅14)Heartburn(31/1/22)
✅15)Call for the Dead(31/1/22)
✅16)Shadow Of The Dragon(1/3/22)
✅17)Convenience Store Woman(3/3/22)
✅18)The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die(25/1/22)
✅19)The Library of Lost Things(4/1/22)
✅20)Lady Killer(4/3/22)
Celebrations-Prom-5/5
✅1)Prom & Prejudice(28/1/22)
✅2)Prom(7/3/22)
✅3)Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress(9/3/22)
✅4)Will Work for Prom Dress(16/3/22)
✅5)Prom Crashers(30/3/22)
A Listopia-Best Female Lead Characters-5/5
✅1)Rebecca(16/1/22)
✅2)Coraline(28/7/22)
✅3)Anna Karenina(31/8/22)
✅4)Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West(22/6/22)
✅5)The Lovely Bones(2/7/22)
A Literary Award-Women's Prize for Fiction Winners-26/26
✅1)A Spell of Winter(1996)(8/8/22)
✅2)Fugitive Pieces(1997)(24/10/22)
✅3)Larry’s Party(1998)(1/11/22)
✅4)A Crime in the Neighborhood(1999)(10/7/22)
✅5)When I Lived in Modern Times(2000)(11/7/22)
✅6)The Idea of Perfection(2001)(8/11/22)
✅7)Bel Canto(2002)(17/9/22)
✅8)Property(2003)(12/7/22)
✅9)Small Island(2004)(8/12/22)
✅10)We Need to Talk About Kevin(2005)(21/9/22)
✅11)On Beauty(2006)(22/7/22)
✅12)Half of a Yellow Sun(2007)(2/1/22)
✅13)The Road Home(2008)(25/9/22)
✅14)Home(2009)(14/8/22)
✅15)The Lacuna(2010)(4/11/22)
✅16)The Tiger's Wife(2011)(7/11/22)
✅17)The Song of Achilles(2012)(16/2/22)
✅18)May We Be Forgiven(2013)(5/10/22)
✅19)A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing(2014)(23/7/22)
✅20)How to Be Both(2015)(3/9/22)
✅21)The Glorious Heresies(2016)(1/9/22)
✅22)The Power(2017)(25/7/22)
✅23)Home Fire(2018)(21/7/22)
✅24)An American Marriage(2019)(3/1/22)
✅25)Hamnet(2020)(6/11/22)
✅26)Piranesi(2021)(14/7/22)
A Place-Fiction set in London-5/5
✅1)Trueman Bradley: The Next Great Detective(21/2/22)
✅2)The Case of Jack the Nipper(20/1/22)
✅3)Rivers of London(29/6/22)
✅4)Silent Fear(13/9/22)
✅5)The Case of the Wayward Fae ~ A Chronicle of Mister Marmee(9/10/22)
Please sign me up for 20 to start: 40 / 40 I have completed the revised challenge
A Book Genre: Mysteries:
1. A Cat Was Involved
2. The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
3. The Westing Game
4. Bridges Burned
5. The Man Who Died Twice
6. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
7. Murder in Steeple Martin
8. Cherringham - Cold Case: A Cosy Crime Series
9. The Consequences of Fear
10. The Dirty Book Murder: A Rare Book Mystery -- Volume I
11. The Book Club Murders
12. Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery
13. A Counterfeit Suitor
14. The Hollywood Spy
15. Death in a Blackout
Diversity (in most of its forms):
1. Diane Wilson: The Seed Keeper
2. Esi Edugyan: Washington Black
3. Graham Norton: A Keeper, mys
4. James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
5. Louise Erdrich: The Sentence
6. Marcie Rendon: Murder on the Red River, mys
7. Nicola Upson: Nine Lessons, mys
8. Nicola Yoon: Instructions for Dancing
9. Hiromi Kawakami: The Nakano Thrift Shop
10. Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀: Stay with Me
11. Goodbye Tsugumi: Banana Yoshimoto
12. Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
13. The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk
14. Bluebird, Bluebird, mys/award
15. The Secrets of Winter, mys
16. Clark and Division, mys
17. American Spy, mys
18. Yo!
19. The Unquiet Dead, mys/award
20. The Laughing Policeman, mys/award
A Literary Award:
1. The Midnight Library
2. Elizabeth Is Missing, mys
3. The Nickel Boys
4. The Gauguin Connection, mys
5. The Mad Women's Ball, div
I will do 21 books.7/21
Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, Biographies
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3. Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
Book Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
1. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
2. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
3.
Heritage & Culture: Russia
1.
2. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor
3. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
A Feeling: Grief
1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
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3. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Book Length: 500+ pages
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2. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
3. Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
Place: Mediterranean Countries
1. Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid (Croatia)
2. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Spain)
3. Still Life by Sarah Winman (Italy)
Travel: Books About Traveling
1. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
2. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
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Count me in for 25An Author - Cora Harrison
1.) Eye of the Law
2.) Scales of Retribution
3.) Laws in Conflict
4.) Deed of Murder
5.) Chain of Evidence
A Book Genre - Historical Fiction
1.) The Last Grand Duchess by Bryn Turnbull
2.) The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
3.) Disappearance of a Scribe by Dana Stabenow
4.) An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn
5.) The Tsarina's Daughter by Ellen Alpsten
Book Length - Under 500 pages
1.) The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee(374 pgs)
2.) The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel (432 pgs)
3.) Archive 17 by Sam Eastland (262 pgs)
4.)Secret Mischief by Robin Blake (256 pgs)
5.) The Red Moth by Sam Eastland (380 pgs)
A Place- Big Cities
1.) The Royal Secret by Andrew Taylor(London)
2.) Berlin Red by Sam Eastland (Berlin)
3.) The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk (Toronto)
4.) A Most Clever Girl by Stephanie Marie Thornton (New York)
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Travel - Bucket List Destinations
1.) Verdict of the Court by Cora Harrison (Ireland)
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My goal is 32 books.Progress: 23/32
*An Author: Jim Butcher 4/4
Cold Days
Skin Game
Peace Talks
Battle Ground
*An Author: Brandon Sanderson 1/3
The Alloy of Law
*An Author: Ilona Andrews 6/5
Magic Tests
Magic Breaks
Magic Shifts
Magic Stars
Magic Binds
Magic Triumphs
*A Listopia: 2021: What WOMEN Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far 4/5
1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
3. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
4. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
*A Listopia: PBS's Great American Read: List of America's Top 100 Books 0/5
*A Literary Award: Newbery Medal Winners 8/10
1. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
2. The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
3. Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
4. When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
5. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
6. Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
7. The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
8. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Bookworms Take Shelfies: UpdateEveryone who's recently signed up has been added to the BOOK LARVAE roster.
I will try to check this thread once a week until the end of the month.
Once we enter January, I'll do my best to update your progress twice a month, around the 1st and 16th of each month.
Happy planning!
P.S. Please post in this thread or message me if I mistyped your name. I'm very prone to typos. *coughs
Bookworms Take Shelfies, message #70Goal: 25/25, 100.00%
An Author: Rachel Ingalls - 5/5
01. Days Like Today - 07 Jan 2022, 4/5
02. The Man Who Was Left Behind and Other Stories - 05 Feb 2022, 4/5
03. Binstead's Safari - 22 Jun 2022, 5/5
04. Early Morning Sightseer - 06 Jul 2022, 4/5
05. Theft - 06 Jul 2022, 3/5
Film & Theater - 5/5
01. The Razor's Edge - 15 Jan 2022, 4/5
02. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) - 17 Jan 2022, 3/5
03. Aniara - 10 Feb 2022, 3/5
04. The Sun Also Rises - 16 Mar 2022, 4/5
05. Another - 17 May 2022, 3/5
Friendship, Love, and Marriage - 5/5
01. Outlander (Outlander, #1) - 31 Jan 2022, 1/5
02. Cyrano de Bergerac - 12 Feb 2022, 4/5
03. Summer - 23 Feb 2022, 3/5
04. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4) - 29 May 2022, 4/5
05. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories - 18 Jun 2022, 2/5
Book Length: 500+ pages - 4/4
01. The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) - 12 Mar 2022, 4/5
02. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) - 26 Mar 2022, 3/5
03. Uzumaki - 28 Mar 2022, 5/5
04. Creation - 05 Jul 2022, 4/5
A Book Genre: Nonfiction - 3/3
01. The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions - 27 Apr 2022, 4/5
02. Wildlife of Ecuador: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians - 14 Jun 2022, 4/5
03. Popol Vuh - 12 Jul 2022, 4/5
A Literary Award: Choice Awards - 3/3
01. Broken (in the best possible way) - 31 May 2022, 3/5
02. Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) - 17 Jun 2022, 4/5
03. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet - 07 Jul 2022, 3/5
BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIESDuration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
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✰An Author: Stuart Kaminsky 5/5
1. Rostnikov's Vacation by Stuart M. Kaminsky, 8 Jan 2022
2. Hard Currency by Stuart M. Kaminsky, 1 Mar 2022
3. Tarnished Icons by Stuart M. Kaminsky, 6 Apr 2022
4. A Fine Red Rain by Stuart M. Kaminsky, 7 Apr 2022
5. Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express by Stuart M. Kaminsky, 11 Jun 2022
