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El Camino Trailhttps://stingynomads.com/camino-franc...
There are 7 main routes to this pilgrimage. The most popular one is Camino Frances and we're going to take that one, however, we will pick it up at Sarria rather than doing the entire route.
Start - Sarria
King Alfonso IX of León died in Sarria in 1230 while making a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. That's kind of an auspicious start to the hike.
Task: Read a book that has "King" in the title, or the author is named King. - King's Cage
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Checkpoint 1 - Palas de Rei
There's little to do at Palas de Rei other that gawk in amazement at the architecture. Maybe it's time to stop at PalaShama Quiromasaje & Bienestar spa and treat ourselves to a massage. They offer Special Pilgrim, mud, antiaging, vitamin rituals. "Seek peace for your mind and you will find health for your body"
Task: Read a book with "Body" in the title.
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Checkpoint 2 - Melide
In the 15th Century, Melide played a central role in the Irmandiña Revolts against the power of the local barons. It was during these revolts that the walls of the town and the fortress were destroyed. The stone however was later used in the construction of the Convent of Sancti Spiritus.
Task: Read a book where a nun is a significant character. - The Space Between
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Checkpoint 3 - Arzua
It is one of the Galician municipalities with more cows per capita rate in Galicia and it is well known for its cheese.
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Checkpoint 4 - O Pedrouzo
Its main attractions consist of the Roman bridge over the Rio Mera and the parish Church of Santa Eulalia de Arca.
Task: Read a book with a bridge prominently on the cover.
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Finish - Santiago de Compostela
It is the alleged burial site of the Biblical apostle St. James. His remains reputedly lie within the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela.
Task: Read a book with a significant character or author named "James" (Jim, or other derivatives are not allowed.) - James Herriot's Animal Stories
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The Jesus TrailThe Jesus Trail is a 65-kilometre hiking trail in the Galilee region of Israel which connects important sites from the life of Jesus as well as other historical and religious sites. The Jesus Trail offers pilgrims the experience walking in the footsteps of Jesus.
https://ignatiancamino.com/camino-aus...
The route begins in Nazareth and passes through Zippori National Park,Cana, Ilaniya, Kibbutz Lavi, the Horns of Hattin, Nebi Shu’eib, Arbel National Park, Migdal, the Jesus Boat at Kibbutz Ginosar, Tabgha, the Mount of Beatitudes, and Capernaum
https://ignatiancamino.com/camino-aus...
Start - Nazareth
Nazareth is most well-known for being the childhood home of Jesus.
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Checkpoint 1 - Cana
Cana is the traditional site of the wedding feast where Jesus performed his first miracle of turning water into wine.
Task: Read a book where a wedding takes place. - Sari, Not Sari
My First Choice - Our Town
My 2nd Choice - Meet Me in Monaco
Checkpoint 2 - Kibbutz Lavi
Kibbutz Lavi is the biggest manufacturer of synagogue furniture in the world and is the perfect place to buy a Torah table or new pews.
Read a book with a pew, bench, or sofa on the cover.
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Checkpoint 3 - Migdal
The modern town of Migdal is the traditional site of Magdala, the town of Mary Magdalene, a follower of Jesus. The name Magdala comes from the word for “tower” and probably referred to towers used for drying fish caught in the Sea of Galilee.
Task: Read a book with a significant character or author named "Mary". - Open Season
My First Choice - Tender Is the Night
My 2nd Choice - The Bourne Ultimatum
Checkpoint 4 - Mount of Beatitudes
The Mount of the Beatitudes is the traditional site of the Sermon on the Mount, which contains a passage known as the Beatitudes.
Task: Read a book with "Bless", "Blessed", "Blessing" in the title or subtitle.
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Finish - Capernaum
There are numerous references to Capernaum in the New Testament including the healing of the Centurion’s servant, driving out of a demon, healing of a paralytic, as well as other healings.
Task: Read a book that has a medical doctor or nurse as the main character.
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Adventure Hikes:
Lares Trak Roya Inca Trail to Machu Pichu
https://www.mountainkingdoms.com/holi...
My real life book club created a bucket list, and Machu Picchu was on several of the members lists. I believe only one member actually made it there.
Start: Cuzco, Peru
The indigenous name of this city is Qusqu. Although the name was used in Southern Quechua, its origin is found in the Aymara language. The word is derived from the phrase qusqu wanka ('rock of the owl'), related to the city's foundation myth of the Ayar siblings. According to this legend, Ayar Awqa (Ayar Auca) acquired wings and flew to the site of the future city; there he was transformed into a rock to mark the possession of the land by his ayllu ("lineage"):
Read a book from one of these two lists:
Fantasy Novels Based in Native American Myth
Books Based on Mythology by Marginalised Authors
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Checkpoint 1: Sacred Valley
Stretching from Pisac to Ollantaytambo, this fertile valley is irrigated by the Urubamba River.
Read a book that has river in the title, or a river on the cover.
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Checkpoint 2: Moray
Inca archaeological site on a high plateau featuring a series of concentric terraces.
Read a book with the theme of archaeology.
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Checkpoint 3: Tortora
The small village of Totora is a small village that begins the Lares Trek. It takes you along an ancient Inca Trail into a narrow canyon where Inca tombs perched high up in the cliffs.
Read a book with the word canyon or tomb is in the title. Subtitles will be allowed on this task.
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Checkpoint 4: Huchayccasa & Ipsaycocha Passes
These two passes on the Lares Trek offer stunning views of the mountains.
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Finish: Machu Picchu
It is often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
Read a book with both words Lost AND City in the title or subtitle.
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West Highland Way - Scotlandhttps://www.macsadventure.com/us/tour...
Come prepared for a blistering time, whether it's from walking or sampling the local whiskey.
Start: Glascow
Although Glascow looks to be smack in the middle of Scotland, looking at a map, it is actually the largest seaport in Scotland, and tenth largest by tonnage in Britain.
Read a book that is set in a seaport. - February
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Checkpoint 1: Glengoyne Distillery
Before we begin our hike, we need to fortify our courage with taste testing some very fine Scotch whiskey. For a mere £1,050.00 you can buy a bottle of 30 year old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whiskey.
Read a book where the main character is in his/her 30's. - About a Boy
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Checkpoint 2: Bridge of Orchy
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/li...
Read a book with a bridge on the cover.
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Checkpoint 3: Rannoch Moor
Even though we'll be hiking into this area, it's recommended to take the Jacobite steam train, also known as The Hogwart's Express.
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Checkpoint 4: Devil's Staircase
Between the 18th and 20th century, many people in Glen Coe have been believed to have been ‘claimed by the Devil.’ This is because many workers at the Blackwater Reservoir, after failing to return home after a winter’s night at the local pub, would have struggled the steep path of the route. This is why the nickname ‘Devil’s Staircase’ came about.
One of the reportedly best pubs in Glencoe is the Clachaig Inn.
Read a book with "Inn" in the title.
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Finish: Fort WIlliam
Around 726 people (7.33% of the population) can speak Gaelic.
Read a book that was originally written in a language other than English. - The Honjin Murders
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West Coast Pacific Rim (Canada)This hike is truly a challenge with it's rugged terrain and level of difficulty.
https://happiestoutdoors.ca/guide-to-...
Start: Pachina Bay
You have a choice to take the beach route, or take the forest route. That makes me think of dual outlooks.
Read a book that is set in dual timelines. - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
My First Choice - Before We Were Yours
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Checkpoint 1: Tsusiat Falls
You will find Tsusiat Falls at the base of an extraordinary array of ladders extending hundreds of metres up into the trees. (Scroll down a few pictures to see what a challenge they would be.
https://hikewct.com/index.php/campsit...
Read a book with stairs on the cover.
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Checkpoint 2: Walbran Creek
You can catch a ride across Walbran Creek on the longest cable car of the West Coast Trail. The beach route is mostly easy walking on the sandstone shelf. The crux is the ford of Walbran Creek. Low tide would be best.
Read a book with Tide in the title.
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Checkpoint 3: Camper Bay
The West Coast Trail is the shipyard graveyard of the pacific. The John Marshall shipwreck is located under the waves just outside the mouth of Camper Bay. The John Marshall was a 3 massed ship out of San Francisco and sunk in 1860 with no loss of life.
Read a book set in San Francisco.
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Checkpoint 4: Thrasher Cove
Three kilometers away are the Owen Point Caves. It is home to a stunningly colourful and well hidden area of sandstone caves carved out by the ocean. Centuries of crashing waves have gouged out huge, circular openings in the cliffs jutting out into the ocean.
Read a book from this list: 4 Colors on the Cover
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Finish: Gordon River
The stretch from Thrasher Cove to Gordon River is the most difficult part of the hike but you're done! Use the rope next to the ladder to raise the buoy up to the top. This signals to the ferry operator that you want a pickup.
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City Walks:
Anytime we were on holiday, I would take my husband and son on a walking tour of the city. It's the best immersive experience. Let's visit some of the lesser known city destinations., starting with Reykjavik, Iceland
Start: Nautholsvik Geothermal Beach
Bordering on the airport, this is the perfect place to start. It has a beach with an artificial hot spring – hot water is pumped into a man-made lagoon.
Read a book with the word "Lagoon" or "Swim" in the title.
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Checkpoint 1: National Museum of Iceland
The National Museum´s experts supervise houses and other buildings in the ownership and keeping of the National Museum of Iceland. The museum began its campaign for the preservation of old buildings in the early 20th century.
Read a book that has an obviously old building on it.
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eg; The Sacrament by Olaf Olafsson , Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth, #3) by M.C. Beaton , Macbeth by A.J. Hartley , Symphony of Bones (Cassie Quinn, 3) by L.T. Ryan
Checkpoint 2: Sun Voyager
The gleaming steel sculpture on Reykjavik’s splendid waterfront that resembles a Viking long-ship is the ‘Solfar’ or ‘Sun Voyager.’ The artist Jon Gunnar Arnason created the striking landmark.
Read a book about the Vikings.
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Checkpoint 3: Rainbow Street
One of the main streets in downtown Reykjavík has been dressed up in the colors of the rainbow to celebrate Reykjavík Pride which is now held for the seventeenth time.
Reykjavík Pride is one of many festivals that make Reykjavík a cultural and vibrant festival city all year long. Reykjavík Pride has been held annually since 1999 and it has evolved into a festival that attracts up to 100 thousand guests from all over the world. Reykjavík Pride is one of the biggest events in Iceland and one of the biggest little Prides in the world.
Read a book with the genre LGBT on the main book page. - Felix Ever After
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Checkpoint 4: The Einer Jonsson Museum
This is a small museum containing the works of Einer Jonsson who was an Icelandic sculptor.
In 1917, Einer was commissioned to do a sculpture in Philadelphia, and today Einar's intrepid Norseman stands on East River Drive in Philadelphia.
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Finish: Hallgrimskirkja
This 73 meter high church sits in the middle of Reykjavik and has a panoramic view of all Reykjavik, the mountains around and the ocean stretching west to Greenland and the Americas.
Read a book set in Iceland.
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I'm sure Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA will have some interesting hikes for us to do.Start: McLarty Treasure Museum
The McLarty Treasure Museum is a great little museum that paints the story of the ill-fated 1715 fleet of eleven Spanish galleon ships laden with gold, silver, copper and riches as they were heading back to Spain.
Read a book with one of the following words in the title: treasure, Gold, Silver, or Copper. - Demon Copperhead
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Checkpoint 1: Turkey Creek Sanctuary
Do you ever wonder how places get their names? Creeks seem to have some of the more interesting names. We have Bent Pipe Creek and Pickle Jar Creek in northern Alberta. If you need more hiking, this stop will enable you to hike on its 1.5 miles of trails. They even have a butterfly garden to observe.
Read a book that has one of these words in the title: Turkey, Creek, Butterfly - Fourth of July Creek
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Checkpoint 2: The Wizard of Oz Museum
The museum is dedicated to artifacts and memorability from the original movie, one of the United States' best-loved fairy tales.
Read a book that is a retelling of a fairy tale. - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
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Checkpoint 3: Manatee Observation Deck
Any time I've seen Manatees was in an aquarium. They can be seen in the wild from this observation deck. The Manatee are inexplicably draw to this pool of water.
Read a book with a bridge traversing a body of water. You must be able to see the water as well as the bridge.
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Checkpoint 4: Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse has stood on the Cape for over 150 years. Situated amidst America’s Premier Gateway to Space, the lighthouse is owned by the United States Space Force and maintained as an active aid to navigation by the United States Coast Guard.
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Finish: Kennedy Space Center
We have to leave the best for last. From the dawn of space exploration to current and ongoing missions, you can get an up-close, hands-on feel for the story of humans in space.
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Auckland has some good things in store for us.Start: Auckland Zoo
I think the zoo is a good place to start. It will be a good hike, seeing all the animals laughing at us. The zoo offers some in-depth experiences, getting up close with Galápagos tortoise, giraffe, barn owl, red panda or squirrel monkeys at Auckland Zoo.
Read a book with one of the words turtle, giraffe owl, panda, or monkey in the title. Turtles All the Way Down
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Checkpoint 1: MOTAT (Museum of Transportation and Technology
Learn more about New Zealand’s transport heritage including tram, rail and road transport along with aviation and military aircraft.
Read a book with a large tram, train, vehicle, or plane on the cover. This museum is about historical travel, so what is needed are OLD CLASSIC vehicles.
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Checkpoint 2: Sky Tower
For over 25 years now, this magnificent 328m high structure has been the focal point of Auckland, rising up out of the land to delight locals and visitors alike.
Read a book that is between 300 & 350 pages. - The October List
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Checkpoint 3: Silo Park
https://www.silopark.co.nz/
What a great idea! A park was built around some silos and turned into a lovely area for families to gather and play.
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Checkpoint 4: Rangitoto Island
Ready for another volcano task? Nah, I wouldn't do that to you.
Rangitoto is Auckland’s most iconic island, with its distinctive symmetrical cone and superb location just off the coast. Only a short scenic ferry ride across the harbour from downtown Auckland, the island is a favourite destination for hikers and day-trippers. Emerging unexpectedly from the sea some 600 years ago, it is the youngest and largest volcano in the Auckland volcanic field.
Read a book set on an small island. Note: Places like UK, Australia, New Zealand Greenland, Iceland, etc are not accepted. It may be an island off the coast of these countries, but not a random location. - Three Junes
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Finish: Howick Historical Village
Howick Historical Village is a living history museum on 7 acres of grounds and heritage gardens. The museum depicts a settlement in the period from 1840 to 1880 and offers visitors an immersive historical experience.
Read a book set between 1840 and 1880. - Good Wives
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Literature Treks:
Chasing Dracula
Will Good overcome Evil? Will Dracula make it back to his castle and safety, or will Helsing reign victorious? Hike the trail and find out.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dr...
https://midliferoadtrip.tv/spending-t...
Start - London
When at the King's Cross Train Station, make sure you get the correct platform. Platform 9 and 3/4s will take you to Hogwarts and that's the wrong trek. Instead, you're going to take the train so that you can easily cross into France through the Chunnel.
Task: Read a book with a group of people on the cover.
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Checkpoint 1 - Paris
It might be a good idea to plan your trip this fall because The Cinémathèque française is dedicating a cross-cultural exhibition to the influence of vampires in the arts and literature to coincide with Halloween.
Task: Read a book with Halloween as a theme.
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Checkpoint 2: Munich
There, you'll tour Frauenkirche cathedral. It features 2 domed towers. Both towers contain ten bells cast in the 14th, 15th, 17th and 21st centuries. Their combination is unique and incomparable in Europe. The heaviest bell called Susanna or Salveglocke is one of the biggest bells in Bavaria.
Task: Read a book with a character or author named Susanna or Susan.
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Checkpoint 3: Budapest
Visit Pest-Buda Bistro to sample chicken with paprika — Jonathon Harker enjoyed the dish so much, he planned to take down the recipe.
Task: Read a book with a meal on the cover.
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Checkpoint 4: Bran Castle
Both, on Harker's first trip to Dracula's Castle and when returning, wolves were in pursuit. Dracula also appeared as a wolf in London.
Task: Read a book with a wolf on the cover, in the title, or about wolves. They may be shapeshifters.
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Finish: Bucharest
Your hike ends at Bucharest after visiting the home of Count Dracula at Bran Castle. Enjoy your stay. Crime is lower here than in other European cities.
Task: Read a book tagged as "Crime" on the main book page. - One False Move
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Perhaps The Realm of the Elderlings calls you.https://robinhobbelderlings.fandom.co...
The realm of the Elderlings is made of of 6 duchies, and we will visit them all instead of following a particular trail. Still you will need to read in the order listed:
Start - Bearns
It is the northernmost coastal duchy. Bearns's folk are notable for being the most warrior-like of the Six Duchies folk, and are physically unique for having wide cheekbones. The duchy's colour is yellow and its symbol a yellow flower.
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Checkpoint 1: Buck
It is the duchy where the Royal family traditionally rules from. It is one of the four Coastal Duchies and the home of Buckkeep, the capital of the Six Duchies. Blue is the colour of this duchy, and a charging buck its symbol. Buck's wealth has two major sources: the rich fishing grounds that the coastal folk have always enjoyed, and the shipping trade created by supplying the Inland Duchies with all they lack via the Buck River.
Read a book from Nautical Tales List
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Checkpoint 2: Rippon
Rippon is located to the south of Buck. It is one of the four Coastal Duchies. It is ruled by Duke Kelvar whose wife's name is Grace.
Read a book with a significant character is Grace, or is the name of the author. - Meet Me in Monaco
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Checkpoint 3: Shoaks
Shoaks is the southernmost of The Six Duchies. It is one of the four Coastal Duchies. It is ruled by Duke Shemshy. The duchy's colour is green.
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Checkpoint 4: Tilth
Tilth is located to the north, and inland. It is one of the two Inland Duchies. It is ruled by Duke Ram. It is notable for its rich vineyards. The duchy's colour is purple.
Read a book with wine in a glass or grapes are on the cover.
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Finish - Farrow
Farrow is located to the south and inland. It is one of the two Inland Duchies. The main city is Tradeford, where Regal rules the Six Duchies from in his short time as King. Many of the Farseer nobility have names that depict character - Shrewd, Chivalry, Graciousness, etc. (Regal was anything but regal.)
