Winter Reading Challenge 23-24: Completion Thread

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Let us celebrate your accomplishments here!

[Faith]

》Faith's 1st ATY Winter Challenge 23-24《

This was a fun challenge! Thanks to everyone who worked on setting the challenge up :) I filled out DREAMING OF SNOW first, but will continue to fill in the other phrases.

You can see my completed lists here.

■ Completed DREAMING OF SNOW 12/20/23

I had one 5-star read 💌 - The Gargoyle Grinch, a sweet, no-angst, holiday romance.

■ Completed WINTER WONDERLAND 12/26/23

I had one 5-star read 💌 - Dashing Mr. Snow.

■ Completed HELLO NEW BEGINNINGS 12/29/23

I had one 5-star read 💌 - A Very Bossy Christmas, laugh-out-loud funny, and sweetly swoony.

[LeahS]

Dreaming Of Snow completed 27/12/23.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Robin H-R]

~DREAMING OF SNOW (14/14) FINISHED 12/28/2023

D Death in the Devil's Acre by Anne Perry
R Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
E Eye For An Eye by David Field
A Agravain's Escape by Jacob Sannox
M Murder at the Mill by Irina Shapiro
I The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
N Not From the Stars by Christina Britton Conroy
G The Gold Seekers by E.C. Tubb

O The Bermondsey Poisoner by Emily Organ
F The Queen's Constables by David Field

S She Died Unshriven by David Field
N The Ghost of Madison Avenue by Nancy Bilyeau
O An Unwelcome Guest by Emily Organ
W Without Fear or Favour by David Field

Links to the books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Catsalive]

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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W- All Systems Red by Martha Wells 12/12 5★
I- It's That Time of Year by Roisin Meaney 13/12 4★
N- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman 5/12 3★
T- The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff 10/12 3★
E- The Twins at St Clare's by Enid Blyton 19/12 4.5★
R- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 3/12 3★

W- System Collapse by Martha Wells 30/12 3.5★
O- The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman 5/12 5★
N- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr 12/12 3.5★
D- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 6/12 5★
E- The O'Sullivan Twins by Enid Blyton 19/12 3.5★
R- Judgement in Death by J.D. Robb 3/12 3★
L- Devil's Lady by Dawn Lindsey 9/12 1★
A- The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion by Alice Kimberly 3/12 2.5★
N- If I Should Lose You by Natasha Lester 24/12 4★
D- Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber 9/12 1★

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D- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 6/12 5★
R- Judgement in Death by J.D. Robb 3/12 3★
E- The Twins at St Clare's by Enid Blyton 19/12 4.5★
A- The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion by Alice Kimberly 3/12 2.5★
M- Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb 8/12 3★ - mystery
I- It's That Time of Year by Roisin Meaney 13/12 4★
N- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman 5/12 3★
G- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 15/12 5★

O- The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman 5/12 5★
F- Ain't She Sweet by Marie Force 7/12 1★

S- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 3/12 3★
N- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr 12/12 3.5★
O- My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara 11/12 5★
W- All Systems Red by Martha Wells 12/12 5★

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H- Devil's Lady by Dawn Lindsey 9/12 1★ - historical
E- The Twins at St Clare's by Enid Blyton 19/12 4.5★
L- The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions by Kerry Greenwood 25/12 3.5★
L- Last Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton 29/12 3.5★
O- The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman 5/12 5★

N- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman 5/12 3★
E- The O'Sullivan Twins by Enid Blyton 19/12 3.5★
W- All Systems Red by Martha Wells 12/12 5★

B- Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb 8/12 3★
E- Summer Term at St Clare's by Enid Blyton 19/12 4★
G- The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion by Alice Kimberly 3/12 2.5★
I- It's That Time of Year by Roisin Meaney 13/12 4★
N- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr 12/12 3.5★
N- On the Beach by Nevil Shute 25/12 4.5★
I- If I Should Lose You by Natasha Lester 24/12 4★
N- Mister Monday by Garth Nix 26/12 4★
G- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 15/12 5★
S- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 3/12 3★

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[LeahS]

Winter Wonderland completed 29/12/23.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[JenniferAustin]

That was impressively quick!