✰A Book Genre: Classic 6/6
6. The Third Man by Graham Greene, 1 Jan 2021
7. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, 18 Jan 2022
8. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, 6 Jan 2022
9. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, 25 Jan 2022
10. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith, 8 Feb 2022
11. Off On A Comet by Jules Verne, 21 Feb 2022
✰Book Length: Chunkster 500+ 10/10
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, 3 Jan 2022
13. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, 9 Jan 2022
14. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan, 12 Jan 2022
15. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, 20 Jan 2022
16. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 24 Jan 2022
17. The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, 30 Jan 2022
18. The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan, 14 Feb 2022
19. Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan, 27 Feb 2022
20. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 3 Mar 2022
21. Adam Bede by George Eliot, 9 Apr 2022
✰ Friendship, Love, and Marriage: Chick Lit from YMRT 2/2
22. Just One Day by Gayle Forman, 10 May 2022
23. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, 12 May 2022
✰ Food & Beverage: Healthy Eating 2/2
24. It Starts with Food by Dallas Hartwig and Melissa Hartwig Urban, 21 Jan 2022
25. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan, 28 Dec 2022
✰ A Listopia: Fantasy That Isn't Fantastic Straight White Men Doing Epic Things 4/6
26. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale, 10 Sep 2022
27. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
28. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, 13 Jul 2022
29. Uprooted by Naomi Novik, 21 Jul 2022
30. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, 9 Sep 2022
31. The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley, 4 Sep 2022
✰ A Literary Award: Newbery Winners 10/10
32. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, 15 Feb 2022
33. Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, 19 Feb 2022
34. Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 4 Mar 2022
35. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos, 5 Mar 2022
36. Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena, 8 Mar 2022
37. Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark, 10 Mar 2022
38. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman, 11 Mar 2022
39. The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth, 12 Mar 2022
40. The High King by Lloyd Alexander, 14 Mar 2022
41. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, 15 Mar 2022
✰ Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies 5/5
42. James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney, 26 Jan 2022
43. The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics by William J. Cooper Jr., 7 Feb 2022
44. James Monroe: A Republican Champion by Brook Poston, 20 May 2022
45. Lou's on First by Chris Costello, 3 Jun 2022
46. Lion of Liberty: The Life and Times of Patrick Henry by Harlow Giles Unger, 12 Jul 2022
✰ Nature and the Environment: Environment, Ecology and Climate Change 3/3
47. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 7 Mar 2022
48. How to Think Seriously about the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism by Roger Scruton, 13 Apr 2022
49. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart, 5 Jul 2022
✰ A Place: Finishing 50 States, 1 each from Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Vermont, West Virginia 7/7
50. The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars, 6 Mar 2022, West Virginia
51. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 15 Mar 2022, Vermont
52. Murder in C Major by Sara Hoskinson Frommer, 18 Mar 2022, Indiana
53. Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina, 27 Jun 2022, Florida
54. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, 3 Jun 2022, New Jersey
55. Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident by William McKeown, 25 Jun 2022, Idaho
56. Event by David L. Golemon, 22 Jul 2022, Nevada
✰ Science & Technology: Nonfiction Science 6/6
57. Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson, 3 Feb 2022
58. Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui, 10 Apr 2022
59. Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World by Alexandra Witze, 30 May 2022
60. You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future by Jonathan Keats, 4 Jul 2022
61. When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky by Erik Asphaug, 18 Jul 2022
62. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker, 9 Aug 2022
63. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews, 21 Sep 2022
✰ A Time: Time Related Title Word 3/3
64. The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf, 17 Feb 2022
65. The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation by Joe Urschel, 11 Apr 2022
66. The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin, 13 Apr 2022
✰ Travel: Books set in Asia or Africa 4/4
67. Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan, 11 Jan 2022
68. Return to Me by Lynn Austin, 2 Feb 2022
69. A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong, 16 Feb 2022
70. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, 5 Mar 2022
BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIESDuration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
books (but not graphic novels): 36/100 (hopefully!)
graphic novels: 26/100 (not that I consider them to be different, but since I read so many, I simply wanted to compare!)