Read a book with a characteristic in the title and is also the name of one of the farseers. List of Farseers: https://robinhobbelderlings.fandom.co...
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I was enchanted with the story of Nala & Dean. I saw a film about them several years ago, and this book chronicles their travels together, Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe. I hope you have fun retracing their journey.Start - Bosnia
Dean was in Bosnia on his bike tour around the globe and hear some light meowing. There was a tiny kitten trying to catch up with him. He knew if he left her, she would die, so he picked her up, she cuddled into his neck and away they went.
Read a book with an orphan or orphans in it. - The Snow Child
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Checkpoint 1: Budva, Montenegro
Legend has it that Budva was founded by Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, Greece. When exiled out of Thebes, he found a shelter in Budva for him and his wife, goddess Harmonia.
Read a book that is tagged as Mythology. - The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings
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Checkpoint 2: Shkoder, Albania
It has historically developed on a 130 m (430 ft) hill strategically located in the outflow of Lake Shkodër into the Buna River.
Read a book that has 430 - 438 pages based on the first print edition listed on the "editions" list on the main book page.
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Checkpoint 3: Athens, Greece
It was at the heart of Ancient Greece, a powerful civilization and empire. The city is still dominated by 5th-century BC landmarks, including the Acropolis, a hilltop citadel topped with ancient buildings like the colonnaded Parthenon temple.
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Checkpoint 4: Santorini, Greece
IMBD.com lists 94 movies filmed in Santorini. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and it's sequel is number 2 on the list and is about 4 friends who share a pair of jeans that fit each of them perfectly.
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Finish: Bucharest
We're ended up in Bucharest before, but this was where Dean had to curtail their journeys for the time being because of Covid.
Read a book where a serious illness changes a person's ability to maintain normal activities.
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Wishing you a book-filled 2024! May each page turn bring you joy, knowledge, and a world of imagination. Good luck!
Magical Mystery Tour
Our Unsolved Cases
Who: 0/7
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below fields.
1. Military (active, veteran, or reserve duty) - The Bourne Ultimatum
2. Plants (landscaper, florist, arborist, etc.)
3. First response (EMT, firefighter, deputy, etc.)
4. Security (cybersecurity, night watchmen, bodyguard, etc.)
5. Travel (train driver, pilot, cruise staff, etc.) - tour guide - Mother-Daughter Murder Night
6. Animal Care (zoo, veterinarian - All Creatures Great and Small, rescue, etc.)
7. Building (carpenter, contractor, electrician, etc.)
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What makes your case distinctive?
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4. A number in the title - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
5. A place name in the title (city, state, etc.) - Rosshalde
6. A geographical feature in the title (river, lake, etc.) - Sea of Tranquility
7. A season in the title - Summer of '69
When: 0/7
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported?
1. In spring - The Violets of March
2. In the second half of 20th century - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. During a trip (business or pleasure) - The Glass Hotel
4. Between noon and midnight - The Angel's Game
5. During a romantic celebration (engagement, wedding - Seven Days in May, anniversary)
6. In the season you were born - Three Junes
7. Published in a Year of the Dragon (2024, 2012 - , 2000, etc.) - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
Where: 0/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
1. In a small town or village - Our Town
2. On a mountain - Open Season
3. In a vacation rental (cabin, resort, etc.) - The Brutal Telling
4. On an island
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or plane6. Near the equator
7. Above the Arctic Circle - The Snow Child
How: 0/7
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
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Why: 0/7
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. A favorite mystery author or series - P is for Peril
2. A favorite mystery subgenre
3. Appears in a Goodreads listopia (Which one?)
4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction (Which one?)
5. A challenged or banned crime book
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year)
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above - Parable of the Talents
Bonus Cases: 0/8
Would you like to track down fugitives around the globe? To earn the rank of Interpol Fugitive Investigation Specialist, first complete all 42 standard cases above, then solve a crime committed in each of the eight inhabited regions of the world.
1. Africa
2. Asia
3. Europe
4. Oceania
5. Caribbean
6. North America
7. Central America
8. South America
Colour Coded Reading Challenge:1. A book with "Blue" or any shade of Blue in the title -
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Lifetime of Reading Challenge:
Books with a Child Protagonist - Girl in Translation, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Washington Black, January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
Books with Teenage Characters - The Girl with the Louding Voice, Concrete Rose, Bear Town, Dear Evan Hanson, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Books with Characters in Their 20s - Feed
Books with Characters In Their 30s - The Storied Life of AJ Firky, American Dirt, A Long Way From Home
Books With Characters in Their 40s - Small Great Things, Rosshalde
Books With Characters in Their 50s - The Snow Child
Books With Characters in Their 60s - Britt Marie was Here, The Angel's Game
Books With Characters in Their 70s - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Books With Characters in Their 80s - The Story of Arthur Truluv, Before We Were Yours
Books With Characters in Their 90s and 100s - A Year of Marvellous Ways, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Intergenerational Novels: Books that Connect Generations - Orphan Train, Already Home
Books Spanning a Character’s Lifetime - Violeta, Cutting for Stone, Parable of the Talents
Memoir Reading Challenge:Mental Illness Memoir: January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
Other Illness Memoir: I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
Political Memoir:
Food Memoir:
Animal Memoir: All Creatures Great and Small
Music Memoir: The Woman in Me
Travel Memoir:
Written by a person of color:
Written by a woman: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Written by a person who identifies as LGBTQIA: How We Fight For Our Lives
Written by an actor or a comedian: Seriously... I'm Kidding
Written by an author or journalist:
Written by any other celebrity: How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone
Written by someone under 40:
Written by someone over 40:
Written by someone from a country different from your own:
One you find thought-provoking:
Made into a movie:
Graphic novel memoir:
Bestselling memoir: Educated
Humorous memoir:
Fictional memoir:
In translation:
Won an award:
Published in 2024:
Published in 2023 or earlier:
Under 300 pages:
Over 300 pages: James Herriot's Animal Stories
One you want to re-read:
On a favorite topic:
By a favorite celebrity: Brother & Sister
Free choice:
Free choice:
Free choice:
Read with Allison 52 week Reading Challenge: □ 2023 Bestseller - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
□ Genre: Sci-Fi - Parable of the Talents
□ A 5 star prediction - Before We Were Yours
□ Set on a Different Continent - Women Talking
□ Book in a Series - An Echo in the Bone
□ Recommended by a Friend - Smile
□ On your TBR 2+ years - The House at Pooh Corner
□ Book about siblings - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
□ More than 300 pages - The Angel's Game
□Book featuring nature - The Snow Child
□ Set in a state you'd like to live in - The Violets of March
□ Recommended by TikTok
□ 4 words in the title - Tender Is the Night
□ Set in a different time period - Rosshalde
□ Book you already own - The Brutal Telling
□ Green cover -
□ Genre: Romance - Already Home
□ Book with a map
□ Book about a road trip - A Long Way From Home
□ Second chance author -
□ Listen to an audiobook - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
□ Title starts with "D" - Dear Committee Members
□ Lowest Rated book on your TBR
□ Protagonist with a unique occupation - All Creatures Great and Small
□ Set at a college - Felix Ever After
□ Genre: Contemporary Fiction - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
□ Mood read - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
□ Set in a Small Town - Our Town
□ Genre: Fantasy - King's Cage
□ Library book - P is for Peril
□ Book featuring technology - Sea of Tranquility
□ Orange font on cover -
□ Debut author - Feed
□ Book with an isolated setting - Rabbit Foot Bill
□ Genre: Mystery - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
□ Book that intimidates you - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat
□ Banned book
□ Colour in title - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
□ Genre: Celebrity memoir - The Woman in Me
□ Set in the decade you were born - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
□ Genre: Thriller - The Bourne Ultimatum
□ About a different culture than your own - The Honjin Murders
□ Childhood favourite - Anne of Avonlea
□ Book from a subscription box
□ Character's name in the title - Daisy Jones & The Six
□ Genre: Nonfiction - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
□ Out of your comfort zone - Shut Up You're Pretty
□ Book featuring sports - One False Move
□ Holiday themed plot - February
□ Book that everyone is talking about
□ 2024 new release - Grey Dog
□ Red & Green on the cover
ABCs of Me
Author I love - The Brutal Telling
Book I love - Old Yeller
Country - birth or residence - Rabbit Foot Bill
Dream job - Meet Me in Monaco
Every day habit of mine
Fur babies - Open Season
Gross food I'll always avoid
Hobbies - All New Square Foot Gardening
Instrument(s) I play
Just finished reading - Shopaholic & Baby
Kids - In Search of April Raintree
Language(s) I speak/read
Movie favorite - Women Talking
New thing I recently tried
One food I would eat for the rest of my life
Phobia(s)
Quote I love
Reading now - The Henna Artist
Spirit animal
Time period I'd visit in a time machine - Sea of Tranquility
Unknown subject or skill I'd like to learn - Daisy Jones & The Six
Vacation spot
Wish
X-cited to read this year
Year I joined this group
Zodiac sign
SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
RED:
ORANGE:
YELLOW:
GREEN:
BLUE: [bookcovr:Shopaholic and Baby|817581]
PURPLE:
WHITE:
BLACK:
BROWN:
GOLD:
GRAY:
5+ COLORS: [bookciver:100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive|33237353]
RAINBOW
SHOWER
SPRING
COLORFUL
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We've Got Your Numbers
1. One's number is up: one is going to die, or can no longer continue a job or activity.
Read a book where someone dies - April Fool Dead or loses their position. - The Glass Hotel
2. Numbers racket: an illegal pick-3 lottery usually played in poor or working-class neighborhoods.
Read a book set in a poor community - The Snow Child, or with a three-word title. - Sea of Tranquility
3. Opening number: the first song and/or dance routine in a musical production.
Read a book with a musician -The Pied Piper of Hamelin or actor, or a book that inspired a stage, film - Women Talking, or television musical. - The House at Pooh Corner
4. Safety in numbers: humans and animals are thought to be more safe in a group than as an individual.
Read a book about a group of people working toward a common goal - Clockwork Angel or with an animal group name in the title (murder - The ABC Murders, school, gang, etc.).
5. Little black number: first used in the 19th century, this phrase refers to a LBD (little black dress).
Read a book set in or published in the 19th century - Good Wives, or with a dress on the cover. -
6. Crunch the numbers: computer and electronics slang, meaning to calculate or analyze large amounts of numerical data for financial purposes.
Read a book about someone in STEM - An Echo in the Bone, or with a slang word or phrase in the title - Shut Up You're Pretty
7. By the numbers: precise or planned, this phrase dates to a training book from the American Revolution.
Read a book set in or published in the 18th century, or a book involving strict precision/planning. - All New Square Foot Gardening
8. Do a number on: to injure, embarrass, or harm someone or something, or to trick someone into believing something that is not true.
Read a book about someone who harms - The Honjin Murders or is harmed by another - In Search of April Raintree, or about a trickster - Moon of the Crusted Snow or con artist. - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
9. Odd number: considered lucky in Russia.
Read a book about someone who is lucky - The Lincoln Highway, with an odd number in the title - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, or an odd numbered book from a series. - The Brutal Telling
10. Even number: considered unlucky in Russia.
Read a book about someone who is unlucky - Open Season, with an even number in the title - Daisy Jones & The Six, or an even numbered book from a series. - P is for Peril
1. Eclipse is a song by the rock band, Pink Floyd.
Read a book featuring astronomy, or read a book featuring a band. - Daisy Jones & The Six
2. Pink Floyd was formed in London in 1965.
Read a book set in London - Clockwork Angel, or read a book published or set in 1965.
3. Eclipse is the tenth and final track on the album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
Read a book with 10 chapters, or read a book that is the final book in a series.
4. An eclipse occurs when one celestial body is obscured by another, or passes into the shadow of another.
Read a book with the word eclipse, moon - Moon of the Crusted Snow, or sun in the title, or read a book featuring an eclipse, moon -
or sun.5. Eclipse was published in 1973 on one of Pink Floyd's most successful albums.
Read a book published or set in 1973, or read a book that was a best seller. - The Brutal Telling
6. The band had several names before settling on Pink Floyd, derived from the name of two blues musicians -- Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Read a book with pink on the cover -
, or read a book featuring music. - The Glass Hotel7. Eclipse is often paired with the ninth track, Brain Damage.
Read a book with two authors - Meet Me in Monaco, or read a book featuring mental health. - Rabbit Foot Bill
8. Eclipse was written and sung by Roger Waters.
Read a book with an author or character named Roger or Waters, or read a book with any form of water on the cover. -
Serial Reader Challenge:To read:
A Court of Thorns and Roses series:
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
2. A Court of Mist & Fury
3. A Court of Wings & Ruin
3.5 A Court of Frost & Starlight
4. A Court of Silver Flames
Detective Kay Hunter series:
1. Scared to Death
2. Will to Live
3. One to Watch
4....
New Orleans series:
1. Hot Blooded
2. Cold Blooded
3. Shiver
4. Absolute Fear
5.....
Savannah series:
1. The Night Before
2. The Morning After
3. Tell Me
4. The Third Grave
Tangled Web Mystery series:
1. Yarned and Dangerous
2. A Knit before Dying
The Jaipur Trilogy:
1. The Henna Artist
2. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
3. The Perfumist of Paris
Detective Kosuke Kindaichi Series:
1. The Honjin Murders
2. Death on Gokumon Island
3. .....
All Creatures Great & Small:
1. All Creatures Great and Small
Sherlock Holmes:
1. A STUDY IN SCARLETT
2. The Sign of Four
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
5. ...
Smile series:
1. Smile
2. Sisters
3. Guts
A Mystery with Recipes series:
1. A Catered Murder
2. A Catered Wedding
3. A Catered Christmas
4. A Catered Valentine's Day
5. A Catered Halloween
6. A Catered Birthday Party
7. A Catered Thanksgiving
8. A Catered St. Patrick's Day
Joe Pickett series:
1. Open Season
2. Savage Run
3. Winterkill
4. Trophy Hunt...
Death on Demand series:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9...
13. April Fool Dead
Serial Reader Challenge:To finish:
Tessa Leoni series:
2. Touch & Go
3. Crash & Burn
Kane & Abel series:
2. The Prodigal Daughter
3. Shall We Tell the President
Jack Reacher series:
3. Tripwire
4. Running Blind
5. Echo Burning
6. Without Fail
7. Persuader
8. The Enemy
9. One Shot
...
Red Queen series:
3. King's Cage
4. War Storm
The Kiss Quotient series:
3. The Heart Principle
Earthseed Series:
2. Parable of the Talents
Lilac Girls series:
2. Lost Roses
3. Sunflower Sisters
Jackson Brodie Series:
2. One Good Turn
3. When Will There Be Good News?
4. Started Young Took My Dog
5. Big Sky
Charlotte Holmes series:
2. The Last of August
3. The Case for Jamie
4. A Question of Holmes
Agatha Raisin series:
2. Viscious Vet
3. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
4. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
5. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
...
Irish Village Mystery series:
1. Murder in an Irish Village
2. Murder at an Irish Wedding
...
Horowitz's Holmes Series:
2. Moriarty
Shopaholic Series:
3.5. Shopaholic on Honeymoon
5. Shopaholic & Baby
6. Mini Shopaholic
7. Shopaholic to the Stars
...
Elvis Cole & Joe Pike Series:
2. Stalking the Angel
3. Lullaby Town
4. Free Fall
5. Voodoo River.....
Eve Duncan Series:
2. The Killing Game
3. The Search
4. Body of Lies
4.5 Dead Aim
5. Blind Alley
6. Countdown
7. Stalemate
8. Quicksand
9. Eight Days to Live
10...
Dalziel & Pascoe series:
2. An Advancement of Learning
3. Ruling Passion
4. An April Shroud
5...
The Travis Family series:
2. Blue-eyed Devil
3. Smooth Talking Stranger
4. Brown-eyed Girl
Sherri Travis series"
4. Champagne for Buzzards
5. Highball Exit
6. Martini Regrets
7. Last Call
Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series:
2. Deadly Appraisal
3. Antiques to Die For
4. Killers Keepsakes
5. Silent Auction
...
D.I. Lottie Parker series:
2. The Stolen Girls
3. The Lost Child
4. No Safe Place
5. Tell Nobody
6. Final Betrayal
7. Broken Souls
8. Buried Angels
9. Silent Voices
10. Little Bones
11. Guilty Girl
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series:
2. The Angel's Game
3. The Prisoner of Heaven
4. The Labyrinth of the Spirits
Sedikhan Series:
2. The Golden Valkyrie
3. The Trustworthy Redhead
4. Capture the Rainbow
5. Touch the Horizon
6. A Summer Smile
7. And the Desert Blooms
8. Always
9. Everlasting
10. ....
The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Series:
3. The Red Queen
4. The Kingmaker's Daughter
5. The White Princess
6. The Constant Princess
7. The King's Curse
8. Three Sisters, Three Queens
9. The Other Boleyn Girl
10. The Boleyn Inheritance
11. The Taming of the Queen
12. The Queen's Fool
13. The Virgin's Lover
14. The Last Tudor
15. The Other Queen
Myron Bolitar series:
5. One False Move
6. The Final Detail
7. Darkest Fear
8. Promise Me
9. Long Lost
10. Live Wire
11. Home
Holly Barker series:
4. Reckless Abandon
5. Iron Orchid
6. Hothouse Orchid
Mischief Bay series:
3. A Million Little Things
4. Sisters Like Us
Dorothy Must Die series:
4. The End of Oz
Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series:
4. The Harvest Man
5. Lost & Gone Forever
Inspector Lynley series:
4. A Suitable Vengeance
5. For the Sake of Elena
6. Missing Joseph
...
Penn Cage series:
3. The Devil's Punchbowl
4. Natchez Burning
5. The Bone Tree
6. Mississippi Blood
7. Southern Man
Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James #1 series:
4. Mourn Not Your Dead
5. Dreaming of the Bones
6. Kissed a Sad Goodbye
...
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency:
6. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
6.5 The Shape of Ladies
6.6. The Problem of Men
6.7 Doctors Detectives Common Sense
7. Blue Shoes and Happiness
8. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive ...
