2024 Fall Reading Challenge: Challenge Tracking

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Use this thread to track your Fall Challenge!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I'll go for the big one - though it contains the dreaded U.


P - Dr. Sandra Parker - Side Saddle on a Comet’s Tail: The Life of Frances Dana Gage 9/3
U - Urban Fantasy - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
M - Jon Mooallem - This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
P - Ashley Poston - The Seven Year Slip - 9/20
K - Guy Gavriel Kay - A Song for Arbonne - 9/7
I - If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name
N - Nonfiction - Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart - 9/8
S - Shadows in Bronze - 9/13
P - Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - 11/2
I - Isaac Asimov - The Stars, Like Dust - 11/9
C - The Christmas Appeal - 9/2
E - Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life - 10/12
L - Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - 9/27
A - All Quiet on the Western Front - 9/6
T - Three Eight One - 9/1
T - Twilight Sleep - 9/5
E - Emily J. Edwards - Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man - 10/11

[John]

Nearing the end of the ATY Challenge, I will give this one a go by completing the phrase: HOT APPLE CIDER.

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[Donna]

I’ll try my luck with FAMILY GATHERING. My likely reads, subject to change if a shiny new cover comes along. ✅ = completed

✅F The Hunter by Tana French 10/8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ A The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese 11/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅M The Teacher by Freida McFadden 9/3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ I Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie Indigenous/Native American Fiction 10/23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅L Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ Y The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Young Adult 11/2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G The Conqueror: A novel of William the Conqueror, the bastard son who overpowered a kingdom and the woman who melted his heart by Georgette Heyer
✅A Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese 9/16 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅T Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle pp. 81 -217 9/1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅H The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ E Embers on the Wind by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg 9/8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ R Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville 11/4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ I The Highgate Cemetery Murder by Irina Shapiro 11/19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅N Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles9/12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅G Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical 10
Kinship by Gregory Boyle 10/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Kathy]

✅ - Finished ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Ratings

HOT APPLE CIDER Finished 10/28/24

✅H -The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow - Rita Leganski Historical Fiction ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅O - Other Birds - Sarah Addison Allen 9/8/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅T - An Autobiography - Anthony Trollope 9/2/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅A - Arsenal Stadium Mystery - Leonard R. Gribble 9/15/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅P - Paris France - Gertrude Stein 9/3/24 ⭐⭐⭐
✅P - A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman 9/14/24 ⭐⭐⭐
✅L - Fresh Ink - Lamar Giles ⭐⭐⭐
✅E - Lies and Sorcery - Elsa Morante ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅C - The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography - Deborah Levy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅I - The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅D - Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅E - The Locked Room - Elly Griffiths 9/10/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅R - The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE

✅P - Call Us What We Carry - Amanda Gorman Poetry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅U -An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids - Anthony Trollope 11/6/24 ⭐️⭐️
✅M - The Monk of Mokha - Dave Eggers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅P - The Lion and the Jewel - Wole Soyinka Play⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅K - The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅I - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅N - Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector Overdrive 9/8/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅S - Big Tree - Brian Selznick ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅P - Less Than Angels - Barbara Pym ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅I - The Dry Heart - Natalia Ginzburg (Italian Literature) 11/3/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅C - St. Francis of Assisi - G.K. Chesterton 9/15/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅E - Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens (English Literature) 11/12/24 ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐

✅L - The Letter Writer - Ann Rinaldi ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ 9/21/24
✅A - Anna - Mia Oberländer 9/15/24 ⭐⭐⭐
✅T - Things You Save in a Fire - Katherine Center ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ 9/21/24
✅T - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✅E - The Railway Children - E. Nesbit ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kim]

2024 Fall Reading Challenge
For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in ONE of three phrases:
- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17)
- FAMILY GATHERING (15)
- HOT APPLE CIDER (13)