[Robin H-R]

~WINTER WONDERLAND (16/16) - FINISHED 12/30/2023


W Without Fear or Favour by David Field
I The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
N Not From the Stars by Christina Britton Conroy
T Three Tales of Love and Murder by I.J. Parker
E The Gold Seekers by E.C. Tubb,
R Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

W The Ladies’ Column by R.A. Wallace
O The Bermondsey Poisoner by Emily Organ
N The Ghost of Madison Avenue by Nancy Bilyeau
D Death in the Devil's Acre by Anne Perry
E Eye For An Eye by David Field
R Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins
L The Last Gasp by Chautona Havig
A Agravain's Escape by Jacob Sannox
N Northern Hunt by Daniel Greene
D She Died Unshriven by David Field

Links to the books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[LeahS]

Hello New Beginnings completed 4/1/24.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...













Winter challenge completed - thanks to the mods for organising.

[GailW]

⭐ ATY Winter Reading Challenge #1 ..........completed 1/20/24
December 1, 2023 - February 29, 2024
DREAMING OF SNOW (14) - ☀ 14 / 14
spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

☀ D: author: No Way Home; Annette Dashofy mystery (Dec 2023)
☀ R: title: The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club
☀ E: title: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Dec)
☀ A: title: Abigail
☀ M: title: My Sister, the Serial Killer (Dec)
☀ I: title and author: Iwatobineko: The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife Vol. 1
☀ N: (nonfiction): genre: Nonfiction Don't Be Afraid, Gringo; Elvia Alvarado; (Dec)
☀ G: title: Girl Gone Missing (Dec)

☀ O: title: Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
☀ F: title: The Family Man (Dec 2023)

☀ S: title and author: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
☀ N: author: Nita Prose: The Mystery Guest
☀ O: title: One Crazy Summer (Dec)
☀ W: title: Who Is Vera Kelly? (Dec)

[Robin H-R]

HELLO NEW BEGINNINGS (18/18) - FINISHED 01/20/2024

H High Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky
E Eye For An Eye by David Field
L The Last Gasp by Chautona Havig
L The Ladies’ Column by R.A. Wallace
O The Bermondsey Poisoner by Emily Organ

N Not From the Stars by Christina Britton Conroy
E An Unwelcome Guest by Emily Organ
W Without Fear or Favour by David Field

B But From Thine Eyes by Christina Britton Conroy
E Burke & Hare by Owen Dudley Edwards
G The Gold Seekers by E.C. Tubb
I The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
N The Ghost of Madison Avenue by Nancy Bilyeau
N Northern Hunt by Daniel Greene
I Murder at the Mill by Irina Shapiro
N Murder at Wedgefield Manor by Erica Ruth Neubauer
G The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason
S She Died Unshriven by David Field

Links to the books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

All Three Finished!

[Kathy]

WINTER WONDERLAND Completed 1/22/24

Kathy's Winter Reading Challenge

✅W - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅I - The Bell - Iris Murdoch ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅N - The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Jim DeFede NONFICTION ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅T - The Father Christmas Letters - J.R.R. Tolkien ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅E - Jenny Wren - E.H. Young ⭐⭐⭐.5
✅R - Christmas at the Cupcake Café - Jenny Colgan -- ROMANCE

✅W - In a Dark, Dark Wood - Ruth Ware ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅O - Friends and Heroes - Olivia Manning ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅N - Night Flight - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⭐⭐⭐
✅D - Striding Folly: A Collection of Mysteries - Dorothy L. Sayers ⭐⭐⭐.5
✅E - The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅R - The Orphan Mother - Robert Hicks ⭐⭐⭐.5
✅L - The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times - Michelle Obama ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅A - The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight - Andrew Leland ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅N - Take What You Need - Idra Novey ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅D - Swimming Home - Deborah Levy ⭐⭐⭐,5

[GailW]

⭐ ATY Winter Reading Challenge #1 ..........completed 1/25/24
December 1, 2023 - February 29, 2024
WINTER WONDERLAND (16) - ☀ 16 / 16

☀ W: title: West Heart Kill
☀ I: author: Iwatobineko: The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife Vol. 1
☀ N: (nonfiction): genre: Nonfiction Don't Be Afraid, Gringo; Elvia Alvarado; (Dec)
☀ T: title: Transcendent Kingdom
☀ E: author: Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility
☀ R:: author: Mercè Rodoreda: Garden by the Sea

☀ W: title: Who Is Vera Kelly?
☀ O: title: One Crazy Summer
☀ N: author: Nita Prose: The Mystery Guest
☀ D: author: Annette Dashofy: No Way Home
☀ E: title: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Dec)
☀ R: title: The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club
☀ L: (literary fiction): genre: The Apology and the Last Days: A Novel
☀ A: title: The Lost Apothecary (Dec
☀ N: title: No Refuge
☀ D: title: Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

[Sibylle]

Completed "Dreaming of Snow" - My favorites on this list are "Die Anomalie" (The Anomaly) and "Tin Man".
It's been fun! Thank you.

