Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022

[=MYSTIQUE=]

Updated message #37

Progress: 1/50

An Author
Leta Blake
✔️1. Mr. Jingle Bells 1/2/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[[deleted user]]

I'm in for 40 books - 18/40

The 20 shelf themes are:

*An Author
Sarah J. Maas
1. Tower of Dawn 02/01
2.Kingdom of Ash 06/01

*A Book Genre
Mystery
1. Every Reasonable Doubt by Pamela Samuels Young 07/01
2. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 08/01


*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
300-400 pages
Above the Bay of Angels by Rhys Bowen 08/01
Fall of Angels by Barbara Cleverly 09/01


*Celebrations
Birthdays
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton 11/01 - (view spoiler)[The family is gathering at Greenacres farm for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday.. (hide spoiler)]
The Dilemma by B.A. Paris 31/01

*Diversity (in any of its forms)
Sexual orientation - Lesbian

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers 22/01

*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)


*Film & Theater
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 15/01

*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)


*Food & Beverage
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver 19/01

*Heritage & Culture

*A Hobby or Pastime
Gardening - The White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf by Stephanie Barron 23/01


*A Listopia
2019: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2019 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 15/01


*A Literary Award
CWA New Blood Dagger Winners
Still Life by Louise Penny 11/01
Nero Award
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver 14/01


*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren 14/01
*Nature and the Environment

*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
South America - The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes 13/01
*Science & Technology

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 20/01
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
*Travel

[Jenn]

0/75

Author
Allyson K. Abbott
1. Shots in the Dark 2/17/22
2.A Toast to Murder 2/18/22
3.Last Call 2/20/22

Netgalley under 200 pages
4. Pagan Portals - Fairy Queens: Meeting the Queens of the Otherworld
5. Pagan Portals - Raven Goddess: Going Deeper with the Morrigan
6. Pagan Portals - Gods and Goddesses of Wales: A Practical Introduction To Welsh Deities And Their Stories
7.Pagan Portals - Odin: Meeting the Norse Allfather
8. The Spirit of Botany: Aromatic Recipes and Rituals
9. The Illustrated Bestiary: Guidance and Rituals from 36 Inspiring Animals
10. Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body

Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
11.Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
12. Girl in a Band
13. Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders 2/2/22
14. I Hate Everyone, Except You 2/13/22
15. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark 2/13/2022
16. Detectives Don't Wear Seat Belts: True Adventures of a Female P.I.

[Sarah]

Message 63 Updated

Progress: 2/71

[Amy]

Updated message 26-- 1/30
Nonfiction-- 1/6-- Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul

[Sarah]

Message 71 Updated

Progress: 6/71

[Tracey]

Sign me up for 40!

An Author:
Anne Rice

The Mummy
The Passion of Cleopatra
The Reign of Osiris

A Book Genre:
Historical Fiction

The Lobotomist's Wife
The Shadow of the Wind

Book Length 500+ pages


*Celebrations

*Diversity (in any of its forms)

Friendship:

Impossible To Forget

A feeling: Grief

The Intangible ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

*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:

China

*Science & Technology

*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)

*Travel

[=MYSTIQUE=]

Updated message #37

Progress: 2/50

An Author
Leta Blake
✔️2. Any Given Lifetime 1/3/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Beverly]

Updated message #15: 1/40

[oshizu]

Welcome newcomers to Bookworms Take Shelfies!
You have all been added to the Book Larvae roster.

Those of who have already updated their progress to one or more books read have been moved to the Bookworms roster.

After today, I will be updating the rosters on a regular schedule, around the 16th and 1st of every month.
If you have an urgent question, please don't hesitate to message me.

[Ashleigh]

Update to #8

1/15

1/6 for Genre - Fantasy

Fearless Magic

[Lindsey]

