(Closed) "The" Challenge - Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2023

[Edwina]

Read at least 24 books (or more) starting with the word "The" in 2023.
Please wait until Jan. 1st to start.

Happy New Year & Happy Reading!

[Cheryl]

Should be doable even if I just stick to Mt. TBR (not library books) and not little kid books. Good luck everyone!

[Nancy]

"The" title challenge (at least 24 books starting with the word 'The'
(at least 24 books)

1. The Speckled Beauty by Rick Bragg
2. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
3. The Nearness of You by Iris Morland
4. The Little French Bistro by Nina George
5. The Executive's Decision by Bernadette Marie
6. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
7. The Footman and I by Valerie Bowman
8. The River by Gary Paulsen
9. The Reluctant Journey of David Connors by Don Locke
10. The Women's March by Jennifer Chiaverini
11. The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges
12. The Last Bookshop of London by Madeline Martin
13. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
14. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
15. The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
16. The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
17. The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
18. The Scot, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Annette Blair
19. The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
20. The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
21. The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D by Nichole Bernier
22. The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Lubuskes
23. The Liberation of Paris by Jean Edward Smith
24. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
25. The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
26. The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
27. The Library of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk

[Edwina]

"The" Challenge

1. The Ascendant by Drew Chapman - Finished

2. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford - Finished

3. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya - Finished

4. The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood - Finished

5. The Worst Thing I've Done by Ursula Hegi - Finished

6. The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher - Finished

7. The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz - Finished

8. The Answer to the Riddle Is Me by David Stuart MacLean - Finished

9. The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner - Finished

10. The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman - Finished

11. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlet
- Finished

12. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink - Finished

13. The 22 Murders of Madison May - Max Barry - Finished

14. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne - Finished

15. The Murder House - James Patterson - Finished

16. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson - Finished

17. The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware - Finished

18. The Jackal's Head - Elizabeth Peters - Finished

19. The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell Wright - Finished

20. The Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds - Finished

21. The Haunting of Josie - Kay Hooper - Finished

22. The Big Bad Wolf - James Patterson - Finished

23. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - Finished

24. The Last Girls - Lee Smith - Finished

Challenge completed on November 9, 2023.

[Deb]

Challenge taken! 😄

1. The Secret Piano by Zhu Xiao-Mei
2. The Journal of Augustus Pelletier : The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Katheryn Lasky
3. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. The Great Reset by Glenn Beck
5. The Kindred Spirits Supper Club by Amy E. Reichert
6. The Dragon of Trelian by Michelle Knudsen
7. The Magic of Life by Michael Gershe, M.Ed
8. The Winners by Fredrik Backman
9. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Di Camillo
10. The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
11. The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner
12. The Cat Who Went Up a Creek by Lilian Jackson Braun
13. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
14. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
15. The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
16. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
17. The Long Run by Leo Furey
18. The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck
19. The Winter King by Christine Cohen
20. The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
21. The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
22. The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
23. The Best Ghost Stories Ever by Christopher Krovatin
24. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

[Cheryl]

"The" title challenge (at least 24 books)

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[Alison]

This should be doable, I’m in!

[Chana]

In again

1. The Autobiography of Foudini M Cat by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer DONE

2. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill DONE

3. The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant DONE

4. The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida DONE

5. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope DONE

6. The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman DONE

7. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux DONE

8. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston DONE

9. The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks DONE

10. The Juice Generation by Eric Helms

11, The Known World by Edward P. Jones DONE

12. The Long Exile by Melanie McGrath DONE

13. The Magician's Tale by David Hunt DONE

14, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore DONE

15. The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman

16. The Quickening by Michelle Hoover

17. The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick

18. The Supreme's Greatest Hits by Michael G. Trachtman

19. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley DONE

20. The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts

21. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

22. The Wolf by L. David Mech

23. The Yard by Alex Grecian

24. The Night is Forever by Heather Graham

[Rebecca]

Alright, might as well let my other challenge to double duty! Edited: SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH MY LAST UPDATE! Now I have to retype all of them... ARGH. I'm also tracking all of the books I read that fall under the same letter just to see if there are any popular letters. :-)

1. A:
2. B:
3. C:
4. D:
5. E:
6. F:
7. G:
8. H: Hemlock at Vespers - P. Tremayne (DONE 3/22/23)
9. I:
10. J:
11. K: Kitchen Confidential - A. Bourdain (DONE 3/29/23)
12. L: Lincoln in the Bardo - G. Saunders (DONE 3/12/23)
13. M: Mexican Gothic - S. Moreno-Garcia (DONE 2/21/23); (The) Monk who Vanished - P. Tremayne (DONE 1/28/23)
14. N: (The) Novice's Tale - M. Frazer (DONE 6/6/23) Review
15.O:
16.P: (A) Particular Kind of Black Man - T. Folarin (DONE 1/28/23)
17.Q: Quicksilver -Neal Stephenson (DONE 6/9/23) Review
18. R:
19. S: Small Teaching Online - F. Darby (DONE 3/27/23); Smoke in the Wind - P. Tremayne (DONE 3/12/23); Standing at the Edge - J. Halifax (DONE 2/12/23); Serpentine - P. Pullman (DONE 2/6/23)
20. T: This Tender Land - W. Kent Krueger (DONE 4/25/23)
21. U:
22. V: (The) Violin Conspiracy - B. Slocumb (DONE 1/15/23)
23. W:
24.X:
25. Y:
26. Z:

[Chana]

I don't know what happened to my edit button! I finished The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman and The Quickening by Michelle Hoover. Now I am reading the Rescue Artist about the robbery of the painting of The Scream, and the efforts to recover it. Good book!

[Edwina]

Chana wrote: "I don't know what happened to my edit button! I finished The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman and The Quickening by Michelle Hoover. Now I am reading the Rescue Artist about the robbery of..."

The Rescue Artist sounds fascinating. Who is the author, please?
I'd like to see if it is available at my library.

In reply to editing. I saw on the forum that editing posts using a phone isn't working and they suggest using a desk or lap top computer.

[Edwina]

I completed this challenge on Nov. 9th.
Just now remembering to update.

How is everyone else doing?