Sam F's 2024 Challenge to 200!?!

[Sam F]

Challenge #15 - A-Z Title Challenge

A - All Creatures Great and Small
B - The Bourne Ultimatum
C - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
D
E
F
G - Good Wives
H - The House at Pooh Corner
I - In Search of April Raintree
J
K
L
M
N - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
O - Our Town
P - Parable of the Talents
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R - Rosshalde
S
T - Tender Is the Night
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V
W
*X
*Y
*Z


Challenge #16 - A-Z Author Challenge

A - Louisa May Alcott
B - Octavia E. Butler
C - Kevin Crossley-Holland
D - Roald Dahl
E
F - F. Scott Fitzgerald
G - Fred Gipson
H - Hermann Hesse
I
J
K
L - Robert Ludlum
M - A.A. Milne
N
O
P
*Q
R
S - Nevil Shute
T
U
V
W - Thornton Wilder
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*Y - Seishi Yokomizo
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[Sam F]

Classic Bingo Challenge:

B1 A Classic by a Nobel Laureate - Rosshalde or a Pulitzer Prize Winner.
B2 A Classic Book in Translation.
B3 A Classic Comedy or Satire
B4 A Classic Written Before 1700
B5 A Classic of Asia - The Honjin Murders or Oceania - On the Beach

I1 A Classic from our Short Story Group Shelf - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
I2 A Classic from your Personal Bookshelf
I3 A Classic Historical Fiction - In Search of April Raintree or a Nonfiction History
I4 A Classic Prize-Winning Female Author - Parable of the Talents
I5 A Book Recommended by a Group Member

N1 A Classic Made into Movie/TV - The Bourne Ultimatum
N2 A Classic you've been meaning to read. -
N3 Free Space
N4 A Classic on or about the Sea/Ocean
N5 A Literature Class Book - Old Yeller

G1 A Classic of North or South America
G2 A 21st Century Potential Classic
G3 A Classic from our Old School Group Shelf
G4 A Classic New-to-You Author
G5 A Classic Play or Classic Poetry Collection

O1 A Classic Book you begged, borrowed, or stole.
O2 A Classic Children's Book - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
O3 A Classic Book found by using Literature-map.com
O4 A Classic from our New School Group Shelf
O5 A Classic Book that Reminds You of Someone - All Creatures Great and Small

Old Classic Bingos:

B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 - One False Move
B2: Classic written in your native language -
B3: Classic of Europe -
B4: Classic involving art -
B5: Classic from your bookshelf

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2023 - The Portrait of a young Man as an Artist, Hunger, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Death on the Nile, Like Water for Chocolate, Pillars of the Earth, As I Lay Dying, Perfume, Hamlet, A Wizard of Earthsea, Alias Grace, In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The House of the Spirits, The Odyssey, The Brothers Karamazov, The Stand, The Bell Jar, A Tale of Two Cities, The Handmaid's Tale, The Grapes of Wrath, Crime & Punishment, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Woman in White, Dune, Anna Karenina, The Name of the Rose, The Hound of the Baskervilles,
I2: Classic biography/autobiography or memoir
I3: Classic horror or gothic -
I4: Classic comedy, satire, or humor
I5: Book from the group’s Favorites of 2022 -

N1: Classic of the Americas - Anne of Avonlea
N2: Classic Western -
N3: Reader’s Choice -
N4: Classic mystery - A STUDY IN SCARLETT or thriller
N5: Classic of Africa or Oceania

G1: Classic from a group poll that did not win - On the Beach,
G2: Classic action or adventure -
G3: Classic history or historical fiction -
G4: Class fantasy or science fiction -
G5: Book from the Group’s 2023 Bookshelf - Into the Wild,

O1: Book Published before 1900 - Good Wives
O2: New-To-You Classic Author -
O3: Classic of Asia
O4: Classic in translation -
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 - The ABC Murders


B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 - All New Square Foot Gardening
B2: Classic written in your native language -
B3: Classic Science or Philosophy
B4: Classic Banned Book -
B5: A Classic NOT on Our Bookshelf that Should be There -

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2022 -
I2: New-To-You Classic Author -
I3: Classic Drama or Play - Our Town
I4: Classic Over 500 pages -
I5: Literary Prize or Your Country or Region

N1: Classic Involving Music -
N2: Classic Mythology or Folklore
N3: Free Space -
N4: Classic Poetry or Essay Collection
N5: Classic by an Author from a Country you didn’t Read in 2023 -

G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize -
G2: Book from a group poll during your birthday month -
G3: Classic Tragedy - Trouble in July
G4: Group Bingo Participant Pick
G5: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf -

O1: Book Published before 1900 -
O2: Children’s Classic - The House at Pooh Corner
O3: Classic Short Story Collection
O4: Classic in translation -
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 - Tender Is the Night

[Sam F]

Classics: The Year You Were Born and 100 Years Earlier

1969"

1. Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

2. Mario Puzo, The Godfather

3. Jacqueline Susann, The Love Machine

4. Harold Robbins, The Inheritors

5. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

6. Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes

7. Penelope Ashe, Naked Came the Stranger

8. Chaim Potok, The Promise

9. Gwen Davis, The Pretenders

10. Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand

11. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

12. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying

13. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days

14. Pearl S. Buck, The Three Daughters of Madame Liang

15. John Cheever, Bullet Park

1869:

1. Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right

2. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

3. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

4. Thomas Bailey Aldrich – The Story of a Bad Boy

5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Idiot

6. Alexandre Dumas, père – The Knight of Sainte-Hermine

7. Gustave Flaubert – Sentimental Education

8. Victor Hugo – The Man Who Laughs

9. Louisa May Alcott – Good Wives

10. Juliana Horatia Ewing – Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances

11. Henry Kendall – Leaves from Australian Forests

[Sam F]

A BETTER WORLD Challenge:

”We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

A Better You
Read a book with a character who shares a trait with you that you once (or still do) considered a flaw - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter or a book that discusses body positivity. -

Read a book that makes you feel good or helps you relax. - The House at Pooh Corner

Read a book about something you would like to learn more about - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat or about a skill you want to improve. - All New Square Foot Gardening

Read a self-help book. -

Read a book about a public figure or a fictional character that you admire. -

Read a book on a topic that is new to you. - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed

Read an old favorite just to make you smile. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


A Better Home
Read a book about a family or found family. - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Read a book with a house on its cover. -

Read a book recommended by a family member or friend. -

Read a book with a family tree -

Read a coming-of-age story. - Smile

Read a book about marriage. - A Long Way From Home

Read a book about a unique parent-child relationship - Already Home

Read a book which features siblings as its main characters. - A Catered St. Patrick's Day

Read a family saga spanning at least three generations. - February


A Better Community
Read a book for a Buddy Read, TBR Twin, or Group Read activity - An Echo in the Bone

Read a book outside your comfort zone that a fellow group member has rated highly. -

Read a book you checked out from the library. - Sari, Not Sari

Read a book recommended by anyone living in your town. - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir

Read a book with a central theme of friendship. - Shut Up You're Pretty

Read a book in which teamwork leads to success. - April Fool Dead

Read a book in which a community works together to improve its quality of life. - Feed

Read a book recommended by someone in our group. -

Read a book with “Community,” “Town,” - Our Town or “City” in the title. -


A Better World
Read an #OwnVoices book. - Felix Ever After

Read a book about a current global issue. -

Read a book about sustainability or characters that strive to preserve nature. - Open Season

Read a book about freedom in any sense of the word. -

Read a book set in another country than your home country. - Women Talking

Read a book with “World” or “Earth” in the title. - Around the World in 80 Days, Winter of the World,

Read a book featuring a culture or religion that differs from your own. - Parable of the Talents

Read a book involving efforts toward peaceful reconciliation. - Before We Were Yours

Read a book translated into the language you are reading.

[Sam F]

NATO Phonetic Alphabet Challenge:

A - Alpha -
B - Bravo
C - Charlie - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
D - Delta - The Bourne Ultimatum
E - Echo - An Echo in the Bone
F - Foxtrot
G - Golf -
H - Hotel - At Bertam's Hotel (Miss Marple #11) - The Glass Hotel
I - India - Sari, Not Sari
J - Juliet - Saving Juliet
K - Kilo
L - Lima -
M - Mike - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
N - November -
O - Oscar - Meet Me in Monaco
P - Papa - Parable of the Talents
Q - Quebec - The Brutal Telling
R - Romeo
S - Sierra
T - Tango
U - Uniform -
V - Victor -
W - Whisky -
X - X-ray
Y - Yankee -
Z - Zulu -

[Sam F]

2024 Bibliopoly prompts:

Purple Properties:
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover - or in the title. - The Violets of March
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue. - The Angel's Game
House 1: Rosshalde
House 2: The Honjin Murders
House 3:
House 4:
Hotel:

Blue Properties:
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat - or head wear on the cover - or in the title.
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own. - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover - or in the title -
House 1:
House 2:
House 3:
House 4:
Hotel:

Pink Properties:
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover - or in the title.
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author - Shut Up You're Pretty - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own. - The Henna Artist -
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover - or in the title.
House 1:
House 2:
House 3:
House 4:
Hotel:

Orange Properties:
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship - or boat on the cover, or involving water travel. - February
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious - Women Talking or spiritual beliefs are different from your own. - Parable of the Talents
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover - or in the title.
House 1:
House 2:
House 3:
House 4:
Hotel:

Red Properties:
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car - , truck - or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip. - Demon Copperhead
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author - How We Fight For Our Lives or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover - or in the title. -
House 1:
House 2:
House 3:
House 4:
Hotel:

Yellow Properties:
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her, or a neurodivergent condition.
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title. -
House 1:
House 2:
House 3:
House 4:
Hotel:

Green Properties:
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover or in the title.
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author - Father's Day or character whose gender is different from your own. - LaRose
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover - or in the title.
House 1:
House 2:
House 3:
House 4:
Hotel:

Dark Blue Properties:
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover - or in the title.
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?) - Feed
House 1: The Snow Child
House 2: Our Town
House 3: Daisy Jones & The Six
House 4: Old Yeller
Hotel:

Community Chest & Chance:
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest - The Brutal Telling or lowest number of ratings.
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest - Already Home or newest additions.
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest - Clockwork Angelor lowest average star rating.

Utilities:
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover. -

Railroads:
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon - Mother-Daughter Murder Night, etc.
🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name. - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author (B - The Pied Piper of Hamelin, O - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death or title beginning with B - Before We Were Yours or O - . One False Move
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long. - A STUDY IN SCARLETT

Misc. Squares:
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents. - The Bourne Ultimatum
💲 5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover or in the title.
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes! - Sea of Tranquility
👮‍♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction - P is for Perilor true crime book.
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title. -

[Sam F]

Bibliopoly old prompts:

BIBLIOPOLY PROMPTS
1. Go: Read a book set on two - Father's Day or more continents. - The Bourne Ultimatum
2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover - or in the title. - The Violets of March
3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue. - The Angel's Game
5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover or in the title.
6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon - Daisy Jones & The Six, etc.
7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat - or headwear on the cover - or in the title.
8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest - Clockwork Angelor lowest number of ratings. - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
9. Blue: Read a book with an author - Felix Ever After or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own.- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover - or in the title. -
11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover - or in the title.
13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover. -
14. Pink: Read a book with an author - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death or character whose nationality - The Henna Artist or birth country is different from your own. - The Honjin Murders
15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover - or in the title.
16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name. - Feed
17. Orange: Read a book with a ship - or boat on the cover, or involving water travel. - Before We Were Yours
18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
19. Orange: Read a book with an author - How We Fight For Our Lives or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own. - Good Wives
20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover - or in the title. -
21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes! - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
22. Red: Read a book with a car - , truck - or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip. - The Lincoln Highway
23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest - On the Beach or newest additions.
24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race - Parable of the Talents or ethnicity is different from your own. - Sari, Not Sari
25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover - or in the title. -
26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author B - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed or O - or title beginning with B - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories or O - Open Season. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.)
27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel - An Echo in the Bone.
28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her, or a neurodivergent condition.
29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover. -
30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover - or in the title. - -
31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction - A Catered St. Patrick's Day or true crime book.
32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover or in the title.
33. Green: Read a book with an author - One False Move or character whose gender is different from your own. - Sea of Tranquility
34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)
35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover - Smile or in the title.
36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long. - The House at Pooh Corner
37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating.
38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.
39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover - or in the title.
40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?) - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

[Sam F]

A Million More Pages - What to Read in 2024:

📔1. Go to your home page. Scroll through the updates and pick any book mentioned. - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The Bell Jar, Norwegian Wood, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Crime and Punishment, Malibu Rising, The Alice Network, Daisy Jones & The Six, Tom Lake, A Farewell to Arms, Olga Dies Dreaming, Tomorrow & Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Hamlet, The Fraud, Educated, Dirty Thirty, Clytemnestra, Lilith,

📔2. Go to your home page again. Scroll through the updates and choose another book.