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.
P - The Paris Novel. Ruth Reichl. 9.1.24
U - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye. Victoria Laurie. 9.21.24 Urban Fantasy
M - The Tourist Attraction. Sarah Morgenthaler. 9.2.24
P - Racing the Rain. John L. Parker Jr.. 9.15.24
K - Little Monsters. Kara Thomas. 9.3.24
I - Calling for a Blanket Dance. Oscar Hokeah. 9.15.24 Indigenous
N - The Days I Loved You Most. Amy Neff. 9.2.24
S - The Summer Getaway. Susan Mallery. 9.18.24
P - 1st to Die. James Patterson. 9.24.24
I - I'll Be Seeing You: A Memoir. Elizabeth Berg. 9.15.24
C - Season of the Dragonflies. Sarah Creech. 9.18.24
E - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Erik Larson. 9.6.24
L - Letter to My Daughter. Maya Angelou. 9.25.24
A - The Dry Grass of August. Anna Jean Mayhew. 9.4.24
T - Heaven's River. Dennis E. Taylor. 9.5.24
T - The Time Machine. H.G. Wells. 9.12.24
E - Checked Out. Elaine Viets. 9.12.24

[LeahS]

All three suggestions:

[JennH]

Our Fall challenge starts on September 1, 2024 and finishes on November 30, 2024.

How It Works
For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in ONE of three phrases:
- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17)
- FAMILY GATHERING (15)
- HOT APPLE CIDER (13)

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.


🍂☕🎃🍂☕🎃🍂☕🎃
🍂☕🎃P - The 19th Christmas by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 9/19/24
🍂☕🎃U - The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett 9/16/24
🍂☕🎃M - milk and honey by Rupi Kaur 9/14/24
🍂☕🎃P - Persuasion by Jane Austen 9/27/24
🍂☕🎃K - Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood 9/21/24
🍂☕🎃I - We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day by Ivana Bodrožić 9/21/24
🍂☕🎃N - The White Darkness by David Grann 10/22/24 - Nonfiction

🍂☕🎃S - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams 9/18/24
🍂☕🎃P - Eragon by Christopher Paolini 9/30/24
🍂☕🎃I - Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain 9/22/24
🍂☕🎃C - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9/20/24
🍂☕🎃E - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire 9/16/24

🍂☕🎃L - Honey Drop Dead by Laura Childs 9/15/24
🍂☕🎃A - Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony 10/7/24
🍂☕🎃T - Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 9/18/24
🍂☕🎃T - Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher 10/4/24
🍂☕🎃E - Earwig and the Witch by Diana Wynne Jones 10/31/24

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👪F - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells 9/15/24
👪A - Death in D Minor by Alexia Gordon 10/8/24
👪M - Sugar and Spice by Sarah Mlynowski 9/22/24
👪I - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 10/25/24
👪L - Murder in the Tea Leaves by Laura Childs 9/22/24
👪Y - Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione 10/23/24 - Young Adult

👪G - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9/12/24
👪A - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 10/20/24
👪T - Triple Cross by James Patterson 10/12/24
👪H - Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston 10/9/24
👪E - The Wedding People by Alison Espach 11/27/24
👪R - Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen 9/20/24
👪I - I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney 10/27/24
👪N - Jade Shards by Fonda Lee 11/11/24 - Novella
👪G - C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton 10/12/24

🍎☕H - Germania by Harald Gilbers 9/30/24
🍎☕O - Evil Flowers: Stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug 9/17/24
🍎☕T - The 20th Victim by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 10/19/24 - Thriller

🍎☕A - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 10/22/24
🍎☕P - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 10/3/24 - Poland
🍎☕P - Ghost Roast by Shawnelle Gibbs 10/24/24 - Paranormal
🍎☕L - Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo 10/23/24
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🍎☕C - Closely Harbored Secrets by Bree Baker 10/6/24 - Cozy Mystery
🍎☕I - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 11/13/24
🍎☕D - The Diva Goes Overboard by Krista Davis 9/3/24
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🍎☕R - Steamed Open by Barbara Ross 11/2/24

[Mie]

Uarkk, not sure, I can do a spell out in this late in the year - my book choices for the year are very reduced by now 😂
But, hey, let’s give it a go 🤷‍♀️

📗 Done: 13 ✔️🇩🇰

📗 H - Hell's Corner
📗 O - Et prik, der ændrede verden (Olsen)
📗 T - Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (Tom)

📗 A - Marple: Twelve New Stories (Agatha/Alderman)
📗 P - When the Music's Over (Peter)
📗 P - Husk at være glad (Preben)
📗 L - The Lathe of Heaven
📗 E - Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll

📗 C - A Curious Indian Cadaver
📗 I - Det inderste rum
📗 D - Death Before Wicket
📗 E - People We Meet on Vacation (Emily)
📗 R - Med åbne øjne (Rasmus)

