NancyJ's Fall reading challenge Completed 2

[NancyJ]

All Things Fall

It's time for our Fall Seasonal Challenge! We have a series of prompts related to the fall season that is sure to inspire you and help you get those books read as we enter the end of the year.

When?
This challenge runs from September 1, 2023 through November 30, 2023.

The Prompts:
Find a book that...
✅1. Has a orange cover
✔️The Marriage Portrait
✔️Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic--and How to Get Healthy Again
✔️Iron Flame
✔️Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea


✅2. Fits the phrase "a falling out"
✔️The End of the Affair
✔️Trespasses
✔️Half of a Yellow Sun

✅3. Has a tree on the cover
✔️ The Snow Child
✔️In the Lives of Puppets


✅4. Is in a fantasy genre
✔️A Court of Thorns and Roses
✔️Six of Crows
✔️The Bird and the Sword
✔️Iron Flame

✅5. Is set in autumn
✔️Autumn
✔️Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak (the school section)

✅ 6. Feels cozy
✔️All Dogs Go to Kevin: Everything Three Dogs Taught Me
✔️Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

✅7. Makes you think of Thanksgiving (or giving thanks)
✔️Humankind: A Hopeful History
✔️This Time Tomorrow
Unlikely Animals - thanksgiving week

✅8. Is one last summer read
✔️Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
✔️Foster by Claire Keegan

✅9. Is witchy -
✔️Pearl wiccan character
✔️Dragonflight magical powers

✅10. Features family relationships
✔️Everything Here Is Beautiful
✔️Half of a Yellow Sun
✔️This Time Tomorrow

✅11. Is a book you'd read in English 101 (sample list)*
✔️A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
✔️Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson- Pulitzer nominee

✅12. Features a found family
✔️The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
✔️The Snow Child
✔️In the Lives of Puppets

✅13. Has a rural setting
✔️Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
✔️In the Bleak Midwinter

✅14. Features an athlete
✔️Hello Beautiful- a main character is a basketball player
✔️Tom Lake -a secondary character is a tennis pro

✅15. Was published in October
✔️The Dispatcher
✔️The Tsar of Love and Techno

[NancyJ]

Fall 2023

[NancyJ]

Fall 2023 reading



✔️Pearl by Sian Hughes- last summer read, rural, family relationships (sad, not cozy)
✔️Fosterg
✔️The Reader by Bernhardt Schlink
✔️Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman - thanksgiving
✔️The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
✔️Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
✔️Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
✔️Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
✔️The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
✔️The Door by Magda Szabo
✔️The Snow Child
✔️Housekeeping
✔️In the Bleak Midwinter
✔️Trespasses

✔️The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
✔️Three Daughters of Eve
✔️Everything Here Is Beautiful
✔️Half of a Yellow Sun
✔️Weather
✔️All Dogs Go to Kevin: Everything Three Dogs Taught Me
✔️The Dispatcher
✔️Murder by Other Means
✔️Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
✔️A Tale of Two Cities
✔️A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
✔️The Left Hand of Darkness
✔️A Court of Thorns and Roses
✔️Six of Crows
✔️In the Lives of Puppets
✔️Dragonflight
✔️The End of the Affair
✔️Autumn
✔️Iron Flame
✔️Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
✔️The Bird and the Sword
✔️Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic--and How to Get Healthy Again
✔️A Girl Called Samson
✔️Girl in Hyacinth Blue
✔️Happy-Go-Lucky
✔️This Time Tomorrow

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Yellowface December
Pinocchio DNF
Unlikely Animals December
Enough December
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons - DNF
If I Survive You - DNF