📔3. Go to a group you are a member of and read a book off of their shelves. You may use a series substitute if needed. - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, Lessons in Chemistry, The Vanishing Half, Project Hail Mary, The Snow Child, The Starless Sea, Doctor Zhivago, The Green Mile, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, A STUDY IN SCARLETT, Middlesex, Brave New Word, White Teeth, The Handmaid's Tale, Americanah, Chocolat, The Bell Jar, The Beautiful Mystery, Sunflower Sisters, Life After Life, The Golem and the Jinni, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, An Echo in the Bone, The Four Winds, The Girl with the Louding Voice, Winter Garden, The Alice Network, Small Great Things, The Great Alone, Educated, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Daisy Jones & The Six, Travels with Charley, One by One, American Dirt, The Splendid and the Vile, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane,

📔4. Go to your Friends list, click on Books My Friends Are Reading. Choose a book from this list or a another book by an author on this list. - We are Never Meeting in Real Life, The Women, A Court of Thorns & Roses, R is for Ricochet,

📔5. Go back to your Friends list, click on Books My Friends Are Reading. Choose another book from this list or a another book by an author on this list. - P is for Peril

📔6. Choose a book from a 2023 AMMP or Game Night Challenge (that has ended) that you didn't get read. If you are new to either group or did not participate in challenges in 2023, read a book you wished you would have read in 2023. - King's Cage, Fangirl, Hornet's Nest, The Princess of Burundi, Inside of a Dog, The Brutal Telling. An Advancement of Learning, A Million Little Things, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Born Adventurer, Embracing the Wide Sky, Good Morning Midnight, Educated, The Handmaid's Tale, The Spark, The Tipping Point, An Echo in the Bone, Barkskins, All Creatures Great and Small, Turn Right at Machu Picchu, The Orchid Thief, The DaVinci Code, All My Puny Sorrows, Life After Life, Punishment, Spook, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Crazy Rich Asians, Pachinko, The Virgin Blue

📔7. Read a book published from the year you joined AMMP on your TBR. - 2016 -

📔8. Read one of the 5 oldest books added to your TBR. - Fall of Giants, - Already Home, Codebreakers, Sometimes Mine, Red Moon

📔9. Read any book from your TBR. - Our Town

📔10. Click on Browse, then Recommendations. Pick a book listed for recommendations based on your Read Shelf. - Demon Copperhead, The Rose Code, Lessons in Chemistry, Tom Lake, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, Blue Like Jazz, Witch Hunt, The Adversary, Blood Hunt, Bleeding Hearts, Almost American Girl, 10% Happier, The Mind of a Bee, Atomic Habits, Almost American Girl, Inkheart, The Count of Monte Cristo, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Spiders Web, On the Come Up, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, All Boys Aren't Blue, The Fire Keeper's Daughter, Scarborough, How To Pronounce Knife, Welcome to Lagos, The Hypnotist, The Hobbit, A Court of Rose & Thorns, The Return of the King, Clytemnestra, Galatea, Lavinia, The Orphan Master's Son, Empire Falls, Tom Lake, =Demon Copperhead, Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Hang the Moon, Let Us Descend, The Infinite Plan, Into Thin Air, The Lost City of Z, The Stand, Under the Dome, The Penderwicks, Wenjack, The Night Watchman, The Sentence, Of Love & Other Demons, Tiny Beautiful Things, Think Like a Monk, Write for Your Life, The Firm, Feed, Golden Rod, Break Your Glass Slippers, I'll Give You the Sun, All the Bright Places, Fast Food Nation, Sea of Tranquility, This is How You Lose the Time War, Dune, Fledgling, Project Hail Mary, Jurassic Park, 8 Rules of Love, You are A Badass at Making Money, One Summer, Fangirl, Sweetland, The Never-ending Present,

📕11. Click on Browse, then Recommendations. Pick a book listed for recommendations based on any of your shelves.

📕12. Click on Browse, New Releases. Click on My Authors at the top and pick a book that shows up on the list for any month in 2024. If none of the New Releases appeal, read a different book by an author that shows up in the list but it must be a series you have not read yet (or a standalone if no series). - Holmes Marple & Poe, James Patterson, The Women, Kristin Hannah, Kate Quinn, Marissa Meyer, Victoria Aveyard, Anna Quindlen, Margaret Atwood, A.J. Finn, M.C. Beaton, Lisa Gardner, The Morningside, Lisa Scottoline, Stephen King, David Baldacci, Mary Kubica, Amy Tan, Erik Larson, Lionel Shriver, Rainbow Rowell, Mary Kay Andrews, Ruth Ware,

📕13. Click on Browse, then on Lists. Pick a list that your friends have voted on and pick a book from that list to read. Series substitute allowed. - Dune, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, Crazy Rich Asians, Malibu Rising, Beartown, Anna Karenina, A Wizard of Earthsea, A Tale of Two Cities, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Ripper,The Lincoln Highway, On Beauty, Perfume, The Library at Mount Char, Brave New World, Crime & Punishment, The Road, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Comfort of Strangers, Growth of the Soil, The Cement Garden, The Bell Jar, Choke, The Brothers Karamazov, Hunger, Gone With the Wind, The Other Boleyn Girl, Pillars of the Earth, The Lost Symbol, The Two Towers, Tuesdays With Morrie, Brisingr, The Road, The Stand, the Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Slumdog Millionaire, The Handmaid's Tale, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Middlesex, In Cold Blood, The Grapes of Wrath, Hamlet, The Blind Assassin, Loving Frank, Salem's Lot, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Queen's Fool, House Rules, Small Great Things, Pachinko, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Cane River, The House of the Spirits,

📕14. Click on Browse, then on Lists. Pick a different list that your friends have voted on (not from the list you used in #13) and pick a book from that list to read. Series substitute allowed - The Snow Child, The Starless Sea, Like Water for Chocolate, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, The Peach Keeper, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Angel's Game, The Golem & the Jinni, Chocolat, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The Sentence, Beloved, The Wind Knows My Name, City of Bones, Holes, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Before I Fall, If I Stay, Peter Pan, King's Cage, The Last Song, Jacob I Have Loved, The Wind in the Willows, Noughts & Crosses, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Woman in White, DaVinci Code, Project Hail Mary, The Odyssey, The Name of the Rose,

📕15. Click on Browse, then on Explore. To the right in the drop down menu, you will see Favorite Genres. Click on a genre and read a book on the New Releases for that genre. If nothing appeals, pick a different genre. - Someone Else's Shoes, The Vacation House, Here in the Dark, The Paris Housekeeper, The Juliet Code, Starkweather, The Frozen River, A Grandmother Begins the Story, Again & Again, In the Pines,

📕16. Click on Browse, then on Explore. To the right in the drop down menu, you will see Favorite Genres. Click on a genre then scroll down to Lists. Pick a book from any of the lists and read it. If nothing appeals, pick a different genre. - Steve Jobs, Educated, Dewey, Lucky, Not Without My Daughter, Me Stories of My Life, Into the Wild, The Professor & the Madman, the Wives of Henry VIII, Mountains Beyond Mountains, The Light We Carry, Dreams From My Father, The Audacity of Hope, Agatha Christie, We Should All Be Feminists, A Beautiful Mind, Tuesdays with Morrie, Long Walk to Freedom, The Beach, Fall of Giants, The Lacuna, The Historian,

📕17. Click on Browse, then on Choice Awards. Pick any book that has been nominated (or won) for any year and read that book or any other book by that author. - Stephen King, Tom Lake (Ann Patchett), Alice Hoffman, Someone Else's Shoes (Jojo Moyes), Elin Hildebrand, Samantha Irby, 8 Rules of Love, Naomi Klein, Roxanne Gay, Cassandra Clare, Jennifer McMahon, Justin Cronin, Lauren Beukes, Clytemnestra, Curtis Sittenfeld, Lisa See, Isabel Allende, Hang the Moon, Let Us Descend, Kate Morton, Karin Slaughter, Janet Evanovich, Turn Right at Machu Picchu, Paul Theroux, The Pioneer Woman, Here Comes Trouble, Steve Jobs, Erik Larson, Ready Player Two, Erin Morganstern, Philippa Gregory, James Patterson, The Brutal Telling, One False Move, Lee Child, The Peach Keeper, Jodi Picoult, Kristin Hannah, Jeffery Eugenides, David Foster Wallace, Anne Lamott, Cheryl Strayed, January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Snow Child, Jeffrey Archer, Ken Follett, Running the Rift, Demon Copperhead, Dan Brown, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, JRR Tolkien, Andy Weir, , #Girlboss, King's Cage, Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, Celeste Ng, The Radium Girls, Angie Thomas, Madeline Miller, Helen Hoang, Educated, The Silent Patient, Matt Haig, Lucy Foley, The Vanishing Half, Barak Obama, Sally Rooney, Malibu Rising, John Green, Jenny Lawson, The Firekeeper's Daughter, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, Carrie Soto is Back, Sea of Tranquility, Brene Brown, Amanda Gorman, Lessons in Chemistry, An Echo in the Bone

📕18. Read any book by a favourite author. But you may choose a book by any author you consider a favorite. - Rosshalde

📕19. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by date added. Pick a book off the first page. - Fall of Giants, Red Moon, Code Breakers, Sometimes Mine, The Singing Fire, Mercy Among the Children, Plan B, The Good Apprentice, An Anthropologist on Mars, Sleeping Naked is Green, The Many Lives of Josephine..., Mudbound, Not My Daughter, The Freedom Writers Diary, The Grapes of Wrath, Shake Hands With the Devil, Bury Your Dead, The Golem & the Jinni, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, Chronicler of the Winds, The Birth House, The Scorched Wood People, Born Adventurer, Far to Go, The 100 Secret Senses, The Piano Man's Daughter, The Casual Vacancy, A Fine Balance, The Historian, The Tipping Point, Professor & the Madman, The Brain that Changes Itself, Cutting for Stone, The Forgotten Garden, The Hedgehog Fox..., Foxfire, Honeymoon in Purdah, David & Goliath, A Train in Winter, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Chasing Cezanne, Bloodletting &..., Drink the Bitter Root, Embracing the Wide Sky, French Toast, Long Beach Wild, Mr. Nice, My Father's Tears, Possessing Genius

[Sam F]

📕20. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by date added. Pick a book off the last page. - A Respectable Trade, Uncle Tungsten, Origen of Species, Hornet's Nest, Portrait of a Killer, Naming of the Dead, The Fixer, Love Etc, A Brief History of 7 Killings, Water Children, The Weight of Ink, Girlboss, The Ditchdiggers Daughters, The Bone Woman, Milk with Wine, Where the Bird Sings, The Vanishing Half, The Garden of Evening Mists, The Lincoln Highway, The Brutal Telling

📗21. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by author, A-Z. Read one book on the first page. - Abraham to Carey - A Long Way From Home

📗22. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by author, Z-A. Read one book on the first page. - Wynne to Thalasinos

📗23. Read a book from your TBR by a new to you author.

📗24. Read a book from your TBR by another new to you author.

📗25. Read a book that will either finish a series you have started - Parable of the Talents or is the latest book published in a series you have started.

📗26. Read a another book that will either finish a series you have started or is the latest book published in a series you have started

📗27. Pick a series you've been wanting to start and read the first book in that series. - A STUDY IN SCARLETT

📗28. Pick a series where you've only read the first book and read the next book in that same series.

📗29. Pick a series from a new to you author you've been wanting to start and read the first book in that series. - Feed

📗30. Read any book from your TBR.

📘31. Read a book that you acquired in 2023 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2023.

📘32. Read a book that you acquired in 2022 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2022.

📘33. Read a book that you acquired in 2021 but haven't read yet. If you don't have one then read any book published in 2021.

📘34. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by number of pages, shortest to longest. Pick a book found on the first page. (These books may be under the 100 pages for this task only). - unknown to 240 - Rosshalde

📘35. Sort your TBR to show 50 books per page and by number of pages, longest to shortest. Pick one book found on the first page. - 1 008 to 532 - An Echo in the Bone

📘36. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Pick a book off of the first page. - #Girlboss to Boom Bust Echo

📘37. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Pick a book off of the last page. - When God Was a Rabbit to Zoo Station

📘38. Sort your TBR by 50 books per page and by title A-Z. Pick a book off of any page except first or last. -

📘39. Pick a book that you rated five stars in 2023. Go to the book page and scroll until you see 'Lists with this book'. Click on any list for that book and pick another book from the list to read. - Crime & Punishment, The Odyssey, A Tale of 2 Cities, The Stand, Pillars of the Earth, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, The Road, Middlesex, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Name of the Rose, Perfume, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Cutting for Stone, Orphan Train, Winter Garden, The Secret Keeper, Go Set A Watchman, Fall of Giants, Life After Life, Into Thin Air, The Snow Child, The Handmaid's Tale, One Plus One, The Casual Vacancy, Into the Wild, Educated, Lucky, Not Without My Daughter, The Story of Edgar..., White Teeth, The Bluest Eye, Paradise, Sula, Hamlet, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, A Fine Balance, True History of the Kelly Gang, Barkskins, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Infinite Jest, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Beach, The Starless Sea, The Magicians, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Lying Game, Pachinko, Sophie's Choice, Last of the Breed, The Birth House, All My Puny Sorrows, Barney's Version, The Manticore, Mercy Among the Children, The Hero's Walk,

📘40. Pick any book that you rated five stars. Go to the book page and scroll until you see 'Lists with this book'. Click on any list for that book and pick another book from the list to read. - King's Cage, The Pact, House Rules, Change of Heart, Salem Falls, Song of the Humpback, Small Great Things, The Historian, The Queen's Fool, The Boleyn Inheritance, The House of the Spirits, Alias Grace, The Forgotten Garden, An Echo in the Bone, The Road, The 7 Habits of..., Blink, Outliers, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Grapes of Wrath, Loving Frank, American Dirt, The Vanishing Half, Foxfire, Cooked, Botany of Desire, Winnie-the-Pooh, The Woman in White, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Fingersmith, Bury Your Dead, The Passage, The Garden of Evening Mists, The Golem & the Jinni, The Distant Hours, The Night Villa, All Things Wise & Wonderful, Fall of Giants, The Naked Ape,

[Sam F]

📙41. Read a book that has a title that starts with the same letter as your first name. - Sari, Not Sari

📙42. Read a book that has a title that starts with the same letter as your last name. - February

📙43. Read a book whose author's first or last name starts with the same letter as your GR screen name. - Tender Is the Night

📙44. Read a book published in 2024.