D: Die Anomalie
R: Leave the World Behind by Ruman Alaam
E: Echtzeitalter
A: The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
M: A Line to Kill (Murder Mystery)
I: If Found, Return to Hell
N: Planetfall by Emma Newman
G: Good Girls Don’t Die
O: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
F: The Ferryman
S: Some Desperate Glory
N: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
O: Outlands
W: Tin Man by Sarah Winman

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

W - William Kent Krueger - The River We Remember - 12/30/23
I - Inernational - Singapore Sapphire - 1/12
N - The Nickel Boys - 12/19
T - Todd S. Purdum - Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution - 1/23
E -Eve Pendle - The Mistletoe Temptation 12/2
R - Romance - American Sweethearts - Adriana Herrera - 12/23
W - Women's - How to Suppress Women's Writing - 1/14
O - Otto Penzler - The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries - 12/23/23
N - Novel - Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein = 1/17
D - R.F. Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days - 12/28
E - England - A Curious Beginning - 1/11
R - Ronan Hession - Leonard and Hungry Paul - 1/7
L - Peter Levi - Knit One, Drop One - 12/1
A - Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety - 12/13
N - Nonfiction - How to Suppress Women's Writing - 1/14
D - Claire Delacroix - The Christmas Conquest 12/20

[Beth]

Winter Wonderland

W - Wells, Martha: System Collapse - Dec 24
I - Invisible Man, The by H.G. Wells - Jan 13
N - Naomi Novik: His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire,#1) - Jan 20
T - The Bees by Laline Paull - Jan 13
E - Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn - Jan 12
R - Reasonable Fear (Joe Dillard #4) by Scott Pratt - Jan 11

W - Wister, Owen: Ulysses S. Grant - Jan 28
O - Omer, Mike: Please Tell Me by Mike Omer - Jan 3
N - Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
D - Day That Never Comes, The (Dublin Trilogy, #2) by Caimh McDonnell - Jan 8
E - Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood - Jan 1
R - Reading List, The by Sara Nisha Adams - Jan 18
L - Lost Bookshop, The by Evie Woods - Dec 5
A - A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) by Louise Penny - Jan 5
N - Night Agent, The by Matthew Quirk - Feb 2
D - Dickens Advent Reader by Charles Dickens - Dec 24

[NancyJ]

NancyJ’s Extra Phrase - BRING CHRISTMAS CHEER

✅ B - Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
✅ R - The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
✅ I - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
✅ N -Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, nonfiction
✅ G - Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor

✅ C - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
✅ H - The Huntress by Kate Quinn
✅ R- A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
✅ I - If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O by Sharyn McCrumb
✅ S - The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
✅ T- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
✅ M - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
✅ A - Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
✅ S - Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

✅ C - A Christmas Legacy by Anne Perry
✅ H - A Highland Christmas by M.C. Beaton
✅ E - The Trees by Percival Everett
✅ E -The Christmas Doll by Elvira Woodruff
✅ R - A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn by Kate Forster , romance

[NancyJ]

ATY Winter challenge - December 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024

For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in ONE of three phrases:
- WINTER WONDERLAND (16)
- DREAMING OF SNOW (14)
- HELLO NEW BEGINNINGS (18)
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✅ W - What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
✅ I - If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O by Sharyn McCrumb
✅ N - (Nonfiction) The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
✅ T - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
✅ E - The Trees by Percival Everett
✅ R - The Christmas Star: An Audible Original -Romance

✅ W- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
✅ O - Open Throat by Henry Hoke
✅ N - (Nonfiction) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors,
✅ D- A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
✅ E - Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton(Environment)
✅ R - Yellowface,by RF Kuang
✅ L - Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart
✅ A - Unlikely Animals by Annie Arnott
✅ N - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
✅ D - The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

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✅ D - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
✅ R - A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
✅ E - The Trees byPercival Everett
✅ A - Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
✅ M - What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
✅ I - An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
✅ N - (nonfiction) The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
✅ G - Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor

✅ O - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
✅ F - The Christmas Star: An Audible Original by Forster

✅ S - The Spectacular byFiona Davis
✅ N - (Nonfiction) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors,
✅ O - Open Throat by Henry Hoke
✅ W - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

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✅ H- How to Lose a Guy Before Christmas
✅ E - The Trees byPercival Everett
✅ L - Yellowface (literary fiction)
✅ L - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin
✅ O - Open Throat by Henry Hoke

✅ N - (nonfiction) The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
✅ E - The Christmas Doll by Elvira Woodruff
✅ W- [book:Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson Wellness. Last Christmas -war