Lacey Flint series:
3. Like This For Ever
4. A Dark and Twisted Tide
5. The Dark
The Black Stallion series:
3. Son of the Black Stallion
4. The Island Stallion
5. The Black Stallion and Satan
6. The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt
7. The Island Stallion's Fury ...
Oz series:
4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
5. The Road to Oz
6. The Emerald City of Oz
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz ....
Chet & Berny Mystery Series:
3. To Fetch a Thief
4. The Dog who Knew Too Much
5. A Fistful of Collars
6. The Sound & the Furry
7. Paw & Order
8. Scents & Sensability
9. Heart of Barkness
10. Of Mutts & Men
11. Tender is the Bite
12. It's a Wonderful Woof
The Inspector Banks Series:
5. Past Reason Hated
6. Wednesday's Child
7. Dry Bones that Dream
8. Innocent Graves
9. Blood at the Root
10. In a Dry Season
11. Cold is the Grave
12. Aftermath
13. Close to Home
14. Playing with Fire
15. Strange Affair
16. Piece of my Heart
17. Friend of the Devil
18. All the Colours of Darkness
19. Bad Boy
20. Watching the Dark
21. Children of the Revolution
22. Abattoir Blues
23. When the Music's Over
24. Sleeping in the Ground
25. Careless Love
26. Too Many Rivers to Cross
27. Not Yet Dark
Kay Scarpetta Series:
5. The Body Farm
6. From Potter's Field
7. Cause of Death
8. Unnatural Exposure
9. Point of Origin
10. Black Notice
11. The Last Precinct
12. Blow Fly
13. Trace
14. Predator
15. Book of the Dead
16. Scarpetta
17. The Scarpetta Factor
18. Post Mortuary
19. Red Mist
20. The Bone Bed
21. Dust
22. Flesh & Blood
23. Depraved Heart
24. Chaos
Adam Dalgliesh Series:
4. Shroud for a Nightingale
5. The Black Tower
6. Death of an Expert Witness
7. A Taste for Death
8. Devices & Desires
9. Original Sin
10. A Certain Justice
11. Death in Holy Orders
12. The Murder Room
13. The Lighthouse
14. The Private Patient
The Inheritance Cycle #1
3. Brisingr
4. Inheritance
Jason Bourne Series:
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. The Bourne Legacy
5. The Bourne Betrayal
6. The Bourne Sanction
7. The Bourne Deception
8. The Bourne Objective
9. The Bourne Dominion
10. The Bourne Imperative
11. The Bourne Retribution
12. The Bourne Ascendancy
13. The Bourne Enigma
14. The Bourne Initiative
15. The Bourne Nemesis
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes:
2.5 The Marriage of Mary Russell
7. The Game
8. Locked Rooms
9. The Language of Bees .....
Michael Bennett:
6. Gone
7. Burn
8. Alert
9. Bullseye
9.5 Chase
10. Haunted
10.5 Manhunt
11. Ambush
12. Blindside
13. The Russian
Patrick Hedstrom Series:
8. Buried Angels
9. The Ice Child
10. The Girl in the Woods
Virals Series:
2.5. Shift
3.5. Swipe
4. Exposure
5. Terminal
5.5. Spike
Dexter Series:
8. Dexter Is Dead
Outlander Series:
7. An Echo in the Bone
7.5 The Space Between
8. Written in My Own Heart's Blood
9. Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone
Temperance Brennan Series:
16.5. Swamp Bones
18.5 Faking a Murderer
20. The Bone Code
21. Cold Cold Bones
22. The Bone Hacker
The Lord of the Rings Series:
2. The Two Towers
3. The Return of the King
Kinsey Millhone Series:
16. P is for Peril
17. Q is for Quarry
18. R is for Ricochet
19. S is for Silence
20. T is for Trespass
21. U is for Undertow
22. V is for Vengence
23. W is for Wasted
24. X
25. Y is for Yesterday
Stephanie Plum Series:
18. Explosive Eighteen
19. Notorious Nineteen
20. Takedown Twenty
21. Top Secret Twenty-One
22. Tricky Twenty-Two
23. Turbo Twenty-Three
24. Hardcore Twenty-Four
25. Look Alive Twenty-Five
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series
5. The Brutal Telling
6. Bury Your Dead
6.5 The Hangman
7. A Trick of the Light
8. The Beautiful Mystery
9. How the Light Gets In
10. The Long Way Home
11. The Nature of the Beast
12. A Great Reckoning
13. Glass Houses
14. Kingdom of the Blind
Inspector Rebus Series:
5. The Black Book
6. Mortal Causes
7. Let It Bleed
8. Black and Blue
9. The Hanging Garden
9.5 Death Is Not the End
10. Dead Souls
11. Set in Darkness
12. The Falls
13. Resurrection Men
13.5 Beggars Banquet
14. A Question of Blood
15. Fleshmarket Close
16. The Naming of the Dead
17. Exit Music
18. Standing in Another Man's Grave
19. Saints of the Shadow Bible
19.5 In the Nick of Time: John Rebus vs. Roy Grace
20. Even Dogs in the Wild
21. Rather Be the Devil
22. In a House of Lies
Lord John Grey Series:
0.5 Lord John and the Hellfire Club
1.5 Legends II
2.75 The Custom of the Army
3. The Scottish Prisoner
3.5 A Plague of Zombies
Afdeling Q Series:
5. Marco Effect
6. The Hanging Girl
7. The Scarred Woman
Charles Lenox Mysteries Series:
4.5. An East End Murder
8. The Laws of Murder
9. Home by Nightfall
10. The Inheritance
10.5. Gone Before Christmas
11. An Extravagant Death
Miss Marple Series:
1.5. The Thirteen Problems
9. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
10. A Caribbean Mystery
11. At Bertram's Hotel
12. Nemesis
13. Sleeping Murder
14. Miss Marple's Final Cases
15. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht Series:
6. The Flood
Detective D.D. Warren Series:
5.5 The 7th Month
6. Catch Me
7. Fear Nothing
7.5 3 Truths and a Lie
8. Find Her
9. Look For Me
9.5 The Guy Who Died Twice
10. Never Tell
Vanessa Michael Munroe Series:
5. The Mask
Kurt Wallander Series:
9.5 An Event in Autumn
10. The Troubled Man
Vinyl Cafe Series:
2. Home From The Vinyl Cafe: A Year Of Stories
4. Vinyl Cafe Diaries
5. Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe
5.5 Dave Cooks the Turkey
6. Extreme Vinyl Cafe
7. Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks
Vinyl Cafe: Seasons
The Queen of the Tearling Series:
0.5 The Boy
3. The Fate of the Tearling
The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe:
2. No Longer at Ease
3. Arrow of God
Hercule Poirot Series:
13. The ABC Murders
14. Murder in Mesopotamia
15-45
ATY Reading Challenge 2024:
1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
2. A book connected to something you read in 2023 -
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list - White Teeth, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Distant Hours, 5 Little Peppers & How they Grew, Golden Son, The Lottery & Other Stories, Gone with the Wind,
4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong - Pretty - Shut Up You're Pretty
5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world - List according to Travel+Leisure: Sydney, Australia; Barcelona, Spain - The Angel's Game; Queenstown, New Zealand; Istanbul, Turkey; Paris, France; San Francisco, United States; Palermo, Italy; Cape Town, South Africa; Seoul, South Korea; Cartagena, Colombia; Kyoto, Japan - ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tbilisi, Georgia; Rome, Italy; Hoi An, Vietnam; London, England - Clockwork Angel; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Sedona, United States; Chefchaouen, Morocco; Taipei, Taiwan; Edinburgh, Scotland; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Singapore; New York City, United States - The Glass Hotel
6. A book with wings on the cover -
7. A book with a pronoun in the title - How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone
8. A book by an author from Canada - The Brutal Telling , Australia - On the Beach or New Zealand
9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads - Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
10. A history or historical fiction book - February
11. A book with an X connection - Felix Ever After
12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year - Our Town
13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list - A Long Way From Home
14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous - In Search of April Raintree, or a Person of Color - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (J- The Violets of March, Q - , Z - The Honjin Murders, X - Open Season)
16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats -
and Dogs" 17. A book involving intelligence - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
18. A book with a botanical cover -
19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream - Seven - Seven Days in May
20. A book with a single word title - Feed
21. A book with a title containing 6+ words - 100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
22. A book by an author from an African country - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories
23. A book related to Boats - Mother-Daughter Murder Night, Beaches- The Bourne Ultimatum, Bars , Ballads - Summer of '69, or Jimmy Buffett
24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange -
, green -
or purple)25. A book involving a crime other than a murder - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
26. A book by an author known by their initials - The House at Pooh Corner
27. A book related to land - Bury Your Dead
28. A book related to sea - Sea of Tranquility
29. A book related to air - Turbulence
30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea - Sovereign Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France - Father's Day, Greece - Three Junes, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco - Meet Me in Monaco, Morocco, Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
Autonomous Territories: Gibraltar, Ceuta and Melilla, Mount Athos, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, The Gaza Strip
31. A book related to “Going for the Gold” -
32. A book with a number in the title - Daisy Jones & The Six
33. A book involving travel - Rosshalde
34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs - Cutting for Stone, Doctor Sleep, All Creatures Great and Small, The House of Mirth,
35. A science or science fiction book - King's Cage
36. A book featuring a character in education - Smile
37. A book that is part of a series - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1
39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2
40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title - Demon Copperhead, or on the cover -
41. A book with a chilling atmosphere - The Snow Child
42. A book with a sound-related word in the title - Old Yeller
43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author
44. A book with a touch of magic - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
45. A book that is not a novel - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
46. A book related to night - Tender Is the Night
47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE - The Friend
48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
49. A book with a senior citizen character - Before We Were Yours
50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
51. A book published in 2024 - Grey Dog
52. A cozy mystery - The Ghostly Grounds: Murder and Breakfast
A book that has an X in the title
A book by an author born between 1965-1980 (Generation X) - Already Home
A book with an ex (romantic - Shopaholic & Baby, friendship - LaRose, family - Fourth of July Creek, etc)
A book with a character who could appear on the X-Files
A book related to X marks the Spot - Moon of the Crusted Snow
A book with a cross or X on the cover -
A book that's X-rated - Jonny Appleseed
Title containing X
Author with X in their name
A book published during the GenX years - One False Move
A book set during the GenX years
A book by a Latinx author - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
A book connected to the roman numeral X (10) - ten in title, tenth book published by the author, tenth book in a series, title starts with J the tenth letter of alphabet, etc.
A book set in Greece (X is the typographical approximation of the Greek letter chi)
A book about civil rights, in honor of Malcolm X
A book with a nonbinary character (gender identity - X is used on passports and identification documents to denote intersex or indeterminate gender) - How We Fight For Our Lives
A book with a strong female character - P is for Peril; a book about feminism (chromosome XX)
A romance novel; a book with a love story (X is a symbol used to indicate a kiss) - Saving Juliet
A book with a character in a medical profession (X is indicated by Xray in the NATO alphabet)
A book related to X marks the spot
A book with a character who could appear on the X-Files
A book that has an X in the title
A book by an author born between 1965-1980 (Generation X)
A book with an ex
A book involving pirates, maps, or treasure
Happy - a romance (happily ever after), a book that makes you happy
Grumpy - grumpy x sunshine romance, a book with a grumpy character
Sleepy - characters with sleep issues (ie. Insomnia, Stay Awake)
Sneezy - a book with characters with allergies or who are sick,
Dopey - a silly or comedic character, something like the Jeeves and Wooster series, a character who struggles with drugs or addiction
Bashful - a book with a very shy/introverted character - The Lincoln Highway
Doc - character who is a doctor - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir, or has a PhD or is a doctorate candidate
- Gold color on the cover -
- Word in the title i.e. “The Golden Compass”, “The Goldfinch”, etc
- Author's name (William Golding, Arthur Golden, William Goldman, Lily Gold, etc.)
- Gold medal/award (a character striving to be the best, related to the Olympics, a character seeking the top prize in any competition or race, or an achievement such as a gold record or golden globe award)
- Money or jewelry (big business, a character with a gambling addiction, a bank robber or jewel heist, a ""gold digger"", treasure seekers/pirates, someone trying to steal a leprechaun's pot of gold or a dragon's treasure.)
- Metal seekers (an alchemist, a prospector/set during the gold rush)
- The search for anything “golden” (golden ticket - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Golden State killer, golden snitch, Golden Fleece, entrance into the Golden Dawn, etc)
THE 2023 LIST1. A book set in a location that begins with A - A Long Way From Home, T - Before We Were Yours, or Y - All Creatures Great and Small
2. A book by an author you read in 2022 - An Echo in the Bone
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list -
4. A book with an interracial relationship - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover -
6. A book where books are important - The Angel's Game
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
8. An author's debut book - Feed
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" - Sporty - One False Move, Scary - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her, Baby - Shopaholic & Baby, Ginger - Anne of Avonlea, Posh - The Glass Hotel
11. A book about a person/character with a disability
12. A book connected to birds, bees - 100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive, or bunnies - Rabbit Foot Bill
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover -
14. A book with a con , deception - Parable of the Talents, or fake - Saving Juliet
15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 - Our Town
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3 - The Violets of March
18. A book related to science
19. A book related to the arts - Rosshalde
20. A book with a cover -
or title that includes a route of travel - The Lincoln Highway21. A book by an Asian diaspora author - The Henna Artist
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23. A book with a body of water in the title -
24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier - King's Cage, or Spy - Transcription
25. A book with a tropical setting
26. A book related to pride - Felix Ever After
27. A book by an author from continental Europe
28. A book that is dark -
29. A book that is light - Summer of '69
30. A book related to a chess piece
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com - LaRose, Laura Esquivel, Barbara Kingsolver, Wally Lamb, Tracy Chevalier, Diana Gabaldon, Ken Follet, Jane Austen, Marian Keyes, Jose Saramago, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Mario Vargas Llosa, Amor Towles, Toni Morrison, Jhumpa Lahiri, Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, Zora Neale Hurston, Julia Alverez, Alice Munro, Ann Patchett, Anne Tyler, Anne Lamott, Alice Hoffman, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, Pablo Naruda, Carol Shields
32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 - The Brutal Telling
34. A novella - The Sixth Wedding
35. A book with a school subject in the title
36. A book that has been translated from another language - The Honjin Murders
37. A book with the theme of returning home - February
38. A book with the sun, moon - Moon of the Crusted Snow, or stars on the cover
39. A western - Open Season
40. A book with a full name in the title - Daisy Jones & The Six
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists - The Fraud, The Wind Knows My Name, This Bird Has Flown, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Hang the Moon, Someone Else's Shoes, Tom Lake, Romantic Comedy, Cassandra in Reverse, Bright Young Women, The Woman in Me, Thicker Than Water, Lessons in Chemistry, Carrie Soto is Back, Demon Copperhead, How We Fight For Our Lives, The Friend, Washington Black, Educated,
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
43. A book that involves a murder - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal -
45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
47. A book related to a geometric shape -
48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story - The House at Pooh Corner
49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - Location begins with A - The Snow Child
51. A book published in 2023 - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
52. A book with an unusual - Sari, Not Sari or surprising title - Shut Up You're Pretty
Suggestions that didn't make it:A winner or nominee - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo from the Goodreads Choice Awards - Lessons in Chemistry, Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone,
A book you wanted to read in 2023 -
A book connected to something you read in 2023 - Parable of the Talents
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 - Daisy Jones & The Six, Project Hail Mary, Comfort Me With Apples, Parable of the Sower, The Secret Keeper, Like Water for Chocolate, Pachinko, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Baking Cakes in Kigali, Sea of Tranquility, Life After Life, The Great Alone,
A book by an author no more than two degrees of separation away from you -
A book of poetry or free verse -
A book by an author who is NOT cis, white, and male - Sari, Not Sari
A book with yellow, red and white on the cover -
A work of biographical fiction - Before We Were Yours
A book that can be found on Project Gutenberg
A book connected to Ireland - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
A book involving genetics, genealogy, traits, heredity, or heritage - Already Home
A book with a shoe on the cover -
A book related to the characters in The Wizard of Oz -
A book that involves art - Rosshalde, music - The Glass Hotel, dancing or acting - Tender Is the Night
A book with an animal on the cover -
A science fiction - Feed or fantasy novel written by a woman - King's Cage
A book with a color in the title - A STUDY IN SCARLETT or author’s name - Jonny Appleseed
A book involving genetics, genealogy, traits, heredity, heritage - An Echo in the Bone
A book recommended on Goodreads- East of Eden, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sweetland, Anna Karenina, Unsheltered, The Unexpected Guest, The Vanishing Half, The Library of Lost & Found, The Night Watchman, The Stand, Mr Mercedes, Lessons in Chemistry, Sea of Tranquility
A nonfiction nature book - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat
A book with a two - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki or three word title - Anne of Avonlea
A book with a cat in the story,title or cover
A book that’s mentioned in the Rory Gilmore Book Challenge -
A book with an alliterative title - P is for Peril
A book involving an "ism" - Felix Ever After
A book whose the author goes by three names - The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A book with a title beginning with W - Women Talking
A book related to dreams or dreaming -
A book with a character who has a career or hobby that interests you - Meet Me in Monaco
A book involving power - or politics - Open Season
A book with at least 500,000 ratings on Goodreads - Clockwork Angel
A book with a female or nonbinary main character who is an explorer/traveller
A book with a child protagonist - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A book that is inspired by or pays homage to another story - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
2 Weeks: Two books from two different genres, that are connected in some way
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3 Weeks: A book related to a Warner Brothers film, related to a Disney film, and related to a BBC film
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- Disney - The House at Pooh Corner
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3 Weeks: Three books, each of which is set in a different century
- - Good Wives
- Our Town
- Saving Juliet
2 Weeks: Read a duology, or two books from a larger series
- The ABC Murders
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4 Weeks: Four books, with each one related to one of the seasons
- Fall -
- Winter - Moon of the Crusted Snow
- Spring - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
- Summer - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
2 Weeks: A book set in the city, and a book set in the country
- City: Shopaholic & Baby
- Country: Old Yeller
3 Weeks: Three books about Hope, Faith, and Love/Charity
- Hope - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
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- Love/Charity - LaRose
2 Weeks: Two books with words that are opposites in the titles
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3 Weeks: A book written in first person POV, second person POV, and third person POV
- I: I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
- You:
- They: Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories
3 Weeks: Three books related to Eros (romantic love), Filios (brotherly love), Agape (god's love)
- Eros:
-Filios: Three Junes
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2 Weeks: Two books related to lost and found
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A book with an interracial relationship (friendship, romance, family) - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
A book set in India or Pakistan - The Henna Artist
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs -
A book involving hope or hopepunk
A book that is eye-opening or thought provoking -
A book that includes a ritual or ceremony -
A book with one of the four seasons in the title - Summer of '69
A book with a character who is an orphan - Demon Copperhead
A book with a pronoun in the title -
A book with orange on the cover -
A book with a main character who is an athlete - One False Move
A book related to a recipient of Time Magazine's Person of the Year award - All the President's Men, Obama, WW2 re: Hitler, Queen Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, Apollo 8, Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Roosevelt, Gandhi, Einstein, Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnam War, environmental movement, financial crisis, Facebook, Me Too movement, Journalists prosecuted,
A book related to the Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, James Baldwin,
A Christmas book
A book involving wolves or werewolves
A book with a character that travels as a part of their job
A book from the first 5 books added to your TBR - Fall of Giants, Codebreakers, Sometimes Mine
A book about a farm, a farmer, or a farming family
A book about crossing over to another world -
A book that involves a moral dilemma - Seven Days in May or question
A book written by an author that is a different race and gender than you are - How We Fight For Our Lives
A book with a purple cover -
A book set in an apartment building or house -
A book from the Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books - N-W, All My Puny Sorrows, Americanah, Sea of Poppies, Asymmetry, Middlesex,
A book that has won a Bookbrowse award - The Splendid & The Vile, Olive Again, Educated, Hoomegoing, How the Light Gets In, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Cutting for Stone,
An author who lives greater than 2023 miles from you
A winner or nominee from the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
A book you meant to read in 2023
A book that fits a suggestion that didn't make the list this year
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
A book in honour of Wilkie Collins
A book that takes place in 24 hours - Trouble in July
A book with a horse on the cover
A book related to the year of the wood dragon
A book with girl, boy, man or woman in the title
A book related to the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Terracotta Army
A book set in Paris - Father's Day
A book from the Canada Reads Book list - February
A book that features a hobby - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
A biography, autobiography, or memoir
A book involving pirates, maps, or treasure
A book related to or by an author we lost in 2023
A book with at least 247 pages - 100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
A book with gold on the cover
A book related to We Didn't Start the Fire
A book about or featuring a landmark - The Lincoln Highway
A sci-fi novel
A book where a main character is a writer - The Friend, a librarian or a bookseller - April Fool Dead
A book related to masks or a masquerade
A book with a piece of fruit on the cover
A book involving magical realism
A book related to X marks the spot
A book related to dragons
A book on a banned books list
A book related to a sensory disability
A book with a divided, or split, cover -
A book set mostly in or around a building
A book with disembodied hand(s) on the cover
A science fiction fantasy novel
A book related to Friends - Shut Up You're Pretty
A book with a ranch or farm setting - All Creatures Great and Small
A book related to an invention or a discovery
A book set in a new-to-you location
A book involving a STEM topic
A book set in a different hemisphere than where you live - A Long Way From Home
A book related to a mountain
3 Weeks: Three books related to the lines in a Roses Are Red poem
- The Violets of March
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2 Weeks: A work of fiction and nonfiction that are related
- In Search of April Raintree