📙45. Read a book published in 2023. - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

📙46. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Random. Pick a book off the first page. - Cemetery Road, The Incomparable Atuk, 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Comrades & Strangers, Cavedweller, Bitchfest, The Tsar of Love & Techno, The Secret Keeper, The Iron Tracks, The Lonely City, Ripper, No Logo, Good to Great, You are a Badass, Spark, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Annie's Girl, The Lacuna, The Brutal Telling, Night Over Water, The Origin of Species, The Hornet's Nest, The Voluntourist, A Brain Wider than the Sky, The Constant Gardener, A Song for Dark Times, Back on Tuesday, My Father's Tears, The Power House, The Onion Field, The Weekend Man, Unselfie, The Question, Organizing from the Inside Out, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Farthing's Fortunes, Slow Death by Rubber Duck, The Burma Effect, Miller's Valley, Consolation, The Bourne Objective, A Long Way Down, Drunk Mom, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, The Good Apprentice, In the Sea There are Crocodiles, An Anthropologist on Mars, The Innocent Sleep, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All, Devices & Desires

📙47. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Random. Pick a book off the last page. - Laughing on the Outside, The Educated Imagination, The German Girl, The Library at Mount Char, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Open House, Chaucer the Maker, Pay It Forward, The Rainbow of Desire, Red Moon, The Calculating Stars, River Cross My Heart, The Optimist, All My Puny Sorrows, River of Smoke, The Weight of Ink, The Chronicler of the Wind, The Onion Field, The Orchid Thief, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, The Empress Letters, Swing Time, The Sleeper, Baumgartner's Bombay, Portrait of a Killer

📙48. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Num Ratings. Pick a book off the first page. - Educated, Steve Jobs, The Odyssey, Tuesdays with Morrie, Hamlet, A Tale of Two Cities, Grapes of Wrath, Crime & Punishment, The Tipping Point, Outliers, The Vanishing Half, 7 Habits, Middlesex, Blink, American Dirt, Thinking Fast & Slow, Crazy Rich Asians, Pachinko, Perfume, Cutting for Stone, Name of the Rose, The Brothers Karamazov, The Casual Vacancy, The Fall of Giants, The Simarillion, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Historian, The Lincoln Highway, You are a Badass, Life After Life, The Forgotten Garden, Good to Great, Daring Greatly, The Passage, When You are Engulfed in Flames, China Rich Girlfriend, Chronicle of A Death Foretold, Merchant of Venice, David & Goliath, One Plus One, Freedom, Rich People's Problems, The Secret Keeper, Winter of the Worlds, White Teeth, The Woman in White, A Portrait of a Man..., A Fine Balance, A Woman is No Man

📙49. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Num Ratings. Pick a book off the last page. - Beyond Deserving, Feathered Serpent, Farthing's Fortune, The Question, The Scorched-Wood People, Annie Parker, The Burma Effect, Long Beach Wild, Ama, The Fusion Marketing Bible, The Tsunami File, Courage My Love, Drink the Bitter Root, Life Money & Illusion, Comfort Me with Apples, The Empress Letters, Mary Janeway, Laughing Matters, Business as Usual, The Last Shot, Milk with Wine, Chaucer the Maker, Born Adventurer, We Who Can Fly, Water Children.

📙50. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Ave Ratings. Pick a book off the first page. - Money Life Illusion, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Educated, All Things Wise & Wonderful, Mississippi Blood, A Fine Balance, Winter of the Worlds, The Brothers Karamazov, American Dirt, The Boy on the Beach, Bury Your Dead, Annie's Girl, A Long Walk to Freedom, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Sherlock Holmes, Milk With Wine, Pachinko, The Struggle is My Life, Atlas of the Heart, Cutting for Stone, Fall of Giants, The Rainbow of Desire, The News from Thrush Green, Daring Greatly, Innovate Inside the Box, The Tsar of Love & Techno, Last of the Breed, Crime & Punishment, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, A Woman is No Man, Infinite Jest, Mary Janeway, Shake Hands With the Devil, The Brutal Telling, The Lizard Cage, The Lincoln Highway, The Grey Seas Under, Narcissus and Goldmund, Prisoner of Tehran, They Poured Fire on Us..., The Brain that Changes Itself, The God of the Hive, Pay It Forward, Outliers, Necessary as Blood, Ama, The Ditchdigger's Daughters, Thinking Fast & Slow, Tuesdays With Morrie, Sophie's Choice

📚51. Sort your TBR to show 50 books and by Ave Ratings. Pick a book off the last page. - The Electrical Field, Laughing on the Outside, Balancing Acts, Moon Over Marrakech, Call Me Russell, In Office Hours, The Last Burden, The Trade Mission, Business as Usual, The Incomparable Atuk, The Origin of Species, The Next Queen of Heaven, The Burma Effect, Invisible Eden, Various Positions, The Reserve, My Ghosts, The Optimist, The Tsunami File, Feathered Serpent, Courage My Love, Quartet for the End of Time, The Question, We Who Can Fly, Water Children

📚52. Read a book published in the same month as your birthday.

📚53. Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% your favorite color.

📚54. Read a book published in the year you joined Good Reads. - 2015

📚55. Go to the main book page for a book you read in December 2023. Pick a book to read from the 'Readers Also Enjoyed' at the top right. If the book page for the book you read does not have a 'Readers Also Enjoyed' list, pick the another book you read in December and try again. - You are a Badass, Daring Greatly, Atomic Habits, The Year of Less, Rising Strong, Atlas of the Heart, The Woman In Me, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Lonely Hearts Book Club, The Reading List, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont, Educated, A Promised Land, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Lessons in Chemistry, Into the Wild, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, Smile, In Cold Blood,

📚56. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "Can't Wait" in the list name.

📚57. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "Best" in the list name. - Before We Were Yours

📚58. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "2023" in the list name.

📚59. Read a book from any Goodreads lists that has "2024" iin the list name.

📚60. Read any book from your TBR. - The Bourne Ultimatum

[Sam F]

FLOAB Book Challenge 2024

1. Book with two numbers from 2024 in page count (can repeat the 2) - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her

2. Book with a watch or a clock on the cover -

3. Book set in a NATO country - In Search of April Raintree

4. Book with a different title in another language (ex The Cold Dish/Little Bird) - The Cat's Table

5. Book where someone plays an instrument - Daisy Jones & The Six

6. Book where someone is rescued - - Already Home

7. Book with MPG New Adult or tagged Romantasy

8. Book with one of the four elements on the cover (Fire, Water - , Air - , Earth)

9. Book with a major character who dies after their 80th birthday - Parable of the Talents

10. Book where the Author has a Y in their name - A Long Way From Home

11. Book with only one eye on the cover

12. Book with a landscaper or gardener character - All New Square Foot Gardening

13. Book where the MC has a first, middle, and last name

14. Book with a leaf or leaves on the cover -

15. Book with all the letters of YEAR in the title/subtitle - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

16. Book with at least 10 editions on Goodreads - Rosshalde

17. Book with less than 3 editions on Goodreads - April in Paris

18. Book where chapters have titles - Transcription

19. Book with a two-word title - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed

20. Book with a farm animal on the cover -

21. Book written by an author who shares an initial with your Goodreads name - S - The Violets of March, F -

22. Book with a character who meets someone new in the first chapter - P is for Peril

23. Book with a character who experiences memory loss at some point - Rabbit Foot Bill

24. Book with a traditional utensil on the cover (fork, knife - , spoon, chopsticks, etc.)

25. Book with a MC who works at a dead-end job - The Glass Hotel

26. Book that lived up to the hype - Smile

27. Book with a title that has 5 or more of the same vowel in it - 100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive

28. Book with narration in time periods that are at least 30 years apart (ex 1970 & 2000) - Before We Were Yours

29. Book with shoes on the cover that you would love to have

30. Book that felt perfectly paced (not too fast, not too slow) - Open Season

31. Book with a MPG Tag that has a country tag in it (ex, Ireland, British, etc) - Three Junes

32. Book MPG Tag that has a race or culture in it (ex, Pacific Islander, African American, etc.) - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

33. Book with a celebrity-narrated audio version - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

34. Book that has been nominated for a Goodreads Award - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

35. Book from a series with theme titles (ex. Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, Apple Turnover Murder Bundle: Key Lime Pie Murder, Cherry Cheesecake Murder, Lemon Meringue Pie Murder, etc.) - A Catered St. Patrick's Day

36. Book that was made into a TV Series that is watchable on any major streaming platform right now - An Echo in the Bone

37. Book that has been optioned for a script (movie or TV) that has not come out yet (search the book if you do not know, or you can scroll through the future release list on IMDB here:

38. Book with a MPG Classic tag that you have never read - Tender Is the Night

39. Book with a reflection of something on the cover -

40. Book where no one dies - Sari, Not Sari

41. Book with a major character who has wings - The House at Pooh Corner

42. Book with a book on the cover -

43. Book with an acronym found in the text - Felix Ever After

44. Book with a headless character on the cover (cutoff in the cover image or actually headless)

45. Book with both a parent and a child narrator - Father's Day

46. Book with a double "T" word in the title (ex. ForgoTTEN, BaTTle, BeTTer, PreTTy, ATTic, etc. )

47. Book published on the 1st - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki or the last day of any month

48. FLOAB Buddy Read for 2024

49. Book with a character who is neurodivergent

50. Book with a quote you love - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir

51. Book published the year you turned 10 - 1979 -

52. Book with 3 or fewer colors on the cover, including text -

53. Book about the end of something (war - On the Beach, relationship - The Henna Artist, life - The Snow Child .)

54. Book written by an author who has published in two distinctly different genres (can be under the same name or a pen name like J.D. Robb & Nora Roberts) - Feed

55. Book that you will reread in the future - Old Yeller

[Sam F]

For the Love of Books 2023 Challenge:

1. Book where characters celebrate a national holiday for the country you reside in - February
2. Book with a cardinal direction in the title (North, South, East, or West)
3. Book set in the capital of any country. - Transcription
4. Book with Chinese, Japanese - , or Korean characters (writing) on the cover
5. Book where someone cooks something using fire (grill, fireplace, campfire, etc.) -
6. Book where the main character tells a friend a secret about another friend - Felix Ever After
7. Book that is holiday themed (with a MPG Tag such as Holiday, Christmas, Halloween, Etc.) - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
8. Book with a verb in the title - Women Talking
9. Book with a major character who dies before their 40th birthday - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
10. Book with a title that starts and ends with the same letter - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
11. Book where the MC has three or more children - Summer of '69
12. Book tagged "fairytale" or "folklore" - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
13. Book with a title that starts with the word "The" - The Brutal Telling
14. Book with a glass or a bottle on the cover - Already Home
15. Book where the main character is a female police officer or homicide detective
16. Book where a character mentions a recipe. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
17. Book with a character who swears in the book - Shut Up You're Pretty
18. A famous author's first book - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
19. Book with a character who is a millionaire - The Glass Hotel
20. Book where someone breaks a bone
21. Book with something run by Electricity on the cover
22. Book with a character who has a stalker - The Henna Artist or who is a stalker
23. Book by an author who has more than 200,000 GR followers - Clockwork Angel
24. Book about a MC who lives aloneHow We Fight For Our Lives
25. Book with a MC who has done something significant in the story before they are 20 - Old Yeller
26. Book with a City Name in the title (can be a fake city) - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
27. Book where food is a major theme - All New Square Foot Gardening
28. The last book in a series - Parable of the Talents
29. Book with bare feet on the cover -
30. Book with ice on the cover
31. Book with a 4 in the book’s average Goodreads rating - Before We Were Yours
32. Book set in a small town - Our Town or village - All Creatures Great and Small
33. Book with a happy ending - Smile
34. Book with someone dressed in green - , red, yellow, or orange - on the cover
35. Book where a natural disaster takes place - Moon of the Crusted Snow
36. Book with a Main Character who has a pet with a human name
37. Book from a series with 11 or more books in it - P is for Peril
38. Book with no animals or humans on the cover -
39. Book with a MC who reads - The Violets of March
40. Book set in another dimension - Sea of Tranquility or universe
41. Book with a major character who has fangs
42. Book with a hat on the cover -
43. Book with at least one of these agencies in the book: USPS, FBI - Fourth of July Creek, or ATF
44. Book that doesn’t have any prizes listed under Literary Awards on its main page - Rosshalde
45. Book with an electronic device on the cover
46. Book with a double vowel in the title - Feed
47. Book with a cover that would be perfect for making Bookstagram photos -
48. FLOAB Buddy Read for 2023
49. Book with a character who has a physical disability
50. Book where the characters go somewhere fun like a zoo - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her, museum, or an amusement park
51. Book from your favorite genre - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
52. Book where someone celebrates a birthday - The Angel's Game
53. Book where the MC has the same first and last initial (ie. Franklin Finbar) - Rabbit Foot Bill
54. Book written by an author who has published at least two series - An Echo in the Bone
55. Book that has a death-related word in the title (Die/Dead/Death - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir

[Sam F]

I Spy old:

1. Transportation (car - , train - , skateboard, truck - )
2. Days of the week (Monday, Saturday, Wednesday)
3. A food or drink (carrot, chips, coffee, cupcakes - , chocolate - ), tea - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, pickles -
4. Type of crime (thievery, murder - Mother-Daughter Murder Night, robbery)
5. Olympic sport (skiing, basketball, gymnastics)
6. Musical instruments (saxophone, piano, drums, flute - )
7. Cat family (tiger, tabby, cheetah, cat - )
8. School subject (mathematics, English, chemistry)
9. Type of weather (stormy, rainy, sunny - , snow - )
10. City in Europe (Paris, Istanbul, Athens)
11. Celebration (birthday, wedding, Eid)
12. Something you sit on (sofa, chair , bed, bench - )
13. A source of light (sun - , lamp - , torch, patio lights - )
14. Art or craft (painting - , sewing, scrapbooking)
15. A measurement (metres, feet, pounds)
16. Something you hang on the wall (clock, picture, frame)
17. Something you find at a circus (clown, ringmaster, popcorn)
18. A direction (North, West, East)
19. An accessory (bag, necklace, scarf, bracelets - ), sunglasses - , gloves -
20. Name for a road (avenue, street, circuit, highway - The Lincoln Highway
21. Shade of purple (plum, violet - The Violets of March, magenta)
22. Something you write (poem, book - , essay)
23. Something you walk through (tunnel, arch, door)
24. Something you find in a house (picture, kitchen, couch)
25. A bird (raven, crow, pigeon, flamingo - )

Bonus 5 categories with examples (only open for members who have finished reading for all the primary categories):

26. Something you find on a farm (chicken, tractor, hay, rabbit - Rabbit Foot Bill, sheep - )
27. A term of endearment (sweetheart, honey, love)
28. A chess piece (pawn, bishop, knight)
29. Something yellow (corn, daffodil, amber, flower - )
30. Technology (phone, computer, television)

[Sam F]

First Class

1. Mary Wollstonecraft: her pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Women, is considered to be one of the most significant work of the early feminist movement.
• Read a book about feminism or women rights or a book written by a woman in the XVIII century or before.