✅ B - A Highland Christmas byM.C. Beaton
✅ E - Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton( Eleanor,Environment)
✅ G -Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor
✅ I - An Incomplete Revenge
✅ N - Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, nonfiction
✅ N - (Novella) Chess Story
✅ I - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
✅ N - (nonfiction) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir byPatrisse Khan-Cullors
✅ G - Soulless by Gail Carriger
✅ S - Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

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[Wendi]

W - What Moves the Dead
I - In the Lives of Puppets
N - Nightbitch
T - A House with Good Bones by T Kingfisher
E - Exit Strategy
R - Rogue Protocol
W - What Big Teeth
O - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
N - No One Can Know
D - Do You Remember Being Born?
E - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
R - Black Sheep - Rachel Harrison
L - Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
A - Flight 171 by Amy Christine Parker
N - Counting the Cost - non fiction
D - Voices in the Snow by Darcy Coates



D - Do You Remember Being Born?
R - Love and Other Words - romance
E - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
A - All These Bodies
M - Motherthing
I - I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
N - Nightbitch
G - The Women Could Fly - Megan Giddings
O - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
F - Foe
S - Sweet Bean Paste
N - Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood - non-fiction
O - Odder
W - What Moves the Dead



H - Secrets in the Dark] - horror
E - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
L - Lovelight Farms
L - Lessons in Chemistry
O - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

N - Nightbitch
E - Exit Strategy
W - What Big Teeth

B - The Beautiful Bureaucrat
E - Eli Over Easy
G - Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel graphic novel
I - In the Lives of Puppets
N - Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood - non-fiction
N - How to Become a Planet _Nicole Melleby
I - I Think Our Son Is Gay, Vol. 1
N - Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby
G - The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
S - Don't Fear the Reaper - Stephen Graham Jones

*I copy and pasted from my original post, and it didn't transfer the links! You can look up my name/post for the links.

[Kathy]

DREAMING OF SNOW - finished 2/10/24

✅D - Cover Her Face - P.D. James DETECTIVE ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅R - Death in the Stocks - Georgette Heyer ROMANCE [small part of story] ⭐⭐⭐
✅E - The Tunnel - Ernesto Sábato ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅A - Your Inner Hedgehog - Alexander McCall Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅M - Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery - Agatha Christie MYSTERY ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅I - The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese INDIA ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅N - The Candid Life of Meena Dave - Namrata Patel ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅G - Horse - Geraldine Brooks ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅O - Open Throat - Henry Hoke ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅F - Five Winters - Kitty Johnson ⭐⭐⭐

✅S - A Shilling for Candles - Josephine Tey ⭐⭐⭐
✅N - The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James NOVEL ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅O - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot ⭐⭐⭐
✅W - The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Mie]

Dreaming of snow - completed 11.02.24
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

📗 D - Death in a White Tie
📗 R - Children of the Revolution, author Peter Robinson
📗 E - Mordnatt råder: tyst det är i husen. Lucka 1-24, author Sofia Rutbäck Eriksson
📗 A - Au pair
📗 M - Terminalen, author Michael Katz Krefeld
📗 I - Irene får hjælp
📗 N - Når det mørkner
📗 G - The Running Grave, author Robert Galbraith

📗 O - Voksbarnet, author Olga Ravn
📗 F - Fifty/fifty

📗 S - The Women in the Castle, author Jessica Shattuck
📗 N - Shelter in Place, author Nora Roberts
📗 O - Syv m2 med lås, author Jussi Adler-Olsen
📗 W - Nothing to See Here, author Kevin Wilson

[Tanu]

Completed Winter Challenge

W Whispers Under Ground - Ben Aaronovitch
I In the Clearing by J.P. Pomare
N Murder Under a Red Moon by Harini Nagendra
T The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
E Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
R The Bonnie Dead by Andrew Raymond

W Wrong Place Wrong Time - Gillian McAllister
O Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
N Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
D The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding
E Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
R The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
L Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
A Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
N The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson
D Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee

[Beth]

❄️❄️❄️ Dreaming of Snow ❄️❄️❄️

D - Duff, Alan: Once Were Warriors (Once Were Warriors Trilogy, #1) - Jan 24
R - Robert Bloch: Psycho (Psycho, #1) - Jan 24
E - E is for Evidence (Kinsey Milhone, #5) by Sue Grafton - Dec 6
A - Andrea Penrose: Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (Wrexford & Sloane, #6) - Jan 2
M - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - Jan 14
I - Injustice For All (Joe Dillard, #3) by Scott Pratt - Dec 2
N - Nonfiction - Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim - Jan 27
G - Garmus, Bonnie: Lessons in Chemistry - Jan 16