[Carolyn Rutigliano]

H The Miller's Dance (Historical Fiction)
O
TThe Twisted Sword

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L The Loving Cup
E

C Conclave
I If Only They Could Talk
D Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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P
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M The Miller's Dance
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I If Only They Could Talk
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C Conclave
E Erik Larson Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
L The Loving Cup
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T The Twisted Sword
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F A Free Man of Color
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M Madison Avenue Shoot
I If Only They Could Talk
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G Winston Graham The Miller's Dance
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T The Twisted Sword
H Robert Harris Conclave
E Erik Larson Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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G Winston Graham The Loving Cup

[Sherri]

F - Part of Your World

A - Stet: An Editor's Life

M - The Complete Maus

I - The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

L - A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story

Y

G - George V: Never a Dull Moment

A - Table for Two

T - A Tempest at Sea

H - The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

E - By Way of the Moonlight

R - The Celebrants

I

N - Naked in Death

G

[GailW]

☀ 30 / 32

FAMILY GATHERING .......... completed 11/8
15/15

☀ F: Title: Foster
☀ A: Title: All Systems Red
☀ M: Title: Murder in Old Bombay
☀ I: Title: Interpreter of Maladies
☀ L: Title: The Last Murder at the End of the World
☀ Y: Anne Youngson: Meet Me at the Museum

☀ G: Author: Elly Griffiths: The Last Word
☀ A: Title: A Quiet Life
☀ T: Author: Tanya R. Taylor: Blind Sight
☀ H: Title: How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
☀ E: Title: The Excitements
☀ R: Author: Radha Vatsal: A Front Page Affair
☀ I: Title: It Falls Into Place: The Short Stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey
☀ N: Author: Neil Richardson and Matthew Costello: Cherringham - Silent Night, Stolen Night: A Cosy Crime Series
☀ G: Author: Gloria Naylor: Bailey's Café
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PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE
15/17

☀ P: Title: The Plot
☀ U: Title: Umami
M: mystery genre: Keep Your Family Close
☀ P: Title: Pet
☀ K: Title: Killer Underwear Invasion!: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories
☀ I: Title: Islandborn
☀ N: Author: Nilima Rao: A Disappearance in Fiji

☀ S: Title: The Sequel
☀ P: Author: Kristen Perrin: How to Solve Your Own Murder
☀ I: Title: In Good Faith: A Cosy Crime Series
☀ C: Author: C.J. Wray: The Excitements
E: Title: Existentialism is a Humanism

☀ L: Author: Reni Eddo-Lodge: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
☀ A: Author: Selva Almada: The Wind That Lays Waste
☀ T: Author: Annabelle Tometich: The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
☀ T: Title: Tales from the Café
☀ E: Author: Elizabeth Hay: Late Nights on Air

[Sheyanne]

I'm going to try to complete all challenge prompts. The next few months seem busy for me, though, so we'll see how it all goes.🤞

P: The Push by Ashley Audrain (Read 9-7-24 - 9-7-24)
U: Black Out by Lisa Unger (Read 9-5-24 - 9-5-24)
M: Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune (Read 9-3-24 - 9-3-24)
P: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Read 11-8-24 - 11-16-24)
K: Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica2948] (Read 11-16-24 - 11-16-24)
I: I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay (Read 9-1-24 - 9-2-24)
N: The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave (Read 11-10-24 - 11-18-24)

S: Blood Vines by Erica Spindler (Read 9-2-24 - 9-4-24)
P: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Read 9-21-24 - 9-24-24)
I: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle (9-6-24 - 9-8-24
C: Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero (Read 9-17-24 - 9-18-24)
E: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (Read 9-2-24 - 9-6-24)

L: Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Read 9-9-24 - 9-15-24)
A: Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay (Read 11-25-24 - 11-26-24)
T: Good Half Gone: A Thriller by Tarryn Fisher (Read 10-15-24 - 10-15-24)
T: Tell No One by Harlan Coben (Read 11-26-24 - 11-26-24)
E: Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker (Read 11-18-24 - 11-21-24)

17/17

F: Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney (Read 11-11-24 - 11-12-24)
A: Always Watching by Chevy Stevens (Read 10-17-24 - 10-18-24)
M: Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight (Read 9-9-24 - 9-9-24)
I: I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll (Read 10-14-24 - 10-14-24)
L: Warcross by Marie Lu (Read 9-25-24 - 9-26-24)
Y: Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young (Read 9-11-24 - 9-14-24)

