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Summer TBR Challenge 2022-- Scoring
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier#41 spot - 41 points
Date added - April 2, 2020 - 4 points
336 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Total points - 54 points
Cumulative points - 367 points
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman#4 Spot - 4 pts
329 pgs - 4 pts
Added 6/24/18 - 6 pts
Book total - 14 pts
Deadly Summer Nights by Vicki Delany
#50 Spot - 50 pts
289 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Bonus A - Set in Summer - 5 pts
Book total - 62 pts
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
#10 Spot - 10 pts
292 pgs - 2 pts
Added 6/24/18 - 6 pts
Book total - 18 pts
Post total - 94 pts
Challenge total - 196 pts
Mod
#46=46 points
217 pgs=2 points
Book Total= 48 points
Challenge Total= 95 points
Murder at Wedgefield Manor by Erica Ruth Neubaurer#48 = 48pts
3d - set in a different country than you live = 5pts
304 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 62pts
The Abduction of Pretty Penny by Leonard Goldberg
#30 = 30pts
352 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 39pts
Our Last Days in Barcelona by Chanel Cleeton
#49 = 49pts
3b - main character takes a trip = 5pts
336 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 63pts
When She Dreams by Amanda Quick
#50 = 50pts
320 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 49pts
Challenge total = 213pts
A Perfect Equation by Elizabeth Everett#42 = 42pts
3e - book where 1 of the author's initials are in the word summer = 5pts
336 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 56pts
A Perilous Perspective by Anna Lee Huber
#40 = 40pts
3a - book set in summer = 5pts
387 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 54pts
The Ghosts of Paris by Tara Moss
#31 = 31pts
384 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 40pts
Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
#47 = 47pts
370 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 56pts
Challenge total = 419pts
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich#48 spot - 48 points
387 pages - 4 points
Summer challenge e) - 5 points
Book total: 57 points
Challenge total: 120 points
Iron and Rust-Harry Sidebottom#12= 13 Points
HF= 5 Points
400 pages= 4 Points
Book Total= 22
Total Challenge Points= 381
As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda by Gail Collins#46 spot: 46 pts
235pp: 2 pts
Date added 6/12: 15 pts
Total Points: 63 pts
Challenge Total: 226 pts
An Impartial Witness-Charles Todd#48 Spot= 48 Points
352 pages= 4 Points
HF= 5 Points
Bonus A-Set in Summer= 5 Points
Added to TBR-5/31/2014= 15 Points
Total Book Points= 77
Total Challenge Points= 458
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara#50 spot: 50 pts
548pp: 6 pts
Date Added 2/12: 15 pts
HF: 5 pts
Bonus E: 5 pts
Book Total 81 pts
Challenge Total: 307pts
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn#31 spot - 31 points
Date added - February 12, 2022 - 0 points
646 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Total points - 42 points
Cumulative points - 409 points
Indiscretion by Charles Dubow#41=41 points
388 pages=4 points
On TBR since 3/14/2013=15 points
Book total=60 points
Challenge total=538 points
A Question of Betrayal #2 Elena Standish by Anne Perry#37 spot - 37 points
284 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: May 29, 2022 - 0 points
Bonus B: main character takes a trip - 5 points
Book total - 49 points
Previous total - 66 points
Challenge total - 115 points
Books read - 2
The Gardener of Baghdad by Ahmad Ardalan#43 spot - 43 points
Date added - August 5, 2015 - 15 points
226 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
BONUS C - 5 points
Total points - 70 points
Cumulative points - 479 points
The Fox Hunt: A Memoir of Yemen and My Odyssey to America by Mohammed Al Samawi# 35 - 35
336 pages- 4
Date added 6/26/20 - 2
Book total = 41
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
# 33 - 33
802 pages- 8
Date added 6/5/22 - 0
Book total = 41
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
# 13 - 13
383 pages- 4
Date added 5/12/22 - 0
Bonus A-Set in Summer= 5
Book total = 22
Challenge total = 648 points
Driftless by David Rhodes#43=43 points
438 pages=4 points
On TBR since 3/14/2013-15 points
Book total=62 points
Challenge total=600 points
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron#45 spot - 45 points
Date added - November 17, 2014 - 15 points
434 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Total points - 69 points
Cumulative points - 548 points
The Island of Missing Trees#49 spot - 49 points
368 pages - 4 points
Summer challenge d) - 5 points
Book total: 58 points
Challenge total: 178
Life's a Beach by Claire Cook#38 on list=38 points
335 pages=4 points
On TBR since 3/14/2013=15 points
Bonus a-Set in summer=5 points
Book total=62 points
Challenge total=662 points
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game by Edward Achorn#30 spot - 30 points
Date added - November 6, 2014 - 15 points
342 pages - 4 points
HF - 0 points
BONUS A - 5 points
Total points - 54 points
Cumulative points -602 points
Bitten by Kelley ArmstrongBonus Book (Becky): 50 pts
372pp: 4 pts
Total: 54 pts
Challenge Total:361 pts
A King's Ransom-Sharon Kay Penman#36=36 Points
HF= 5 Points
685 pages= 6 Points
TBR- Added January 10, 2014= 15 Points
Book Total= 62 Points
Total Challenge Points= 520
Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump ShowJonathan Karl# 41- 41
384 pages- 4
Date added 0
Book total = 45