2. Jane Austen: changed the literature with her now classic love stories which often examined women’s roles in society.
• Read a book by Jane Austen or a book about a love story written by a woman. - Already Home

3. Mary Shelley: a novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, there were few things Shelley couldn’t accomplish. Her seminal work, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, is widely considered to be the first sci-fi novel ever.
• Read a book by Mary Shelley or read a biography, sci-fi - Feed or travel book written by a woman

4. Edith Wharton: changed literature and history when she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 for her novel, The Age of Innocence.
• Read a book by Edith Wharton or a book written by another female writer in the first half of the XX century.

5. Gabriela Mistral: was the very first female Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Not only did her writing influence Latin American poetry, but her work as a humanitarian transformed the education system in Chile and in Mexico.
• Read a book by a female Latin American author - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter or a book involving female activism

6. Agatha Christie: is the best-selling novelist in history. Besides the mysteries she also wrote several dramatic novels as Mary Westmacott.
• Read a book by Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders/Mary Westmacott or any mystery book written by a woman - A Catered St. Patrick's Day

7. Octavia E. Butler: a talented artist ahead of her time, broke down barriers of race, sex, class and genre with her writing.
• Read a book by Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Talents or a book written by another female writer in the second half of the XX century - In Search of April Raintree

8. Jeanette Winterson: made history with her 1985 coming of age novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which is often considered the first mainstream novel about gay women.
• Read a book by Jeanette Winterson or by a LGBTQ+ author - Rabbit Foot Bill

9. Alice Walker: was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, for her epistolary novel, The Color Purple.
• Read a book by Alice Walker or a book written by another WOC - Sari, Not Sari

10. J.K. Rowling: is the first and only billionaire author, she is often credited with getting kids interested in reading again and revitalizing children’s literature. She also writes books for adults as Robert Galbraith.
• Read a book by J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith or a book written by a woman under a male pen name.

[Sam F]

BookRiot 2024:

1. Read a cozy fantasy book.

2. Read a YA book by a trans author. - Felix Ever After

3. Read a middle grade horror novel. - Hide & Don't Seek

4. Read a history book by a BIPOC author.

5. Read a sci-fi novella. - The Machine Stops

6. Read a middle grade book with an LGBTQIA main character. - The Best At It, Zenobia July, Into the Bright Open

7. Read an indie published collection of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author.

8. Read a book in translation from a country you’ve never visited. - The Angel's Game

9. Read a book recommended by a librarian. - Before We Were Yours

10. Read a historical fiction book by an Indigenous author. - In Search of April Raintree

11. Read a picture book published in the last five years. - Eyes that Kiss in the Corners

12. Read a genre book (SFF, horror, mystery, romance) by a disabled author.

13. Read a comic that has been banned.

14. Read a book by an author with an upcoming event (virtual or in person) - The Pied Piper of Hamelin and then attend the event.

15. Read a YA nonfiction book.

16. Read a book based solely on the title. - Already Home

17. Read a book about media literacy. - Sari, Not Sari

18. Read a book about drag or queer artistry. - Jonny Appleseed

19. Read a romance with neurodivergent characters.

20. Read a book about books (fiction - The Angel's Game or nonfiction).

21. Read a book that went under the radar in 2023. - Mother-Daughter Murder Night

22. Read a manga or manhwa.

23. Read a “howdunit” or “whydunit” mystery. - A Catered St. Patrick's Day

24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat! - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir

[Sam F]

Past BookRiot Challenges:

READ HARDER 2023:

1. Read a novel about a trans character written by a trans author. - Felix Ever After

2. Read one of your favorite author’s favorite books. - Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Lord of the Rings, A Tale of Two Cities, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, The Tsar of Love & Techno, A STUDY IN SCARLETT, Crime & Punishment, Good Morning Midnight, Alice Munro, As I Lay Dying,

3. Read a book about activism. -

4. Read a book that’s been challenged recently in your school district/library OR read one of the most-challenged/banned books of the year by a queer and/or BIPOC author. -

5. Read a completed webcomic. -

6. Finish a book you’ve DNFed (did not finish). - Parable of the Talents

7. Listen to an audiobook performed by a person of color of a book written by an author of color. - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

8. Read a graphic novel/comic/manga if you haven’t before; or read one that is a different genre than you normally read. - Smile

9. Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author. -

10. Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover. - Already Home

11. Read a cookbook cover to cover. -

12. Read a nonfiction book about BIPOC and/or queer history.

13. Read an author local to you. - Sari, Not Sari

14. Read a book with under 500 Goodreads ratings. - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat

15. Read a historical fiction book set in an Eastern country. -

16. Read a romance with bisexual representation. -

17. Read a YA book by an Indigenous author. -

18. Read a comic or graphic novel that features disability representation. -

19. Read a nonfiction book about intersectional feminism. -

20. Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author. - How We Fight For Our Lives

21. Read a book of short stories. - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki

22. Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list.

23. Read a social horror, mystery , or thriller novel.

24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!

[Sam F]

BookRiot 2022


Last year:

1. Read a biography of an author you admire. -

2. Read a book set in a bookstore. - The Angel's Game

3. Read any book from the Women’s Prize shortlist/longlist/ winner list. - The Lacuna, On Beauty, Larry's Party, A God in Ruins, Americanah, Fingersmith,

4. Read a book in any genre by a POC that’s about joy and not trauma. -

5. Read an anthology featuring diverse voices. -

6. Read a nonfiction YA comic. -

7. Read a romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40. - February

8. Read a classic written by a POC. - The Autobiography of Malcolm X,

9. Read the book that’s been on your TBR the longest - Already Home

10. Read a political thriller by a marginalized author (BIPOC, or LGBTQIA+). -

11. Read a book with an asexual and/or aromantic main character. - The House at Pooh Corner

12. Read an entire poetry collection. -

13. Read an adventure story by a BIPOC author. -

14. Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book). - The Bourne Ultimatum

15. Read a new-to-you literary magazine (print or digital).

16. Read a book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes. - Anne of Avonlea

17. Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary. -

18. Read a “Best _ Writing of the year” book for a topic and year of your choice. - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

19. Read a horror novel by a BIPOC author. -

20. Read an award-winning book from the year you were born. - Joyce Carol Oates 'Them', Lillian Hellman 'An Unfinished Woman', Dr. Erik H. Erikson 'Ghandi's Truth', Isaac Bashevis Singer 'A Day of Pleasure', “The Complete Poems,” by Elizabeth Bishop

21. Read a queer retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, folklore, or myth. -

22. Read a history about a period you know little about. - Before We Were Yours

23. Read a book by a disabled author. -

24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
- Read a book you’ve been intimidated to read -
- Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism -
- Read a non-European novel in translation - Brothers Karamazov, The Windup Bird Chronicle, The Honjin Murders

[Sam F]

BookRiot 2015

A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25

A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65 - Demon Copperhead

A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people) - Shut Up You're Pretty

A book published by an indie press - Jonny Appleseed

A book by - Rabbit Foot Bill or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ - Felix Ever After

A book by a person whose gender is different from your own - The House at Pooh Corner

A book that takes place in Asia - The Honjin Murders

A book by an author from Africa - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories

A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.) - LaRose

A microhistory

A YA novel - King's Cage

A sci-fi novel - Feed

A romance novel - Already Home

A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade

A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.) - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki

An audiobook - A Long Way From Home

A collection of poetry

A book that someone else has recommended to you

A book that was originally published in another language - The Angel's Game

A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind - Smile

A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over) - The Brutal Telling

A book published before 1850

A book published this year

A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”)

[Sam F]

The 52 Book Club Challenge 2024:

1. Locked-room mystery - The Honjin Murders
2. Bibliosmia: A smelly book - Perfume, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. More than 40 chapters
4. Lowercase letters on the spine
5. Magical realism - The Snow Child, The Starless Sea, Like Water for Chocolate, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, The Peach Keeper, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Angel's Game, The Golem & the Jinni, Chocolat, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The Sentence, Beloved, The Wind Knows My Name,
6. Women in STEM - An Echo in the Bone
7. At least four different POVs - Feed
8. Features the ocean - February
9. A character-driven novel - Rosshalde
10. Told in non-chronological order - Before We Were Yours
11. Title starting with the letter “K”
12. Title starting with the letter “L”
13. An academic thriller
14. A grieving character - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
15. Part of a duology - Parable of the Talents
16. An omniscient narrator - Dune, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, Crazy Rich Asians, Malibu Rising, Beartown, Anna Karenina, A Wizard of Earthsea, A Tale of Two Cities, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Ripper, The Lincoln Highway, On Beauty,
17. Nominated for The Booker Prize
18. An apostrophe in the title - King's Cage
19. A buddy read *No Goodreads List for this title*
20. A revenge story - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
21. Written by a ghostwriter
22. A plot similar to another book
23. The other book with the similar plot
24. A cover without people on it -
25. An author “everyone” has read except you - Clockwork Angel
26. Hybrid genre - All Creatures Great and Small
27. Be a neurodivergent author
28. A yellow spine
29. Published in a Year of the Dragon - P is for Peril
30. Picked without reading the blurb - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
31. Includes a personal phobia
32. Time frame spans a week or less
33. An abrupt ending - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
34. Set in a landlocked country - Women Talking
35. Title matches lyrics from a song - A Long Way From Home
36. Has futuristic technology - Sea of Tranquility
37. Palindrome on the cover
38. Published by Hachette
39. Non-fiction recommended by a friend *No Goodreads list for this prompt* - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
40. Set during a holiday you don’t celebrate - The Brutal Telling
41. A sticker on the cover -
42. Author debut in the second half of 2024
43. About finding identity - Felix Ever After
44. Includes a wedding - Sari, Not Sari
45. Chapter headings have dates - Transcription
46. Featuring Indigenous culture - In Search of April Raintree
47. Self-insert by an author - The Four Winds
48. The word “secret” in the title
49. Set in a city starting with the letter “M”
50. A musical instrument on the cover -
51. Related to the word “Wild”
52. Published in 2024

[Sam F]

The 52 Book Club Challenge 2023:


1. Book with a subtitle - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her

2. Featuring an inheritance

3. Title starting with the letter “G” - Good Wives

4. Title starting with the letter “H” - How We Fight For Our Lives

5. Title starting with the letter “I” - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

6. Under 200 pages - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

7. A city or country name in the title - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

8. Dystopian Fiction Moon of the Crusted Snow

9. A book with a dedication

10. Takes place during the roaring twenties - The Angel's Game

11. A book about secrets - Before We Were Yours

12. High Fantasy - King's Cage

13. Published posthumously - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir

14. A survival story

15. Set in Australia - A Long Way From Home

16. Featuring one of the “seven deadly sins” - pride, greed - P is for Peril, lust - Daisy Jones & The Six, envy - Meet Me in Monaco, gluttony, wrath, sloth - Summer of '69

17. By a Caribbean author

18. Set during a war other than WWI - Seven Days in Mayor WWII

19. Typographic cover -

20. A book about siblings - In Search of April Raintree

21. A second-hand book - Our Town

22. A body-positive message

23. An alliterative title - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed

24. Nordic Noir

25. A fashionable character - Sari, Not Sari

26. Has an epilogue

27. Newbery Medal Winner

28. Includes a funeral - Already Home

29. Sends you down a rabbit hole - Rabbit Foot Bill

30. An author with a same name as you *There is no Goodreads List for this prompt*

31. Set in a workplace - The Brutal Telling

32. Published by Macmillan

33. A banned book

34. Featuring mythology - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki

35. A book you meant to read last year *There is no Goodreads List for this prompt* - The Bourne Ultimatum

36. Chapters have cliffhangers - An Echo in the Bone

37. Written in present tense - Women Talking

38. An enemies-to-lovers plot - Felix Ever After

39. The final book in a series

40. Written by a comedian - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

41. A character who is a refugee

42. Time in the title - A Catered St. Patrick's Day

43. A book “everyone” has read - Tender Is the Night

44. A contemporary setting - The Violets of March

45. First word in the book is “The” - The Honjin Murders

46. Script font on spine - LaRose

47. Set in the city of Dublin

48. A book by Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Talents

49. Books on the cover

50. Related to the word “murder” - The ABC Murders

51. A book that doesn’t fit any of the other 51 prompts *There is no Goodreads List for this prompt* - Rosshalde

52. Published in 2023 - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

53. Set in either winter or spring (depending on what the Groundhog Says: Set in Spring - April Fool Dead or Set in Winter - The Snow Child
54. A shadow on the cover -
55. Time loop story - Sea of Tranquility
56. From an animal’s point of view - The House at Pooh Corner
57. A feather on the cover -
58. A character who works with animals - All Creatures Great and Small

59. An egg on the cover

60. Title that contains the letters “E” “G” and “G”

61. Featuring chocolate - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


1) Choose your road trip destination:
A) Set at the beach
B) Set in the city - The Friend
C) Set in the woods

2) Choose your road trip buddies:
A) Books with best friends - Smile
B) Books featuring a pet - Old Yeller
C) Books featuring the whole family - February

