Serious Readers Challenge 2022 - Level 1

[Stacy]

LEVEL 1:

✅1. Body Double
✅2. The Alchymist's Cat
✅3. First Bitten
✅4. Original Sin
✅5. The Hostage
✅6. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
✅7. After Eli
✅8. Reverie and Redemption
✅9. Under A Sky of Memories
✅10.Outlander
✅11.The Last Days of Dogtown
✅12.Lord of the Silver Bow
✅13.The Mistress
✅14.Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic
Pathologist
✅15.Gull
✅16.Duncton Wood
✅17.The Oaken Throne
✅18.From a Buick 8
✅19.Thomas
✅20.On a Wing and a Prayer
✅21.Road to War: A First World War Girl's Diary, 1916
✅22.The Smile of the Wolf
✅23.New Madrid Earthquake
✅24.I Want What I Want
✅25.The Notebook
✅26.Storm the Castle
✅27.To Kill a Queen: An Elizabethan Girl's Diary 1583 -1586
✅28.The Sky Unwashed
✅29.At the Coalface: The memoir of a pit nurse
✅30.The Four Winds
✅31.The Sanatorium
✅32.The Rival
✅33.Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
✅34.Deadbreak
✅35.Pandemic
✅36.Dead America - Seattle Pt. 1
✅37.Dead America - Seattle Pt. 2
✅38.Dead America - Seattle Pt. 3
✅39.Dead America - Seattle Pt. 4
✅40.Dead America - Seattle Pt. 5
✅41.Cujo
✅42.News of the World
✅43.The Loon
✅44.Never Have You Ever
✅45.The Beekeeper's Promise
✅46.Dream Big, Stella!
✅47.Six Moon Summer
✅48.All Hallows' Moon
✅49.Long Night Moon
✅50.Gray Moon Rising
✅51.The Humans
✅52.Alchemy and Rose
✅53.The Woman on the Beach
✅54.The Colour Of Bee Larkham's Murder
✅55.Dead America - Seattle Pt. 6
✅56.The Cain Chronicles, Episodes 1-4
✅57.Darkmoon
✅58.Of Wings and Wolves
✅59.Alpha Moon
✅60.Sweet Thames
✅61.The Reluctant Pirate
✅62.Throne of Glass
✅63.Love Most, Say Least
✅64.Hero
✅65.I Temporarily Do
✅66.Cursed Crown
✅67.Malibu Rising
✅68.Virgin River
✅69.Picture This
✅70.Cold Cases Solved: True Stories of Murders That Took Years or Decades to Solve
✅71.Sweet Dreamin' Baby
✅72.The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
✅73.A is for Alibi
✅74.B is for Burglar
✅75.Shelter Mountain
✅76.Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
✅77.The Diary of a Single Parent Abroad
✅78.Whispering Rock
✅79.A Virgin River Christmas
✅80.This Glittering World
✅81.Dragonflight
✅82.The Firebrand
✅83.C Is For Corpse
✅84.Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
✅85.Me Talk Pretty One Day
✅86.Soulbound
✅87.The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
✅88.Strawberry Shortcake Murder
✅89.Under The Eagle
✅90.The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
✅91.Sophie's Choice
✅92.Murder on Black Swan Lane
✅93. The Witches
✅94. 105 Desire Dr.
✅95. The Golden Couple
✅96. Dragonquest
✅97. D is for Deadbeat
✅98. A Killer Cupcake
✅99. A Tundra Tale
✅100. Grounded

[〰️Beth〰️]

Finished my first 100. See complete list in post #8.
Happy reading everyone 💖📚💖
Onto level two…

[Elspeth]

I am now planning on reading 250 books this year. First it was 125 then 150, now 250. Here are my first 100:

✔ 1, Immortal Born
✔ 2, How to Be a Wallflower
✔ 3, Electric Idol
✔ 4. Twelve Slays of Christmas
✔ 5. A Worthy Opponent
✔ 6. Immortal Angel
✔ 7 . Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
✔ 8. Hot For Me
✔ 9 .Meant to Be Immortal
✔ 10.Mile High with a Vampire
✔ 11. Neon Gods
✔ 12. Immortal Rising
✔ 13. Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
✔ 14. The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
✔ 15. Learn My Lesson
✔ 16. Passing
✔ 17. Seducing My Guardian
✔ 18. Wrong Bed, Right Guy
✔ 19. The Rake Gets Ravished
✔ 20. Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.
✔ 21. Chasing Mrs. Right
✔ 22. The Alchemist
✔ 23. Queen Takes Rose
✔ 24. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the ✔ ✔ 25. Crime That Changed Their Lives
✔ 26. Tetris: The Games People Play
✔ 27. To Sir, With Love
✔ 28. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
✔ 29. Two Wrongs, One Right
✔ 30. Backstage Pass
✔ 31. Ginger Kid: Mostly True Tales from a Former Nerd
✔ 32. An English Bride in Scotland
✔ 33. The Beast
✔ 34. Hoot
✔ 35. Rock Hard
✔ 36. One Lucky Vampire
✔ 37, My Fake Rake
✔ 38. The Sea Witch
✔ 39. Wicked Beauty
✔ 40. Wild Rain
✔ 41. Daddy's Angel
✔ 42. Remember Love
✔ 43. Birthday Girl
✔ 44.In a Lonely Place
✔ 45. Get a Life, Chloe Brown
✔ 46. Friends of the Library
✔ 47. On Cats
✔ 48. The Glass Menagerie
✔ 49. A Midsummer Night's Dream
✔ 50. Hot Ticket
✔ 51. The Scoundrel Falls Hard
✔ 52. Lick
✔ 53. Wicked Beat
✔ 54. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
✔ 55. One Starry Night: Sinners on Tour Extras
✔ 56. The Diary of a Nobody
✔ 57. The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane
✔ 58. In Bed with Mr. Wrong
✔ 59. Backstage Pass
✔ 60. Nothing but Us
✔ 61. Magma
✔ 62. Double Time
✔ 63. Howl’s Moving Castle
✔ 64. The Words
✔ 65. Stone Heart
✔ 66. The Graveyard Book
✔ 67. Save the Secret Date
✔ 68. Try Me, Tempt Me, Take Me
✔ 69. Stepbrothers' Darling
✔ 70. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
✔ 71, Castle in the Stars: The Space Race of 1869
✔ 72. The Lightning Thief
✔ 73, Stuck-Up Suit
✔ 74, Don't Kiss the Bride
✔ 75. Betrothed to the Dragon
✔ 76, The Emma Project
✔77. You Really Got Me
✔78, Sold to the Alien Prince
✔79. The Designated +1
✔80. Save the Secret Date
✔81. Captured by the Alien Warrior
✔82. Lost Hills
✔83. A Week to Be Wicked
✔84. Forbidden Bride
✔85. Claimed by the Alien Mercenary
✔86. Hate to Lose You
✔87. The Quickie
✔88, Wife for Now
✔89, The Wife Arrangement
✔90, Riot Baby
✔91. Never Marry a Scandalous Duke
✔92. A Daring Pursuit
✔93. Duplicity
✔94. Nobody's Princess
✔95. The History of the Computer
✔96. Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo
✔97. SEXT
✔98. Manga Classics: Jane Eyre
✔99. Rules for Engaging the Earl
✔100. Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers

[〰️Beth〰️]

Elspeth wrote: "I am now planning on reading 250 books this year. First it was 125 then 150, now 250. Here are my first 100:..."

Congratulations Elspeth! Best of luck with your new goal. I am ahead of schedule but sticking with my original goal of 175 because I every year my reading speed seems to diminish during the second half of the year.

[Stacy]

100 complete, I'm heading for Level 2. Yay!!!
(Msg 102 complete list) 😁

[Kristine]

Elspeth wrote: "I am now planning on reading 250 books this year. First it was 125 then 150, now 250. Here are my first 100:

✔ 1, Immortal Born
✔ 2, How to Be a Wallflower
✔ 3, [bo..."

Stacy wrote: "100 complete, I'm heading for Level 2. Yay!!!
(Msg 102 complete list) 😁"
Congratulations 🎉 That’s Terrific. Good Luck with New Goal.

[Kristine]

Stacy wrote: "100 complete, I'm heading for Level 2. Yay!!!
(Msg 102 complete list) 😁"
Stacy, Congratulations 🎉 on Meeting 100 Goal. Fantastic.

[〰️Beth〰️]

Stacy wrote: "100 complete, I'm heading for Level 2. Yay!!!
(Msg 102 complete list) 😁"

🎉Congratulations Stacy! Best wishes for great reads for level two🎉

[Heather]

Late to the party, but I want to play! I almost always hit at least 100/year, so this is perfect for me.