Goal - 86

An Author - Stephen King
1.It
2.Carrie
3.Pet Sematary
4.The Green Mile
A Book Genre - Fantasy
1.The Night Circus
2.American Gods
3.A Court of Mist and Fury
4.The Gunslinger
Book Length ( 500+ pages)
1.11/22/63
2.The Stand
3. The Evening and the Morning
4.The Pillars of the Earth
Celebrations
1. Christmas - Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas
2.Halloween - Doctor Who: Tales of Terror
3.My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
4.Halloween - Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel
Diversity (in any of its forms)
1. The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
2.Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas
3.Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
4. Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World
Friendship, Love, and Marriage
1.Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story
2.My Best Friend's Exorcism / Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge Exclusive Chaplet
3.Better Off Friends
4.
A Feeling (love)
1. Love, Lies and Spies
2.Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations
3.Sit, Stay, Love
4.I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me
5. Falling in Love with English Boys
6. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Film & Theater
1.Rent
2.In the Heights: Finding Home
3.Hamilton: The Revolution
4.Four Great Plays: A Doll's House/The Wild Duck/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
5. Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History
6. Wicked: The Grimmerie
A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
1.Renegades: Born in the USA
2.The Music of Silence - New Edition
3.
4.
Food & Beverage
1.The Summer of Cotton Candy
2.The Spring of Candy Apples
3.The Fall of Candy Corn
4.The Winter of Candy Canes
A Listopia - Peter Pan Retellings
1.Tiger Lily
2.Stars
3.Nora & Kettle
4.Peter Darling
A Listopia - Best Retellings of Beauty and the Beast
1.A Court of Thorns and Roses
2.Scarlet
3.Bellamy and The Brute
4.
A Listopia - Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
1.Cinder
2.Gone
3.The Graveyard Book
4.Shatter Me
A Literary Award - National Book Awards
1. 2014 - Redeployment
2. 2021 - Hell of a Book
3. 2018 - The Poet X
4.
Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
1.Will
2.I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir
3.Coming Up for Air: What I Learned from Sport, Fame and Fatherhood
4.Deaf Utopia: A Memoir - And a Love Letter to a Way of Life
5. The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
6. Forever Young
Nature and the Environment
1. The Disney Conservation Fund: Carrying Forward a Conservation Legacy
2.The Bond: An Excerpt with Fifty Ways to Help Animals
3.
4.
A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
1.Penny in London
2. Meet Me in London
3.A Magical New York Christmas: A Novel
4.The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Science & Technology
1. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
2. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
3.Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
4.
A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
1. Four Past Midnight
2.February 29th
3.The Last of August
4.Every Day in December
Travel - TIME TRAVEL
1.Doctor Who: Heroes and Monsters Collection
2.Doctor Who: The Blood Cell
3.Doctor Who: Hunter's Moon
4.Doctor Who: Peacemaker

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #48
5/65

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 34. Progress: 1/16

[[deleted user]]

Updating message 103 - 2/40
*An Author
Sarah J. Maas
1. Tower of Dawn 02/01
2.Kingdom of Ash

[Shari]

I would like to join this challenge. I'm going to start with a goal of 40.

Progress 75 / 40

*An Author
James Patterson:
✏️Lost
✏️Home Sweet Murder
✏️ The Midwife Murders
✏️ The Horsewoman
✏️ Judge & Jury
✏️ You've Been Warned
✏️ Steal
Danielle Steel:
✏️Flying Angels
✏️ The Good Fight
✏️ Silent Honor
✏️ Silent Night
✏️ Nine Lives
✏️ Lost and Found
✏️ The Butler
✏️ The Numbers Game
✏️ High Stakes
✏️
*A Book Genre - HISTORICAL FICTION
📚 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
📚 In Another Time
📚 The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel
📚 Orphan Train
📚 Margot
📚 The Kennedy Debutante
📚 The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
📚 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
📚 Beyond the Wire
📚 The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
📚 Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
📚 The Quintland Sisters
📚 The Address
📚 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook
📚 The Librarian of Saint-Malo
📚 The Giver of Stars
📚 The Book of Lost Names
📚 Love Finds You in Victory Heights, Washington
📚 The Chanel Sisters
📚 The Master Craftsman
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
📏 The Apartment
📏 The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
📏 Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
🤎Passing
🤎 A Good Neighborhood
🤎 Small Great Things
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage 2 / 5
💘Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story
💘The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
💘 The Wedding Letters
*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
☕ Billionaire Blend
☕ The Solid Grounds Coffee Company
*A Hobby or Pastime
*A Listopia: Best Books of the Decade: 2020's
📕Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
📕The Reading List
📕 The Children's Blizzard
📕 The Sun Down Motel
📕 A Good Neighborhood
*A Literary Award
🏆The Shadow of the Wind
🏆 The Cellist of Sarajevo
*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
🏛️ The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
🏛️ Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank
*Nature and the Environment
🐛The Stars Are Fire
🐛A Walk Along the Beach
🐛Once Upon a River
*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)
✈️Someday in Paris
✈️The Warsaw Orphan
✈️The Paris Seamstress
✈️ The Paris Apartment
*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
🎄CHRISTMAS 🎄
🎄Amish Christmas Hideaway
🎄 Candy Cane Calaboose
🎄 Love Gently Falling
🎄 The Christmas Secret
🎄 Amish Triplets for Christmas
🎄 The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle
🎄 Together for the Holidays
🎄 The Gift of Christmas Present
🎄 Christmas Witness Protection
🎄 Soldier's Christmas Secrets
*Travel