3) Choose your road trip vehicle:
A) A 1960 camper van — Book published in 1960s
B) A 1970 VW Beetle — Book published in 1970s
C) A 1980 Mustang Convertible — Book published in 1980s - All New Square Foot Gardening

4) Choose your road trip snacks:
A) Hot & Spicy Reads (theme) - Jonny Appleseed
B) Light & Sweet Reads (theme)
C) Satisfy a craving (No GR list for this prompt)

5) Choose your road trip tunes:
A) Inspired by Classical Music
B) Inspired by Rock & Roll - Summer of '69
C) Inspired by Country Music

6) Choose your road trip sights to see:
A) Famous artwork on the cover
B) Historic Site on the cover
C) Mountains on the cover -

7) Choose your road trip mishap:
A) Out of gas — Series that aren’t finished yet - Shopaholic & Baby
B) We’re lost! — The word “lost” or “missing” in the title
C) Detour — A book you’ve been avoiding (No GR list for this prompt) - Saving Juliet

8) Choose your road trip conclusion:
A) That was a blast! Let’s do it again — A re-read (no GR list for this prompt) - The Glass Hotel
B) I’ll never forget that journey — A memoir - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
C) Ugh. Next time I’m going to fly — An airplane on the cover

62. First word in the book is a proper noun - Demon Copperhead
63. Includes foreshadowing
64. Character is a teacher - Already Home

65. Steampunk - Clockwork Angel
66. “It was a dark and stormy night” - Mother-Daughter Murder Night
67. Has a graveyard scene - The Angel's Game

[Sam F]

Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge:

fae - The Snow Child or aliens
title contains a body of water - Sea of Tranquility
4-word title - The Violets of March
travel by ship - An Echo in the Bone
prominently features a desert
retelling of a classic - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
small town - February vs. big city - The Glass Hotel
queer AF - Felix Ever After
good vibes only - The House at Pooh Corner
these woods hold secrets - Before We Were Yours
anything but a monarchy - King's Cage
published 100+ years ago - A Study in Scarlet
walk through history - Seven Days in May
door on the cover
2023 debut novel
bird is the word -
writing about writing - The Angel's Game
live in infamy
blurbed by a fave author
recommended via a newsletter or podcast
tickles your funny bone - Shopaholic & Baby
first in an unfinished series - Open Season
on your TBR 5+ years - Already Home
coauthored - All New Square Foot Gardening or illustrated -
share the love
author last name starts with v - Father's Day
it’s the end of the world as we know it - Moon of the Crusted Snow
STEM stan
we have so much in common
between 300 and 400 pages - P is for Peril
an unexpected inheritance
neon colored cover -
hotel - The Brutal Telling, mansion - The Honjin Murders, or castle
author and character share an initial - Our Town
character name is a color - Tender Is the Night
let’s circle back to this -
name that tune - A Long Way From Home
popular throwback - Anne of Avonlea
sweet - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or spicy
3+ points of view - Feed
coffeehouse reads
we all scream (for ice cream?)
that’s not my name - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
dance the night away
second chances - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
sibling showdown - In Search of April Raintree
I was framed! - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
anthology or omnibus edition
released the 13th of any month - Summer of '69
written by - The Pied Piper of Hamelin or about a (fictional) celebrity - Daisy Jones & The Six
creature feature - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat
space – the final frontier

[Sam F]

Beat the Backlist 2023

□ cozy read - The House at Pooh Corner or cover
□ it's a trope! (your favorite) - The Honjin Murders
□ about dragons - Dragons Love Tacos or robots
□ less than 170 pages - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
□ takes place primarily in winter or a cold region - The Snow Child
□ set on a continent you don't live on - The Angel's Game
□ meant to read it last year - Parable of the Talents
□ released at least 23 years ago - P is for Peril
□ giving an author a second chance
□ novel in verse, poetry, or anthology
□ an author writing under a pseudonym - A Catered St. Patrick's Day
□ point-of-view character is under 18 - Before We Were Yours
□ fairy/folktale you haven't heard of before - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
□ graphic novel outside your fave genre - Smile
□ non-fiction just for fun - All New Square Foot Gardening
□ letter "z" in the title
□ set in or inspired by the 1700s or 1800s - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
□ this house is alive (or at least very important) - The Brutal Telling
□ bought and forgot it
□ first in a trilogy - Clockwork Angel
□ 2022 debut novel - Sari, Not Sari
□ all the romance - Already Home
□ name in the title - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
□ spooky vibes
□ multiple points of view - A Long Way From Home
□ your favorite genre
□ a character is lost royalty - King's Cage
□ this school isn't what it seems - Felix Ever After
□ won an award - Women Talking
□ "lost" or "found" in the title
□ here there be monsters - Feed
□ that heist plot tho - The Glass Hotel
□ no romance - The Lincoln Highway
□ protagonist has a pet - Old Yeller
□ recommended by a bookseller - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
□ five word title - An Echo in the Bone
□ set on or involving a train -
□ more than 450 pages - The Bourne Ultimatum
□ featuring travel (time optional) - Sea of Tranquility
□ plants on the cover -
□ all the nature vibes - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat
□ let's play sportsball - One False Move
□ protagonist name starts with "M" - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
□ character is keeping a big secret - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
□ family drama - Rabbit Foot Bill or court intrigue
□ horses. that's the prompt. - All Creatures Great and Small
□ point-of-view character is an adult (18+) - Our Town
□ main cover color is your least favorite color -
□ standalone - February
□ all about music or the arts - Rosshalde
□ epistolary - In Search of April Raintree or an unusual writing style - Daisy Jones & The Six
□ picked out by a friend with no context

[Sam F]

A Book A Week with The Booklist Queen

1. You Meant to Read Last Year
2. Goodreads Winner in 2023
3. About Mental Health - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
4. Five-Star Read - Moon of the Crusted Snow
5. An Audiobook - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
6. Set in the 1950s - A Long Way From Home
7. Unreliable Narrator
8. Book Becoming Movie in 2024
9. With an Epilogue - Parable of the Talents
10. About Starting Over - Already Home
11. Author You Love - Demon Copperhead
12. Flowers on the Cover -
13. Title Starts with “B” - Before We Were Yours
14. Published in 2014 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
15. Purple Cover -
16. Historical Mystery - The Violets of March
17. With Multiple Points of View - King's Cage
18. A Book You Couldn’t Put Down
19. One Word Title - February
20. Debut Author - Sari, Not Sari
21. 2023 Bestseller - Mother-Daughter Murder Night
22. Intriguing Premise - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
23. A Friend’s Favorite Book - Smile
24. Author from the Southern Hemisphere - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
25. About Secrets - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
26. Bottom of Your To-Read List - Clockwork Angel
27. Your Favorite Genre - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
28. Character Who is an Actor - Tender Is the Night
29. Recommended on a Podcast
30. Set in Paris - The Bourne Ultimatum
31. Ugly Cover -
32. Set in a Small Town - All Creatures Great and Small
33. Three Books by the Same Author (1)
34. Three Books by the Same Author (2)
35. Three Books by the Same Author (3)
36. A Quick Read - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
37. Set During Autumn - The Brutal Telling
38. Classic by a Female Author - The ABC Murders
39. Memoir by a Person You Admire - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
40. About a Historical Event - An Echo in the Bone
41. Written Under a Pseudonym - Feed
42. Legal Thriller
43. Fantasy Book - The Snow Child
44. Popular Book You’ve Never Read - Daisy Jones & The Six
45. Inspiring Nonfiction - All New Square Foot Gardening
46. 2024 New Release
47. Genre You Don’t Usually Read - Our Town
48. You Own But Haven’t Read -
49. Book About Books - The Angel's Game
50. Book Everyone Is Talking About - Women Talking
51. With a Place in the Title - Rosshalde
52. Reread a Favorite - The House at Pooh Corner

[Sunny]

I'm looking forward to reading with you in the coming reading season. May your stacks of unread books become "books I have read"!

[Sam F]

The Robot Librarian's Reading Challenge:

1. A book published anytime in 2024
2. A book that takes place at an amusement park, theme park, fair, or carnival
3. A book with/about a neurodivergent character - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
4. A book by an author with a color in their name (first or last) - Jonny Appleseed
5. An essay collection
6. A book translated from another language - The Angel's Game
7. A book with a transgender - Felix Ever After/nonbinary character - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
8. A Newbery Medal winner
9. A book with a flower on the cover - or in the title - The Violets of March
10. A novella - The Machine Stops
11. A book by an author from Central or South America
12. A book set in France - The Bourne Ultimatum
13. A book originally published before you were born - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
14. A book from your favorite genre written by a BIPOC author - The Honjin Murders
15. A book mentioned in a film, TV show, or streamed series
16. A book with a main character over 60 years old - Already Home
17. A poetry collection
18. A book by an author whose initials occur consecutively in the alphabet - Old Yeller
19. A play - Our Town or screenplay
20. A book about religion/spirituality - Parable of the Talents or with a religious/spiritual main character - Women Talking
21. A graphic novel - Smile OR a book with pictures - /photos - /illustrations - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
22. A book by, about, or featuring a soldier - King's Cage, knight, or other individual serving in the armed forces -
23. A book that has been adapted into a TV show - An Echo in the Bone or streamed series - Daisy Jones & The Six
24. An anthology or short story collection - Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
25. A book set in Africa - A Blade of Grass
26. A book set on a farm - All Creatures Great and Small or ranch
27. A book based on mythology OTHER THAN Greek or Roman mythology - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
28. A book with one of the following words in the title -- "true," "truth(s)," "lie(s)," "liar," or "lying"
29. A book with a car - , plane, train - , motorcycle, or bicycle on the cover or in the title
30. A book about/taking place during a war that is NOT WWI or WWII
31. A book with a building on the cover or the word “house,” - The House at Pooh Corner, “castle,” “tower,” or other word for a building in the title - The Glass Hotel
32. A book set in the 1970s

Advanced Prompts:

1. A book that was revealed to be a literary hoax or forgery
2. A parody or satire - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
3. A book of letters - In Search of April Raintree and/or written in epistolary format - Feed
4. A book whose title does NOT contain the letter E - Sari, Not Sari
5. A historical fantasy - Sea of Tranquility/alternate history book
6. A book by an author who has written only one book
7. A book published posthumously - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
8. A biography of someone you are NOT a fan of - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
9. A novelization of a film
10. A romance involving characters over 30 years old - February

[Sam F]

Uncorked 2024 Reading Challenge:

January Through March:

Magical Realism – Magical realism is a genre grounded in the real world that has an undercurrent of fantasy or magic. - The Angel's Game

Mount Everest – Scale the highest mountain above sea level. Start with our Everest reading list, including fiction and nonfiction. - Into Thin Air, Born Adventurer -

Folk Horror – This genre navigates angry spirits, ancient rituals, and isolated landscapes into sinister stories. We have just the folk horror reading list to get you started. - Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

Favorite City – Travel to your favorite city; this could be a place you live, have visited, or wish to visit. - A Long Way From Home

Neurodiversity – “Neurodiversity” is a word used to explain the unique ways people’s brains work. Read self-identified, neurodiverse authors or books with neurodiverse characters. - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her

Werewolves – Howl into the night – and forest – with your favorite werewolves. We have two reading lists for you: adult werewolf books we love and teen/middle grade werewolf novels.

Fem STEM – As a nod to our love for Ali Hazelwood, read about women in science, technology, engineering, and math. - An Echo in the Bone

White Cover – It’s as easy (or as hard) as it sounds – find a book with a predominantly white cover. -


April Through June:

Historical Mystery – Head back to the past to solve a mystery or crime.

Cuba – Learn more about Cuba – from its rum to the Cuban Revolution – with our fiction and nonfiction reading list. - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

Prolific – A prolific author (or producer) is defined as someone who creates a large amount of work. A few famous authors: Stephen King, Corín Tellado, Isaac Asimov, R.L. Stine, and Ryoki Inoue, The ABC Murders

Southern Gothic – This genre has themes of slavery, poverty, racism, violence, and alienation. Dismantle idealist versions of the Antebellum South. Find a great Southern Gothic reading list on our sister site, Uncorked Asheville.

Ancient Greece – From philosophy to architecture, travel back to Ancient Greece. Get started with this Greek mythology reading list.

Debut – Find a first-time author or maybe even an author who has published their first book in a new genre. - In Search of April Raintree

Indian Mythology – We’ve traveled to India via past reading challenges. A popular destination for our readers, dive deeper with Indian mythology books.

Dark Fantasy – Explore dark and disturbing themes in the fantasy genre. - Moon of the Crusted Snow



July Through September:

Appalachia – Travel across Appalachia through states including Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and more. Our sister Asheville site has just the Appalachia-set books reading list for you.

Celebrity Memoir – There have been so many great celebrity memoirs in recent years. Read about a celebrity you know and love or try something different.

Apocalypse – It’s the complete destruction of the world as we know it. Find a great book about the apocalypse. Post-apocalyptic tales work too. - On the Beach

Great Outdoors – Breathe in that fresh air, go for a hike, road trip, and more with our great outdoors theme. To get you started, try our hiking and backpacking reading list. - Fourth of July Creek

Croatia – If you follow us on social media, you know that part of our team traveled to Croatia, enjoying day trips from Split. For our armchair travelers or if you are planning a visit, head off to Croatia with this reading list.

Vietnam – Whether you want to learn more about the Vietnam War or Vietnamese culture, this theme promises to teach you more and take you there. Be sure to peruse our Vietnam reading list filled with nonfiction and fiction selections.

Noir Mystery – Part of the crime-fiction genre, enter a darker world of mysteries filled with unethical, cynical characters, gritty backdrops, and disturbing scenes.

BIPOC – Read a book with a BIPOC character or from a BIPOC author; “BIPOC” stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color. - The Henna Artist


October Through December:

Coffee – We’ve done wine and beer; now, it’s time for coffee!

Outer Space – Travel to outer space with this reading challenge theme. Get started with our extraterrestrial reading list.

