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Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2023

Bookworms Take Shelfies
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
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(your challenge should consist of at least two different themes, with two books minimum per shelf)
*An Author
A Book Genre - Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
✅Behind Her Eyes
✅Truly, Madly, Deadly
Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages)
✅The Invention of Hugo Cabret (500+)
✅Last Chance Lassiter (-200)
✅Twelve Angry Men (-200)
✅The Mitford Murders (500 +)
✅The Snow Queen (-200)
✅Bedtime for Frances (-200)
✅Ox-Cart Man (-200)
✅I Hate School (-200)
*Celebrations
*Diversity (in any of its forms)
Friendship, Love, and Marriage
✅The Italian
✅A Crown of Snow and Ice: A Retelling of The Snow Queen
*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
Greek Mythology Retellings
✅Circe
*A Literary Award
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, 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
Message 21
I decided I don’t feel up to committing to yearly challenges, so I’m going to drop out.
I decided I don’t feel up to committing to yearly challenges, so I’m going to drop out.

Historical Fiction
1. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields, 3/5*, 1/19/23
2. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Richard Harris, 4/5*, 1/31/23
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by The Hound of the Baskervilles, 4/5*, 1/26/23
4. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, 3/5*, 4/14/23
5. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, 4/5*, 6/16/23
6. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, 3/5*, 6/17/23
7. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, 4/5*, 1/30/23
8. When We Had Wings by Ariel Lawhon, 3/5*, 2/2/23
9. A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley, 4/5*, 6/12/23
10. A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong, 3/5*, 1/31/23
Non-Fiction
1. Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa, 4/5*, 1/6/23
2. The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls by Luca Crippa, 4/5*, 1/22/23
3. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach, 3/5*, 1/9/23
4. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam, 4/5*, 1/18/23
5. The Silent Heroes: A Memoir of Holland During World War II by Hans Moederzoon Van Kuilenburg, 3/5*, 1/30/23
6. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko, 4/5*, 4/11/23
7. Hyena Road by Paul Gross, 3/5*, 1/28/23
8. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory A. Freeman, 3/5*, 3/27/23
9. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore, 4/5*, 1/2/23
10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann, 3/5*, 3/6/23
11. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, 3/5*, 6/30/23
12. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, 3/5*, 6/15/23
13. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 5/5*, 6/4/23
14. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue, 4/5*, 9/16/23
15. Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls, 4/5*, 6/26/23
16. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville, 3/5*, 6/20/23
17. A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley, 4/5*, 6/12/23
18. Across The Wide Missouri: A Pulitzer Prize Winner by Bernard DeVoto, 3/5*, 7/16/23
19. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, 3/5*, 7/16/23
20. The Round House by Louise Erdrich, 4/5*, 9/5/23
Mysteries
1. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James, 4/5*, 3/14/23
2. Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy, 5/5*, 3/8/23
3. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, 4/5*, 3/2/23
4. Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger, 3/5*, 1/21/23
5. The Burning by Maeve Kerrigan, 3/5*, 1/13/23
6. NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority by Marshall Karp, 4/5*, 1/31/23.
7. A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes, 4/5*, 6/7/23
8. Treasure State by C.J. Box, 4/5*, 2/10/23
9. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie, 3/5*, 2/15/23
10. Collateral Damage: An Ali Reynolds Mystery by J.A. Jance, 3/5*, 6/17/23
Takes place in a country other than U.S.
1. Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody, 3/5*, 4/28/23
2. Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, 3/5*, 3/23/23
3. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips, 3/5*, 4/12/23
4. Where Soldiers Fear to Tread: A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival by John S. Burnett, 3/5*, 4/16/23
5. From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe, 3/5*, 3/30/23
6. From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth, 2/5*, 3/15/23
7. The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World by Jay Bahadur, 3/5*, 4/20/23
8. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield, 4/5*, 6/13/23
9. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, 3/5*, 6/15/23
10. The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff, 3/5*, 6/5/23
Books from Reese's book club
1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, 4/5*, 2/8/23
2. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, 3/5*, 7/2/23
3. This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel, 4/5*, 9/27/23
4. The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi, 4/5*, 3/19/23
5. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, 3/5*, 1/24/23
6. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, 3/5*, 7/7/23
7. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal, 5/5*, 9/17/23
8. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman, 3/5*, 7/14/23
9. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, 5/5*, 9/24/23
10. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott, 3/5*, 9/19/23

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Film & Theater (Have Adaptations):
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Joining for 24 books
Progress: 7/24
*An Author: Colleen Hoover 0/2
*A Book Genre: Literary Fiction 1/5
Our Missing Hearts
*Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages) 1/4
Crooked Kingdom >500 pages
*Diversity (in any of its forms) 2/4
Memphis
Light from Uncommon Stars
*A Listopia 1/4 ATY Best Books of Month 2022-23
Other Birds
*Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies 2/5
Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim
These Precious Days