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2 Weeks: Two books that are part of a series
- Smile
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3 Weeks: Three books whose titles create a sentence or short poem
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A book with a female or nonbinary main character who is an explorer/travellerA book featuring a character with paranormal or supernatural abilities
A book from the point of view of a person with a physical, sensory, learning, mental, or medical disability -
A work of fiction based on a real person or real event -
A book with fruit or vegetables on the cover -
or in the titleA nominee or winner of an Australian book award - The Testaments, Boy Lost A Family Memoir, The Secret River, A Long Way From Home, Shakespeare's Wife, Graffiti Moon
A "wild" book
A book written by two or more authors -
A children's classic
A book with a cover you consider to be beautiful -
A book involving aspects of language, linguistics, or the spoken word -
A book with one of the 7 most used verbs in English in the title: be, have, do, say, get, make, go -
A book from your TBR list in a position numbered by a combination of digits from 2023 - The Singing Fire, Bury Your Dead, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, The Happiness Project, The Golem & The Jinni, The Pianoman's Daughter, A Fine Balance, Already Home, When God Was a Rabbit, The Night Villa, The Empress Letters, Death in Sicily, The Day of the Triffids, Lady of Hay, The Orchid Thief, Perfume, Thinking Fast & Slow, The Lost Girls, Pay It Forward
A book where faith is a major theme -
A book related to "soul"
A book celebrating the entertainment industry -
A book in which someone is captured, taken hostage, trapped or imprisoned - Transcription
A book with a character who time travels -
A book from the “100 Years of Popular Books on Goodreads” list - As I Lay Dying, Brave New World, Grapes of Wrath, The Bell Jar, Dune, The Bluest Eye, Salem's Lot, The Name of the Rose, The Handmaid's Tale, The Pillars of the Earth, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The Road, Educated,
A book set in more than one country -
A book with a person who travels - The Cat's Table
A book where an architectural element is central -
A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover -
A book set in the Indian subcontinent
A book that involves a moral dilemma or question -
A book related to something lucky -
A family saga -
A book in which a main character or main subject is a member of a royal family or the nobility -
A book related to loneliness or isolation -
A book set in an apartment building/complex -
A book that answers the question "What if" -
A book set during the Roaring Twenties (1920's)
A book about a character with a supernatural ability -
A memoir
A book by an author who uses punctuation in their name -
A book about words or language, or emphasizing the spoken word
A book by an author who has been threatened, imprisoned or otherwise persecuted because of their work -
A book related to King Tut
A book that's unlike what you usually read -
A book from the NPR "Books We Love" lists - The Anthropocene Reviewed, Taste Tucci, Harlem Shuffle, The Sentence, The Night Watchman, A Promised Land, Transcendent Kingdom, The Vanishing Half, The Splendid & the Vile, Me & White Supremacy, The Freedom Artist, Hood Feminism, Mrs Everything, On the Come Up, Ginger Bread, The Testaments, Women Talking, Moneyland, Daisy Jones & the 6, My Sister the Serial Killer, Educated, Washington Black, Eloquent Rage, Glass Houses, The Radium Girls, Pachinko, The Alice Network, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Homegoing, Queen of the Night, A Great Reckoning, Barkskins, Swing Time, A God in Ruins, A Strangeness in My Mind, All the Bright Places, The Tsar of Love & Techno, Family Furnishings, The Republic of Imagination, The Paying Guests, How the Light Gets In, Americanah, Life After Life, From Scratch, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Doctor Sleep,
A book featuring a character who is engaged in a typically compassionate profession or career -
An adventure book -
A book with rock, paper or scissors on the cover
A book that is the 2nd or 3rd in a series
A book related to "On the Road"
A book by an author you feel you should have read by now
A well-known classic book
A book off the Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books found in Louise Endrich's The Sentence - Fire on the Mountain, All My Puny Sorrows, N-W, Americanah, Sea of Poppies, Asymmetry, Middlesex, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Buried Giant, Imago, Dawn, Adulthood Rites,
A wacky book -
A book by an author with a 2 syllable first/given name and a 3 syllable last name/surname - The Sixth Wedding
A book from one of the Millions Most Anticipated lists -
A winner or nominee of the Goodreads Choice Awards -
A book with a sign (literal or figurative) on the cover -
A book featuring The Widow, the Wallflower, or the Woman Scorned -
A book published at least 23 years before you were born -
A book mainly set underground or underwater -
A book connected to (100 years of) Hollywood, Disney or the land of Oz
A book with 500+ pages
A book about healing -
A book with a character based on the literary archetypes - Scientist, Hero, Everyman, Trickster, Maiden, Devil, Visionary, Jester, Warrior, Scapegoat, Villian, Antihero, Tyrant, Hermit, Antagonist, Rags to Riches, Absent minded professor , Bureaucrat
A book featuring a character with a name starting with "W" -
A book with an unnamed narrator or protagonist -
A book involving genetics or DNA
A book inspired by Sherlock Holmes -
A book related to game, set, match
A dark academia book
A young adult novel
3 Weeks: One book for each of the three forms of water - solid, liquid, gas
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2 Weeks: A book with "life" in the title, and a book with "death" in the title
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3 Weeks: Three books from a series
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2 Weeks: A book involving Lost family and a book involving Found family
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2 Weeks: 2 books related to "truth or dare"
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3 Weeks: Three books related to music (Specifically: A book with a musical instrument on the cover, A book with a music genre in the title, and A book with a music theme)
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4 Weeks: Four books where each cover is related to a different season (fall, winter, spring, summer)
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A book set in BCE
A retelling of a familiar tale
A book with a hidden object on the cover
A book related to “soul”
A book with a person on the cover and you can’t see their whole face
A fiction book with a real person as a character
A book involving Immigration, migration or relocation to another country
A book by an author from a Southeast Asian country
A book featuring a "First Responder"
A book related to something you take for granted
A book related to athletics in honor of the Summer Olympics
A book with twins in it
A book relating to a catchphrase
A book with a character who is neurodiverse
A book related to left or right
A book related to one of the traditional full moon names
A book related to X marks the Spot
A book featured in a “staff picks” display at a bookstore or library
A book with a lock and/or a key on the cover
A book related to summertime blues
A book with a timepiece on the cover
A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
A book with an author OR character whose first name is considered gender neutral
A book related to comedy - A book by an author whose name is a trade or profession
A book whose author has published less than 7 (2+0+2+3) books
A book by a writer honored by Queen Elizabeth II
A book where the chapters are named -
A book including a female athlete -
A book related to "The Five Love Languages"
A book involving journalism or journalists -
A book set during the Roaring Twenties -
A book that could be used for at least five of the 2023 challenge prompts
A book that involves a nomadic lifestyle
A book about someone who has been “banished”
A book where one of the senses plays an important part
A book set during a holiday -
A book where a battle takes place
A book whose author has published more than 7 (2+0+2+3) books -
A book using the word "wife" or "daughter" in the title
A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
A book related to Animal Crossing
A book about colonialism or imperialism
A book with a "fitness" connection
A book written by an author/or with a character named Elizabeth, Alexandra or Mary
A book with a secret passage
A dystopian book
A book including a justice-impacted character or person
A book that can be found on Project Gutenberg
A book that shifts point of view with each chapter or section -
A book inspired by news from the 1950s
A book with a mostly black cover -
A book which includes addictive behaviour -
A book by an Asian diaspora author
A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
A book featuring a blog or a podcast
A book not set on (our) earth -
A book involving friends, family, or a found family
In honor of Queen Elizabeth II, a book set in Kenya, South Africa, or Scotland
A book with an eye-catching title
A book club read
A book that provides a view of the future
A book with a door on the cover -
A book from a genre that starts with any letter in your name
A book one of your Goodreads friends is reading
A book related to a poem
A book with an echo
A book set in the workplace of at least one character -
A book that has won a diversity award in the 21st Century (2001-present) - Isabel Allende, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, On Beauty, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, People of the Deer, A Woman is No Man,
A book told from the villain’s perspective
A romance novel
A book shelved as literary fiction
A book from genre that inspired, or rekindled, your love of reading
A book about "a fish out of water"
A book set on an island -
A book that is one of the top 23 Goodreads rated books in your TBR - Life Money & Illusion, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Educated, Echo in the Bone, Mississippi Blood, All Things Wise & Wonderful, A Fine Balance, American Dirt, Winter of the World , Boy on the Beach, Brothers Karamazov, Bury Your Dead, Edgar Allen Poe, Annie's Girl, Sherlock Holmes, Long Walk To Freedom, Pachinko, Rainbow of Desire, Fall of Giants,
A magical realism book
A cultural book that depicts a place or time and its culture
A book from a genre that starts with any letter in your name
A book that was shelved as literary fiction
A book that could be used for at least five of the 2023 challenge prompts
A book that has won a diversity award in the 21st Century (2001-present) - - Isabel Allende, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, On Beauty, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, People of the Deer, A Woman is No Man,
A book from your favorite sub-genre
A book related to first contact
A book told from the villain’s perspective -
A book that is one of the top 23 Goodreads rated books in your TBR - Life Money & Illusion, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Educated, Echo in the Bone, Mississippi Blood, All Things Wise & Wonderful, A Fine Balance, American Dirt, Winter of the World , Boy on the Beach, Brothers Karamazov, Bury Your Dead, Edgar Allen Poe, Annie's Girl, Sherlock Holmes, Long Walk To Freedom, Pachinko, Rainbow of Desire, Fall of Giants,
A book set during a revolution or uprising
A book about the environment or nature
A book about "a fish out of water"
A book set in one of the countries competing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest
A book related to Going for the Gold
A book related to the British rhyme about Henry VIII's six wives: "Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived"
An Audie award winner (in any format)
A book with a main character who is in "domestic service" - butler, maid, cook, chauffer, etc.
A book where something on the cover is tilted or upside down
A book related to a bridge
A book found on the TBR of a Goodreads "Friend”
A book told from multiple character POVs
A book with a musical instrument on the cover or in the title
A book with a relative in the title
A book with a body part in the title
A book involving some type of intelligence
A book related to fire
A book related to Sailor Moon
A book recommended for or related to your zodiac sign
A book that was the basis for an Academy Award (Oscar) winning movie
A book related to Going for the Gold
A book involving travel
A book featuring a person who works in one the jobs that Barbie has had
A book recommended by an independent bookseller
A book that takes place in one of the world's 100 smallest countries
A book with a great first line
A book related to "civil rights" or "human rights"
A book about or related to technology
A book to fit a prompt from a past ATY challenge
A book with a word in the title related to reading
A book with a character who could appear on the X-Files
A book where a dream plays a role
A book that has a character with a non-traditional name
A book that plays with perceptions of reality
A book with rock, paper or scissors on the cover
A book with more than one main character
A book with a chair on the cover
A book on a summer reading list
A book connected to Anne of Green Gables
A book featuring creatures of the night
A book related to a musical
A book over 500 pages
A book with a cover design that reminds you of one of the four seasons
A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover
A book shelved as literary fiction
A book with dragons
A book whose title is a prepositional phrase
A book with a fictional famous character
A book with a main character who is Mad, Bad or Dangerous
A book related to the theme of a Las Vegas hotel
A book with a character that could be described as one of the classes in Dungeons and Dragons
A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
A book that features a child character
A book for leap day/year
A book connected to color by topic, title, or author name
A book with a character reminiscent of a Nightmare Before Christmas character
A graphic novel/comic with a female main writer and female main artist
A book that is on a Five Books list (readers choice of which list)
A book that’s a collection of short stories or essays
A book with a main character who is a bookseller, writer, journalist or librarian
A book with a character who works in an eating establishment
A book by an author from a country bordering the Indian Ocean
A book with a common household object on the cover
A book with a real person as a character
A book where a character is a musician
A book with character who is a fish-out-of-water
A book with an ex
A book title that seemingly refers to one or more characters in the book
A book with a poem in it
A book with 'guide' in the title
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
A book connected to Anne of Green Gables
A book related to mushrooms
A book from the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards (winner or nomination)
A book set in autumn
A book related to your birth month
A book with a character who works with animals
A book with a family member in the title
A book with a character whose name that starts with a letter in the phrase LIBRARY CARD
A book with a hand(s) on the cover, but no torso
ATY List from previous years:The 52 Topics of the 2022 ATY Reading Challenge:
1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A - In Search of April Raintree, T - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki, or Y - Old Yeller
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021 - Sea of Tranquility
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
- Rock - Daisy Jones & The Six
-paper -
-scissors -
- A book related to the year you turned 22 - 1991 -
- a book related to It’s the End of the World as We Know It -
- A book where the title and author name are in two different colo(u)rs -
- A book by an author with 3 names - The Angel's Game
- A book without the words "a", "an" or "the" in the title - Sari, Not Sari
- parallel novel or spin-off of a well-known story - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- A book about breaking barriers - Women Talking
- A book in translation - The Honjin Murders
- A non-fiction book without a subtitle - All New Square Foot Gardening
- A book by an indigenous author - Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A book with someone's back on the cover - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- A book published the month of your birthday - February
- A book set in the Arab world -
- A book that honors Betty White - All Creatures Great and Small
- 3 books connected to The Good, the Bad- One False Move and the Ugly - Father's Day
- A book with furniture on the cover -
- A book from one of Obama's reading lists - Thinking Fast and Slow, Educated, Pachinko, A Long Walk to Freedom, Americanah,
- A book related to a rabbit - Rabbit Foot Bill
- A book that features an act of kindness - Parable of the Talents
- A book related to the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody - good - Good Wives
- A book by an author you might like to meet -
- A true crime book -
- A book related to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing -
- A book related to The Wizard of Oz -
- A book with a word or phrase in the title that describes you - The Friend
- A book connected to bees - 100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
- A book with a main character that fits at least one of “mad, bad and dangerous to know” - The Bourne Ultimatum
- A book with a character in a Catch-22 situation - On the Beach
- A book within the first 22 listed on your TBR list - Fall of Giants, The Happiness Project, Already Home, Codebreakers, Sometimes Mine, Red Moon, The Singing Fire, Mercy Among the Children, Plan B, The Good Apprentice, An Anthropologist on Mars, Sleeping Naked is Green, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of J..., Mudbound, The Freedom Writers Diary, Infidel, Shake Hands With the Devil, Bury Your Dead, The Golem & the Jinni
- A book about organized crime or families -
- A book with a journalist author, journalist character - Meet Me in Monaco, or journalism topic -
- A book with a character who speaks at least two languages - Three Junes
- A book with a quirky or endearing character - The House at Pooh Corner
- A book connected to a song - Summer of '69
- A fiction book with a character who is a real person (historical or current day) - An Echo in the Bone
- A book relevant to the theme or lyrics of a specific Beatle's Song - LaRose
- A book with pictures or illustrations - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- A book set in a library or bookstore - April Fool Dead
- A book related to the wonders of the world -
- A book that involves an "ism" - racism - How We Fight For Our Lives, ageism - , sexism, ableism, color-sim or a similar types of bias -
- A book that has a character in government - Fourth of July Creek, royal family or governing body -
- A book involving travel: fiction - Seven Days in May, or non-fiction, terrestrial or other -
A book another ATY group member gave 5 stars - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
A fiction book with a reference work in the title
A novel disguised as a guide or manual - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
A book with a warm or heated atmosphere - The Henna Artist
A book with a bilingual character - The Brutal Telling
A book related to the Addams Family
A book nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award - Smile
A book set in a group living situation - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
A book with a divided, or split, cover -
A book for a prompt that was used in a previous year
A book longlisted for a Booker Prize
A historical fiction book that takes place before the 20th Century
A book adapted by Masterpiece Theatre
A book with the name of a spice in the title
A book that has an X in the title - Felix Ever After
A book by an author born between 1965-1980 (Generation X) - The Violets of March
A book involving a Wild Animal - The Snow Child or endangered species
A book with a pet in the story - Rosshalde
A book with a strong sense of place - The Glass Hotel
A book with an anti-hero as a main character
A book over 500 pages - Demon Copperhead
A book involving Intelligence – AI, espionage - Transcription or abilities
A book with more than one main character - A Long Way From Home
A book with an insect in the title or on the cover
A character that is a fish out of water - Saving Juliet
A book connected to a board game Ludo (another name for the game is Man, Don't Get Angry)
A book related to the Addams Family
A book related to the theme of a Las Vegas hotel
A main character that is mad, bad, or dangerous - Open Season
A book related to Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass
A book with a leap
A middle grade book that was nominated for or won an award such as the Newbery, Caldecott, or Carnegie
A book that includes a love story - The Sixth Wedding
A book related to one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse
A book with a character dealing with mental health - Tender Is the Night or cognitive challenges - Fourth of July Creek
A book with a child character - The Cat's Table
A book by a female or non-binary author which won an award that's also open to male authors - Jonny Appleseed
A book with a nod to weather
A book involving politics - Trouble in July, public service, or publicity at any level
A book with a character who has an alter ego - The ABC Murders
A book where at least one character is trapped - P is for Peril
A book with a character who is marginalized - Shut Up You're Pretty
A nonfiction book about a topic you have always wanted to learn about - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat
A book with a clock on the cover -
A book shelved as literary fiction - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories
A book set in a group living situation - The Lincoln Highway
A book featuring a person who works in one the jobs that Barbie has had
A book that is between 400-600 pages - Shopaholic & Baby
A book known to have a great last line
A book that helps you reflect - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir or recharge
A book suggested by the phrase “Summertime Blues”
A cultural book
A book that is an Audie award winner or nominee (read in any format)
A book connected to one of the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet
A book that features at least three generations of a family - Anne of Avonlea
A hot book, or a book with a hot topic
A book title that seemingly refers to one or more - Mother-Daughter Murder Night characters in the book - King's Cage
A book you could read in 24 hours - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
A book featured on a list for a media or celebrity book club
A book with a trial or with a legal term in the title
A book that takes place in two centuries - Before We Were Yours
ATY List from previous years: con'tThe 52 Topics of the 2022 ATY Reading Challenge:
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name -
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover -
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind -
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1 -
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2 -
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3 -
11. A book from historical fiction genre -
12. A book related to glass -
13. A book about a woman in STEM -
14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads -
15. A book without a person on the cover -
16. A book related to Earth Day -
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge - Daisy Jones & the 6, The Starless Sea, American Dirt, Homegoing, Sea of Tranquility, The Splendid & the Vile, Swing Time,
18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author -
19. A book that involves alternate reality - alternate worlds - , or alternate history
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951 -
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover - scottie dog, racing car - , horse -
22. A book with a Jewish character or author -
23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship -
24. A book related to inclement weather -
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages -
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1 -
27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2 -
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards - Life After Life, Looking for Alaska, My Sister the Serial Killer, Middlesex, Dune, The Night Watchman, Number the Stars, Sophie's Choice, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, The Round House, The Calculating Stars, The Road, The Grapes of Wrath, On Beauty, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Tin Drum, Barney's Version, A Mercy, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Arctic Dreams, Larry's Party, Let the Great World Spin,
29. A book set on or near a body of water -
30. A book related to mythology - Mythology, Mythos,
31. A book published at least 10 years ago -
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer -
33. The next book in a series -
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role -
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1 -
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2 -
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name -
38. A book by a Latin American author -
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time - Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, A Wizard of Earthsea,
40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards - Card
0 The Fool -
1 The Magician -
2 The High Priestess -
3 The Empress -
4 The Emperor
5 The Hierophant -
6 The Lovers -
7 The Chariot -
8 Justice † -
9 The Hermit -
10 Wheel of Fortune -
11 Strength †
12 The Hanged Man -
13 Death - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
14 Temperance -
15 The Devil -
16 The Tower -
17 The Star -
18 The Moon -
19 The Sun -
20 Judgement -
21 The World -
41. A book with a theme of food or drink -
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title -
43. A book set in a small town or rural area -
44. A book with gothic elements - Mystery and Fear. -
Omens and Curses. ... -
Atmosphere and Setting. ...