[Irphen]

Hey! I would like to participate to this challenges as well, it seems a good way to come through my bookselves! ;-)

Progress 20/28

A Book Genre: Mythology 5/5 books
- Celtic Myths by Miranda Jane Green
- The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
- Beowolf by Unknown
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott

Diversity 4/5 books
- The Sorceress: A Study in Middle Age Superstition by Jules Michelet
- Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire
- Ubik by Philip K. Dick
- Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia currently reading

Book Lenght ( less than 200 pages ) 5/5 books
- Le papillon by Andrus Kivirähk
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
- An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
- Zadig by Voltaire

Listopia: 1001 Books you must read before you die 4/5 books
( https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9... )
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Nature and environment 2 books
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Biographies 2 books
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An Author: Stephen King 2/2 books
- Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
- Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

Travel 2 books
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[[deleted user]]

Update Message 103 - 3/40

[Rina]

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022

I'm joining for 40 books across 20 shelves please!

Progress:
Books: 69/40 (Completed)
Shelves: 20/20

*An Author: T.J. Klune
- Under the Whispering Door
-

*A Book Genre: Mystery/Thriller
- The Hush
- Take Your Breath Away
- Hide
- Rock Paper Scissors
- Dirt Town
- All She Wants
- Daughters of Eve
- The Agathas
- The Patient
- Treasure & Dirt
- The Unbelieved

*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages): Under 200
- Shine your Icy Crown
- How Do You Say I Love You?
- What Zola Did on Monday
- Evidence of the Affair

*Celebrations: Xmas
- Driving Home for Christmas
- Comfort & Joy

*Diversity (in any of its forms): Asian protagonist
- Honor
- The Summer I Turned Pretty
- Be Careful, Xiao Xin!

*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
1 - Fancy Meeting You Here
2 - Hook, Line, and Sinker
3 - Here for the Right Reasons

*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy): grief
- Blue Hour
- The Brothers
- Marshmallow

*Film & Theater: Centred around film and theatre
- All's Well - Shakespearean production
- The Disappearing Act - Hollywood actress
- Bunnygirl: Treehouse Friends
- Run Time
- Twice in a Blue Moon

*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts): Centred or set around fine arts
- The Paris Affair - arts & culture journalist
- Hidden Pictures - drawings

*Food & Beverage: containing recipes
- Black Cake
- Murder Uncorked

*Heritage & Culture: clashing cultures
- Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
- The Cult of Romance

*A Hobby or Pastime: involving reading, reviewing, editing, writing
- The Flat Share - book editor
- See You Yesterday - journalist
- In a Dark, Dark Wood - writer
- The Paris Mystery - journalist

*A Listopia - Best Books of 2022
1 - The Night Shift
2 - The Maid
3 - A Flicker in the Dark
4 - The Paris Apartment
5 - Nine Lives
6 - House of Sky and Breath
7 - The Golden Couple
8 - The Book of Cold Cases
9 - The It Girl

*A Literary Award: Goodreads Choice Awards
1 - Beautiful World, Where Are You
2 - The Final Girl Support Group
3 - Truly Madly Guilty

*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
- Lady Gaga: Applause
- Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

*Nature and the Environment: set in nature, involving nature, expertise in nature
- The Whispering - set in a forest near boulders
- Where the Crawdads Sing - set in a marsh
- The Cabin in the Woods

*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation): Library/Book Shop
- The Library
- Book Lovers
- The Book Ninja

*Science & Technology - main character in science & tech
- The Opal Miner's Daughter
- The Big Dark Sky

*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future): Future
- Wakers
- Sea of Tranquility

*Travel - main character travels across countries
- The Ghosts of Paris
- The Noriega Tapes
- Carrie Soto Is Back

[[deleted user]]

Updated message 103 - 4/40

[Rachael]

Updated message 13: first book completed. 1/20

[Teresa]

I'm in. This is similar to the pyramid challenge; I used to love that one. Each book may only be used on one shelf.; although I may scramble the shelves if I find they're arranged wrong.