Serial Killers or Con Artists – Read fiction and nonfiction books about serial killers. However, if you find that topic triggering or it’s just not for you, select a book about a con artist.

Historical Fiction – Travel back in time with these books. The sub-genres and topics are truly endless here.

Weather Event/Natural Disaster – Whether through fiction or nonfiction, read about a weather event such as a tropical cyclone, tornado, flood, freeze, or heat wave. Or, read a book about a natural disaster including an earthquake, wildfire, tsunami, or landslide.

New England – From Connecticut and Massachusetts to New Hampshire and Maine, travel to New England. To get you started, head over to our 50 States book list or our MA-based reading list (we also have a Salem, MA list linked).

Diaspora – Diaspora is defined as a group of people who have been dispersed across the globe from their homeland. Read diasporic authors and books for this theme.

Favorite Holiday/Season – Celebrate your favorite holiday or season across the globe.

[Sam F]

Around the World 2024:

Itinerary 1:

1. Helsinki (FI) - Tromso (NO) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 4th of a month - The Cat's Table
2. Tromso (NO) - Reyjkavik (IS) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as sci-fi - On the Beach
3. Reyjkavik (IS) - Anchorage (US) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as action - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
4. Anchorage (US) - Calgary (CA) Read a book with a country scene on the cover
5. Calgary (CA) - Quebec (CA) Read a book with a onomatopoeia in the title
6. Quebec (CA) - New York (US) Read a book where the characters eat steak
7. New York (US) - Mariehamm (AX) Read a book which is set under the sea
8. Mariehamm (AX) - Helsinki (FI) Read a book that is in the "Most Interesting Magic System" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...)

Itinerary 2:

1. San Jose del Cabo (MX) - San Andres Island (CO) Read a book with a colon : in the title - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
2. San Andres Island (CO) - Punta Arenas (CL) Read a book were a romance isn’t approved by a family member. - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
3. Punta Arenas (CL) - Madeira (PT) Read a book where the title starts with the letter X
4. Madeira (PT) - Muscat (OM) Read a book where the page numbers add to 11 (i.e. 345 pages = 3+4+5 = 12) -
5. Muscat (OM) - Tomsk (RU) Read a book where a character is a writer -
6. Tomsk (RU) - Kagoshima (JP) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as review - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
7. Kagoshima (JP) - Wellington (NZ) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 13th of a month
8. Wellington (NZ) - San Jose del Cabo (MX) Read a book with a computer on the cover

Itinerary 3:

1. Gunnison (US) - Cartagena (CO) Read a book with stationery on the cover
2. Cartagena (CO) - Santander (ES) Read a book you got for free
3. Santander (ES) - Kittila (FI) Read a book set in your home state/country
4. Kittila (FI) - Tashkent (UZ) Read a book with a mask on the cover
5. Tashkent (UZ) - Bengaluru (IN) Read a book with a title between 16 and 25 characters
6. Bengaluru (IN) - Karratha (AU) Read a book with a title starting with "Un"
7. Karratha (AU) - Oita (JP) Read a book with one of these Harry Potter title words (Sorcerer, Philosopher, Chamber, Prisoner, Goblet, Order, Half, Deathly) in the title
8. Oita (JP) - Gunnison (US) Read a book with people dancing on the cover

Itinerary 4:

1. San Jose (CR) - Porto Seguro (BR) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as modern-classics - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - Tender Is the Night
2. Porto Seguro (BR) - Istanbul (TR) Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter T - The Honjin Murders
3. Istanbul (TR) - Tyumen (RU) Read a book with the word teach, teacher, coach or help (plurals are acceptable) in the title
4. Tyumen (RU) - Jakarta (ID) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as stories - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
5. Jakarta (ID) - Hobart (AU) Read a book where the title begins with a preposition
6. Hobart (AU) - Noumea (NC) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Hermit" in the text or title
7. Noumea (NC) - Eugene (US) Read a book that is on your Captain's "to read" shelf with the highest GR star rating
8. Eugene (US) - San Jose (CR) Read a book published when its author was already dead

Itinerary 5:

1. Marudi (MY) - Kagoshima (JP) Read a book where the audio version is narrated by a female - Parable of the Talents
2. Kagoshima (JP) - Petropavlovsk (RU) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as re-reads - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - The Brutal Telling
3. Petropavlovsk (RU) - Anchorage (US) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 24th of a month - The Glass Hotel
4. Anchorage (US) - Edmonton (CA) Read a book that has a hero or heroine that does something “dumb” - Open Season
5. Edmonton (CA) - Port-au-Prince (HT) Read a book with a black cover -
6. Port-au-Prince (HT) - Vitoria (BR) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 12th of a month
7. Vitoria (BR) - Salalah (OM) Read a book with the phrase "hands are tied" in a book
8. Salalah (OM) - Marudi (MY) Read a book that is in the "Everyone's Read It But Me" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...)

Itinerary 6:

1. Paraburdoo (AU) - Takamatsu (JP) Read a book that covers multiple generations - Our Town
2. Takamatsu (JP) - Petropavlovsk (RU) Read a book that contains the word artichokes - P is for Peril
3. Petropavlovsk (RU) - Anchorage (US) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 22th of a month - Saving Juliet
4. Anchorage (US) - Burlington (US) Read a book where there is a tight deadline - Seven Days in May
5. Burlington (US) - Reykjavik (IS) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as adult - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - Moon of the Crusted Snow
6. Reykjavik (IS) - Enontekio (FI) Read a book that is in the "Best for Book Clubs" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...) - Middlesex, Pillars of the Earth, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Other Boleyn Girl, Cutting for Stone, The Grapes of Wrath, Loving Frank, Crime & Punishment, A Fine Balance, Perfume, Like Water for Chocolate, The Pact, The Stand, A Tale of Two Cities, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Shutter Island
7. Enontekio (FI) - Peshawar (PK) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as paperback - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
8. Peshawar (PK) - Paraburdoo (AU) Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter G

Itinerary 7:

1. Santa Cruz De La Palma (ES) - Aberdeen (GB) Read a book with wings on the cover -
2. Aberdeen (GB) - Gassim (SA) Read a book with the word twitterpated in the text - Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
3. Gassim (SA) - Novosibirsk (RU) Read a book that has been on your "to read" shelf for more than 1 year
4. Novosibirsk (RU) - Kolkata (IN) Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female names in The Netherlands according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Ne...)
5. Kolkata (IN) - Darwin (AU) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as german - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
6. Darwin (AU) - Christchurch (NZ) Read a book where two people with different religions interact
7. Christchurch (NZ) - Boa Vista (BR) Read a book where the audio version is narrated by more than one narrator (duet/full cast)
8. Boa Vista (BR) - Santa Cruz De La Palma (ES) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 8th of a month

[Sam F]

Itinerary 8:

1. Ushuaia (AR) - Fortaleza (BR) Read a book with a blue, purple, or black dress on the cover -
2. Fortaleza (BR) - Malabo (GQ) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as 2002 - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
3. Malabo (GQ) - Pula (HR) Read a book that has the birthstone Alexandrite in the text or title
4. Pula (HR) - St Petersburg (RU) Read a book that has been shortlisted for a literary prize
5. St Petersburg (RU) - Chengdu (CN) Read a book with a teacup on the cover
6. Chengdu (CN) - Gunnison (US) Read a book that has a predominately blue and bronze cover
7. Gunnison (US) - Key West (US) Read a book that has a strong police presence
8. Key West (US) - Ushuaia (AR) Read a book that has the birthstone Aquamarine in the text or title

Itinerary 9:

1. Gunnison (US) - Florence (US) Read a book that was originally published between 2006 and 2010 - February
2. Florence (US) - Bermuda (BM) Read a book where a character is a mythical creature - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki
3. Bermuda (BM) - Abuja (NG) Read a book that has 3 vowels in a row in the title
4. Abuja (NG) - Hurghada (EG) Read a book with the phrase "hot potato" in a book
5. Hurghada (EG) - Nizhny Novgorod (RU) Read a book with a ball gown on the cover
6. Nizhny Novgorod (RU) - Almaty (KZ) Read a book written in first person narration
7. Almaty (KZ) - Petropavlovsk (RU) Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is within Numbers 1-50 on your list (the first column before the book cover image)
8. Petropavlovsk (RU) - Gunnison (US) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 16th of a month

Itinerary 10:

1. Baltra Island (EC) - Mendoza (AR) Read a book where a character is always ready to help - All Creatures Great and Small, takes care of others or is often taken advantage of.
2. Mendoza (AR) - Windhoek (NA) Read a book where there is a great body on the cover -
3. Windhoek (NA) - Plovdiv (BG) Read a book where the title starts with the letter H - How We Fight For Our Lives
4. Plovdiv (BG) - Batumi (GE) Read a book that is in the "Books That Should Be Made Into Movies" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...) - Clockwork Angel
5. Batumi (GE) - Peshawar (PK) Read a book where a character visits a castle or palace - The Henna Artist
6. Peshawar (PK) - Ho Chi Minh City (VN) Read a book where the title starts with the letter E
7. Ho Chi Minh City (VN) - Townsville (AU) Read a book where a character gets a second chance
8. Townsville (AU) - Baltra Island (EC) Read a book whose author died 2-5 years ago

Itinerary 11:

1. Porto (PT) - Malabo (GQ) Read a book where the first word of the title is An - An Echo in the Bone
2. Malabo (GQ) - Thiruvananthapuram (IN) Read a book where the first word of the text is They
3. Thiruvananthapuram (IN) - Taichung (TW) Read a book where a character is a spy/intelligence agent
4. Taichung (TW) - Obihiro (JP) Read a with a cover showing someone wearing jeans or overalls.
5. Obihiro (JP) - Santa Fe (US) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as lendable - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
6. Santa Fe (US) - Chicago (US) Read a book where someone desires world domination
7. Chicago (US) - Reykjavik (IS) Read a book with a noun in the title
8. Reykjavik (IS) - Porto (PT) Read a book where the audio version is narrated by a famous actor

Itinerary 12:

1. Khabarovsk (RU) - Honolulu (US) Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter Q
2. Honolulu (US) - Liberia (CR) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Emperor" in the text or title
3. Liberia (CR) - Sevilla (ES) Read a book where a character has a surprising and unexpected talent
4. Sevilla (ES) - Anapa (RU) Read a book that won or was nominated in the 2010 Goodread Choice Awards (https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...)
5. Anapa (RU) - Almaty (KZ) Read a book that contains the word strawberry
6. Almaty (KZ) - Medan (ID) Read a book with a Number between 1-50 in the title (can be spelled out)
7. Medan (ID) - Taipei (TW) Read a book that is in the "Best Historical Fiction" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
8. Taipei (TW) - Khabarovsk (RU) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 30th of a month

Itinerary 13:

1. Santiago (DO) - Maraba (BR) Read a book set in the time period "Contemporary history" - The Violets of March
2. Maraba (BR) - Fuerteventura (ES) Read a book where a character gains independence - King's Cage
3. Fuerteventura (ES) - Bilbao (ES) Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female names in Spain according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Spain) - Three Junes
4. Bilbao (ES) - Patrai (GR) Read a book with a yellow, orange or golden dress on the cover
5. Patrai (GR) - Bahrain (BH) Read a book where a character is a fae
6. Bahrain (BH) - Alor Setar (MY) Read a book that was originally published before 1900
7. Alor Setar (MY) - Roswell (US) Read a book with a Language in the title (e.g. English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, etc.)
8. Roswell (US) - Santiago (DO) Read a book with a photographed cover

Itinerary 14:

1. Bratsk (RU) - Dalian (CN) Read a book with a famous landmark on the cover
2. Dalian (CN) - Edmonton (CA) Read a banned book
3. Edmonton (CA) - Lexington (US) Read a book with 3 I's in the title
4. Lexington (US) - Abuja (NG) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as all - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
5. Abuja (NG) - Cairo (EG) Read a book that has a love triangle
6. Cairo (EG) - Chennai (IN) Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a cold/frozen country/world
7. Chennai (IN) - Urumqi (CN) Read a book with chains on the cover
8. Urumqi (CN) - Bratsk (RU) Read a book where a character dies

Itinerary 15:

1. Asturias (ES) - Enontekio (FI) Read a book that has the birthstone Peridot in the text or title
2. Enontekio (FI) - Burgas (BG) Read a book where characters get on a plane
3. Burgas (BG) - Madinah (SA) Read a book where the audio version is between 7 hours and 8 hours long
4. Madinah (SA) - Kozhikode (IN) Read a book that was originally published between 1951 and 1999
5. Kozhikode (IN) - Wenzhou (CN) Read a book that is book 3 in a series
6. Wenzhou (CN) - Obihiro (JP) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Tower" in the text or title
7. Obihiro (JP) - Watertown (US) Read a book where MC is a virgin (at the beginning)
8. Watertown (US) - Asturias (ES) Read a book whose author died 5+ years ago

[Sam F]

Itinerary 16:

1. Kalgoorlie-Boulder (AU) - Noumea (NC) Read a book with the word car, vehicle, bike, bicycle, truck or lorry (plurals are acceptable) in the title
2. Noumea (NC) - Lihue (US) Read a book where the amazon ship weight for the hardcover is under a pound
3. Lihue (US) - Quebec (CA) Read a book where the page numbers add to 4 (i.e. 345 pages = 3+4+5 = 12)
4. Quebec (CA) - Reykjavik (IS) Read a book with short stories
5. Reykjavik (IS) - Kalamata (GR) Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a bus, train, or other road based vehicle
6. Kalamata (GR) - Tomsk (RU) Read a book where a character is a thief, hired assassin or merc
7. Tomsk (RU) - Phnom Penh (KH) Read a book with an animal in the title
8. Phnom Penh (KH) - Kalgoorlie-Boulder (AU) Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 5 odd numbers

Itinerary 17:

1. Saarbruecken (DE) - Ufa (RU) Read a book where the page numbers add to 20 (i.e. 345 pages = 3+4+5 = 12) - The Snow Child
2. Ufa (RU) - Kaohsiung (TW) Read a book that was originally published between 2011 and 2015 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
3. Kaohsiung (TW) - Kona(US) Read a book where the first word of the text is One - Felix Ever After
4. Kona (US) - Gunnison (US) Read a book whose author died this year
5. Gunnison (US) - Madeira (PT) Read a book where the title starts with the letter Q
6. Madeira (PT - Madinah (SA) Read a book where a character is a ghost
7. Madinah (SA) - Glasgow (GB) Read a book first published in July
8. Glasgow (GB) - Saarbruecken (DE) Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title

Itinerary 18:

1. Entebbe (UG) - Madinah (SA) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as to-read - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - Smile
2. Madinah (SA) - Omsk (RU) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as first-in-series - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - Open Season
3. Omsk (RU) - Vladivostok (RU) Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter W - One False Move
4. Vladivostok (RU) - Shirahama (JP) Read a book where the amazon ship weight for the hardcover is between 1-2 pounds
5. Shirahama (JP) - San Jose del Cabo (MX) Read a book where a character is given a last chance
6. San Jose del Cabo (MX) - Boa Vista (BR) Read a book where a character is an actor
7. Boa Vista (BR) - Dakar (SN) Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 3 odd numbers
8. Dakar (SN) - Entebbe (UG) Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 3.01 and 3.5

Itinerary 19:

1. St Croix Island (VI) - Port of Spain (TT) Read a book where a character has visions (diviner, clairvoyant, prophet) - Already Home
2. Port of Spain (TT) - Leon (ES) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as aliens - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
3. Leon (ES) - Kemi/Tornio (FI) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as friendship - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
4. Kemi/Tornio (FI) - Shymkent (KZ) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as standalone - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
5. Shymkent (KZ) - Hervey Bay (AU) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as 2014 - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
6. Hervey Bay (AU) - Kona (US) Read a book that has fairies
7. Kona (US) - Valdivia (CL) Read a book where a character has more than one pet
8. Valdivia (CL) - St Croix Island (VI) Read a book where a character has more than one child

Itinerary 20:

1. Victoria Falls (ZW) - Mauritius (MU) Read a book with an alliteration in the title - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
2. Mauritius (MU) - Karratha (AU) Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the lowest number of pages (but meets the challenge page requirements)
3. Karratha (AU) - Queenstown (NZ) Read a book with more than 100, but less than 500 goodreads reviews
4. Queenstown (NZ) - Baltra Island (EC) Read a book that mentions a Celtic god
5. Baltra Island (EC) - Quebec (CA) Read a book that is in the "Best Non-Fiction (non biography)" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
6. Quebec (CA) - Glasgow (GB) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Sun" in the text or title
7. Glasgow (GB) - Malabo (GQ) Read a book with a homophone in the title (http://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/...)
8. Malabo (GQ) - Victoria Falls (ZW) Read a book with the phrase "weak at the knees" in a book

Itinerary 21:

1. Sao Jose do Rio Prieto (BR) - Cape Town (ZA) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as fun - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - Dragons Love Tacos
2. Cape Town (ZA) - Riyadh (SA) Read a book with blue text on the cover -
3. Riyadh (SA) - Goa (IN) Read a book with the phrase "Method to my madness" in a book
4. Goa (IN) - Kuantan (MY) Read a book with the word darning in the text
5. Kuantan (MY) - Port Moresby (PG) Read a book with a mobile phone on the cover
6. Port Moresby (PG) - Wellington (NZ) Read a book with a interjection in the title
7. Wellington (NZ) - Chattanooga (US) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 11th of a month
8. Chattanooga (US) - Sao Jose do Rio Prieto (BR) Read a book that is in the "Best "Strong Female"Fantasy Novels" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)

Itinerary 22:

1. Long Beach (US) - Bucaramanga (CO) Read a book where a characters name is also a word - A Long Way From Home
2. Bucaramanga (CO) - Dakar (SN) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as humor - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - The House at Pooh Corner
3. Dakar (SN) - Pisa (IT) Read a book that has won a literary prize - Daisy Jones & The Six
4. Pisa (IT) - Astrakhan (RU) Read a book where the kindle version is between 400 and 499 pages - Shopaholic & Baby
5. Astrakhan (RU) - Kathmandu (NP) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 29th of a month - The Sixth Wedding
6. Kathmandu (NP) - Tamworth (AU) Read a book where the kindle version is 500 or more pages - The Lincoln Highway
7. Tamworth (AU) - Honolulu (US) Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as New Adult
8. Honolulu (US) - Long Beach (US) Read a book with the word sky, cloud, sun, moon or star (plurals are acceptable) in the title

[Sam F]

Itinerary 23:

1. Easter Island (CL) - Colorado Springs (US) Read a book where the kindle version is less than 300 pages - Sari, Not Sari
2. Colorado Springs (US) - St Lucia (LC) Read a book where a character is a demon - Women Talking
3. St Lucia (LC) - Glasgow (GB) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Star" in the text or title
4. Glasgow (GB) - Hurghada (EG) Read a book where the title starts with the letter C
5. Hurghada (EG) - Novyj Urengoj (RU) Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter U
6. Novyj Urengoj (RU) - Tawau (MY) Read a book where a character is an undertaker
7. Tawau (MY) - Sunshine Coast (AU) Read a book where the title starts with the letter T
8. Sunshine Coast (AU) - Easter Island (CL) Read a book with a pink cover

Itinerary 24:

1. Baltra Island (EC) - Myrtle Beach (US) Read a book where a character is extremely lucky - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2. Myrtle Beach (US) - Halifax (CA) Read a book that is in the "Best Humorous Books" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...)
3. Halifax (CA) - Reykjavik (IS) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Temperance" in the text or title
4. Reykjavik (IS) - Joensuu (FI) Read a book where characters go to the movies
5. Joensuu (FI) - Nadym (RU) Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 2 odd numbers
6. Nadym (RU) - Labuan (MY) Read a book with the word artist, painter, museum, art or paint (plurals are acceptable) in the title
7. Labuan (MY) - Alice Springs (AU) Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Asia
8. Alice Springs (AU) - Baltra Island (EC) Read a book with a grey cover

Itinerary 25:

1. Wenzhou (CN) - Port Moresby (PG) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as available - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
2. Port Moresby (PG) - Edmonton (CA) Read a book which has the main location (setting) as the UK
3. Edmonton (CA) - Columbia (US) Read a book where characters go on a roadtrip
4. Columbia (US) - Sao Luis (BR) Read a book where a character is a witch/wizard
5. Sao Luis (BR) - Bilbao (ES) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as education - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
6. Bilbao (ES) - Ivalo (FI) Read a book that is in the "Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...)
7. Ivalo (FI) - Kochi (IN) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as adventure - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
8. Kochi (IN) - Wenzhou (CN) Read a book with the word food, banquet, menu, dinner, breakfast or lunch (plurals are acceptable) in the title

Itinerary 26:

1. Genoa (IT) - Yekaterinburg (RU) Read a book where the author has a 4 letter name (first or last) - Feed
2. Yekaterinburg (RU) - Phuket (TH) Read a book that won or was nominated in the 2014 Goodread Choice Awards (https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...)
3. Phuket (TH) - Adelaide (AU) Read a book where a character is an imp
4. Adelaide (AU) - El Calafate (AR) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as alpha-male - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
5. El Calafate (AR) - Aracaju (BR) Read a book with the phrase "gut feeling" in a book
6. Aracaju (BR) - Gran Canaria (ES) Read a book that contains the word parsley
7. Gran Canaria (ES) - Porto (PT) Read a book first published in October
8. Porto (PT) - Genoa (IT) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as japan - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

Itinerary 27:

1. Nice (FR) - Riga (LV) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as speculative-fiction - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - Sea of Tranquility
2. Riga (LV) - Tomsk (RU) Read a book where a character is superstitious or believes in some myth or entity
3. Tomsk (RU) - Ningbo (CN) Read a book that is an against all odds / survival story
4. Ningbo (CN) - Ayers Rock (AU) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 3rd of a month
5. Ayers Rock (AU) - Mendoza (AR) Read a book that is book 10 or more in a series
6. Mendoza (AR) - Columbia (US) Read a book that a player in your team has read during this team challenge
7. Columbia (US) - Lagos (NG) Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 4 odd numbers
8. Lagos (NG) - Nice (FR) Read a book with a gargoyle

Itinerary 28:

1. Palmas (BR) - Port-au-Prince (HT) Read a book with a picture frame on the cover
2. Port-au-Prince (HT) - Eugene (US) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 10th of a month
3. Eugene (US) - Petropavlovsk (RU) Read a book that has the birthstone Sapphire in the text or title
4. Petropavlovsk (RU) - Hiroshima (JP) Read a book that is in the "The Worst Books of All Time" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...)
5. Hiroshima (JP) - Kathmandu (NP) Read a book that is in the "Must Read Classics" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...)
6. Kathmandu (NP) - Irakleion (GR) Read a book that contains a Shakespeare quote in the text
7. Irakleion (GR) - Gran Canaria (ES) Read a book with the phrase "break a leg" in a book
8. Gran Canaria (ES) - Palmas (BR) Read a book with the phrase "bright side" in a book

[Sam F]

Upside Down Challenge:

Read a NBRC January 2024 BOM and participate in the discussion
Read an epistolary novel - Feed
Read a book that contains the word "stilton" - The Brutal Telling
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as dnf - Parable of the Talents
Read a book that contains the word "Fiji"
Read a book that was originally published before 1900 - A STUDY IN SCARLETT
Read a book where a character is a knitter - Already Home
Read a book where the title is at least 3 words and is a tautogram
Read a book where the characters go skinny dipping
Read a book that contains the word coriander
Read a book that has the birthstone Peridot in the text or title
Read a book with the name of a cocktail in the title
Read a book based in Australia - A Long Way From Home or New Zealand that was turned into a movie produced in Aus/NZ
Read a book that contains at least 3 of the following ingredients required for Pavolva, in the text. (Ingredients are: eggs or egg whites ; sugar ; strawberries, kiwi fruit, mangoes, passionfruit, cream, vanilla, vinegar, cornflour, icing sugar.) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Read a book that contains the letters S-U-N in the title, but not in that order - January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 26th of a month - Father's Day
Read a book that contains a Shakespeare quote in the text
Read a book that contains the word leek - Three Junes
Read a book that contains the word tomato - P is for Peril
Read a book that contains the word watermelon - All New Square Foot Gardening
Read a book set in your home state - /country - Rabbit Foot Bill
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as 2002 - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Read a book that has the word "Amore" in the text or title
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as aliens - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Read a book that has been a NBRC BOM or BR as listed on this spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Read a book that is in the "Must Read Classics" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...) - Tender Is the Night
Read a book that is in the "The Best Epic Fantasy" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...)
Read a book that mentions a Celtic god
Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter U - The Lincoln Highway
Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter V - The Glass Hotel
Read a book where a characters name is also a word - Sea of Tranquility
Read a book where an animal eats another animal
Read a book where MC uses puns/jokes all the time
Read a book first published in the year you were born
Read a book on the Amazon best books of 2023 (so far) list
Read a book first published in June - February
Read a book first published in October - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Read a book originally published with a different title - Sari, Not Sari
Read a book set in the time period "Contemporary history" - The Violets of March
Read a book with a blonde on the cover
Read a book with a character named Patience, Pat, or Patty
Read a book with a Language in the title (e.g. English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, etc.)
Read a book with a pink cover -
Read a book with a simple cover (no people and only one object) -
Read a book with a tree on the cover -
Read a book with an illustrated cover -
Read a book with less than 100 goodreads reviews - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat
Read a book with no labeled chapters
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Chariot" in the text or title
Read a book where a character uses or interacts with artificial intelligence
Read a book containing the phrase "netflix and chill"
Read a historical fiction novel that is based on real events - An Echo in the Bone
Read a book where a character is an undertaker
Read a book where someone hires an escort or convinces a stranger to join them for a date/party/function
Read a book where the audio version is more than 10 hours long - The Angel's Game
Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 male names in Scotland according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Sc...) - All Creatures Great and Small
Read a book where the characters hide from a monster - Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 12th of a month - Smile
Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 2 even numbers - On the Beach
Read a book where there is a family reunion - Clockwork Angel
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a hot/burning country/world
Read a book with a "lucky" item on the cover (e.g. horseshoe, 4 leaf clover) -
Read a book with a interjection in the title
Read a book with a character named Kim, Mildred, or Rebecca - Shopaholic & Baby
Read a book with a Military rank in title (Private, Major, Captain, General, etc)
Read a book where a character uses "they/them" pronouns - Felix Ever After
Read a book with the word "Rizz" in the text or title
Read a book with the word "Hallucinate" in the text or title
Read a book that is in the "Best Teen Books About Real Problems" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
Read a book that was originally published between 2006 and 2010 - Saving Juliet
Read a book where a character is a politician - Before We Were Yours
Read a book where a character visits a city - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter I - The Honjin Murders
Read a book where someone “comes out of the closet” - How We Fight For Our Lives
Read a book where someone gives a speech in front of a large audience - King's Cage
Read a book where someone moves to, or is transported to, Australia or New Zealand
Read a book where the audio version is narrated by the author - LaRose
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 22th of a month
Read a book where the first word of the title is A
Read a book where the hardcover version is less than 300 pages - Women Talking
Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 3 odd numbers
Read a book where the audio version is between 4 hours and 5 hours long
Read a book where the main character rides a motorcycle
Read a book where the page numbers add to 10 (i.e. 345 pages = 3+4+5 = 12)
Read a book where there are more than five children
Read a book where there is a harvest
Read a book whose author died 5+ years ago - The ABC Murders
Read a book with a bicycle on the cover
Read a book with the word winner, loser, competition or trophy (plurals are acceptable) in the title
Read a book with the word wolf, bear, fox, lion or tiger (plurals are acceptable) in the title
Read a book with a zombie
Read a book with an airplane, spaceship or some type of machine on the cover -
Read a book with an alliteration in the title - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 3.01 and 3.5 - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories
Read a book which is listed on Amazon for less than $3
Read a book where the author has a 4 letter name (first or last) - The Snow Child
Read a book where the author uses initials instead of a first name - Open Season
Read a book where the characters eat salad - Transcription
Read a book with a flower on the cover -
Read a book where an important character dies - In Search of April Raintree
Read a book where at least 5 people are killed - The Bourne Ultimatum
Read a book where MC is a virgin (at the beginning) - Anne of Avonlea
Read a book that mentions Queen Elizabeth I
Read a book that was originally published between 1901 and 1950 - The House at Pooh Corner
Read a book where a character has a first experience - Demon Copperhead