G: The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Read 9-10-24 - 9-10-24)
A: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Read 11-6-24 - 11-6-24
T: That's Not My Name by Megan Lally (Read 11-1-24 - 11-1-24)
H: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (Read 9-27-24 - 9-27-24)
E: The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling (Read 9-16-24 - 9-17-24)
R: Ghosted by Rosie Walsh (Read 9-4-24 - 9-5-24)
I: The Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen (Read 11-26-24 - 11-27-24)
N: Never Lie by Freida McFadden (Read 11-5-24 - 11-12-24)
G: The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan (Read 11-27-24 - 11-28-24)

15/15

H: The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison (Read 9-17-24 - 9-19-24)
O: The Only One Left by Riley Sager (Read 9-23-24 - 11-5-24)
T: Things Don't Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins (Read 11-30-24 - 11-30-24)

A: The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes (Read 11-16-24 - 11-18-24)
P: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Read 11-5-24 - 11-6-24)
P: The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand (Read 10-19-24 - 10-23-24)
L: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood (Read 11-13-24 - 11-13-24)
E: Everyone Is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf (Read 11-28-24 - 11-29-24)

C: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Read 9-19-24 - 9-19-24)
I: I’m Not Done with You Yet by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Read 11-24-24 - 11-25-24)
D: Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel (Read 11-25-24 - 11-30-24)
E: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (Read 11-3-24 - 11-4-24)
R: The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (Read 9-6-24 - 9-16-24

13/13
45/45

[Denise]

I'll go for the long:

√PATHETIC LITERATURE EDITED BY EILEEN MYLES
√UTILITY OF BOREDOM (THE) BY ANDREW FORBES
√MYSTERY, KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVES BY HISASHI KASHIWAI
√PHILOSOPHY: GOD IS NOT GREAT BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
√KIM FU, LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
√IBSEN, HENRIK: A DOLL'S HOUSE AND OTHER PLAYS
√NONE OF THIS IS TRUE BY LISA JEWELL
√SHORT STORY COLLECTION: MEN WITHOUT WOMEN BY HARUKI MURAKAMI
√PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER: NONE OF THIS IS TRUE BY LISA JEWELL
√ISHIGURO, KAZUO: THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
√CLASSIC, WIDE SARGASSO SEA BY JEAN RHYS
√EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES BY LYNN TRUSS
√LAST CHANCE TO SEE BY DOUGLAS ADAMS AND MARK CARWARDINE
√AOYAMA, MICHIKO: WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY
√THE TRUANTS, KATE WEINBERG
√TOEWS, MIRIAM: WOMEN TALKING
√EVIE WOODS: THE LOST BOOKSHOP

[Liz]

I'll go for the shorter challenge:

H - Heir of Uncertain Magic by Charlie N. Holmberg, 2024-09-15, 3 stars
O - Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans, 2024-09-23, 5 stars
T - The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton, 2024-09-11, 2 stars

A - Miracle Creek by Angie Kim, 2024-09-14, 4 stars
P - Peril at End House by Agatha Christie, 2024-09-17, 4 stars
P - Alex by Pierre Lemaitre, 2024-09-22, 4 stars
L - The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, 2024-09-03, 5 stars
E - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex, 2024-09-13, 5 stars

C - Frank and Red by Matt Coyne, 2024-09-09, 4 stars
I - I"m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin, 09/25/2024, 1 star
D - Deep Storm by Lincoln Child, 09/22/2024, 3.5 stars
E - Room by Emma Donoghue, 09/06/2024, 4 stars
R - Real Tigers by Mick Herron, 2024-09-07, 4 stars

[Denise]

Robin P wrote: "I'll go for the big one - though it contains the dreaded U.