3/36

📚 1 Non-Fiction Book
1)
📚 2 Iris Johansen Books
1)
2)
📚 3 Nora Roberts Books
1) Come Sundown by Nora Roberts Completed 1/23/22
2)
3)
📚 4 General Fiction Books
1) The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart completed 1/11/22
2)
3)
4)
📚 5 Mystery/Suspense Books
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
📚 6 Fantasy Books
1) The Becoming - The Dragon Legacy by Nora Roberts Completed 1/6/22
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
📚 7 Library Lovers Mysteries by Jenn McKinlay
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
📚 8 Audiobooks
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)

[Lorraine]

update message 38

literary Awards
1- La plus secrète mémoire des hommes. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Goncourt 2021
2- The secret garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett. Lewis Caroll Shelf Award 1958

2/24

[☘Misericordia☘]

Signing up for Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
/60

*An Author
Primordial Earth #1


*A Book Genre
(Sci-Fi)
Five Minds
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
The Magus, Celestial Intelligencer: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy (Forgotten Books)
Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More

Self-Help

Business

*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
As in Multiscpecies diversity:
A Broken Blade (elves)

As in Neurodiversity

*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
Safety in Numbers
The Love Hypothesis


*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy) (Adventure)
The Last Cuentista

*Film & Theater
*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
*Food & Beverage
*Heritage & Culture
Philosophy

*A Hobby or Pastime
Math
Math with Bad Drawings

*A Listopia
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
*Nature and the Environment

*A Place (location, city, suburbs, countryside, nation)

*Science & Technology
Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense

*A Time (time of day, month, year, season, past era, future)
Past era:


*Travel

[Chalmation]

Updated message #39

1/40

[[deleted user]]

Update to message 103 - 5/40

[=MYSTIQUE=]

Updated message #37

Progress: 5/50

Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
>200 pages
✔️1. A Grave Girls’ Getaway 1/7/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Listopia
Beauty and the Beast
✔️1. Of Beast and Beauty 1/4/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Romeo & Juliet
✔️1. Warm Bodies 1/4/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Robynne]

Update Msg 47 - 1/60

A Time - Xmas - A Grosvenor Square Christmas - DONE - 8 Jan 2022

Can someone please tell me EITHER how to do the strikethru line or the green tick to indicate a book has been read? All I can do is write DONE after the book title. Thanks.

[Dawn]

Update to message #101

5/50 books read

[Marta]

I'm in! I will try for 40 books, all themes and possibly the bonuses.

0/40

[Irphen]

Updated message 118:
A Book Genre: Mythology 2/5 books
- Celtic Myths by Miranda Jane Green
- The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Book Lenght ( less than 200 pages ) 1/5 books
- Le papillon by Andrus Kivirähk
Progress: 3/28

[Ali]

Updating message #57

Progress: 2/15

[Greg]

Update message 82:

Genre: War Stories (1/5): Rakóssy

Length 500+ pages (1/5): Born of Silence

3/30

[[deleted user]]

Update message 103 - 6/40

[Kimberly]

Man, you guys are organized! I don’t have any of my lists compiled, yet. 🥴🤗

Please sign me up for 50 books (maybe more) and I’ll be back with my shelves/list.

Thank you!

[Chrissie]

Update on message #59: finished 2/46 reads.

[Carol]

update #12

10/100 completed

[Greg]

Update message 82:

Genre: Science Fiction (1/5):
Blasphemy

4/30

[Mie]

First update msg 29: 6/35 📚

[Chrissie]

Update on message #59: finished 5/46

[[deleted user]]

Update message 103 - 7/40

[Chalmation]

Updated message #39

2/40

[Patricia]

Hi, I'd like to join the challenge - aiming for a total of 16 books, on the following shelves.

Completed 1/16

*Diversity: Neurodiversity
Avec lui c'est compliqué ! Vivre avec un enfant précoce, l'aider à grandir et réussir - reading

*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
Ainoa kotini - reading

*Heritage & Culture: Egypt
Anatomy of a Disappearance - completed 15/1

*A Hobby or Pastime: Crochet
KouKultani – Virkattuja sukkia ja käsineitä - reading

*A Literary Award: Finlandia
Bolla - reading

[Fran]

update message #20
Nonfiction: 1/10
Classics: 1/10
Book Length 600+ pages: 1/10
1001 Books to Read Before You Die:1/10
Around the World:1/10

total: 5/60

[Kristina]