Supernatural and Paranormal Activity. ...
Romance. ... -
Villain -
Emotional Distress. ... -
Nightmares. -
45. A book related to a game -
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters -
47. A book with handwriting on the cover -
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022 - Project Hail Mary,
49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons" -
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years -
51. A book published in 2022 -
52. A book with a time-related word in the title
United in Reading:
January
- World Braille Day, Jan 4: Read a book that features a character who is sight-impaired or a book with a cover that has raised type. -
- International Day of Education, Jan 24: Read a book set at a school - Parable of the Talentsor a book where a character is a teacher - Already Home
- International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, Jan 27: Read a memoir from a Holocaust survivor or a book written by someone who is Jewish. - Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
February
- World Interfaith Harmony Week, first week of February: Read a book featuring characters that are a different faith from yours- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter or a book where characters work together in harmony - King's Cage
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Feb 11: Read a book featuring a woman or girl in STEM - An Echo in the Bone or a book about science
- World Day of Social Justice, Feb 20: Read a book about social justice - Felix Ever After or featuring a character that advocates for social justice reform - Before We Were Yours
March
- International Day to Combat Islamophobia, Mar 15: Read a book featuring Muslim characters in a positive light or read a book written by an author who practices Islam
- World Water Day, Mar 22: Read a book set on or near the water - The Snow Child or read a climate fiction or nonfiction book - All New Square Foot Gardening
- International day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Translatlantic Slave Trade, Mar 25: Read a book written from the perspective of a person who was enslaved or read a book about the repercussions of the slave trade today
April
- World Health Day, Apr 7: Read a book where characters are involved in the medical field - Tender Is the Night or a book about medical care - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
- International Day of Human Space Flight, Apr 12: Read a book set in space or a book featuring a person who is an astronaut
- International Mother Earth Day, Apr 22: Read a book about environmentalism - Open Season or a dystopian novel - On the Beach
May
- World Press Freedom Day, May 3: Read a book featuring a person who is a reporter or a book where a character learns something from the news - Seven Days in May
- World Bee Day, May 20: Read a book featuring plants - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat or a book with a flower or bee on the cover -
- International Tea Day, May 21: Read a book while drinking tea or a book with a teapot on the cover -
June
- World Day Against Child Labour, Jun 12: Read a book featuring a child - Father's Day or a book written by a child (under 18)
- World Refugee Day, Jun 20: Read a book where a character or the author is a refugee
- Day of the Seafarer, Jun 25: Read a book featuring a sailor or set on or near the ocean - The Cat's Table
July
- Nelson Mandela International Day, Jul 18: Read a book set in South Africa - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Storiesor a book involving a reconciliation - LaRose
- International Moon Day, Jul 20: Read a book with the moon on the cover or a book set primarily at night - Mother-Daughter Murder Night
- International Day of Friendship, Jul 30: Read a book you received from a friend - Clockwork Angelor a book featuring friendship - The Friend
August
- International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Aug 9: Read a book written by an indigenous/first nation author
- International Youth Day, Aug 12: Read a young adult book or a book with a teen main character
- International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Aug 30: Read a book featuring a character who is kidnapped or a book where something is missing
September
- International Day of Charity, Sep 5: Read a book with a character who gives to someone in need or a read a book and donate it to a local library or organization
- International Literacy Day, Sep 8: Re-read a favorite book, read your favorite author, or read on the day
- International Translation Day, Sep 30: Read a book in translation
October
- International Day of Older Persons, Oct 1: Read a book with an elder (over 65) main character or a read a book written by an author over 65.
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct 17: Read a book featuring someone living in poverty or a book about combatting poverty
- United Nations Day, Oct 24: Read a book written by a person who lives on a different continent than you
November
- World Science Day for Peace and Development, Nov 10: Read a book featuring something scientific or a book featuring something peaceful
- World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Nov 20: Read a book involving a car trip or a book where a character drives a vehicle
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Nov 25: Read a book where someone stops a violent attack or a book written by a survivor
December
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Dec 3: Read a book featuring a character with a disability or written by an author with a disability
- International Civil Aviation Day, Dec 7: Read a book with an airplane or hot air balloon on the cover or a book that involves scenes on a plane
- International Human Solidarity Day, Dec 20: Read a book written by an author who is from a different country, background, or demographic than you
Hindsight - past decadesPre-1900’s Blast from the Past:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the BCE (before common era) or nonfiction about the BCE - The Odyssey, The Aeneid
2. Set between 1-1800 CE (common era) or nonfiction about the CE - An Echo in the Bone
3. Set between 1801-1900 - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
4. That spans multiple decades - Sea of Tranquility
5. Set in Greece (the first Olympics) - Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
1900’s Zesty Zeros:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1900's - Orphan Train, Pachinko, The Lake House, The Forgotten Garden, The Secret Keeper, Life After Life, Loving Frank, The Distant Hours, Winter of the World, Fall of Giants, The Historian,
2. Published in the 1900's - Anne of Avonlea
3. By an author born - The Honjin Murders or died in the 1900’s -
4. Set in the Balkans (Balkan wars) - Baltic Books -
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: France, USA - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her, UK - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
1910’s: Transformative Teens:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1910's - Our Town
2. Published in the 1910's - Peter Pan, Pygmalion, Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist..., Anne of the Island, The Emerald City of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz,
3. By an author born - Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryor died in the 1910's - O Henry, Anna Karenina,
4. Set in - Sail - The Cat's Tableor near the ocean (Titanic) - Seven Days in May
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Sweden, Germany - Rosshalde
1920’s: Tremendous Twenties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1920's - The Snow Child
2. Published in the 1920's - The House at Pooh Corner
3. By an author born - The Bourne Ultimatum or died in the 1920's -
4. Featuring jazz music or a jazz instrument -
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries Belgium - Belgravia, France - Father's Day, Switzerland - The Manticore, A Farewell to Arms, Netherlands - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,
1930’s: Thirsty Thirties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1930's - All Creatures Great and Small
2. Published in 1930's - The ABC Murders
3. By an author born - Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang or died in 1930's -
4. Featuring a character who loses a job - Open Season or otherwise suffers financial hardship - The Glass Hotel
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - A Catered St. Patrick's Day, Germany - Perfume, Beneath the Wheel, Inkheart,
1940’s: Fatal Forties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1940's - Before We Were Yours
2. Published in the 1940's -
3. By an author born - Parable of the Talents or died in the 1940's - Tender Is the Night
4. Involving war (WWII) - Transcription
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Japan, Finland, Italy, UK - Shopaholic & Baby, Germany - The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100 Yr old man, Baumgartner's Bombay,
1950’s: Fabulous Fifties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1950's - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
2. Published in the 1950's -
3. By an author born - The Brutal Telling or died in the 1950’s
4. Featuring a Queen - or set in a Commonwealth Realm headed by Queen Elizabeth II - Canada - Rabbit Foot Bill, UK - , Australia, Ireland, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, South Africa - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, Scotland
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Norway - Winter Garden, The Great Alone, Jo Nesbo, Knut Hamson, Henrik Ibsen, The Weight of Water, Sophie's World, , Finland - Letters from Tove, My First Murder, Italy - A Room with a View, Australia - The Secret River, The Forgotten Garden, The True History of the Kelly Gang, The Secret Keeper, The Distant Hours, A Long Way From Home, Sweden - Sophie's World, , Accidental Further Adventures of..., The Lost Boy,
1960’s: The Swingin’ Sixties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1960's - Summer of '69
2. Published in the 1960's - In Cold Blood, Dune, A Clockwork Orange, The Giving Tree, A Wizard of Earthsea, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Travels with Charley, Dragonflight, The Feminine Mystique, Encyclopedia Brown, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, , The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Edible Woman,
3. By an author born - Women Talking or died in the 1960’s - On the Beach
4. Set in space or another celestial body (Moon Landing) -
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - Saving Juliet, Italy, Austria
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Japan - Wind up Bird Chronicle, France - Meet Me in Monaco, Mexico - Like Water for Chocolate, The Lacuna
1970’s: Self-Assured Seventies:
Read a Book…
1.Set in the 1970's - Daisy Jones & The Six
2. Published in the 1970's - The Stand, Interview with a Vampire, Roots, Salem's Lot, The Simarillion, , All the President's Men, All Things Bright & Beautiful, Dragonsong, All Things Wise & Wonderful, Sula, Rumble Fish, Surfacing,
3. By an author born - Already Home or died in the 1970’s - Pearl S Buck, Anais Nin, Old Yeller
4. By a female or LGBT+ author - How We Fight For Our Lives (Women’s and Gay Rights) -
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Canada - In Search of April Raintree, West Germany, Japan, Austria - The Lost Letter,
1980’s: The Elegant Eighties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1980's - February
2. Published in the 1980's - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
3. By an author born - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter or died in the 1980’s - Trouble in July
4. Featuring radiation of some kind or set in Ukraine (Chernobyl)
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - Mother-Daughter Murder Night, Canada - Shut Up You're Pretty, South Korea
1990’s: The Nifty Nineties:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 1990's - Demon Copperhead
2. Book published in the 1990's - One False Move
3. By an author born - King's Cage or died in the 1990’s
4. Featuring character who live off-grid - Moon of the Crusted Snow or “outside” of a system of government (Waco, Ruby Ridge) - Fourth of July Creek
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Chile, Norway, USA - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man, Japan, France, Spain
2000’s: Admirable Aughts:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 2000's - P is for Peril
2. Published in the 2000's - Smile
3. By an author born or died in the 2000’s - David Foster Wallace,
4. Set in NYC (World Trade Center attack) -
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - April Fool Dead, Greece - Three Junes, Italy, China - Crazy Rich Asians, 100 Secret Senses, Australia,
2010’s: The Terrific Teens:
Read a Book…
1. Set in the 2010's - The Friend
2. Published in the 2010's - Feed
3. By an author born or died in the 2010’s - P is for Peril
4. By an Arab author -
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: Canada - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir, UK - Clockwork Angel, Russia - Mirror Image, Brazil - Pedagogy of the Oppressed, South Korea
2020’s and Beyond: You are Here:
Read a Book…
1. Set in current times - Sari, Not Sari
2. Published in 2020’s - Felix Ever After
3. By an author died in 2020's - The Angel's Game
Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA - The Violets of March, Japan, China, France, Italy,
4. Set in the near future (100 years or less) -
5. Set in an imagined future over 100 years from now
Diversity in Reading: #OwnVoicesRead a book featuring a protagonist who identifies as _____ by an author who is also _____.
1. African (e.g, Ghanian, Nigerian) -
Read a book from each major region:
A. Eastern Africa - Cutting for Stone,
B. Central or Middle Africa
C. Northern Africa -
D. Southern Africa -
E. Western Africa -
2. Agnostic, Athiest, or Humanist
3. Asexual or Aromantic
4. Asian (e.g., Hmong, Japanese - The Honjin Murders) -
Read a book from each major region:
A. Central Asia
B. Eastern Asia - Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Amy Tan,
C. Northern Asia
D. Southern Asia - The Henna Artist
E. Southeast Asia -
F. Western Asia -
5. Bisexual or Pansexual -
6. Black (e.g. African-American, Black British) -
7. Buddhist
8. Christian-minority (i.e., Christian in a country in which it is not the most common religion)
9. Differently-Abled (e.g., Autistic, Deaf, Paraplegic) -
10. Gay Male - Jonny Appleseed or Lesbian Female -
11. Hindu
12. Immigrant -
13. Incarcerated or Institutionalized
14. Indigenous (e.g., Aboriginal, Inuit, Mojave) - In Search of April Raintree
15. Jewish -
16. Latin American (e.g., Mexican, Colombian-descent)
Read a book from each major region:
A. Mexico -
B. Carribean
C. Central America
D. South America -
17. Living with a Mental Health or Cognitive Disability -
18. Low-Income or Financially Insecure -
19. Middle Eastern -
20. Mixed Race or Multi-racial -
21. Muslim -
22. Non-binary or Transgender - Felix Ever After
23. Oceanic (e.g., Papuan, Samoan)
Read a book from each major region:
A. Australasia -
B. Melanesia
C. Micronesia
D. Polynesia
24. Practitioner of a minor religion or another form of spirituality
25. Refugee, Migrant, or Asylum-Seeker -
26. Survivor of Sexual Assault or Domestic Violence
GLOBAL VOICES:
Read a book featuring a protagonist who identifies as _____ by an author who is also _____.