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If you're willing to ignore "an", An Unquiet Mind by Kay redfield Jamison is a great memoir of dealing with bipolar disorder when it was less well known. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera was also really good. If you are a purist, Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

[Kendra]

ATY Fall Challenge
Duration: Sept. 1st, 2024 to Nov. 30th, 2024

45/45

- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17/17)
Paladin's Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher - Sept. 25th
Underground Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker - Sept. 16th
MacLeod Remembrance by Alistair MacLeod - Sept. 17th
Planet Planet Drag: Uncover the Global Herstory edited by Courtney Conquers - Oct. 1st
Kingfisher Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher - Sept. 3rd
Invisible The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab - Sept. 13th
Nightmare Nightmare Country, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV - Sept. 18th
Shaffer The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer - Sept. 20th
Phantom The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster - Oct. 4th
I I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey - Sept. 22nd
Crossover The Crossover Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander - Sept. 17th
Emily Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch by Emily C. Hughes - Sept. 5th
Liu We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu - Sept. 26th
Angel The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison - Sept. 8th
Tolmie All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie - Sept. 18th
Teki The Yakuza's Bias, Volume 1 by Teki Yatsuda - Sept. 30th
*Entertainment MPG Witches Run Amok: The Oral History of Disney's Hocus Pocus by Shannon Carlin - Oct. 25th

- FAMILY GATHERING (15/15)
Fate's Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews - Nov. 12th
Alexander Rebound by Kwame Alexander - Sept. 19th
Mia Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai - Nov. 10th
Ilona On the Edge by Ilona Andrews - Sept. 29th
Louis Wayside School Is Falling Down by Louis Sachar - Sept. 13th
You You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig - Sept. 14th
Graveneye Graveneye by Sloane Leong - Nov. 13th
Aoyama What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama - Sept 16th
Thomas The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas - Oct. 4th
Hawkins The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins - Sept. 15th
*Essays MPG The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy edited by Leah Wilson - Nov. 3rd
Roth When Among Crows by Veronica Roth - Sept. 1st
Itaru Dinosaur Sanctuary Vol. 5 by Itaru Kinoshita - Oct. 12th
Numbers Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World by Vaclav Smil - Oct. 6th
Games Games Untold by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Nov. 19th

- HOT APPLE CIDER (13/13)
Hisashi The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai - Oct. 17th
Ogawa Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa - Sept. 21st
Teach Teach Me by Olivia Dade - Oct. 8th
Alexander Booked Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander - Sept. 22nd
Paladin's Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher - Oct. 22nd
Paladin's Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher - Oct. 31st
Lost The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan - Nov. 30th
*Environment The World Will Follow Joy by Alice Walker - Nov. 20th
Cynthia After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang - Sept. 20th
Ilona Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews - Oct. 10th
Dash Clue: Candlestick by Dash Shaw - Sept. 21st
Emma Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs - Nov. 4th
Rebekah Meegan by Rebekah Weatherspoon - Sept. 12th

[Odette]

I'm going for the middle challenge:

F: Her Buried Bones by Fiona Tarr - Read 14 Sep (author's first name)
A: Snowy Mountains Daughter by Alissa Callen - Read 9 Oct (author's first name)
M: The Solace Farm Killings by Simon McCleave - Read 17 Sep (author's last name)
I: The Islands by Emily Brugman - Read 2 Sep (title)
L: Lest We Forgive by Phillipa Nefri Clark - Read 8 Sep
Y: The Last Bookshop by Emma Young (author's last name)

G: Dark Corners by Megan Goldin(author's last name) - Read 2 Oct
A: The Silent Town by Anni Taylor - Read 20 Sep (author's first name)
T: Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer - Read 9 Sep (title)
H: The Wiregrass by Adrian Hyland - Read 3 Sep (author's last name)
E: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang (title)
R: Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man by Jonathan D. Spence - Read 19 Sep (title)
I: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead (title)
N: News of the World by Paulette Jiles (title)
G: Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville - Read 13 Sep (author's last
name)

[Chrissie]

Finished: 2024/10/03

I'll try my luck with the middle one.

September 1 - November 30
You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.

Family Gathering
F - Fry, Stephen - Mythos: Was uns die Götter heute sagen ✓ 09/29
A - Ueda Aki - Taste of Desire ✓ 09/08
M - MPG Manhwa - Shutline 01 by Kyou ✓ 09/02
I - I Will Read to You by Gideon Sterer ✓ 09/03
L - MPG LGBT - Katekyo! 02 by Moegi Yuu ✓ 09/17
Y - MPG Yaoi - Shutline 02 by Kyou ✓ 09/03