✰An Author (Madeleine L'Engle): 0/3
1. A Circle of Quiet
2. The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
3. Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
✰A Book Genre: Experimental Literary Fiction 2/5
1. Steer Toward Rock
2. To the Lighthouse
3. A Wild Sheep Chase or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
✔4. I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud (3/27)
✔5. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (1/1)
✰A Book Genre: Graphic Novels in series 18/21
✔1. Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan (2/17)
✔2. Saga, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan (2/20)
✔3. Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan (2/21)
✔4. Saga, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan (3/8)
✔5. Saga, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan (3/8)
✔6. Saga, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan (3/9)
✔7. Saga, Volume 7 by Brian K. Vaughan (3/10)
✔8. Saga, Volume 8 by Brian K. Vaughan (3/15)
✔9. Saga, Volume 9 by Brian K. Vaughan (3/15)
10. Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin
✔11. Drama by Raina Telgemeier (3/14)
✔12. Reckless by Ed Brubaker (4/5)
✔13. Friend of the Devil by Ed Brubaker (4/12)
✔14. Destroy All Monsters by Ed Brubaker (4/14)
15. The Ghost in You by Ed Brubaker
16. Follow Me Down by Ed Brubaker
✔17.Inside Mari, Vol. 1 by Shūzō Oshimi (5/20)
✔18. Inside Mari, Vol. 2 by Shūzō Oshimi (5/26)
✔19. Inside Mari 3 by Shūzō Oshimi (5/28)
✔20.Inside Mari Volume 4 by Shūzō Oshimi (5/29)
✔21.Inside Mari, Volume 5 by Shūzō Oshimi (5/29)
✰Book Length: 500+ 1/5
1. Einstein: His Life and Universe or 4. A Little Life
2. Memories of Ice
3. The Mists of Avalon
✔4. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson (1/19)
5. The Toll Neal Shusterman
✰Book Length: <200 1/4
1. Giovanni's Room
2. The Buddha in the Attic
3. The Time Is Now
✔4. Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt (2/14)
✰Celebrations (of resilience and hope): 3/5
1. The Incredible Journey or The Little Prince/Le Petit Prince
✔2. The Travelling Cat Chronicles Hiro Arikawa (5/23)
✔3. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (4/4)
✔4. Catherine's War by Julia Billet (3/24)
5. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
✰Diversity (OwnVoice): 6/8
✔1. Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José Older (1/6)
✔2. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2/12)
✔3. Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner (5/4)
4. Mexican Gothic or Pachinko
5. Light from Uncommon Stars
✔6. Ghost World Daniel Clowes (6/29)
✔7.Music Is History by Ahmir Questlove Thompson (5/7)
✔8.The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp (4/27)
✰Friendship, Love, and Marriage: 11/11
✔1. The Bride Test Helen Hoang (5/16)
✔2. 40-Love by Olivia Dade (4/24)
✔3. The Heart Principle Helen Hoang (5/18)
✔4. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (1/6)
✔5. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt (4/18)
✔6. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (5/15)
✔7. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (1/22)
✔8.Landline by Rainbow Rowell (2/22)
✔9.Some Kind of HeroSuzanne Brockmann (2/9)
✔10.The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (2/17)
✔11. Himawari House by Harmony Becker (3/14)