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
# 37- 37
288 pages- 2
Date added 11/2/21 - 0
Book total = 39
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi
#15 - 15
HF - 5
384 pages- 4
Date added 11/12/21 - 0
Book total = 24
Challenge total = 756 points
Persuasion by Jane AustenFinished 1Jul22 - audio/print
Bonus book #1 (Gretchen) - 50pts
249p - 2pts
Total - 52pts
Challenge Total - 332pts
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn#29 spot - 29 points
Date added - 0 points
448 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Total points - 38 points
Cumulative points -640 points
Mod
5 points
Previous total: 144
New total: 149
Nobody's Sweetheart Now #1 Lady Adelaide by Maggie Robinson#49 spot - 49 points
368 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: July 15, 2020 - 2 points
Bonus D: set in different country - 5 points
Book total - 65 points
Previous total - 115 points
Challenge total - 180 points
Books read - 3
Angel Time-Anne RiceSpot #40-40 Points
HF- 5 Points
274 pages- 2 Points
Date Added- October, 2014- 15 Points
Total Book Points= 62
Total Challenge Points= 582
Mod
0 points
Previous total: 149
New total: 149
On Agate Hill by Lee Smith#36=36 points
367 pages=4 points
On TBR since 3/14/2013=15 points
HF=5 points
Book total=60 points
Challenge total=722 points
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx#28 spot - 28 points
Date added - 04/26/2014 - 15 points
337 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Total points - 52 points
Cumulative points -692 points
Though This Be Madness by Penny Richards#1 Spot - 1 pt
272 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 2/27/21 - 2 pts
Book total - 10 pts
A Woman Unknown by Frances Brody
#15 Spot - 15 pts
374 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 2/15/18 - 8 pts
Book total - 32 pts
The Case of the Counterfeit Criminals by Jordan Stratford
#34 Spot - 34 pts
208 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 1/14/17 - 10 pts
Book total - 51 pts
Post total - 93 pts
Previous total - 196 pts
Challenge total - 289 pts
Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly#50 = 50 points
528 pages = 6 points
HF 5 points
Date added 11/2020 = 2 points
Book total 63 points
Challenge Total 190 points
The Unlikely Spy-Daniel SilvaSpot# 42= 42 Points
HF= 5 Points
334 pages= 4 Points
Total Points for Book= 51
Total Challenge Points= 633
At the Water's Edge#35 spot - 35 points
348 pages - 4 points
On my TBR since 18 Jan 2015 - 15 points
HF - 5 points
Book total: 59 points
Challenge total: 237
Note (summer challenges completed b, d, e)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson# 46- 46
234 pages- 2
Date added 7/19/19 - 4
Book total = 52
Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante by Susan Elia MacNeal
# 45 - 45
384 pages- 4
Date added 12/2/14 - 10
Historical Fiction - 5
Book total = 64
Murder in the South of France by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
#32 - 32
324 pages- 4
Date added 7/5/2020 - 2
Book total = 38
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd
#24 - 24
HF - 5
336 pages- 4
Date added 3/1/21 - 2
Book total = 35
Previous total = 756
Challenge total = 945 points
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky#50 spot = 50 points
304 pages = 4 points
Total Book Points = 54 points
Origin by Dan Brown
#23 spot = 23 points
461 pages = 4 points
Date added - 9/4/2018 = 6 points
Takes a Trip = 5 points
Total Book Points = 38 points
The Sarrington Estate by Jennifer Mardoll
#34 spot = 34 points
214 pages = 2 points
Date added = 5/30/2017 = 10 points
HF = 5 points
Total Book Points = 51 points
Total Overall Points (so far) = 143 points
People of the Book by Geraldine BrooksBONUS BOOK (Jolene's TBR) - 50 points
384 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Total points - 59 points
Cumulative points -751 points
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott#49 = 49 points
449 pages 4 points
Date added 2/2020 4 points
Book Total 57
Challenge Total 247 points
In Farleigh Field-Rhys BowenSpot #46= 46 Points
HF= 5 Points
397 pages= 4 Points
Added to TBR-2/23/2017= 10 Points
Total Book Points- 65
Total Challenge Points-728
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham#47: 47pts
376pp: 4pts
Date Added 5/17: 10pts
HF: 5pts
Bonus D: 5pts
Book Total: 71 pts
Challenge Total: 432 pts
The Living End by Craig Schaefer#49 - 49pts
381p - 4pts
TBR 2022 - 0pts
Total - 53pts
Challenge Total - 385pts
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis# 28 - 28
329 pages- 4
Date added 12/15/20 - 2
Historical Fiction - 5
Book total = 39
A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini Flint
# 22 - 22
292 pages- 2
Date added 3/21/21 - 2
Book total = 26
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
#17 - 17
338 pages- 4
Date added 11/18/21 - 0
Book total = 21
Previous total - 945
Challenge total = 1031 points
A Charmed Place by Antoinette Stockenberg#42 on list=42 points
359 pages=4 points
On TBR since 3/14/2013=15 points
Book total=61 points
Challenge total=783 points
Fever Dream by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child#46 - 46pts
405p - 4pts
TBR 19Jun20 - 2pts
Bonus B: MC takes a trip - 5pts
Total - 57pts
Challenge Total - 442pts
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin#37=37 points
On TBR since 3/14/2013=15 points
633 pages=6 points
Book total=58 points
Challenge total=841 pages
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#44 =44 points
412 pages=4 points
On TBR since 3/14/2013=15 points
Book total=63 points
Challenge total=478 points