G - MPG Graphic Novels - Katekyo! 01 by Moegi Yuu ✓ 09/07
A - MPG Adult - Katekyo! 03 by Moegi Yuu ✓ 09/18
T - Yoshimura Tsumuji - The Gender of Mona Lisa 03 ✓ 09/07
H - MPG Horror - From the Red Fog 1 by Nohara Mosae ✓ 10/01
E - Ein Regenbogen für den Schah (Luk und Galiano 1) by Elyseo da Silva ✓ 09/22
R - Robertos Angebot by Chris P. Rolls ✓ 09/06
I - MPG Ireland - Dubliner by James Joyce ✓ 09/15
N - MPG New Adult - Infinity in Our Hearts by Andreas Dutter ✓ 09/30
G - Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary. ✓ 09/28

[Conny]

OK, let's do this ... I'll start with the longest, but I'll slot the rest of this year's challenge books and other planned reading into the remaining other prompts—who knows how fast it'll go?
Asterisks (*) indicate challenge books (ATY and Popsugar). (KU) means Kindle Unlimited, (AI) means Audible inclusive.

√P Petra Hammesfahr: Lukkas Erbe*
√U Urban fantasy: Trail of Lightning*
√M Markus Heitz: Lyssa: Ein Geheimnis-Krämer Fall
P The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World*
√K Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future*
√I Isabella Maldonado: The Falcon*(KU)
N Noir: Journey Under the Midnight Sun*
√S Sawyer, Robert J.: The Downloaded* (AI)
√P Petra Hammesfahr: Der stille Herr Genardy*
√I The It Girl*
√C Charlaine Harris: Aus heiterem Himmel*
√E Erdmann, Nadine: CyberWorld 7.0: Bunker 7*(KU)
√L LGBT romance: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World*
√A Alte weiße Männer: Ein Schlichtungsversuch*(KU)
√T The Tooth Fairy*(KU)
√T Thriller: Survive the Night*
√E Espionage thriller: Dreifach*


√F Fargo, Layne: They Never Learn (KU) *
√A Alma Alexander: 2012: Midnight at Spanish Gardens*
√M Markus Heitz: Des Teufels Gebetbuch
√I The Importance of Being Earnest*
√L Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston: Ritual: Höhle des Schreckens*
√Y YA thriller: Good Girl, Bad Blood*
G Gunhild Selin: Marias Kleiner Esel Und Die Flucht Nach Ägypten*
√A Alex Michaelides: The Maidens*
√T Thriller: Rage*
√H Horror: Dracula*
√E Edith Wharton: Xingu*
√R Rainer Maria Rilke: 88 Gedichte*
√I Island of the Dolls*
N Nimm dich in acht
√G Gonzales, Sophie: Mein fast perfekter Sommer


√H He's Out There*
√O O'Leary, Beth: The Road Trip*
T Thriller: Winter's Mourn (KU)
√A Ali Hazelwood: Check & Mate*
P Preston, Douglas & Child, Lincoln: Burn Case: Geruch des Teufels
P Pierce, Blake: Girl, Alone
L Lydia Kang: The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding (KU)
E Erdmann, Nadine: Unheilige Zeiten
C Cline, Ernest: Ready Player Two (KU)
√I Isabella Maldonado: Blood's Echo
√D Deaver, Jeffery & Maldonado, Isabella: Fatal Intrusion*
E Edwards, Mark & Voss, Louise: From the Cradle (KU)
R Ruff, Matt: Set This House in Order (KU)

[Rosalind]

✔ H City of Saviors by Rachel Howzell Hall
✔ O I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
✔ T The Dream Home by T. M. Logan
✔ A Amari and the Despicable Wonders
✔ P The Perfect Golden Circle
✔ P Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
✔ L The Night in Question by Liz Lawson
✔ E The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
✔ C The Confessions of Frannie Langton
✔ I I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
✔ D Devil in a Blue Dress
✔ E The Examiner
✔ R Report For Murder by Val McDermid

[Grace]

My first seasonal challenge. I love fall!
HOT APPLE CIDER (13) here we go 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

H: by Kristin Hannah (Author Last Name)
O
T

A: by Sarah J. Maas (Title begins with A)
P
P
L
E

C: by Madeline Miller
I
D
E
R

[Roxana]

🍂 Roxana's Fall Challenge 🍂

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.