Voices From Around The World:
1. African -
2. Asian -
3. Caribbean
4. Indigenous - Moon of the Crusted Snow
5. Latin American - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
6. Middle Eastern -
7. Oceanic -
8. From a Dependent Territory (e.g., Puerto Rican) or State with Limited Recognition (e.g., Palestinian)
9. Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant, or Asylum-Seeker -
10. Black or Multiracial -
Diversity of Beliefs:
11. Agnostic, Atheist, or Humanist
12. Buddhist or Hindu
13. Jewish -
14. Muslim -
15. Practitioner of a Minor Religion or Non-Religious form of Spirituality
16. Activist, Freedom Fighter, or Political Minority
Love is Love is Love:
17. Asexual, Aromantic, or Celibate
18. Gay or Lesbian -
19. Bisexual or Pansexual -
20. Adopted, Fostered, or raised by someone other than one's biological parents
Every Body Has Value:
21. Body Positive, Body Neutral, or Fat Positive person who is a size or shape outside of their society's beauty norms (Diet, Weightloss, or other Body Modification books are not allowed for this prompt.) -
22. Non-binary, Genderqueer, Intersex or Transgender -
23. Child (under 18) or Elder (over 75) -
24. Differently-Abled (e.g., Autistic, Deaf) -
25. Living with a visible or invisible Chronic Health Condition or Physical Disability -
26. Living with a Mental Health Condition, Cognitive / Intellectual Disability - Parenthesis, or Addiction -
27. Currently or Previously Incarcerated or Institutionalized
28. Low-Income or Financially Insecure
29. Survivor of Abuse, Neglect, Sexual Assault, a Hate Crime, or Human Trafficking -
30. Victim of State-Sponsored Violence or Institutional/Systemic Discrimination -
31. Read a book written by people indigenous to where you live or frequently visit. -
32. Read a book translated from a language other than English. -
33. Read a book that addresses social justice or ethics or in medicine - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir, law, fashion, food, consumerism, or environmental stewardship as it relates to race, class, sex/gender, etc.
34. Read a “classic,” award-winning, or scholarly #ownvoices book that also meets the criteria for one of the above prompts. - Parable of the Talents
35. Read a book of poetry or a graphic novel - Ashes that also meets the criteria for one of the above prompts.
36. Read an #ownvoices book promoted or written by a Bookstagrammer, Booktuber, Book Blogger, Goodreads Super Reviewer, or an Activist or Educator who uses social media as a tool to teach and inspire change. -
37. Listen to an #ownvoices book read by the author, read the book and attend an author event about the book, or watch a recording of such an event. - LaRose
38. Read a book about intersectional feminism or Black feminism. - Sula, Black Like Me, The Vanishing Half, Snow Flower & The Secret Fan, The Girl with the Louding Voice, Phoebe Robinson, Eloquent Rage, We Should All Be Feminists, So You Want to Talk About Race, Americanah, The Body is Not An Apology, The Handmaid's Tale, The Beauty Myth, Transcendent Kingdom, Me & White Supremacy, Talking Back, A Woman is No Man, Daring Greatly,
39. Read a book that discusses unearned privilege, colonialism, imperialism, or white supremacy.
40. Read a book that helps you understand your own cultural heritage
Reading Women Challenges:1) A book by a woman in translation (bonus points if it’s also translated by a woman) -
2) A fantasy novel written by a woman of color - Parable of the Talents
3) A book set in the American South - Already Home
4) A short story collection - Shut Up You're Pretty
5) A graphic novel or memoir - Smile
6) A book published by an independent press - Akashic Books, Bellevue Literary Press, BOA Editions, C & R Press, Catapult Books, City Lights Publisher, Coffee House Press, Enchanted Lion Books, Europa Editions, Featherproof Books, Feral House, Forest Avenue Press, Future Tense Books, George Braziller, Graywolf Press,
7) A book set in Russia or by a Russian author - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
8) A book with a viewpoint character who is an immigrant or a refugee -
9) A book by an Australian or a Canadian author - February
10) An essay collection -
11) A book about someone with a chronic illness - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
12) A true crime book -
13) A book by an African American Woman about Civil Rights -
14) A classic novel written by a woman (bonus points if not Austen or a Bronte) - The ABC Murders
15) A poetry collection -
16) A book where the characters are traveling somewhere - An Echo in the Bone
17) A book with a food item in the title - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
18) A book written by a female Nobel Prize winner - Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Doris Lessing, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, Pearl Buck, Louise Gluck,
19) A book from the Reading Woman Award 2017 shortlists - Pachinko, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
20) A memoir by someone who lives in a country different from yours -
21) A book inspired by a fairytale -
22) A book by a local author - Sari, Not Sari or recommended by your local bookstore
23) The book that has been on your TBR the longest (or one that's been there a long time) - The Brutal Telling
24) A book in a genre - Clockwork Angelor subgenre you have never read - Feed
BONUS
A book by Virginia Woolf -
A book by Flannery O’Connor -
1) A Book Longlisted for the JCB Prize
2) An Author from Eastern Europe - Magda Szabo
3) A Book About Incarceration -
4) A Cookbook by a Woman of Color -
5) A Book with a Protagonist Older than 50 - Before We Were Yours
6) A Book by a South American Author in Translation -
7) Reread a Favorite Book -
8) A Memoir by an Indigenous, First Nations, Native, or Aboriginal Woman -
9) A Book by a Neurodivergent Author -
10) A Crime Novel or Thriller in Translation -
11) A Book About the Natural World - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat
12) A Young Adult Novel by a Latinx Author - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
13) A Poetry Collection by a Black Woman -
14) A Book with a Biracial Protagonist -
15) A Muslim Middle Grade Novel -
16) A Book Featuring a Queer Love Story - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
17) About a Woman in Politics -
18) A Book with a Rural Setting - The Violets of March
19) A Book with a Cover Designed by a Woman -
20) A Book by an Arab Author in Translation
21) A Book by a Trans Author - Felix Ever After
22) A Fantasy Novel by an Asian Author
23) A Nonfiction Book Focused on Social Justice
24) A Short Story Collection by a Caribbean Author
BONUS
25) A Book by Alexis Wright
26) A Book by Tsitsi Dangarembga
27) A Book by Leila Aboulela
28) A Book by Yoko Ogawa
1) A Book by an Author from the Caribbean or India - The Henna Artist
2) A Book Translated from an Asian Language
3) A Book about the Environment
4) Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author -
5) A Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction - The Lacuna,
6) A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian -
7) A Book Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism -
8) An Anthology by Multiple Authors -
9) A Book Inspired by Folklore -
10) A Book About a Woman Artist -
11) Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation -
12) A Book About a Woman Who Inspires You -
13) A Book by an Arab Woman -
14) A Book Set in Japan or by a Japanese Author
15) A Biography
16) A Book Featuring a Woman with a Disability -
17) A Book Over 500 Pages - King's Cage
18) A Book Under 100 Pages -
19) A Book That’s Frequently Recommended to You - Daisy Jones & The Six
20) A Feel-Good - Anne of Avonleaor Happy Book - Good Wives
21) A Book about Food - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
22) A Book by Either a Favorite or a New-to-You Publisher - Transcription
23) A Book by an LGBTQ+ Author - Rabbit Foot Bill
24) A Book from the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions - Women Talking
BONUS
25) A Book by Toni Morrison -
26) A Book by Isabel Allende -
1) A mystery or thriller written by a woman of color -
2) A book about a woman with a mental illness -
3) A book by an author from Nigeria - or New Zealand
4) A book about or set in Appalachia - Demon Copperhead
5) A children's book -
6) A multigenerational family saga -
7) A book featuring a woman in science - Meet Me in Monaco
8) A play
9) A novella -
10) A book about a woman athlete
11) A book featuring a religion other than your own -
12) A Lambda Literary Award winner
13) A myth retelling -
14) A translated book published before 1945
15) A book written by a South Asian author
16) A book by an Indigenous woman - In Search of April Raintree
17) A book from the 2018 Reading Women Award shortlist - Educated,
18) A romance - Shopaholic & Baby or love story -
19) A book about nature - The Snow Child
20) A historical fiction book - Seven Days in May
21) A book you bought or borrowed in 2019 - Summer of '69
22) A book you picked up because of the cover -
23) Any book from a series - P is for Peril
24) A young adult book by a woman of color - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
BONUS:
25) A book by Jesmyn Ward -
26) A book by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Listopia Challenge 2023:Possible lists:
Best Survival Stories
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Sophie's Choice
3. They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky
4. On the Beach
5. The Road
6. The Stand
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. Lucky
9. Cold Cold Heart
10. Vanishing Acts
11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12. Anna Karenina
13. As I Lay Dying
14. Babe
15. The Autobiography of a Face
16. A Bolt from the Blue & Other Essays
17. Beowolf
18. The Bell Jar
19. Brick Lane
20. The Code of the Woosters
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1. The Origin of Species
2. The Tipping Point
3. Packing for Mars
4. Gulp
5. Thinking Fast & Slow
6. The Coming Plague
7. The Botany of Desire
8. The Naked Ape
9. Bonk
10. The Brain that Changes Itself
11. Spook
12. The 13th Element
13. The Teenage Brain
Best Horror Novels
1. Cold Cold Heart
2. It
3. Salem's Lot
4. The Stand
5. Hound of the Baskervilles
6. Harvest Home
7. The Historian
8. Library at Mount Char
9. The Green Mile
10. The Passage
Books that Exceeded Your Expectations
1. Gone With the Wind
2. Cane River
3. The Historian
4. The Forgotten Garden
5. Middlesex
6. The Pact
7. The Casual Vacancy
8. Crazy Rich Asians
9. The Road
10. Lord of the Rings
11. A Fine Balance
12. Loving Frank
13. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
14. Fall of Giants
15. The Distant Hours
16. The Sound & the Fury
17. Cutting for Stone
18. The Road
19. The Silmarillion
Humourous Memoirs & Non-Fiction
1. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2. Naked
3. Bonk
4. When You are Engulfed in Flames
5. The Botany of Desire
6. Magical Thinking
7. This is Where I Leave You
8. Britt-Marie Was Here
9. All Creatures Great and Small
10. Into Thin Air
You Read a Book About What?
1. The Professor & the Madman
2. Spook
3. In Cold Blood
4. The Brain that Changes Itself
5. Color
6. Naked
7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
8. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
9. Bonk
10. All the President's Men
11. Educated
12. Blink
13. The Onion Field
14. From Scratch
15. Steve Jobs
Books I would Require if I Taught an English Lit Class
1. Hamlet
2. The Handmaid's Tale
3. The Sound & the Fury
4. Beautiful Losers
5. Grapes of Wrath
6. Conversations with Myself
7. Sherlock Holmes
8. Middlesex
9. The Brothers Karamazov
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Female Psychological Thrillers Suspense Written by Women
1. Now You See Me
2. Behind Closed Doors
3. Fingersmith
4. Promise Not to Tell
5. Island of Lost Girls
6. In The Woods
7. Find Her
8. The Wife Between Us
9. Vanishing Girls
10. V is for Vengence
11. The Lying Game
12. The Wonder
13. Find Her
14. Fingersmith
15. The Good Girl
100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime
1. The Bourne Ultimatum
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes/ The Hound of the Baskervilles
3. The Woman in White
4. The Name of the Rose
5. In The Woods
6. Killing Floor
7. Get Shorty
8. Tell No One
9. How the Light Gets In
10. Cutting for Stone
11. The DaVinci Code
12. A Great Reckoning - all
13. The Historian
14. As I Lay Dying
15. The Eyre Affair
16. The Silent Patient
17. Natchez Burning
18. The Godfather
19. The Postman Always Rings Twice
20. Death on the Nile
Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Americanah
4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
5. White Teeth
6. Cutting for Stone
7. Life After Life
8. The Golem & the Jinni
9. On Beauty
10. A Fine Balance
11. A Wizard of Earth Sea
12. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
13. Good Morning Midnight
14. Spook
15. The Wild Iris
16. The Casual Vacancy
17. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
18. A God in Ruins
19. The Beauty of Humanity Movement
20. The Wives of Henry VIII
Major Award Winning Fiction Since 1990
1. The Road
2. The Blind Assassin
3. Alias Grace
4. Pachinko
5. Sea of Poppies
6. The Secret River
7. Middlesex
8. The Casual Vacancy
9. The Luminaries
10. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
11. Galore
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. Life After Life
14. Fingersmith
15. White Teeth
16. When We Were Orphans
17. On Beauty
18. The Lacuna
19. Fight Club
20. My Name is Red
Best Books to read When Snow is Falling
1. The Snow Child
2. Night Road
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. We Were Liars
5. The Peach Keeper
6. The Luminaries
7. The Other Boleyn Girl
8. The Distant Hours
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Picture Perfect
11. Winter Garden
12. The Name of the Rose
13. The Historian
14. The Golem & The Jinni
15. The Two Towers
16. Picture Perfect
17. The Constant Princess
18. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
19. The Stand
Best Feminist Fiction
1. Much Ado About Nothing
2. Fingersmith
3. The Kitchen God's Wife
4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
5. North & South
6. Alias Grace
7. Lady Oracle
8. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
9. Loving Frank
10. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
11. Good Morning Midnight
12. Fried Green Tomatoes
13. To The Lighthouse
14. Sula
15. Americanah
Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
1. Crime & Punishment
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Two Towers
4. The Sound & The Fury
5. Julius Caesar
6. Hamlet
7. The Return of the King
8. The Grapes of Wrath
9. As I Lay Dying
10. Anna Karenina
11. Middlesex
12. The Name of the Rose
13. Tender Is the Night
Top 10 for the Reading Challengers
1. Hamlet
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Stand
4. Sophie's Choice
5. The Golem & the Jinni
6. On the Beach
7. Life After Life
8. A Fine Balance
9. The Secret Keeper
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. The Botany of Desire
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Middlesex
14. The Historian
15. The Forgotten Garden
16. The Two Towers
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. The Handmaid's Tale
19. The Count of Monte Cristo
20. The Road
Other Lists:The Prison Book Club Discussed Books
1. A Fine Balance
2. An Ice-cream War
3. The Tipping Point
4. Blink
5. Outliers
6. Alias Grace
7. Someone Knows My Name
8. The Road
9. Don Quixote
10. Saturday
11. The Zookeeper's Wife
Favourite Travel Books
1. Color
2. Honeymoon in Purdah
3. The Lost Girls
4. The Voluntourist
5. Out of Africa
6. Fresh Air Fiend
7. All Roads Lead to Austen
8. Maiden Voyages
9. Into Thin Air
10. Into the Wild
Oprah's Book Club Picks
1. Middlesex
2. A Fine Balance
3. Songs in Ordinary Time
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
5. The Sound & The Fury
6. As I Lay Dying
7. Freedom
8. Cane River
9. River Cross My Heart
10. Open House
11. Pillars of the Earth
12. East of Eden
13. The Road
14. Anna Karenina
15. A Tale of Two Cities
16. Tara Road
17. Paradise
18. American Dirt
19. Olive Again
20. The Bluest Eye
Everyone's Read it But Me
1. Middlesex
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Tuesdays With Morrie
4. The Road
5. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
6. The Fall of Giants
7. The Name of the Rose
8. The Forgotten Garden
9. The Stand
10. A Tale of Two Cities
11. Outliers
12. Blink
13. Hamlet
14. The Other Boleyn Girl
15. House Rules
16. The Tipping Point
17. The Historian
Around the World in 100 Books
1. My Name is Red
2. Hamlet
3. Cutting for Stone
4. Crime & Punishment
5. A Fine Balance
6. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
7. On the Beach
8. The Beach
9. The Kitchen God's Wife
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11. The Glass Palace
12. The True History of the Kelly Gang
13. The Secret River
14. The Girl You Left Behind
15. Anna Karenina
16. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
17. Shadows on the Rock
18. Sea of Poppies
19. The Grapes of Wrath
20. All Things Bright & Beautiful
Best Multicultural General Fiction
1. A Fine Balance
2. Cutting for Stone
3. White Teeth
4. The Kitchen God's Wife
5. Family Matters
6. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
7. Crazy Rich Asians
8. A Blade of Grass
9. The Glass Palace
10. Americanah
Book of the Month Club Picks
1. Swimming Lessons
2. The Great Alone
3. The Lying Game
4. Turtles All the Way Down
5. Pachinko
6. Swing Time
7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
8. A Woman is No Man
9. The Wife Between Us
10. Artemis
Best Environmental Books
1. Diversity of Life
2. No Logo
3. Fast Food Nation
4. The Botany of Desire
5. The Coming Plague
6. The Tipping Point
7. Sleeping Naked is Green
8. Sisters of the Earth
9. Small is Beautiful
10. The Milagro Beanfield War
The Orange Prize Winners
1. La Lacuna
2. On Beauty
3. 100 Secret Senses
4. The Lizard Cage
5. Fault Lines
6. White Teeth
7. A Mercy
8. The Blind Assassin
9. Larry's Party
10. The Constant Princess
Pulitzer Prize Winners
1. Our Town
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Road
4. Roots
5. Middlesex
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
7. The Wild Iris
8. The Road
9. The Snow Child
10. Empire Falls
Medicine & Literature
1. Gulp
2. Cutting for Stone
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
4. Death of an Expert Witness
5. The Professor & the Madman
6. Bonk
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. An Anthropologist on Mars
9. The Birth House
10. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
11. The Coming Plague
12. Lucky
13. House Rules
14. The Brain that Changes Itself
15. Mountains Beyond Mountains
About Racism & Race Relations
1. Me and White Supremacy
2. Why I'm no Longer Talking to White People About Race
3. How We Fight For Our Lives
4. So You Want to Talk About Race
5. Noughts & Crosses
6. Americanah
7. White Rage
8. Dreams From My Father
9. Paradise
10. Homegoing
11. White Teeth
12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
13. Shake Hands with the Devil
14. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
15. The Fire Next Time
16. Dust Tracks on a Road
17. Eloquent Rage
18. Paradise
19. The Round House
20. The Vanishing Half
Are You Well Read in Literature
1. Anna Karenina
2. Homegoing
3. Beowolf
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. Perfume
6. The Odyssey
7. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
8. Sophie's World
9. My Name is Red
10. Homecoming
11. Crazy Rich Asians
12. The Count of Monte Cristo
13. War & Peace
14. Beartown
15. Don Quiote
16. A Suitable Boy
17. Oscar & Lucinda
18. The Name of the Rose
19. Madame Bovary
20. Crime & Punishment
21. Kiss of the Spider Woman
22. Ghana Must Go
23. Smila's Sense of Snow
24. Whale Rider
25. The Brothers Karamazov
26. Of Love & Shadows
27. The Messenger
28. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
29. Cutting for Stone
Fargo Public Library's Tea Time Book Club
1. Love & Ruin
2. Pachinko
3. Homegoing
4. Small Great Things
5. The Handmaid's Tale
Own Voices Books
1. Crazy Rich Asians
2. Rich People Problems
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
4. So You Want to Talk About Race
5. Homegoing
6. Americanah
7. Me & White Supremacy
8. P.S. I Still Love You
9. The Rose & the Dagger
10. China Rich Girlfriend
11. Fingersmith
12. The House of the Spirits
13. Pachinko
14. Always & Forever Laura Jean
15. Educated
16. Eloquent Rage
17. Firekeeper's Daughter
18. On the Come Up
19. The Vanishing Half
20. All Boys Aren't Blue
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. Crime & Punishment
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. Gone With the Wind
5. A Tale of Two Cities
6. The Brothers Karmazov
7. The Name of the Rose
8. Middlesex
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
11. Anna Karenina
12. The Woman in White
13. The Sound & the Fury
14. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
15. A Fine Balance
Other Lists:BBC The Big Read Top 100 Books:
1. Lord of the Rings
2. The House at Pooh Corner
3. War and Peace
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Harry Potter
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Pillars of the Earth
9. Persuasion
10. Dune
11. Holes
12. Anna Karenina
13. A Suitable Boy
14. The Woman in White
15. Crime and Punishment
16. Noughts & Crosses
17. A Tale of Two Cities
18. Perfume
19. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
20. The Count of Monte Cristo
What Women Born in the 1960s have read so far:
1. The Four Winds
2. Thinking Fast & Slow
3. Educated
4. Project Hail Mary
5. One By One
6. Outliers
7. The Book of Longings
8. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. Olive Again
11. The Road
12. The Snow Child
13. The Vanishing Half
14. A Woman is No Man
15. When the Stars Go Dark
16. Pachinko
17. Winter Garden
18. Love - Toni Morrison
19. The Testaments
20. The Peach Keeper
21. A Promised Land
22. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
23. The Silent Patient
24. Transcendent Kingdom
25. Between Two Kingdoms
Books Mentioned in Reading Lolita in Tehran
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. Not Without My Daughter
3. Beyond Good & Evil
4. Don Quixote
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
Best Non-Fiction:
1. Outliers
2. The Tipping Point
3. Blink
4. Fast Food Nation
5. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
6. The Professor & the Madman
7. The Origin of Species
8. Moneyball
9. 7 Habits of Highly...