O - Outsider, The (Holly Gibney, #1) by Stephen King - Dec 30
F - Felton, Tom: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard - Dec 17

S - Screwdriver Killer, The (DI Bethany Smith, #3) by Emmy Ellis - Jan 13
N - Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman
O - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - Jan 21
W - Ware, Ruth: The It Girl - Feb 15

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

D - Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol - 12/5
R - Roaming - 12/4
E - Emily Jane - On Earth as It Is on Television - 12/9
A - All the Tea in China - 12/4
M - The Mistletoe Temptation - 12/2
I - Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World - 2/3
N - The Neon Bible - 12/6
G - Joey Green - Weird Christmas - 12/4
O - Richard Osman - The Last Devil to Die 12/1
F - Fiction - Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - 12/13
S - System Collapse - 12/18
N - Nick and Charlie - 12/12
O - Lady Osbaldestone, main character in Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Goose - 12/5
W - Weird Christmas - 12/5

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

finished another one -

W - William Kent Krueger - The River We Remember - 12/30/23
I - Ink Blood Sister Scribe - 2/16
N - The Nickel Boys - 12/19
T - Todd S. Purdum - Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution - 1/23
E -Eve Pendle - The Mistletoe Temptation 12/2
R - Romance - American Sweethearts - Adriana Herrera - 12/23
W - Women's - How to Suppress Women's Writing - 1/14
O - Otto Penzler - The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries - 12/23/23
N - Novel - Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein = 1/17
D - R.F. Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days - 12/28
E - England - A Curious Beginning - 1/11
R - Ronan Hession - Leonard and Hungry Paul - 1/7
L - Peter Levi - Knit One, Drop One - 12/1
A - Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety - 12/13
N - Nonfiction - How to Suppress Women's Writing - 1/14
D - Claire Delacroix - The Christmas Conquest 12/20

[♞ Pat]

DREAMING OF SNOW (14) ~ 2.18.24


D ~ Did You Ever Have a Family ~ 1.3.24
R ~ River Sing Me Home ~ 1.8.24
E ~ The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich ~ 1.7.24
A ~ Anatomy ~ 1.1.24
M ~ The Macau Maverick ~ 1.10.24
I ~ They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso ~ 1.28.24
N ~ Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed ... (Nonfiction) ~ 1.30.24
G ~ The Guardians by John Grisham ~ 1.9.24
O ~ The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman~ 2.18.24
F ~ Harry's Trees (Genre: Fantasy) ~ 1.12.24
S ~ Sally Brady's Italian Adventure ~ 1.3.24
N ~ How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): (Nonfiction)~ 2.10.24
O ~ On Turpentine Lane ~ 2.16.24
W ~ The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger ~ 1.17.24

[Dee]

❄️❄️❄️ ❄️ DREAMING OF SNOW ❄️❄️❄️ ❄️ - finished 2/17/24

D- (Dystopia) Julia - 1/13/24
R- Recipe for a Charmed Life - 2/3/24
E- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect - 1/31/24
A- Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies - 1/24/24
M- Mockingbird Summer - 1/29/24
I- Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con - 1/5/24
N- Nita Prose - The Mystery Guest - 1/3/24
G- Amanda Gorman - Something, Someday - 1/1/24

O- Open Throat - 1/4/24
F- The Fury - 1/20/24

S- Ali Smith - The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir - 2/17/24
N- (Non-fiction) - Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene - 1/31/24
O- Bob Odenkirk - Zilot & Other Important Rhymes - 1/2/24
W-The Women- 2/15/24

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Made it with a few days to spare.

W = The Tales of Beaufort Scales, Kim M. {W}att – 14/12/23
I = Sweep of the Blade, {I}lona Andrews – 05/02/24
N = {N}ote in the Nutcracker, Kathi Daley – 03/12/23
T ={T}alking God, Tony Hillerman – 06/12/23
E = Before, After, Alone, {E}mma Newman – 08/12/23
R = Evan Help Us, {R}hys Bowen - 18/02/24

W = Hideaway in Iceland, Victoria {W}alker – 23/12/23
O = {O}ver Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper – 22/01/24
N = Better Off Read, {N}ora Page – 11/01/24
D = Finding Hope, Kathi {D}aley – 02/12/23
E = The Night Circus, {E}rin Morgenstern – 30/01/24
R = Totally Pawstruck, Sofie {R}yan – 08/01/24
L = Purring Around the Christmas Tree, {L}iz Mugavero – 07/12/23
A = Six Geese A-Slaying, Donna {A}ndrews – 11/12/23
N = A Deadly December in Edgemont, Della {N}orth – 20/12/23
D = Hark the Herald Angels Slay, Vicki {D}elany – 13/12/23

[Conny]

I just finished the WINTER WONDERLAND challenge and will be continuing to fill the DREAMING OF SNOW phrase as I read on through the rest of the month.