Where I am so far:
✔ 1. A Not So Meet Cute 1/2/2022
✔ 2. The Wedding Game 1/8/2022
✔ 3. See Me After Class 1/9/2022
✔ 4. Earn Your Extra Credit 1/12/2022
✔ 5. Put Me in Detention 1/17/2022
✔ 6. The Worst Best Friend 1/19/2022
✔ 7. The Romeo Arrangement 2/15/2022
✔ 8. Reminders of Him 2/17/2022
✔ 9. The Best Friend Zone 2/17/2022
✔ 10. The Hero I Need 2/23/2022
✔ 11. Things We Never Got Over 3/12/2022
✔ 12. Pretend You're Mine 3/13/2022
✔ 13. Finally Mine 3/20/2022
✔ 14. Protecting What's Mine 3/22/2022
✔ 15. Wrecking Ball 3/22/2022
✔ 16. Sledgehammer 3/25/2022
✔ 17. Bulldozer 3/26/2022
✔ 18. Heart Bones 3/26/2022
✔ 19. Shine Not Burn 3/26/2022
✔ 20. Curious Minds 3/27/2022
✔ 21. Shine Not Burn 3/27/2022
✔ 22. MacKenzie Fire 3/27/2022
✔ 23. Sweet Home 4/2/2022
✔ 24. Neanderthal Seeks Human 4/18/2022
✔ 25. Neanderthal Marries Human 4/19/2022
✔ 26. Just Playin' 4/23/2022
✔ 27. Ain't Happenin' 4/26/2022
✔ 28. The Drop Zone 4/27/2022
✔ 29. Very Unlikely 4/29/2022
✔ 30. Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door 5/1/2022
✔ 31. Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet 5/3/2022
✔ 32. Riley Thorn and the Blast from the Past 5/13/2022
✔ 33. Kiss and Don't Tell 5/16/2022
✔ 34. Those Three Little Words 5/18/2022
✔ 35. Big Sexy Love 5/22/2022
✔ 36. Writing Mr. Right 5/24/2022
✔ 37. Dating Games 5/27/2022
✔ 38. Seeing Double 6/1/2022
✔ 39. Dealing Double 6/2/2022
✔ 40. Crossing Double 6/4/2022
✔ 41. Our Little Secret 6/7/2022
✔ 42. People We Meet on Vacation 6/11/2022
✔ 43.He Will Be Mine 6/20/2022
✔ 44. Beauty and the Baller 6/23/2022
✔ 45. So Not Meant To Be 6/25/2022
✔ 46. The Highland Fling 6/28/2022
✔ 47. It Had to Be Him 6/29/2022
✔ 48. It Had to Be Love 6/30/2022
✔ 49. It Had to Be Fate 7/2/2022
✔ 50. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook 7/6/2022
✔ 51. It Had to Be Them 7/12/2022
✔ 52. Before Memories Fade 7/17/2022
✔ 53. The Reunion 7/22/2022
✔ 54. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 7/23/2022
✔ 55. Last on the List 7/30/2022
✔ 56.The Secret Witness 8/3/2022
✔ 57. She's Up to No Good 8/9/2022
✔ 58. Without A Hitch 8/12/2022
✔ 59. Book Lovers 8/21/2022
✔ 60. Cross My Heart: A Small Town Billionaire Single Dad Romance 8/22/2022
✔ 61. Nightwork 8/24/2022
✔ 62. Local Hero 8/27/2022
✔ 63. The Next Always 8/29/2022
✔ 64. The Last Boyfriend 9/2/2022
✔ 65. The Perfect Hope 9/5/2022
✔ 66. Sea Swept 9/5/2022
✔ 67. Rising Tides 9/6/2022
✔ 68. Inner Harbor 9/7/2022
✔ 69. The Quinns' Christmas 9/7/2022
✔ 70. Chesapeake Blue 9/8/2022
✔ 71. The Obsession 9/10/2022
✔ 72. Naked in Death 9/12/2022
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[Stacy]

Thank you 😁

[Elspeth]

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "Elspeth wrote: "I am now planning on reading 250 books this year. First it was 125 then 150, now 250. Here are my first 100:..."

Congratulations Elspeth! Best of luck with your new goal. I am ahea..."

Thanks! I'll see how it goes. This is by far the most books I've read, probably ever, but I am hopeful to at least finish 250, I'm in the 240s now anyway, thanks to NetGalley and Kindle Unlimited.

Good luck on your second half of 2022 reading!

[Amanda]

Count me in!

[Victoria]

In case someone is still struggling to finish the first 100 books, here is a list of my favourite 8 quick reads (under 200 pages):

- Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
- The Last Children of Tokyo
- The Guest Cat
- The Housekeeper and the Professor
- Intimacies
- Kitchen
- Whereabouts
- Untold Night and Day

You can also find a short video about all these books here: https://youtu.be/G-_mycHSJ5g