* Author - Rick Riordan - 1/3 books
1. The Lost Hero
* Diversity - Bisexual characters - 1/3 books
1. The Henna Wars
* Literary Award - Past Goodreads Choice nominees - 2/5 books
1. Sea of Tranquility (2022 Sci Fi winner)
2. The First to Die at the End (2022 YA nominee)

Progress: 9/20
An author - Ursula K. Le Guin
1. Tales from Earthsea
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A literary award - Hugo/Nebula nominees
1. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
3. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
4. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
5. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
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Diversity - Indigenous authors
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Nature (and biology)
1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
2. After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang
3. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Place: South America
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Progress > 0/40
1) *Book Length ( 500+ pages). ~ 6 books
2) Celebrations. ~ 3 books
3) Film & Theater. ~ 3 books
4) A Fine Art. ~ 5 books
5) Food & Beverage ~ 1 books
6) Heritage & Culture ~ 3 books
7) A Hobby or Pastime ~ 2 books
8) A Literary Award. ~ 8 books
9) Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies. ~ 3 books
10) Science & Nature. ~ 5 books
11) Travel. ~ 2 books

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Author: Charles Dickens 0/3
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Author: Fannie Flagg 0/3
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Author: Agatha Christie 0/6
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Jan. 1 - Dec. 31
66/80 Completed
Updated through: 10-1-23
An Author: New To Me Authors
1. Mr. Mustachio Is Falsely Accused by Dawn MacKinnon1-5-23
2. Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share 1-5-23
3. Murder on Milverton Square by G.B. Ralph 1-7-23
4. The Happy List by Briar Prescott 1-8-23
5. Leave It to Plum! by Matt Phelan 1-10-23
6. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 1-14-23
7. His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto 1-15-23
8. Safe Harbor by H.J. Welch 1-18-23
9. Hot Head by Mika Nix 1-21-23
10. Den of Escape by Juniper Cole 1-21-23
An Author: Authors I Enjoy
NR Walker
1. To the Moon and Back 2-27-23
2. Merry Christmas Cupid 3-31-23
3. Outrun the Rain 7-4-23
Lily Morton
1. Spring Strings 1-14-23
2. Risk Taker 1-16-23
3. Vow Maker 4-26-23
TJ Klune
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Onley James
1. Maniac 2-18-23
2. Intoxicating 2-24-23
3. Captivating 3-3-23
Christine Feehan
1. Dark Whisper 1-2-23
2. Shadow Fire
3. Ghostly Game 6-4-23
Nalini Singh
1. Slave to Sensation 8-18-23
2. Visions of Heat 8-19-23
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Ilona Andrews
1. Bayou Moon 1-6-23
2. Fate's Edge 1-26-23
3. Steel's Edge 2-14-23
Andrea Faye
1. Indigo 2-12-23
2. Blue 2-17-23
3. Violet
Alexa Land
1. Second Act 1-9-23
2. Second Nature 6-14-23
3. His Assistant 6-14-23
Nora Roberts
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A Book Genre: Historical Romance
1. The School Mistress 4-9-23
2. The Bride Wore White 6-1-23
3. Never Fall for Your Fiancée 9-30-23
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Book Length: 500+ pages
1. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease 4-5-23
2. How Not to Diet 4-13-23
3. Between 4-24-23
4. Things We Never Got Over 6-16-23
5. Forever Never 7-7-23
Book Length: <200 p.
1. Wait in the Truck 1-29-23
2. House In Hiding 2-1-23
3. The House That Fought 2-1-23
4. See Me 2-2-23
5. Ted's Temerity 2-4-23
A Time: Christmas
1. A Dye Hard Holiday 1-22-23
2. A Little Christmas: Aster 1-29-23
3. Look What Santa Brought 2-7-23
4. Santa's Little 2-14-23
5. Feeling Santamental 2-18-23
6. A Knot With Santa 2-24-23
7. Accidental Detour 2-25-23
8. All Wrapped Up in a Pretty Little Beau 2-25-23
9. A Sugar Daddy for Winter 2-25-23
10. Rules for Santa 3-1-23
A Place: Space
1. The Darkness Outside Us 2-11-23
2. The Sheriff of Shard Hills 4-16-23
3. Beauty and His Beast 4-27-23
4. The Mercenary's Mate 6-23-23
5. The General's Mate 6-23-23
6. The Soldier's Mate 6-24-23
7. The Lieutenant's Mate 6-24-23
8. The Engineer's Mate 6-25-23
9. The Captain's Mate 6-25-23
10. The Rebel's Mate 6-2523