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1. City of Fallen Angels - January 21
2. Insurgent - January 27
3. Eragon - January 30
4. Red Prophet- February 28
5. The Girl Who Played with Fire - March 22
6. Three Weddings and a Bar Mitzvah - April 11
7. Cross My Heart, Hope to Die - May 8
8. No Lifeguard on Duty - May 23
9. Many Waters - May 30
10. Charmed & Ready - June 20
11. The Summer Tree - August 21
12. The Well of Lost Plots - September 4
13. The Faceless Ones - November 13
14. Seven Minutes in Heaven - November 24
15. Size 12 and Ready to Rock - November 26

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REGULAR
1. A book published in 2022- The Paris Apartment
2. A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship - The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
4. A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title
5. A sapphic book
6. A book by a Latinx author - The First Rule of Punk
7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title - Three Weddings and a Bar Mitzvah (ding)
8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid - Hench
9. A book about a "found family" - Insurgent
10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner
11. A #BookTok recommendation - Bunny
12. A book about the afterlife - Le Bonheur: Poeme
13. A book set in the 1980s - The Well of Lost Plots
14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title
15. A book by a Pacific Islander author - The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories
16. A book about witches - Charmed & Ready
17. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022
18. A romance novel by a BIPOC author - Letter from the Birmingham Jail
19. A book that takes place during your favorite season - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read -A Slow Fire Burning (City of Fallen Angels)
21. A book about a band or musical group - Size 12 and Ready to Rock
22. A book with a character on the ace spectrum
23. A book with a recipe in it - We Were Liars
24. A book you can read in one sitting - Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur
25. A book about a secret - Bridge to Terabithia
26. A book with a misleading title - Many Waters
27. A Hugo Award winner
28. A book set during a holiday - The Halloween Tree
29. A different book by an author you read in 2021 - Seven Minutes in Heaven
30. A book with the name of a board game in the title - Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
31. A book featuring a man-made disaster - The Lorax
32. A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page - The Woman in the Window (Ruth Ware)
33. A social-horror book - The Yellow Wallpaper
34. A book set in Victorian times - The Night Circus
35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title- Jelly Bean Summer
36. A book you know nothing about - The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
37. A book about gender identity
38. A book featuring a party - The Summer Tree
39. An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book - The House in the Cerulean Sea
40. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge Those Who Prey
(a book with a pun in the title)
Advanced
41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title - Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
42. A book that features two languages - Eragon
43. A book with a palindromic title - One by One
44. A duology (1) - My Best Friend's Exorcism
45. A duology (2) - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
46. A book about someone leading a double life - The Faceless Ones
47. A book featuring a parallel reality - Red Prophet
48. A book with two POVs - Home Before Dark
49. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (1) - New York - City of Fallen Angels
50. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (2) - Tokyo - Death by Water
Not: White Oleander, Girl who Played with Fire, No Life Guard on Duty, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Witch Princess, Identity Matters, Victoria, James and the Giant Peach, House of Usher (9)

7/37 = 19%
COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice - Grade 9
Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2017
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale -2017
HISTORIES
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John - 2008
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
TRAGEDIES
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet - Grade 13
Julius Caesar - Grade 10
King Lear
Macbeth - Grade 11 and 12
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

11/115 = 9.5%
1901: Sully Prudhomme - Le Bonheur: Poeme (2022)
1902: Theodor Mommsen
1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray
1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906: Giosuè Carducci
1907: Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book and Other Stories (2008)
1908: Rudolf Eucken
1909: Selma Lagerlöf
1910: Paul Heyse
1911: Maurice Maeterlinck
1912: Gerhart Hauptmann
1913: Rabindranath Tagore
1914 (Not awarded)
1915: Romain Rolland
1916: Verner von Heidenstam
1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan
1918 (Not awarded)
1919: Carl Spitteler
1920: Knut Hamsun
1921: Anatole France
1922: Jacinto Benavente
1923: W. B. Yeats
1924: Wladyslaw Reymont
1925: George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (Grade 12)
1926: Grazia Deledda
1927: Henri Bergson
1928: Sigrid Undset
1929: Thomas Mann
1930: Sinclair Lewis
1931: Erik Axel Karlfeld
t1932: John Galsworthy
1933: Ivan Bunin
1934: Luigi Pirandello
1935 (Not awarded)
1936: Eugene O'Neill
1937: Roger Martin du Gard
1938: Pearl S. Buck
1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1940-1943 (Not awarded)
1944: Johannes V. Jensen
1945: Gabriela Mistral
1946: Hermann Hesse
1947: André Gide
1948: T. S. Eliot
1949: William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (Grade 13)
1950: Bertrand Russell
1951: Pär Lagerkvist
1952: François Mauriac
1953: Winston Churchill
1954: Ernest Hemingway
1955: Halldór Laxness
1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957: Albert Camus - L'Étranger (2018)
1958: Boris Pasternak
1959: Salvatore Quasimodo
1960: Saint-John Perse
1961: Ivo Andric
1962: John Steinbeck
1963: Giorgos Seferis
1964: Jean-Paul Sartre - Huis Clos (Grade 13)
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov
1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs
1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias
1968: Yasunari Kawabata
1969: Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (2006)
1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (2022)
1971: Pablo Neruda
1972: Heinrich Böll
1973: Patrick White
1974: Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson
1975: Eugenio Montale
1976: Saul Bellow
1977: Vicente Aleixandre
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979: Odysseas Elytis
1980: Czeslaw Milosz
1981: Elias Canetti
1982: Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (2020)
1983: William Golding
1984: Jaroslav Seifert
1985: Claude Simon
1986: Wole Soyinka
1987: Joseph Brodsky
1988: Naguib Mahfouz
1989: Camilo José Cela
1990: Octavio Paz
1991: Nadine Gordimer
1992: Derek Walcott
1993: Toni Morrison
1994: Kenzaburo Oe - Death by Water (2022)
1995: Seamus Heaney - Beowulf plus poems (2008)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska
1997: Dario Fo
1998: José Saramago
1999: Günter Grass
2000: Gao Xingjian
2001: V. S. Naipaul
2002: Imre Kertész
2003: J. M. Coetzee
2004: Elfriede Jelinek
2005: Harold Pinter
2006: Orhan Pamuk
2007: Doris Lessing
2008: J. M. G. Le Clézio
2009: Herta Müller
2010: Mario Vargas Llosa
2011: Tomas Tranströmer
2012: Mo Yan
2013: Alice Munro
2014: Patrick Modiano
2015: Svetlana Alexievich
2016: Bob Dylan
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro
2018: Olga Tokarczuk
2019: Peter Handke
2020: Louise Glück
2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah
2022: Annie Ernaux

Buddy read:
January: Eragon
February: White Oleander
March: Woman in the Window
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The 22nd book on my TBR list - White Oleander - February 19
A book related to glass - The Woman in the Window - March 16
A book with a mostly purple cover - Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft - April 18
A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover - The Night Circus - May 15
A book with a language or nationality in the title How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe - June 25
A book related to mythology Witch Princess - July 13
Two books with the same word in the title - The Halloween Tree and The Summer Tree - August 21
An award winning book - The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 - October 3
A book with gothic elements - The Fall of the House of Usher: An Edgar Allan Poe Short Story - October 30
A book relating to a game - Seven Minutes in Heaven - November 24
A book based on the song "22" - Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories - December 6