✰A Feeling (grief/fear): 1/5
1. A Lesson Before Dying or The Great Alone
2. The Memory Police
3. Gilgamesh by Joan London
4. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
✔5.Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
✰Film & Theater (I'm including books made into film): 2/6
1. Atonement or The Remains of the Day
2. Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
3. Everything Is Illuminated or It's Kind of a Funny Story
4. All's Well by Mona Awad (not made into a film ... yet?)
✔5. Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (4/1)
✔6. All the Feels by Olivia Dade (4/3)
✰A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts: Woven Art): 0/3
1. The Art of Tapestry Weaving: A Complete Guide to Mastering the Techniques for Making Images with Yarn
2. Weaving on a Little Loom
3. The Weaving Explorer: Ingenious Techniques, Accessible Tools & Creative Projects with Yarn, Paper, Wire & More
✰Food & Beverage: 0/4
1. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
2. More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
3. Taste: My Life through Food
4. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
✰Heritage & Culture (books on New England): 1/4
1. Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts
✔2. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault (3/7)
3. The History Of Hadley, Massachusetts
4. Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
✰Heritage & Culture (books on ethical issues): 0/4
1. Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
3. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
4. The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community
✰A Hobby or Pastime (books about books and/or reading): 3/10
✔1. Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks (6/10)
2. The Paris Library
✔3. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray (2/1)
4. The Book of Lost Names
5. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
6. The Vixen by Francine Prose
✔7. Broken Resolutions by Olivia Dade (4/4)
8. Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week
9. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
10. The Plot Jean Hanff Korelitz
✰A Listopia (What Women Born in the 1960s Have Read So Far): 2/6
✔1. The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett (6/9)
✔2. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (2/15)
3. The Underground Railroad
4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
5. Piranesi
6. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
✰A Literary Award (National Book finalists): 0/4
1. Last Night at the Telegraph Club
2. Trust Exercise
3. The Underground Railroad
4. The Impossible Knife of Memory
✰Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies: 1/7
1. Joys and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals or Blood Memory
2. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living Nick Offerman
3. Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933
✔4. Stitches David Small (6/29)
5. Going There by Katie Couric
6. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
7. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
✰Nature and the Environment: 0/3
1. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
2. Desert Solitaire
3. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
✰A Place (Appalachia): 1/3
1. a book by Sharyn McCrumb
2. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
✔3. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (2/1)
✰Science & Technology: 2/4
1. The Only Woman in the Room or Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
✔2. Stuck with You Ali Hazelwood (5/27)
✔3. Under One Roof Ali Hazelwood (6/14)
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
✰A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future): 3/6
1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
2. Year of Wonders
3. The Irrational Season
✔4. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
✔5. Mayday Olivia Dade (5/18)
✔6. This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World (5/10)
✰Travel: 4/6
1. The Salt Path or The Beekeeper of Aleppo
✔2. The Laughter of Dead Kings Elizabeth Peters (6/11)
✔3. Below Zero Ali Hazelwood
✔4. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
✔5. The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (2/7)
6. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre
BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIESSign me up for total 35.
Progress: 0/35
A Book Genre (Suspense/Thriller): 0/4
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I'll try 15. Not sure which of the following I'll use.*An Author
*A Book Genre
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
0/20 books ---- 0/5 shelvesLeigh/ Elliot series
1. Hidden ( Kendra Elliot)
2. Midnight Exposure ( Melinda Leigh)
3. Cross Her Heart( ML)
4. Close to the bone( KE)
Listopia- I only watched the movie
1. Legally Blonde
2. Fried Green Tomatoes
3. Atonement
Fairy tale retellings
1. Heartless
2. Alice in Zombieland
3. Reflection
4. Mad as a Hatter #1
5. The Wickeds
6. Cold - Hearted
Fave authors
1. Part of Your World ( Abby Jimenez)
2. Josh and Hazels Guide to Not Dating (Christina Lauren )
3. Love her or lose her ( Tessa Bailey )
4. November 9 or Ugly Love ( Colleen Hoover)
400 + pages
1. 436 p. You Had Me at Hello
2. 416 p. Always in December
3. 400 p. Hook, Line and Sinker
I'm in!6/15
A Book Genre: Mystery
1. Cold Cold Heart
2. Where the Crawdads Sing
3. All Good People Here
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A Feeling: Grief
1.Food and Loathing: A Lament
2. Little Fires Everywhere
3. Fairy Tale
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I'm in with a goal of 40 books.Progress: 8 / 40
*An Author
*A Book Genre
Genre: Fairytale Retellings
1, Princess of Shadows by A.G. Marshall
2. Princess of Secrets by A.G. Marshall
3. Princess of Mermaids by A.G. Marshall
Genre: Historical Romance
1. Once Upon a Devilishly Enchanting Kiss by Bree Wolf
2. Once Upon a Temptingly Ruinous Kiss by Bree Wolf
3. Once Upon an Irritatingly Magical Kiss by Bree Wolf
4. Once Upon a Devastatingly Sweet Kiss by Bree Wolf
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
Short Books and Novellas Under 200 pg
Long Books Over 500 pg
1,Princess of Roses: Beauty and the Beast Retold by A.G. Marshall
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
Songwriting
*Food & Beverage
Cooking
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
Shoemaking
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
*Science & Technology
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
Medieval Scotland
*Travel
Welcome to our latest sign-ups for Bookworms Take Shelfies!Everyone who's signed up in the past week has been added to the Book Larvae roster in Post #2 of Page 1.
Bookworms Take Shelfies Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
This sounds fun! Please sign me up for 4 books to start.