√W White Lies
√I I'm Watching You
√N 88 Names
√T THRILLER: Das Herz des Bösen
√E Every Dark Corner
√R Roadwork

√W Amanda Woody: They Hate Each Other
√O Opium and Absinthe
√N NEW ADULT: Out of Character
√D Dünenfluch
√E Erin Kelly: The Skeleton Key
√R Richard Wagner und die Deutschen: Eine Geschichte von Hass und Hingabe
√L LITERARY FICTION: Bangkok Wakes to Rain
√A Ali Hazelwood: Love on the Brain
√N NOIR: Black Widow Society
√D Katerina Diamond: The Secret

[Hélène]

D - Les impatientes (The Impatient) by Djaïli Amadou Amal
R - Reykjavik
E - Et vous, comment vivrez-vous ?
A - An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
M - Geschichte der deutschen Literatur by Manfred Mai
I - City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
N - Un Afghan à Paris by Mahmud Nasimi
G - To the End of the Land by David Grossman
O - Deux fois dans le même fleuve: La guerre de Poutine contre les femmes by Sofi Oksanen
F - Fake news, l'info qui ne tourne pas rond
S - Le Livre de Noël by Selma Lagerlöf
N - Triste tigre by Neige Sinno
O - One Two Three
W - Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

[Dixie]

DREAMING OF SNOW COMPLETED 2/20/24

√D Dark Energy
√R Roman Stories
√E Eleanor Cameron: Dimensions of Amazement
√A A Very Easy Death
√M Miss Chopsticks
√I An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
√N Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
√G The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

√O The Once and Future King
√F For We Are Many

√S Spadework for a Palace
√N Nagamatsu How High We Go in the Dark
√O O Caledonia
√W Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack

[Mie]

I have completed DREAMING OF SNOW as I hoped, and I actually managed to complete WINTER WONDERLAND as well 🥳

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

And I was only 3 books from completing the last one…
So happy about this challenge 🤩

[Beth]

Completed the last phrase. Thanks for running this fun challenge!

🥳 🎉 🥳 Happy New Beginnings 🥳 🎉 🥳

H - Holmes, Marple & Poe: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century by James Patterson - Jan 14
A - Adrian McKinty: Belfast Noir - Dec 31
P - Penrose, Andrea: Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Wrexford & Sloane, #5) - Dec 19
P - Pratt, Scott: A Crime of Passion (Joe Dillard, #7) - Jan 18
Y - You (You, #1) by Caroline Kepnes - Feb 13

N - Noah, Trevor: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - Feb 10
E - Ed Lacy: Dead End - Feb 2
W - Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Feb 24

B - Blood Money (Joe Dillard, #6) by Scott Pratt - Jan 14
E - Emily Organ: Limelight (Penny Green, #1) - Feb 8
G - Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee - Jan 20
I - In Good Faith (Joe Dillard, #2) by Scott Pratt - Dec 1
N - Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Feb 12
N - Naomi Novik: Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3) - Feb 18
I - If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney, #2) by Stephen King - Jan 31
N - Narrator, The by K.L. Slater - Feb 22
G - Gemstone Peridot, The by Jon Hébert - Jan 20
S - Scott Pratt: Conflict of Interest (Joe Dillard, #5) - Jan 11

[MacKenzie]

Completed all three prompts in varied ways!

W - Montana 1948 by Larry Watson (completed 12/31)
I - Iron Flame (completed 12/16)
N - Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights [nonfiction] (completed 12/13)
T - The Blood Gift (completed 12/1)
E - Happening by Annie Ernaux (completed 12/27)
R - Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (completed 12/30)

W - Unbowed by Wangari Maathai (completed 12/20)
O - One Day in December (completed 12/6)
N - Passing by Nella Larsen (completed 12/13)
D - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (completed 12/20)
E - A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand (completed 1/4)
R - River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (completed 1/5)
L - Letters from Cuba (completed 12/24)
A - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (completed 12/14)
N - Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (completed 1/21)
D - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (completed 1/8)


D - Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? (completed 12/25)
R - The Art of Scandal by Regina Black (completed 1/17)
E - How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (completed 1/10)
A - These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett (completed 12/6)
M - Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (completed 12/7)
I - The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin (completed 12/31)
N - Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History (completed 12/16)
G - God Emperor of Dune (completed 12/12)