10. Color
11. Bonk
12. Botany of Desire
13. The Big Short
14. Thinking Fast & Slow
15. Spook
16. The Lemon Tree
17. No Logo
18. Good to Great
19. In Cold Blood
20. Audacity of Hope
21. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
22. Naked
23. Packing For Mars
24. Tuesdays with Morrie
25. A Civil Action
26. What the Dog Saw
27. Beyond Good & Evil
28. The Happiness Project
29. The Brain that Changes Itself
30. Dance of Anger
31. The Coming Plague
32. Steve Jobs
33. The Sociopath Next Door
34. Into the Wild
35. The Monuments Men
36. Shake Hands with the Devil
37. So You Want to Talk About Race
38. The Beauty Myth
39. Lucky
40. Grit
The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
1. An Ice-Cream War
2. Crime & Punishment
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. Gone With the Wind
8. Anna Karenina
9. The Old Man & the Sea
10. The Name of the Rose
11. Dune
12. A Tale of Two Cities
13. Don Quixote
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
15. Perfume
16. The Bell Jar
17. The Brothers Karamazov
18. The Road
19. Sophie's Choice
20. A Confederacy of Dunces
21. The Woman in White
22. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
23. A Wizard of Earthsea
24. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
27. Hunger
28. A Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist
29. My Name is Red
30. The Complete Maus
31. A Fine Balance
32. Fingersmith
33. White Teeth
34. Who Do You Think You Are
35. The Constant Gardner
36. The Beach
37. The Day of the Triffids
38. True History of the Kelly Gang
39. Middlesex
40. On Beauty
41. Infinite Jest
42. Narcissus & Goldmund
43. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
44. Family Matters
45. As I Lay Dying
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2022
1. Klara and the Sun
2. The Four Winds
3. The Sentence
4. Firekeeper's Daughter
5. The Paris Apartment
Toronto Public Library Great Reads Vol. 3
1. The Historian
2. Q & A
3. On Beauty
4. A Long Way Down
5. The Night Watch
6. The Birth House
7. A Map of Glass
8. Saturday
Books that Stay with You Forever:
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. Jurassic Park
3. Falling Angels
4. Like Water for Chocolate
5. House of the Spirits
6. Sophie's Choice
7. Perfume
8. Crime & Punishment
9. Life After Life
10. A God in Ruins
11. Alias Grace
12. The Silmarillion
13. The Brothers Karamazov
14. The Historian
15. In Cold Blood
16. Tuesdays with Morrie
17. The Grapes of Wrath
18. All Creatures Great and Small
19. The Constant Gardener
20. Don Quixote
21. The Coming Plague
22. The Passage
23. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
24. Gone With the Wind
25. Dune
26. A Tale of Two Cities
27. The Handmaid's Tale
28. The Two Towers
29. The Road
30. Clockwork Angel
True Crime
Books
1. I'll be Gone in the Dark
2. In Cold Blood
3. Lost Girls
4. Bad Blood
5. Portrait of a Killer
Lists:
Best for Book Clubs list:
1. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
2. Middlesex
3. The Pillars of the Earth
4. Tuesdays with Morrie
5. The Other Boleyn Girl
6. The Road
7. Cutting for Stone
8. Grapes of Wrath
9. Gone With the Wind
10. East of Eden
11. Midwives
12. Loving Frank
What to Read Next
1. City of Bones
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Coraline
4. The Other Boleyn Girl
5. Pillars of the Earth
6. Speak
7. The Lost Symbol
8. The Two Towers
9. City of Ember
10. Tuesdays with Morrie
11. Brisingr
12. Stargirl
13. The Graveyard Book
14. The Road
15. Looking for Alaska
16. The Stand
17. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
18. The Alchemist
19. Slumdog Millionaire
50 Books that will Change Your Life - Indigo
1. East of Eden
2. Heart of Darkness
3. Clockwork Orange
4. The Remains of the Day
5. The Trial
6. Into Thin Air
7. The Talented Mr. Riply
8. Dubliners
9. Anna Karenina
10. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
12. A Confederacy of Dunces
13. Coming Through the Slaughter
14. Doctor Zhivago
15. Fellowship of the Ring
Best Books of 2020
1. American Dirt
2. Klara and the Sun
3. The Vanishing Half
4. Project Hail Mary
5. The Four Winds
6. The Girl with the Louding Voice
7. The Splendid and the Vile
8. A Promised Land
9. Transcendent Kingdom
10. Malibu Rising
Books that Changed My World
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Crime & Punishment
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Anna Karenina
6. Dune
7. Tuesdays with Morrie
8. The Odyssey
9. Hamlet
10. Good to Great
11. The Brothers Karamazov
12. Leaves of Grass
13. A Tale of 2 Cities
14. Perfume
15. Daring Greatly
16. In Cold Blood
17. The Origin of Species
18. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
19. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
20. DaVinci Code
Listopias:Seasonal Reading Challenge Recommended Books:
1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. City of Bones
5. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
6. Pillars of the Earth
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Eyre Affair
9. The Forgotten Garden
10. The Historian
11. Fried Green Tomatoes
12. Like Water for Chocolate
13. Middlesex
14. Cutting for Stone
15. The Passage
16. Crime & Punishment
17. The Stand
18. A Tale of Two Cities
19. Perfume
20. Tuesdays with Morrie
Quick Reads Good Books:
1. Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Three Men in a Boat
3. A Wizard of Earthsea
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. The Railway Children
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
7. Cry the Beloved Country
8. Death on the Nile
9. An Artist of the Floating World
10. Zombie
11. The Bridge on the River Kwai
12. Speak
13. Smile by Roddy Doyle
14. Taking the Titanic
15. The Uncommon Reader
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Bell Jar
3. Persuasion
4. Beloved - read series
5. Madame Bovary
6. The Second Sex
7. The Mists of Avalon
8. To the Lighthouse
9. The Feminine Mystique
10. The Vagina Monologues
11. I Capture the Castle
12. The Lottery & Other Stories
13. The House of Mirth
14. The Virgin Suicides
15. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
16. The Beauty Myth
17. Sophie's Choice
18. Possession
19. The Story of My Life
20. Orlando
... so many more
Diversify Your Bookshelves:
1. The Kitchen God's Wife
2. The Remains of the Day
3. The Children of Blood & Bone
4. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
5. Green Grass Running Water
6. Song of Solomon
7. Norwegian Wood
8. White Teeth
9. A Suitable Boy
10. Desdemona
11. Paradise - any Toni Morrison
12. Possessing the Secret of Joy - any Alice Walker
13. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
14. In Other Words
15. When We Were Orphans
16. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Around the World Challenge:1st Leg: North America
Canada:
Alberta - The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
British Columbia - The Glass Hotel
Manitoba - In Search of April Raintree
Newfoundland - February
Northwest Territories -
Nova Scotia -
Ontario - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
Quebec - The Brutal Telling
Prince Edward Island - Anne of Avonlea
Saskatchewan - Rabbit Foot Bill
Mexico: -
USA:
Alabama - Transcendent Kingdom
Alaska - The Snow Child
Arizona -
California - Feed
Colorado -
Conneticut -
Florida -
Georgia - The Night Before
Illinois - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Indiana -
Kansas - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Kentucky - How We Fight For Our Lives
Louisiana - Hot Blooded
Maine - The Last House Guest
Maryland -
Massachusetts - Good Wives
Michigan -
Minnesota -
Mississippi -
Missouri -
Montana - Fourth of July Creek
Nebraska - The Lincoln Highway
Nevada -
New Hampshire - Our Town
New Jersey -
New Mexico -
New York City- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
New York State - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
North Carolina -
North Dakota - LaRose
Ohio -
Oklahoma -
Oregon - If I Stay
Pennsylvania -
South Carolina - April Fool Dead
South Dakota -
Tennessee - Before We Were Yours
Texas - Already Home
Utah -
Vermont -
Virginia - Demon Copperhead
Washington, DC -
Washington - The Violets of March
Wisconsin -
Wyoming - Open Season
Britain:
Andover - The ABC Murders
London - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
Cambridge -
Cornwall -
Cotswolds -
Hampshire -
Herefordshire -
Oxford -
Surrey -
Sussex - The Marriage of Mary Russell
Winchester - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Yorkshire - All Creatures Great and Small
2nd Leg: South America & Caribbean
Argentina -
Bolivia - Women Talking
Brazil -
Chile -
Cuba -
Ecuador -
Grenada -
Peru -
St. John -
Turks & Caicos -
3rd Leg: Europe
Belarus -
Croatia -
Denmark -
France - Father's Day
Finland -
Germany - Rosshalde
Greece - Three Junes
Iceland -
Ireland - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Italy -
Mallorca -
Monaco - Meet Me in Monaco
Norway - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
Poland -
Portugal -
Romania -
Scotland - An Echo in the Bone
Spain - The Angel's Game
Sweden -
Switzerland - Tender Is the Night
Turkey -
Ukraine -
Wales -
4th Leg: Middle East
Afghanistan -
Iraq -
Iran -
Lebanon -
Oman -
Palestine -
Syria -
5th Leg: Africa -
Botswana -
Burundi -
Congo -
Djibouti -
Equatorial Guinea -
Egypt -
Ghana - Transcendent Kingdom
Kenya -
Libya -
Nigeria -
Senegal -
Sierra Leone -
Somalia - Infidel
South Africa - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories
Zimbabwe -
6th Leg: Asia
Afghanistan -
Cambodia -
China - The Secret Talker
Hong Kong -
India - The Henna Artist
Japan - The Honjin Murders
Kashmir -
Malaysia -
Nepal -
Pakistan -
Phillipines -
Russia - The Bourne Ultimatum
Siberia -
South Korea -
Sri Lanka -
Syria -
Tahiti -
Tibet -
Turkey -
Vietnam -
7th Leg: Australia & Oceania
Brisbane -
Melbourne - A Long Way From Home
Queensland -
Sydney -
New South Wales -
New Zealand -
Tasmania
Old YLTO Book Challenge:Puzzle 1
- 1. Read a book set in Mexico. -
- 2. Read a book that is MPG Historical Fiction and set in England. - Transcription
- 3. Read a book that is set at a university - Felix Ever After or boarding school. -
- 4. Read a book that is included in a series of 5 primary works series -
- 5. Read a book set in Texas - The Four Winds, Holes, Already Home
- 6.Read a book with a photograph on the cover.
- 7. Read a book set in Italy. -
- 8. Read a book with a significant character that is a cowboy. -
- 9. Read a book with a boat of any kind on the cover. - Hunt for Red October, Sea of Monsters, Cup of Gold, The Million Dollar Bond Robbery,
- 10. Read a book with "sea" in the title. - Sea of Tranquility
Puzzle 2
- 1. Read a book that is set in the 21st century. Yes, it may be set in the future, if it takes places prior to December 2100. - Parable of the Talents
- 2. Read book about the Roman Empire. It may be set in any of the countries:
England, Wales, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Israel, Lebanon, Tunisia and parts of Germany, the Soviet Union, Morocco, Algeria, Syria and Egypt. For example it could be set in England when they occupied England. but it must be about the Roman Empire, not just the setting. The Skystone is a good example. -
- 3. Read a book with one person on the cover. Both arms must be showing. -
- 4. Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads. - Before We Were Yours
- 5. Read a book with duplicated (or more) words in the title. Articles such as 'the', and conjoiners like 'and' are not included. eg - Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen. - Sari, Not Sari
- 6. Read a book with a Christmas theme. - Hercule Poirot Christmas, Christmas Shopaholic, Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, The Cricket of the Hearth, The Adventure of the Blue Carbunkle, A Dog Named Christmas, Wishin' & Hopin', Little Lord Fauntleroy, You Better Not Cry, Stuart Mclean, Christmas at Fairacre,
- 7. Read a book with shoulder or round in the title. - The Round House,
- 8. Read a book with a beard or top hat on the cover. -
- 9. Read a book with an ankle clearly showing on the cover. -
- 10. Read a book from the first 5 pages of this list. It must be tagged as "adult" on the main book page. - Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Da Vinci Code, The Silent Patient, The Starless Sea, Crazy Rich Asians, Educated, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Storied Life of AJ Firky, The Bell Jar, Dune, The Casual Vacancy, Project Hail Mary, The Two Towers, Pachinko, Persuasion, Stardust, Bear Town, Homegoing, In The Woods, The Great Alone, Can You Keep a Secret,
Puzzle 3
- 1. Read a book about the environment. -
- 2. Read a book set in Russia. - The Bourne Ultimatum
- 3. Read a book with a main page genre of humour. -
- 4. Read a book with the name of a tree in the title from this site - http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/tree/list.... Note, you may only use the name of a tree, You may not use any descriptors (like black, white, American, slippery, etc. - The Wild Palms, Anne of Windy Poplar, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, A STUDY IN SCARLETT
- 5. Read a book where someone is protecting someone else. Explain how they are protecting someone else. - The Violets of March
- 6. Read a book that is number 50 on your TBR or other personal shelf. Specify which shelf it's on. If you don't have a shelf that big, obtain permission from another member to use theirs. - Embracing the Wide Sky
- 7. Read a book where the main character sets forth on a major journey. - A Long Way From Home
- 8. Read a book that is the third or ninth book in a series. - King's Cage
- 9. Read a book set in ancient Egypt. - River God, The Quest, The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, The Odyssey, The Aeneid,
- 10. Read a book with a large door on the cover. Must be the focus of the cover. - Scarlet Feather, Caught, The Kindness of Strangers?, The Forgotten Garden,
Puzzle 41. Read a book with a significant character who is a painter. - Rosshalde
2. Read a book with a character who is a maid servant whose responsibilities would include ironing clothing. - Saving Juliet
3. Read a book with one or more of the following barnyard animals on the cover - Chickens, Cattle, Sheep, Ducks, Goats, or Pigs - All Things Wise & Wonderful,
4. Read a book with the theme of tourism. -
5. Read a book where all the initials of the author are included in RSTU in any order. You may not duplicate letters as in Ron Rash. A good acceptable answer would be example would be Sarah Rayne. - Smile
6. Read a book that is a coming-of-age story. - Middlesex, White Teeth, Call Me by Your Name, Tipping the Velvet, Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Infinite Jest, The Waves, The Bell Jar, The Great Alone, Huck Finn, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Tale of 2 Cities, A Wizard of Earthsea, Our Town, The Name of the Rose, Narcissus & Goldmund, Like Water for Chocolate, Gone With the Wind, House Rules, Beloved, Orlando, Go Set A Watchman, Cat's Eye, Demon Copperhead
7. Read a book with Bone(s) in the title. - City of Bones, An Echo in the Bone, A Conspiracy of Bones, Children of Blood & Bone,
8. Read a book where the first letter of the title (not including articles) starts with A - All New Square Foot Gardening, B - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, C - Clockwork Angel, DE. -
9. Read a book set in Nevada. - The Stand, Diamonds are Forever, R is for Ricochet, The Heist,
10. Read a book with a wreath of flowers or a hedge of flowers on it. There may also be a flower bed full of flowers. -
Puzzle 5
1. Read a book that is set in at least 3 different countries across the globe. - Tender Is the Night
2. Read a book that contains the word - error, mistake, or perfect in the title.- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
3. Read a book that has at least one playing card on the cover. - Cards on the Table, Casino Royale, A Line to Kill,
4. Read a book that is main page genre of young adult. - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
5. Read a book set in Denmark, or written by a Danish author. - Hamlet, Number the Stars, Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Virgin Blue,
6. Read a book where there is a volcano in the story or there is a volcano on the cover.
7. Read a book that is set in the Himalayans ( India - The Henna Artist, Pakistan - The Night Diary, China, Bhutan, Nepal)
8. Read a book with Child in the title - The Snow Child or author's name is Child. -
9. Read a book where the main character is a businessman - The Glass Hotel or businesswoman. - April Fool Dead
10. Read a book with a road on the cover where the lanes can clearly be identified. -
Puzzle 6
1. Read a book with a dog as a significant character. - Old Yeller
2. Read a book with someone wearing jeans on the cover. -
3. Read a book with the name of a gem in the title Use this list: https://www.britannica.com/list/9-gem.... -
4. Read a book set in Germany. - Perfume, The Tin Drum, Beneath the Wheel, The Accidental Adventures of...100.., Baumgartner's Bombay,
5. Read a book that was set in the 60's of any century (1860's - Good Wives, 1760's etc.) Future 60's will be allowed (2060's) 1960's - Daisy Jones & The Six
6. Read a book set in Ohio. - The Bluest Eye, Mr Mercedes, Beloved, Ready Player Two, Sula,
7.