Goal: 4 ; Progress: 0/4
An Author
Lisa Kleypas
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Dresses to Die For!-https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
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Please sign me up for 60 to start. Thank you!Progress: 40/60
Diversity: The Zora Canon 12/12
1928 Quicksand
1959 A Raisin in the Sun
1968 The House of Dies Drear
1976 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1982 Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
1984 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
1992 Waiting to Exhale
1993 Parable of the Sower
1998 Parable of the Talents
2010 The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
2011 Salvage the Bones
2019 Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
A Hobby or pastime: Gardening - 3/3
1. Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
2. Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World
3. Planting: A New Perspective
A Listopia: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - 13/30
1812 England/Ireland: The Absentee
1856 France: Madame Bovary
1928 US/Denmark: Quicksand
1917 US: Summer
1929 Italy: A Farewell to Arms
1950 Malaysia, Australia: A Town Like Alice
1950 US: I, Robot
1957 Egypt: Justine
1958 England: The Once and Future King
1962 Mexico: The Death of Artemio Cruz
1973 Botswana: A Question of Power
1974 England: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
1979 South Africa: A Dry White Season
A Place: Midwest US - 0/3
A Time: 20th Century England - 12/12
Read the 12-volume A Dance To The Music of Time
1. 1951 A Question of Upbringing
2. 1952 A Buyer's Market
3. 1955 The Acceptance World
4. 1957 At Lady Molly's
5. 1960 Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
6. 1962 The Kindly Ones
7. 1964 The Valley of Bones
8. 1966 The Soldier's Art
9. 1968 The Military Philosophers
10. 1971 Books Do Furnish a Room
11. 1973 Temporary Kings
12. 1975 Hearing Secret Harmonies
I would like to start with 10 books.Food and Beverage
Genre- Nonfiction
Heritage and Culture
0/10
Let's try this:Author: Ian Douglas 3/4 books
Earth Strike
Center of Gravity
Singularity
Author: Sharon Kay Penman 2 books
Author: Karen Marie Moning 2/2 books
Burned
Beyond the Highland Mist
Author: Robert Crais 1/2 books
The First Rule
Genre: War Stories 2/5 books
Rakóssy
Tango Uniform
Gemre: Science Fiction 3/5 books
Blasphemy
The End of All Things
War Dogs
Genre: Mystery 5/5 books:
The Bone Collector
Summer Knight
The Cat Who Went into the Closet
Watchmen
Two Kinds of Truth
Length 500+ pages: 5/5 books
Born of Silence
Mission of Honor
The Book Thief
Night Fall
Die Trying
Total 21/30 books
I`lll edit later 0/24*An Author
*A Book Genre
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
*Heritage & Culture
*A Hobby or Pastime
*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
*Science & Technology
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel
Updated message #15. I have adjusted my goal to 40 books for the year.
Hi, oshizu! I got my shelfies and books organized and added my planned reads to message #48. I also increased my goal to 65.
Hi oshizu, pls sign me up for 60 (3 per shelf).Gonna use multiple Listopias :).
BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES (Listopia) - Goal: 60 (3 per shelf)
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
1. An Author (Brandon Sanderson)
2. A Book Genre (Magic Realism)
3. Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
A Thousand Mornings
4. Celebrations
5. Diversity (in any of its forms)
Das asexuelle Spektrum: Eine Erkundungstour
6. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
On Mystic Lake
7. A Feeling (grief)
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Grief Cottage
8. Film & Theater
9. A Fine Art (painting)
Dear Theo
10. Food & Beverage
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Table Talk
The Ivy: The Restaurant & the Recipes
Breakfast at the Wolseley: Recipes from London's Favorite Restaurant
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story
11. Heritage & Culture
12. A Hobby or Pastime (running)
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
Night Running: A Book of Essays About Breaking Through
13. A Listopia
14. A Literary Award (EUPL-European Union Prize for Literature)
The Spinning Heart
15. Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
Pour Me: A Life
Living to Tell the Tale
'Als wäre alles das letzte Mal'. Erich Maria Remarque. Eine Biographie.
16. Nature and the Environment
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
17. A Place (USA)
18. Science & Technology
19. A Time (autumn)
20. Travel
I'm going to use this for the Listopia challenge, which is my fave every year :)LIST ONE: Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
At the end of 2021: 43/100
1. Pandora's Star
2. The Passage
3. Embassytown
LIST TWO: Must Read Classics
At the end of 2021: 69/100
1. The Three Musketeers
2. Hamlet
3. Northanger Abbey
LIST THREE: Popsugar 2022 #9 - A Book about a "Found Family"
At the end of 2021: 34/100
1. Kings of the Wyld
2. The Marrow Thieves
3. Wild Magic
LIST FOUR: Placeholder for the Hugo 2023 Eligible Novels list
At the end of 2021: 0/100
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Signing up for 20*An Author - Lois McMaster Bujold - 4/4
*A Book Genre - Dark Academia - 4/4
*A Listopia - Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror - 4/4
*A Literary Award - World Fantasy Award - 4/4
*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies - 4/4
Welcome to the new arrivals for Bookworms Take Shelfies!Everyone who's signed up has been added to the Book Larvae roster.