O - Our Crooked Hearts (completed 1/2)
F - Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu (completed 12/13)

S - The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty (completed 12/22)
N - Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do [nonfiction] (completed 12/27)
O - Only the Beautiful (completed 1/18)
W - Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (completed 2/22)

H - The Dinner by Herman Koch (completed 12/7)
E - Pageboy by Elliot Page (completed 1/28)
L - The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas (completed 12/27)
L - The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch (completed 12/28)
O - Oryx and Crake (completed 2/7)

N - A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha [nonfiction] (completed 12/29)
E - Empire Falls (completed 1/30)
W - Zero Days by Ruth Ware (completed 2/10)

B - The Lion Tracker's Guide To Life by Boyd Varty (completed 12/9)
E - Evil Eye (completed 1/31)
G - The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (completed 12/19)
I - I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (completed 2/6)
N - No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay (completed 12/31)
N - Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon (completed 1/2)
I - Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto (completed 2/14)
N - The Woman in Me [nonfiction] (completed 1/6)
G - You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks (completed 12/21)
S - Jurassic Park [science fiction] (completed 12/29)

[Edie]

WINTER WONDERLAND is complete!

W (Last Name) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
I (Last Name) The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
N (Title) No One Leaves the Castle by Christopher Healy
T (Genre - Thriller) Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King, Richard Cizmar
E (First Name) The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
R (Title) The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
W (Last Name) Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
O (Title) Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy)
N (First Name) The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
D (First Name) Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
E (Title) Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy
R (First Name) Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
L (Genre - Literary Fiction) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
A (First/Last Name) Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
N (Genre - Nature) The Honey Bus by Meredith May
D (Last Name) Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

[Ciara]

Completed!

H- Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
E- The Guest - Emma Cline
L- The Late Americans - Brandon Taylor
L- Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang
O- The Rachel Incident - Caroline O'Donoghue

N- The New Earth - Jess Row
E- The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Debra Magpie Earling
W- Mister Magic - Kiersten White

B- The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
E- The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories - Louise Kennedy
G- Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades - Rebecca Renner
I- Sing Her Down - Ivy Pochada
N- Voyager: Constellations of Memory - Nona Fernández
N- None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive - Carolyn Prusa
I- Independence Square - Martin Cruz Smith
N- Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
G- Yours for the Taking - Gabrielle Korn
S- The Violin Conspiracy - Brendan Slocumb


W - The Witching Tide - Margaret Meyer
I - Quietly Hostile: Essays - Samantha Irby
N - North Woods - Daniel Mason
T - Cold People - Tom Rob Smith
E - Eyeliner: A Cultural History - Zahra Hankir
R - The Moth for the Star - James Reich

W - Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward
O - Poor Deer - Claire Oshetsky
N - Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall - Zeke Faux
D - Vintage Contemporaries - Dan Kois
E - Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet - Taylor Lorenz
R - The Red-Headed Pilgrim - Kevin Maloney
L - Boys Weekend - Mattie Lubchansky
A - Happiness Falls - Angie Kim
N - Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
D - Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult - Michelle Dowd


D - Scorched Grace - Margot Douaihy
R - Brainwyrms - Allison Rumfitt
E - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant - Curtis Chin
A - The Apology - Jimin Han
M - Beloved - Toni Morrison
I - I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art - Emily C. Bloom
N - The New Naturals - Gabriel Bump
G - Monstrilio - Gerardo Samano Cordova

O - There There - Tommy Orange
F - Amazing Grace Adams - Fran Littlewood

S - The Shamshine Blind - Paz Pardo
N - Hild - Nicola Griffith
O - The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris
W - We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry

[Amanda]

I did it! It was kinda iffy there for a while whether or not I was going to finish, but I did :)

[Roxana]

Only completed one phrase in full - I had a letter or two left on each of the other ones, those darn Ns are killing me, lol


W: Westmark ☑️
I: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles ☑️
N: No One Can Know ☑️
T: That's Not My Name ☑️
E: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi ☑️
R: Ruthless Vows ☑️
W: Well Met ☑️
O: Of Socialites and Prizefights☑️
N: The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman ☑️
D: Don't Want You Like a Best Friend ☑️
E: Eurydice ☑️
R: Rhythm and Clues ☑️
L: Love, Naturally ☑️
A: Animal Life ☑️
N: The Nine Tailors ☑️
D: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years ☑️

[Denise]