Bookworms Take Shelfies
My Reading Corner
Progress: 120/120 books

*An Author
Agatha Christie: 5/5
✅ 1. Death on the Nile
✅ 2. Murder on the Orient Express
✅ 3. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
✅ 4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
✅ 5. The A.B.C. Murders

William Shakespeare: 5/5
✅ 1. Othello
✅ 2. The Tempest
✅ 3. Titus Andronicus
✅ 4. Much Ado About Nothing
✅ 5. King Lear

*An Author
Naomi Novik 5/5
✅ 1. A Deadly Education
✅ 2. The Last Graduate
✅ 3. The Golden Enclaves
✅ 4. His Majesty's Dragon
✅ 5. Throne of Jade

*An Author
Taylor Jenkins Reid 3/3
✅ 1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✅ 2. Daisy Jones & The Six
✅ 3. Malibu Rising

*A Book Genre
Nonfiction: 10/10
✅ 1. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
✅ 2. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
✅ 3. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
✅ 4. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
✅ 5. The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton
✅ 6. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
✅ 7. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
✅ 8. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
✅ 9. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
✅ 10. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Sports Nonfiction: 5/5
✅ 1. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
✅ 2. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
✅ 3. The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost
✅ 4. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
✅ 5. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey

Queer Romance: 11/11
✅ 1. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
✅ 2. Cattle Stop by Kit Oliver
✅ 3. The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
✅ 4. The Wolf at the Door by Charlie Adhara
✅ 5. In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens
✅ 6. The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
✅ 7. Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman
✅ 8. Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman
✅ 9. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
✅ 10. Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman
✅ 11. Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman

Fairytale Retellings: 5/5
✅ 1. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
✅ 2. Peter Darling by Austin Chant
✅ 3. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry
✅ 4. Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
✅ 5. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Anthologies: 3/3
✅ 1. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
✅ 2. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 by Diana Gabaldon
✅ 3. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by adrienne maree brown

*Book Length
Chunksters (500 or more pages): 5/5
✅ 1. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 2. Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
✅ 3. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 4. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
✅ 5. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

*Diversity
BIPOC Authors (two books or more): 5/5
✅ 1. N.K. Jemisin
✅ 2. Colson Whitehead
✅ 3. Nghi Vo
✅ 4. Toni Morrison
✅ 5. Cixin Liu

Books Translated into English 3/3
✅ 1. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
✅ 2. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
✅ 3. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami

*A Literary Award
Pulitzer for Fiction (Winners & nominees): 9/9
✅ 1. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
✅ 2. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
✅ 3. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✅ 4. The Overstory by Richard Powers
✅ 5. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
✅ 6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
✅ 7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
✅ 8. Beloved by Toni Morrison
✅ 9. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Hugo Award for Best Novel (Winners & nominees): 10/10
✅ 1. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
✅ 2. Ancillary Justice Anne Leckie
✅ 3. Network Effect by Martha Wells
✅ 4. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
✅ 5. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
✅ 6. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✅ 7. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
✅ 8. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
✅ 9. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
✅ 10. Death's End by Liu Cixin

*A Listopia
1001 Books To Read Before You Die: 5/5
✅ 1. 1984 by George Orwell
✅ 2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
✅ 3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
✅ 4. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
✅ 5. Animal Farm by George Orwell

Best Books of the Decade: 2020's: 5/5
✅ 1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
✅ 2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
✅ 3. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
✅ 4. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
✅ 5. The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Fantasy That Isn't Fantastic Straight White Men Doing Epic Things...: 5/5
✅ 1. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
✅ 2. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
✅ 3. Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch
✅ 4. Nimona by by N.D. Stevenson
✅ 5. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies
Biographies About Women: 5/5
✅ 1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
✅ 2. Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
✅ 3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
✅ 4. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
✅ 5. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

Memoirs and Autobiographies 4/4
✅ 1. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
✅ 2. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
✅ 3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
✅ 4. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness

*A Place
Discworld: 5/5
✅ 1. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
✅ 2. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
✅ 3. Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
✅ 4. Jingo by Terry Pratchett
✅ 5. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett

*A Time
Books Published in 2022: 3/3
✅ 1. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
✅ 2. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
✅ 3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

*Travel:
Books With Map in the Title (Or Books About Maps): 5/5
✅ 1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
✅ 2. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
✅ 3. The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
✅ 4. Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig
✅ 5. Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wisława Szymborska

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2/6 Genre: Fantasy

The Once and Future Witches

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a state: Montana
3. Fear no evil, James Patterson
4. Meurtres sur la Madison, Keith McCafferty

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