And if you've requested a goal adjustment, I've taken care of that as well.
Best wishes to you all for a fabulous reading year in 2022.
My next full update will be next year. :)
I want to participate with a low goal of 10 books in 5 categories. Hopefully I will be able to increase the number later, but just try to start low.Progress: 10/10
*A Book Genre: Family-centered Fiction
Die Töchter des Roten Flusses
Die Sturmschwester
*Book Length (400+ pages)
King of Scars
The Nightingale Girls
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
Save Me
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
-Books with narratives in two different timelines
The Wise Man's Fear
Die Schattenschwester
*Travel
Dark Matter
Feuer Und Stein: Eine Liebe In Den Highlands
Please put me on the list for 30 books, shelves TBD later.Thank you
I am so in for this oneAuthor - Jeffrey Archer (0/3)
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Book length - more than 500 pages (0/3)
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Memoirs, auto-biographies and biographies (0/3)
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I am going to try for 30 books.Goal 20/30
Book Length 500+ pgs (4/5)
Shadow of Night 584 pp
Strange the Dreamer 536 pp
The Eye of the World 759 pp
Things We Never Got Over 570 pp
Genre: Children's Historical Fiction (1/5)
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Genre Poetry (3/3)
Call Us What We Carry
Inward
The Blank Page
Genre Non-fiction (7/7)
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type
How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
The Highly Sensitive Person
Listopia Picture Books of 2021 (0/5)
A Place- London 5/5
The Heiress Gets a Duke
To Have and to Hoax
The Party Crasher
The Devil and the Heiress
Impact Winter
I love the idea of this challenge! I'm here for 4 shelves:- a genre : science-fiction
- a genre : fantasy
- an author (not decided yet)
- Books of more than 500 pages
I'll try for 2 books for each shelf, for a total of 8 books.
Update message 96 : 1/8I've begun the year by finishing a novella I started forever ago! Finally, I finished All Systems Red by Martha Wells, for the science-fiction shelf.
I will try for 20 books in this challenge.An Author - Stephen King
1. FINISHED. Later
2. FINISHED. Billy Summers
3. FINISHED. The Outsider
A Book Genre - Historical Fiction
1. FINISHED. The Paris Seamstress. Natasha Lester
2. FINISHED. Hamnet. Maggie O'Farrell
3. FINISHED. The Dictionary of Lost Words. Pip Williams
4. FINISHED. The Sisters Sweet. Elizabeth Weiss
5. Last Days of Summer. Steve Kluger
Food & Beverage - Anything With Food or Drink in the Title or on the Cover
1. FINISHED. Frying Plantain. Zalika Reid-Benta
2. FINISHED. I Wanted Fries with That: How to Ask for What You Want and Get What You Need. Amy Fish
3. FINISHED. Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Toshikazu Kawaguchi
A Listopia - Goodreads Choice Awards 2020: Eligible for Write-In Only
1. FINISHED. Last Flight. Julie Clark
2. FINISHED. The Exiles Christina Baker Kline
3. FINISHED. The Giver of Stars. Jojo Moyes
4. FINISHED. Oona Out of Order. Margarita Montimore
A Literary Award
1. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Michael Chabon
2. The Gods of Gotham. Lyndsay Faye
Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
1. FINISHED. Barnum: An American Life. Robert Wilson
2. FINISHED. Greenlight. Matthew McConaughey
3. FINISHED. The Storyteller. Dave Grohl
17/20
I’d love to join in this challenge.An author - Robin Hobb
A genre - Sci Fi/Fantasy and Classics
Book Length - under 200 and over 500
Total number of books - 50 - increased to 75 on 21/08/22
Robin Hobb
1) The Dragon Keeper
2) Dragon Haven
3) City Of Dragons
4) Blood Of Dragons
5) Fool’s Assassin
6) Fool’s Quest
7) Assassin’s Fate
8) Shaman’s Crossing
9) Forest Mage
10) Renegade’s Magic
SciFi/Fantasy
1) Greenwitch - Susan Cooper
2) The Grey King - Susan Cooper
3) Silver On The Tree - Susan Cooper
4) The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
5) Chain of Gold- Cassandra Clare
6) Sword Of Destiny- Andrzej Sapkowski
7) Chain of Iron- Cassandra Clare
8) Blood Of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski
9) Pyramids- Terry Pratchett
10) Time of Contempt -Andrzej Sapkowski
11) Guards, Guards -Terry Pratchett
12) The Last Graduate- Naomi Novik
13) The Girl With All The Gifts - M R Carey
14) Eric - Terry Pratchett
15) Kindred - Octavia Butler
16) Doors of Eden - Adrian Tchaikovsky
17) Bear Head - Adrian Tchaikovsky
18) The Eye Of The World- Robert Jordan - reread
19) Foundation- Isaac Asimov