Completed: Winter Wonderland

√WOMEN'S fiction: Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
√INSPIRATIONAL: Build The Life You Want by Arthur Brooks
√NORMAL People by Sally Rooney
√TOSHIKAZU Kawaguchi: Before We Say Goodbye
√ECHO of Old Books (The) by Barbara Davis
√REALISTIC fiction: Apeirogon by Colum McCann
√WOMEN'S fiction: Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
√OCTAVIA Butler: Parable of the Talents
√NAPOLITANO, Ann: Hello, Beautiful
√DAME Agatha Christie: Murder On The Orient Express
√EPIC: Beowulf trans. by Seamus Heaney
√REALISTIC fiction: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
√LYONS, Annie: The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
√ALCOTT, Louisa May: Little Women
√NONFICTION: X Saves The World by Jeff Gordinier
√DOUGLAS Adams: The Restaurant At the End of the Universe

[Nancy]

I finished one round of this challenge, and was 3 books away from finishing a second round. Those "N" and "E" books trip me up every time!

D - A December to Remember - Jenny Bayliss (Title)
R - So This is Christmas - Jenny Holiday (Romance)
E - The Expectant Detectives - Kat Ailes (Title)
A - All I Want for Christmas - Maggie Knox (Title)
M - Blackmail and Bibingka - Mia P. Manansala (Author)
I - The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman (Title)
N - One Day - David Nicholls (Author)
G - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson (Title)
O - One Christmas Morning - Rachel Greenlaw (Title)
F - Five Winters - Kitty Johnson (Title)
S - Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (Title)
N - The Night Shift - Alex Finlay (Title)
O - 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami (Title)
W - White Elephant - Trish Harnetiaux (Title)

[Joy D]

Completed all except 2 letters from all 3 words:

December 1, 2023 and finishes on February 29, 2024

W - Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson - 12/8/23 - 4* - My Review
I - In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje - 1/24/24 - 3* - My Review
N - A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols - 1/22/24 - 4* - My Review
T - The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar - 3* - My Review
E - The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn - 12/31/23 - 4.5* - My Review
R - The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth - 12/1/23 - 4* - My Review
W - The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John - 12/11/23 - 3* - My Review
O - The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - 1/9/24 - 4* - My Review
N - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - 2/6/24 - 4* - My Review
D - Dayswork by Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel - 12/13/23 - 3.5* - My Review
E - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - 1/7/23 - 4* - My Review
R - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - 1/11/24 - 4* - My Review
L - White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link - 12/6/23 - 3* - My Review
A - What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama - 12/22/23 - 4* - My Review
N - A House For Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul - 2/10/24 - 4* - My Review
D - Charles Dickens' Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens - 12/25/23 - 4* - My Review

D - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 12/9/23 - 5* - My Review
R - The Long Take: A noir narrative by Robin Robertson - 12/12/23 - 4* - My Review
E - Murmur by Will Eaves - 12/7/23 - 4* - My Review
A - Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry - 12/4/23 - 4* - My Review
M - The Many by Wyl Menmuir - 12/14/23 - 3* - My Review
I - "I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt - 1/19/24 - 4* - My Review
N - Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell - 12/2/23 - 4* - My Review
G - The Details by Ia Genberg - 12/24/23 - 3.5* - My Review
O - Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit - 12/18/23 - 4* - My Review
F - Felicia's Journey by William Trevor - 12/17/23 - 3* - My Review
S - The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo - 12/3/23 - 4* - My Review
N - Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - 12/23/23 - 4* - My Review
O - The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict - 1/7/23 - 4* - My Review
W - Chemistry by Weike Wang - 12/16/23 - 4* - My Review

H - A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly - 1/1/24 - 3* - My Review
E - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan - 2/1/24 - 5* - My Review
L - Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger - 12/20/23 - 5* - My Review
L - All The Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow - 12/9/23 - 4* - My Review
O - Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier - 1/16/24 - 5* - My Review
N - Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya - 2/17/24 - 4* - My Review
E - Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell - 2/3/24 - 3* - My Review
W - Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson - 1/25/24 - 4* - My Review
B - Blackouts by Justin Torres - 12/19/23 - 4* - My Review
E - You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue - 2/28/24 - 3.5* - My Review
G - The General and Julia by Jon Clinch - 1/3/24 - 4* - My Review
I - Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - 2/9/24 - 5* - My Review
N - The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen -2/19/24 - 4* - My Review
N - Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller - 2/20/24 - 4* - My Review
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G - Sea Wife by Amity Gaige - 1/9/24 - 4* - My Review
S - Cold People by Tom Rob Smith - 12/10/23 - 2* - My Review