[Sam F]

Read a book where a character has a military background or family - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Read a book where a character is a mermaid
Read a book where a character is a sports fan - One False Move
Read a book where a character is a teacher - April Fool Dead
Read a book where a character is a tradesperson
Read a book with "topsy-turvy" in the text -
Read a book with "upside down" in the text - The Friend
Read a book with a gargoyle
Read a book that is book 4 in a series
Look at your Goodreads "updates" (on the home page). Read a book that one of your friends read in the last 3 days
Read a book that another Upside Down challenge player read in December 2023
Read a book that a NBRC Moderator read in January 2023
Read a book with a striped item on the cover -
Read a book with red writing on the cover -
Read a book with blue writing on the cover
Read a book with a flag on the cover
Read a book with a road on the cover -
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as wishlist - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - The Henna Artist
Read a book where a character is a fae
Read a book where a character has a heart condition - Good Wives, heart attack, or heart transplant
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as first-in-series - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Read a book that is number 10 or more in a series
Read a book where a character changes gender -
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 20th of a month
Read a book where the first word of the title is The
Read a book where the main character is blonde or has an "easy life" - Meet Me in Monaco
Read a book where the title starts with the letter C -
Read a book with twins
Read a book with water on the cover -
Read a book where a character is an alcoholic - Moon of the Crusted Snow or has a drug problem - Jonny Appleseed
Read a book where a character is an imp
Read a book where a character lives in a city - Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Read a book with red writing on the cover
Read a book with blue writing on the cover
Read a book with a flag on the cover
Read a book with a road on the cover
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as wishlist - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable - Fourth of July Creek
Read a book with a cityscape on the cover
Read a book with a color in the title
Read a book with a photographed cover
Read a book with a preposition in the title
Read a book with a single body part on the cover
Read a book with a verb in the title - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
Read a book with an umbrella on the cover
Read a book with minions (Like a vampire who has a seethe, or a person who uses zombies to do their evil bidding) - Clockwork Angel
Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter L - Norse Myths: Tales Of Odin, Thor And Loki

[Sam F]

Life Changes:

If you can't change it, change your attitude.
--Maya Angelou

* Experiencing engagement - Seven Days in May, marriage - Tender Is the Night, cohabitation - Clockwork Angel, separation - Summer of '69 or divorce - The Henna Artist
* Going through puberty - Demon Copperhead or menopause
* Becoming a parent (birth - , adoption - Anne of Avonlea, foster - Father's Day, etc.)
* Becoming an empty-nester - Three Junes
* Graduating from high school - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow or college
* Moving (out of parents' home - How We Fight For Our Lives, relocating - On the Beach, etc.)
* Starting a new job or career - Transcription
* Having a major illness in oneself - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir or a loved one - Good Wives
* Grieving the death of a pet - Old Yeller, friend - The Friend or relative - Jonny Appleseed
* Surviving a tragic accident or natural disaster - Moon of the Crusted Snow
* Surviving or committing a criminal act - The Honjin Murders
* Emigrating from one's birth country - The Cat's Table
* Departing or joining a religion, faith or belief system
* Coming out as, or realizing one is, LGBTQIA+ - Shut Up You're Pretty
* Undergoing a gender transition
* Experiencing sudden wealth - The Lincoln Highway or a sudden loss of money -
* Experiencing sudden fame or infamy - Meet Me in Monaco
* Joining the military, or leaving the military for civilian life - The Bourne Ultimatum
* Becoming disabled, or overcoming a disability
* Moving to assisted living, or needing in-home healthcare (oneself or a loved one) - Mother-Daughter Murder Night


Change by Any Other Name:

1. Accommodate: provide a service; to provide suitably.
Read a book in which a character accommodates guests, with a character who works in a service-related role - Seven Days in May, or with a main character who has a disability. - Father's Day

2. Adapt: to adjust oneself to different conditions; to transfer a work or story to film.
Read a book in which a character must adapt to a new environment - Saving Juliet or circumstances - Good Wives, or read a book that has been adapted for the stage or screen.

3. Alternate: to change back and forth between conditions, states, actions, etc.
Read a book with alternate timelines, in which the POV shifts between characters, or in which a character changes form (vampire, werewolf, shape-shifter, etc.)

4. Development: growth; maturity; improvement.
Read a book in which a character ages from childhood to maturity - Demon Copperhead or matures in some way over the course of the novel - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, with a child - Anne of Avonlea or teen main character, or a book with strong character development.

5. Diversify: spread out; branch out, expand.
Read a book from a genre you don’t usually read, that challenges you in some way, or that has a main character that is a different race - Shut Up You're Pretty or nationality from your own. -

6. Naturalize: confer citizenship upon; accustom; familiarize.
Read a book about immigrants or immigration, or read a book from a favorite author or genre.

7. Translate: to turn from one language into another; to change the form, condition, nature.
Read a book in translation, or read a book in which a character or environment undergoes a major transformation. - Moon of the Crusted Snow

8. Variation: the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree.
Read a book with non-human characters, a retelling of a classic novel or fairy tale, or a book with a diverse cast of characters.

[Sam F]

reserve

[Sam F]

Happy 30K

1. Read a book about a book club or other friend group.

2. Read a book that includes a party - The Glass Hotel or anniversary celebration.

3. Read a book that features a bibliophile, bookworm, librarian, or bookshop. - The Brutal Telling

4. Read a book that was read for this challenge by another participant.

5. Read something from this listopia, or a recommendation from a 30-year-old. - The Woman in Me,

6. Pearl is a traditional 30th anniversary gift. Read a book with the word pearl in the title, with an author or character named Pearl, or with a gem on the cover.

7. Read the 30th prompt in the Popsugar Challenge: A book with a one-word title you had to look up in the dictionary.

8. Read the 30th prompt of Bibliopoly: A book with any shade of yellow on the cover - or in the title. -

9. Read the 30th prompt of TBR Jar prompts: A book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.

10. Read a book from the 300 section of Dewey Decimal: Social sciences. - Fourth of July Creek

11. Read one of the first 30 books on your TBR.

12. Read a book which has been translated into 30 or more languages. - The Bourne Ultimatum

13. Read a book with at least 30 chapters or sections. - Mother-Daughter Murder Night

14. Read a book with over 30,000 ratings on Goodreads. - Women Talking

15. Read a book by an author who has written more than 30 books. - P is for Peril

16. Read a book with a title that has at least 30 characters, excluding spaces. - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

17. Read a book that was written when the author was in their 30’s. - Shopaholic & Baby

18. Read a book written by a writer who has been writing for at least 30 years. - April Fool Dead

19. Read a book published 30 years ago: 1994.

20. Read a book with the letters T-H-I-R-T-Y-K in the title and/or author's name. - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

[Sam F]

ALL ABOUT SPRING

1. Goodbye winter. Read a book with “spring” in the title, that is set during spring - April Fool Dead, or that has a happy ending. - Summer of '69

2. In your Easter bonnet. Read a book with a rabbit - or an article of clothing on the cover, or that is about fashion.

3. April showers bring May flowers. Read a book that features a garden - All New Square Foot Gardening, or has flowers - 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat or an umbrella on the cover.

4. Spring is a time of renewal. Read a book about a new beginning or starting over - The Henna Artist, or that is related to birth or growth - Starting Seeds: How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed in some way.

5. Daylight Saving Time begins in parts of the world. Read a book with "day” - Seven Days in May or “time” in the title, or a book where someone - Saving Juliet or something is saved - Open Season or rescued. - Clockwork Angel

6. Tulips and daffodils are among the first flowers to bloom in spring. Read a book with pink - or yellow on the cover - , a book set in the Netherlands, or the first book in a series. - Moon of the Crusted Snow

7. Love is in the air. Read a romance novel or any novel in which two characters are in love. - Tender Is the Night

8. Passover. Read a book with a Jewish author - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir or main character or a book about family - LaRoseor faith. - Women Talking

9. March, April, and May are the months of spring. Read any book that contains March, April - In Search of April Raintree, or May anywhere (title, author’s name - Good Wives, set in March, character name, with a parade or “march,” etc.)

10. Farmer’s Market. Read a book set on a farm, that has something you would find at a farmer’s market on the cover - , or a book that you got second-hand. - The Lincoln Highway

11. Cherry blossoms. Read a book set in Japan - The Honjin Murders or that has something associated with tea on the cover. - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

12. Spring break. Read a book set in a school or university, with a character who is a teacher - Demon Copperhead, or any book you think of as a beach read. - On the Beach

13. Earth Day. Read a book related to environmentalism (fiction or nonfiction), an e-book or audiobook - P is for Peril, or read a book with a green spine or cover.

14. Mardi Gras. Read a book with a character who is in disguise - Jonny Appleseed or is hiding something - Sea of Tranquility, a book with gold, green - , or purple on the cover, or a book set in New Orleans.

15. Spring cleaning. Read a book in which a character is a housekeeper, butler, maid or gardener, or a book where something is “cleaned up,” “swept under the rug,” - The Bourne Ultimatum or otherwise hidden or cleared away.

16. St. Patrick’s Day. Read a book set in Ireland, about Irish immigrants, or with an author or character whose name is any variation of Patrick (Pat, Patricia, Patty, Paddy, etc.). -

17. “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” Read a book with a character that is like a lion (strong, fierce, intimidating, etc.) - Fourth of July Creek or like a lamb (gentle, quiet, playful, etc.) - Trouble in July, or a book set in either Africa - Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories or New Zealand.

18. Memorial Day. Read a book about memory, that has a soldier as a character, or a book that you've read before but don't really remember. - The Glass Hotel

19. Spring forward. Read a book set in the future or a book that jumps back and forth in time. - Daisy Jones & The Six

20. Maypole. Read a book that is set in a wood or forest, or that has trees on the cover. -


Race to the Cornucopia:

Tasks
- Read a book with a orange cover -
- "harvest" (plural OK, no other variants) in text
- Author initials in HERACLES - One False Move
- Word in title is hiding a different smaller word (of at least four letters) inside it (not the singular form or verb tense differences) - examples LimonCELLO; THINg; wereWOLF (or indeed WEREwolf); HUNGer but NOT GAMEs (as that's the singular/plural) - Demon Copperhead
- One of the following food words in text (plural OK, no other variants): corn - Anne of Avonlea, grape - Good Wives, ham - Seven Days in May, bread - Saving Juliet, cheese - Three Junes, apple - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, fish - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man, chicken - Moon of the Crusted Snow, rice - The Cat's Table, tomato - Father's Day, pepper, salt - Old Yeller, honey, lobster
- Horn on cover (instrument or animal equally OK. but not antlers please)
- Book set in Crete
- Book set in Idaho
- Author's name has a diacritic (Cornucopia was a concert tour for Björk. yes, it's tenuous, but go with it anyway!) - Shut Up You're Pretty
- "abundant" or "abundance" in text
- Takes place on a farm (farm meaning somewhere raising plants or animals to be sold for food)
- Title (including subtitle) includes all the letters CORNUPIA (no need to duplicate C and O)
- The cover has at least 3 different food items
- Set in Peru, Panama, Colombia or Venezuela (or combination of them to reach the 50%)

[Sam F]

TBR Spring Cleaning



📗 The thick - a book with more than 500 pages - The Bourne Ultimatum
📗 The thin - a book with less than 200 pages - Shut Up You're Pretty
📗 The pretty - a book with a pretty cover -
📗 The ugly - a book with an ugly cover -
📗 The unknown - a book with few reviews - Rabbit Foot Bill
📗 The exotic - a book set in an unvisited place - Women Talking
📗 The tough - a book that's a challenging read
📗 The random - a book that you've chosen blindly - The Honjin Murders
📗 The old-timer - a book with more time waiting on your shelf
📗 The ancient - a book written long ago - Good Wives
📗 The sequel - a continuation - Anne of Avonlea
📗 The special - a must read - I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus: A Memoir
📗 The good - a book with the best ratings - Demon Copperhead
📗 The bad - a book with the worst ratings
📗 The popular - a book with many reviews - Daisy Jones & The Six
📗 The well-connected - a book that someone recommended
📗 The cheap - a reduced-price book
📗 The expensive - a high-priced book
📗 The given - a free book - Tender Is the Night
📗 The new - a new release


Literary Lily:

Lily Potter: Harry Potter
Read a book by JK Rowling or a book featuring magic - Clockwork Angel

Lily Bart: The House of Mirth
Read a book by Edith Wharton or a book with an emotion in the title

Lily the dragon: Temeraire
Read a book by Naomi Novik or a book featuring dragons

Lily Bloom: It Ends with Us
Read a book by Colleen Hoover or a hyped book

Lily: Mad Honey
Read a book by Jodi Picoult or a book featuring a trans character

Lily and the Octopus
Read a book by Steven Rowley or a book where an animal is a main character. - Old Yeller

Lily: Dash and Lily
Read a book by Rachel Cohn or an epistolary book - Dear Committee Members

Tiger Lily: Peter Pan
Read a book by J.M. Barrie or a middle grade/young adult book - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

Lily Kintner: Lily Kintner
Read a book by Peter Swanson or a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for any year - The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

Lily Bard: Lily Bard
Read a book by Charlaine Harris or a cozy mystery - Mother-Daughter Murder Night