Read a book where there is a character that is a teacher. - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
8. Read a book where the initials of the author are W and M (in any order -
9. Read a book where the title is in a script font on the cover. - Cannot be fonts that are italics. It must look like handwriting. -
10. Read a book where the cover has flowers WITH stems -
Puzzle 71. Read a book set between 1901 and 1946. - The ABC Murders
2. Read a book where a main character is a fireman.
3. Read a book with a type of liquor in the title. -
4. Read a book set in Wales or written by a Welsh author.
5. Read a book where the cover has only the title and author's name. -
6. Read a book with Ed or Edward as a main character - or author -
7. Read a book with Hill in the title or is the author's name. - The Napoleon of Notting Hill,
8. Read a book with mpg of poetry. -
9. Read a book with Inn in the title or subtitle, - The Forsaken Inn
10. Read a book where the author writes under a pseudonym. State the author's name and pseudonym. - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
Puzzle 8
1. Read a book with mpg of Western. - Open Season
2. Read a book with a measure of time in the title - ex. Sec, second, minute, etc. - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Father's Day
3. Read a book where a flight attendant is a character - doesn't need to be a main character, but not just a mention. -
4. Read a book where a letter has a significant role. IE letters back and forth, found letters are significant to story. - In Search of April Raintree
5. Read a book that it is a legal thriller Both words must be on the MBP.
6. Read a book with a store front on the cover. -
7. Read a book set in a city that begins with the letter M. -Meet Me in Monaco
8. Read a book where the author's last name starts with an n, and whom you've never read before. - The Friend
9. Read a book with genre dystopia and tagged zombies. Both words must be on the MBP. - Feed
10. Read a book with someone wearing a gown on the cover. -
Puzzle 9
1. Read a book with Invisible in the title. -
2. Read a book that has a bar or saloon featured in it. -
3. Read a book whose cover is 75% dark red. -
4. Read a book with thorns on the cover or in the title.
5. Read a book with an unreliable narrator. href="https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6... of books for ideas. - The Fight Club, Crime & Punishment, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, As I Lay Dying, The Tin Drum, Presumed Innocent, The Silent Patient, Cat's Eye, Middlesex, When We Were Orphans, Surfacing, Moriarty, Barney's Version, In a Dark Dark Wood, Project Hail Mary, Jacob I Have Loved,
6. Read a book with a gate on the cover or in the title. -
7. Read a book written by a British author. - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
8. Read a book that is set in the ocean on a ship - Seven Days in May or submarine. -
9. Read a book where a word in the title contains kiss - may be imbedded. -
10. Read a cozy mystery with food as the main theme. -
Puzzle 101. Read a book with the moon on the cover or in the title. - Moon of the Crusted Snow
2. Read a book that is about the Civil War in the US.
3. Read a book that has dragons in it. -
4. Read a book with has a knife on the cover. Tableware not included. It must be a weapon. -
5. Read a book with a ship on the cover that is flying its sails. -
6. Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor - The Brutal Telling or bachelorette - On the Beach. The character must remain unmarried through the entire book. -
7. Read a book where there are significant plot twists, as explained in the book blurb. -
8. Read a book from this list: Symbolism Books - The Lost Symbol, DaVinci Code, The Alchemist, The Trial,
9. Read a book from a this list.: Swimmy Titles - A Monk Swimming,
10. Read a book set in Sweden or written by a Swedish author. -
Puzzle 11
1. Read a book that is numbered 7th in a series.
2. Read a book from this list Jesters, Fools, and Tricksters - The Lies of Loch Lamora, King Lear, The Queen's Fool, Lady Susan,
3. Read a book set in the 16th century (1501-1600) -
4. Read a book that was/is a new release in 2023. - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
5. Read a book where a significant character is an alien (may be angels/demons too - The Angel's Game). May not be a fantasy world. -
6. Read a book that is tagged as "play".
7. Read a book set in Boston. - One False Move
8. Read a book with a puppy or a dog on the cover. -
9. Read a book with "Cave" or "Bat" in the title. - on cover -
10. Read a book with a car on the cover. At least one wheel must be pictured. -
Puzzle 12
1. Read a book that shows shelves or stacks of books on the cover.
2. Read a book written by an author with the initials BP or PB. -
3. Read a book that has a pregnant a character - Shopaholic & Baby or a new born baby in it. - February
4. Types of monkeys - snow, bald, black, Barbary, spider, blue, emperor,
Read a book with one of the aforementioned words in the title. Monkey is another word you may use.
5. Read a book with something broken in pieces on the cover. -
6. Read a book about the persecution of witches.
7. Read a book with a female title in the title (dame, Lady, Duchess) - Mother-Daughter Murder Night
8. Read a book set in Africa -
9. Read a book set in Arizona.
10. Read a book originally publishing in 2015.
GENRE BINGO CHALLENGE: B1: Thriller - Mother-Daughter Murder Night
B2: Fantasy - Saving Juliet
B3: LGBTQIA+ - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
B4: Children's - Dragons Love Tacos
B5: Adventure - Open Season
I1: Slasher -
I2: Historical Fiction - Before We Were Yours
I3: Gothic - The Angel's Game
I4: Nonfiction - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat
I5: Contemporary - February
N1: Crime - Fourth of July Creek
N2: Anthology -
N3: Free Space - Transcription
N4: Paranormal - Clockwork Angel
N5: Memoir - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
G1: Victorian - Good Wives
G2: Travel -
G3: Romance - Already Home
G4: Mystery -
G5: Classic - Anne of Avonlea
O1: Sci-Fi - On the Beach
O2: Dystopian -
O3: Psychological Thriller -
O4: Horror -
O5: Cozy Mystery - April Fool Dead
B1 Horror:
B2 Biography: The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
B3 Romance: The Violets of March
B4 Dystopian: Moon of the Crusted Snow
B5 Family Saga: LaRose
I1 Adventure: The Cat's Table
I2 Contemporary: A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
I3 Young Adult: Felix Ever After
I4 Suspense:
I5 Crime:
N1 Memoir: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
N2 Chick- Lit: Shopaholic & Baby
N3 Free space: Father's Day
N4 General Nonfiction: All New Square Foot Gardening
N5 Literary Fiction: Three Junes
G1 Historical Nonfiction:
G2 Paranormal -
G3 Coming of Age: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
G4 Magical Realism: The Snow Child
G5 Historical Fiction: In Search of April Raintree
O1 Fantasy:
O2 Mystery - The Honjin Murders or Thriller:
O3 Science Nonfiction:
O4 Young Adult Fantasy: - King's Cage
O5 Classic - Our Town
Winter Bingo Template
B1: Award Winner - Smile
B2: Graphic Novel -
B3: Silver Lettering -
B4: Mystery - P is for Peril or Thriller -
B5: Current Event Related - Women Talking
I1: Start a Series - All Creatures Great and Small
I2: Middle Grade - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I3: Blue Cover -
I4: > 400 pages - The Lincoln Highway
I5: Personal Improvement -
N1: Classic - Rosshalde
N2: Made into a Movie - Daisy Jones & The Six
N3: FREE - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
N4: Science Fiction -
N5: Humor -
G1: Magical Realism -
G2: LGBTQ+ - Jonny Appleseed
G3: White Cover -
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical -
O1: Published Last Year -
O2: Epistolary - Sari, Not Sari
O3: Gold Lettering -
O4: Based on Mythology - Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
O5: Math/Science -
Magic Squares:
A1 - Sci-Fi: Feed
A2 - Bio or Autobio:
A3 - MC with disability:
A4 - Caribbean author:
A5 - Nonbinary or trans author: - How We Fight For Our Lives
B1 - Food-themed: A Catered St. Patrick's Day
B2 - Publ in last 3 years: Demon Copperhead
B3 - Set in Africa:
B4 - Nobel Laureate: Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories
B5 - Book by Local author: I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
C1 - Set in Canada - Rabbit Foot Bill
C2 - Classic Horror:
C3 - Sports and/or Recreation: - One False Move
C4 - Between 100 and 200 pgs: - The House at Pooh Corner
A1) Translated from India Regional language
A2) Set on an island - Sea of Tranquility
A3) Has character that shares your profession -
A4) Tropical setting - The Bourne Ultimatum
A5) BTBA award winner or nominee -
B1) Fire, flood - A Long Way From Homeor hurricane
B2) Dream vacation -
B3) TBR book completion -
B4) Central or South American author -
B5) BIPOC author - The Henna Artist
C1) Set in a Nordic country - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
C2) Set in hotels - The Glass Hotel, inns, guesthouses etc - The Brutal Telling
C3) An African classic
C4) Nonfiction history -
C5) LBGTQ character - Shut Up You're Pretty
D1) Published in the year you were born
D2) 2 books set in adjacent countries - Tender Is the Night & Meet Me in Monaco
D3) Planes trains -
& automobiles - D4) Polar setting -
D5) Fewer than 1,000 Goodreads ratings - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
E1) Pacific Islander author -
E2) History mystery set before 1900 - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
E3) Fairytale or folklore -
E4) Set during a war - Seven Days in May
E5) More than 500 pages - An Echo in the Bone
Classic Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR1899 and earlier/Old School
1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3. The Woman in White
1900-1999/New School
4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
5. The Name of the Rose
6. The Kitchen God's Wife
My Wild Card Six
7. The Aeneid
8. A Tale of Two Cities
9. Hamlet
10. The Grapes of Wrath
11. When We Were Orphans
12. Good Morning Midnight
Alternates
A-1. The Bourne Ultimatum
A-2. The Prime of Ms. Jean Brodie
A-3. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
-go back through the groups past polls and select seven (7) total books that are of interest to you but lost the poll
New School
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. Perfume the Story of a Murderer
Old School
1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Short Story/Novella
1. Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Quarterly Long Read
1. A Fine Balance
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge
My Century Challenge, Authors-Some Old Some New:
1830-1839
1840-1849
1850-1859 -
1860-1869 - Good Wives
1870-1879
1880-1889 - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
1890-1899 -
1900-1909 - Anne of Avonlea
1910-1919 - Rosshalde
1920-1929 - The House at Pooh Corner
1930-1939 - Our Town
1940-1949 - The Honjin Murders
1950-1959 - Old Yeller
1960-1969 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1970-1979 - All Creatures Great and Small
1980-1989 - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
1990-1999 - Parable of the Talents
Decade Challenge:
1960 -
1961 -
1962 -
1963 -
1964 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1980 - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
981 - All New Square Foot Gardening
1983 - In Search of April Raintree
1985 -
1986 -
1987 -
1988 -
1989 -
1990 - The Bourne Ultimatum
1991 -
1992 -
1993 -
1994 -
1995 -
1997 -
1998 - Parable of the Talents
1999 -
1920-
1921-
1922-by Hermann Hesse
1923-
1924-A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
1925-The Professor's House by *Willa Cather
1926-
1927-
1928-The House at Pooh Corner
1929-
The Millennium Challenge:
Example: (Millennium Challenge)
20th Century - 1952 - Rosshalde
19th Century - 1869 - A STUDY IN SCARLETT / Good Wives
18th Century - 1720 Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe
17th Century - 1684 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
16th Century - 1593 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
15th Century - 1438 The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
14th Century - 1353 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
13th Century - 1298 The Travels by Marco Polo
12th Century - 1150 The Life of Merlin by Geoffrey of Monmouth
11th Century - 1001 The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge Choose one book per category/genre for a total of 12 books.
1. 19th Century, A STUDY IN SCARLETT
2. 20th Century, Rosshalde
3. 21st Century - Moon of the Crusted Snow
4. A book originally written in a language other than your own, - The Honjin Murders
5. An Author never read before - All New Square Foot Gardening
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. - In Search of April Raintree
7. Science Fiction/Fantasy, - Parable of the Talents
8. Action/Adventure, - The Bourne Ultimatum
9. Childrens - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Young Adult - Old Yeller,
10. Nonfiction Memoir/Biography, - All Creatures Great and Small
11. Mystery - The ABC Murders/Thriller - One False Move
12. Horror or Humor
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge
Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year.
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2. A STUDY IN SCARLETT
3. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
4. Rosshalde
5. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
6. Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
7. The Man in the Well
8. The House at Pooh Corner
9. Our Town
10. April in Paris
11. The Honjin Murders
12. Old Yeller
13. The Machine Stops
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18.
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23.
24.
Challenge #6 - 2022-3 Group Reads Challenge:
The challenge is to read 12 of this years group selections. Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new and 12 reread books per year, giving us plenty of choices.
For example:
1. The House of Mirth
2. The Gambler
3. The Razor's Edge
4. Carmilla
5. The Old Curiosity Shop
6. Cyrano de Bergerac
7. Nausea
8. The Idiot
9. The Wasteland & Other Poems
10. Cider House Rules
11. Breakfast @ Tiffany's
12. 12 Angry Men
13. The Bell Jar
2024: Group Reads Challenge:
1. Anne of Avonlea
2.
3.
4.
2023 Group Reads Challenge:
1. The Left Hand of Darkness
2. Sula
2021 Group Reads Challenge:
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2020 Group Reads Challenge:
Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new books per year to go on our book shelf. This challenge is to read 12 of these forty.
1. As I Lay Dying
2. Hamlet
3. Alias Grace
4. 12th Night
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. The Stand
7. The Woman in White
8. The Grapes of Wrath
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, from any genre or era you want.
1. All Creatures Great and Small
2. A STUDY IN SCARLETT
3. Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
4. In Search of April Raintree
5. The Honjin Murders
6. On the Beach
Challenge #8 –Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year Locate and list 10 books that most interest you from the year of your choice. The challenge is to read five 5 books from that list. You can use the year of your birth, the birth year of a family member, or friend, or any random year you choose.
Books Popular by year
NOTE: click on the link above then change the date to the date you wish to search.
10 Books of Interest for 1929
1. A Farewell to Arms
2. Letters to a Young Poet
3. Passing
4. Look Homeward, Angel
5. Partners in Crime
6. Red Harvest
7. Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
8. The Secret of the Caves
9. The Last September
10. The Blacker the Berry...
2024 Books to Read - pick a year - 1973
1. Sula
2. Sybil
3. Gravity's Rainbow
4. A Wind in the Door
5. Child of God
6. The Denial of Death
7. Rubyfruit Jungle
8. The Other Side of Midnight
9. Crash
10. Awakenings
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Total number of books for this challenge is ten.
Examples:
World War I
Fiction -
Non-Fiction - Somme
Women's Sufferage
Fiction - Impossible Saints
Non-Fiction - Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women
Space Exploration
Fiction - Space
Non-Ficton - The Right Stuff
Sea Travels/Adventures
Fiction - The Sea Wolf, On the Beach
Non-Fiction - Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Horses
Fiction - Black Gold
Non-Fiction -
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
Select five books from five different centuries, using the same decade for each century you select. They do not have to be consecutive centuries but must be the same decade.
Example of five consecutive decades:
20th Century - 1950-1959 - 1953-Nine Stories
19th Century - 1850-1859 - 1855-Little Dorrit
18th Century - 1750-1759 - 1759-The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
17th Century - 1650-1659 - 1658-The Witch of Edmonton
16th Century - 1550-1559 - 1552-A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Select five categories of your choice or use some of these sample categories. Once you make your category selections, link the categories by finding and reading an Old School (1899 or older) and a New School book (1900-1999) that contains some part or is all about your selected categories. It will be more interesting and more varied if you come up with your own categories.
Samples Ideas:
Contains a Trial
Has a Murder - The ABC Murders
Contains Time Travel
Set in or has Winter involved
Coming of Age
Is About a Fallen Woman - Trouble in July
Set on or has The Sea involved
Animals - All Creatures Great and Small
School - Parable of the Talents
Travel
Life Changing Action - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Survival
A book that made you cry - Old Yeller
Example:
Has a Murder-
Old - Crime and Punishment
New -
Contains a Trial
Old -
New -
Life Changing Action
Old - A Horseman in the Sky
New -
Coming of Age
Old - Great Expectations
New - In Search of April Raintree
Travel
Old - Three Men in a Boat
New - Pied Piper
2025 Reading Challenge
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Tour of Slovania, Croatia, and Bosnia
https://www.kompas-online.net/itinera...
Start - Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital of Croatia. On the St. Mark's Square are the seats of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.
Task: Read a book with a character or author has the name Mark.
My First Choice -
My 2nd Choice -
Checkpoint 1 - Ptujska gora
Ptujska gora is a village in northeastern Slovenia. A popular activity here is for pilgrims to visit the gothic church in the village.
Task: Read a book that has a tag of "gothic" on the main book page. This list may help you identify a book to fit this task. Remember, "gothic" must show on the main book page.
Checkpoint 2 - Postojna Caves - Grey Dog
My First Choice -
My 2nd Choice -
Our pilgrimage needs to include a grotto. While the cave system is 24 km long, only 5 km is open to the public. Of this, 3.5 km is traversed by a train that takes visitors through the cave. Some pilgrimage that utilizes a train in a cave?
Task: Read a book with a train on the cover. -
My First Choice -
My 2nd Choice -
Checkpoint 3 - Opatija
Opatija is a Croatian coastal town on the Adriatic Sea. A fashionable resort in the 19th century, it's dotted with Habsburg-era villas.
Task: Read a book where the character goes on holiday to a beach resort.
My First Choice -
My 2nd Choice -
Checkpoint 4 - Medjugorje
The pilgrimage site in Medjugorje is dedicated to Our Lady of Medjugorje. The story of Our Lady of Medjugorje began on 24th of June 1981 when six local children allegedly saw Virgin Mary while walking on a hill that rises above the village. After that day, they began to have daily apparitions.
Task: Read a ghost story. "Ghost(s)" must be tagged on the main book page. - The Ghostly Grounds: Murder and Breakfast
My First Choice -
My 2nd Choice -
Finish - Dubrovnik
Dombrovnik is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean. It is a popular location to film movies. Part of The Game of Thrones and Starwars were filmed there.
Task: Read a book that was made into a movie. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
My First Choice - Daisy Jones & The Six
My 2nd Choice - Old Yeller