20) The Dragon Reborn- Robert Jordan
21) The Sea Of Tranquility- Emily St John Mandel
22) Shards Of Honor - Lois Mcmaster Bujold
23) Barrayar- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
24) Firethorn -Sarah Micklem
25) The Warrior’s Apprentice- Lois McMaster Bujold
26) The Vor Game- Lois McMaster Bujold
27) A Wizard Of Earthsea- Ursula Le Guin
28) The Folk Of The Air Trilogy- Holly Black
29) Cetaganda - Lois McMaster Bujold
30) The Tombs Of Atuan - Ursula Le Guin
31) The Bees - Laline Paull
32) The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin
33) Tehanu - Ursula Le Guin
34) Tales From Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
35) Never Let Me Ho - Kazuo Ishiguro
36) The Other Wind - Ursula Le Guin
37) The Shadow Rising Robert Jordan
38) Shadow At Night - Deborah Harkness
39) The Book Of Life - Deborah Harkness
40) Rivers Of London -Ben Aaronovitch
41) The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
42) Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
43) The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
44) Neuromancer - William Gibson
45) Throne Of Glass - Sarah J Maas
46) Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - Jules Verne
47) Strangers In A Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
48) An Unkindness Of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
49) Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
50) The Assassin’s Blade - Sarah J Maas
51) Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky
52) Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold
53) Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
54) The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean
55) Borders of Infinity- Lois McMaster Bujold
56) Weaveworld - Clive Barker
57) The Mask Falling - Samantha Shannon
58) Baptism of Fire - Andrew Sapkowski
59) Brothers in Arms - Lois McMaster Bujold
60) Witches Abroad- Terry Pratchett
61) Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
62) Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
63) The Doll’s House - Neil Gaiman
64) Mirror Dance- Lois McMaster Bujold
65) The Tower of the Swallow - Andrej Sapkowski
66) Cage of Souls- Adrian Tchaikovsky
67) Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
68) Memory - Lois McMaster Bujold
69) The Immune - David Kazzie
70) The Living - David Kazzie
71) Komarr - Lois McMaster Bujold
72) Crown of Midnight- Sarah J Maas
73) The Hobbit- J R R Tolkien
74) Season of Mists - Neil Gaiman
75) Children of Time- Adrian Tchaikovsky
76) A Civil Campaign- Lois McMaster Bujold
77) Winterfair Gifts - Lois McMaster Bujold
78) Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
79) Diplomatic Immunity - Lois McMaster Bujold
80) Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance- Lois McMaster Bujold
81) The Flowers of Vashnoi - Lois McMaster Bujold
82) Cryoburn - Lois McMaster Bujold
83) Heir Of Fire - Sarah J Maas
84) Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen - Lois McMaster Bujold
85) Lady Of The Lake - Andrew Sapkowski
86) House Of Earth And Blood
Classics
1) Passing - Nella Larsen
2) Thank You Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
3) Right Ho Jeeves- P G Wodehouse
4) Hard Times - Charles Dickens
5) Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
6) All Quiet On The Westen Front - Erich Maria Remarque
7) Beowulf
8) The Epic of Gilgamesh
9) Enbury Heath - Stella Gibbons
Under 200 pages
1) The Dawn Chorus - Samantha Shannon (78 pages)
2) The Midnight Heir - Cassandra Clare (64 pages)
3) A Ration Book Christmas Broadcast - Jean Fullerton (131 pages)
4) The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz - L Frank Baum (137 pages)
5) A Bad Beginning - Lemony Snickett (178 pages)
Over 500 pages
1) The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (512 pages)
2) Written In My Own Heart’s Blood- Diana Gabaldon (842 pages)
3) The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan (700 pages)
4) Go Teell The Bees That I Am Gone - Diana Gabaldon (900 pages)
5) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (619 pages - kindle info)
6) She Who Remembers - Linda Lay Schuler (516)
7) Voice Of The Eagle - Linda Lay Schuler (723)
8) Let The Drum Speak - Linda Lay Schuler (608)
9) All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (552)
10) Sarum - Edward Rutherford (913)
11) Katharine Of Aragon - Alison Weir (624)
12) Anne Boleyn - Alison Weir (544)
13) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy (2101)
Total 123 books
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Diversity: LGBTQ+ books 5/5
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