🍂🍂🍂

P: Piranesi - title
U: Under Her Spell - title
M: The Midnight Feast - title
P: Parasol Against the Axe - title
K: King Lear - title
I: I Did Something Bad - title
N: A New Lease on Death - title

S: Society of Lies - title
P: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - title
I: If I Stopped Haunting You - title
C: The City in Glass - title
E: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone - title

L: Leech - title
A: Attached at the Hip - title
T: A Taste of Gold and Iron - title
T: This Will Be Fun - title
E: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect - title

🍂🍂🍂

F: Flawless Girls - title
A: The Athenian Murders - title
M: Model Home - title
I: I'll Have What He's Having - title
L: Lady Macbeth - title
Y: Your Blood, My Bones - title

G: Graveyard Shift - title
A: The Atlas Complex - title
T: They Never Learn - title
H: Haunt Sweet Home - title
E:
🍁 R: Ripley Under Ground - title
I:
N:
G: Glass Houses - title

🍂🍂🍂

H: The Honey Witch - title
O:
T:

A:
P: The Phoenix Keeper - title
P: The Plus One - title
L: Long Live Evil - title
E: Coup de Grâce - title

C: The Cold Light of Day - title
I:
D: Don't Let the Forest In - title
E:
R: Running Close to the Wind - title

🍂🍂🍂

[Trish, Annular Mod]

I'm going for the big one. I've got the U. I do need to find the Is.

P = True Grit, Charles {P}ortis – 17/10/24
U = {U}nnatural Death, Dorothy L. Sayers – 11/10/24
M = {M}urder at Midnight, Kathi Daley – 08/09/24
P = The Fall of the House of Usher, and Other Tales, Edgar Allan {P}oe – 25/09/24 ()
K = The Kamogawa Food Detectives, Hisashi {K}ashiwai – 11/09/24
I = We'll Prescribe You a Cat, Syou {I}shida - 08/11/24
N = {N}o Paw to Stand On, Laurie Cass – 24/09/24

S = A New History of the Picts, {S}tuart McHardy – 16/09/24
P = Under Lock & Skeleton Key, Gigi {P}andian - 06/11/24
I = The Remains of the Day, Kazuo {I}shiguro - 27/11/24
C = David Copperfield, {C}harles Dickens - 14/10/24 (>500pg read this season)
E = Wuthering Heights, {E}mily Bronte – 21/10/24
D = The Grudge, Kathi {D}aley – 10/09/24

L = The Xibalba Murders, {L}yn Hamilton – 05/09/24
A = Autumn Chills, {A}gatha Christie – 06/10/24
T = {T}opped Chef, Lucy Burdette – 22/09/24
T = The Silver Needle Murder, Laura Childs – 15/10/24 (using the T of The)
E = The Lost Bookshop, {E}vie Woods – 18/09/24

[Siobhan]

I'm almost certainly going for the shorter one, though may edit if need be.

H - Sweet on the Greek by Talia HIBBERT
O - Hopeless Bromantics by Isla OSLEN
T - Bound to Liberty by Kiru TAYE (And Kai TYLER)

A - The Sign of the Four by ARTHUR Conan Doyle
P - A Thief and a Gentleman by Arden POWELL
P - Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by PETER Ackroyd
L - Whisper by Garrett LEIGH
E - A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by EMMA Southern

C - The Named by Marianne CURLEY
I - Raised from the Ruins - ISABELLE Arden
D - Bec - DARREN Shan
E - Mr. Justice Raffles - EW Hornung
R - Up in Smoke - Annabeth Albert (ROMANCE)

13/13

[Dee]

Fall challenge - Sept 1, 2024 to Nov 30, 2024
completed: 13/13 - done!!

How It Works- For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in: HOT APPLE CIDER (13)
You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre.

H - The Hitchcock Hotel -9/28/24√
O -Richard Osman -We Solve Murders - 9/21/24√
T - Tell Me Everything -9/18/24 √

A - Anna Johnston - The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife - 9/8/24√
P - Amanda Peters - The Berry Pickers - 9/25/24 √
P - Nita Prose -The Mistletoe Mystery - 10/2/24 √
L - Liane Moriarty - Here One Moment -9/12/24 √
E - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret - 10/19/24√

C - P. Djèlí Clark - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - 10/17/24√
I - I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America - 10/8/24 √
D -Death at the Sanatorium - 9/5/24 √
E - The English Understand Wool - 9/7/24√
R - Raquel V. Reyes - Mango, Mambo, and Murder -- 10/2/24 √

[Joanne]

Not sure which I will choose

For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in ONE of three phrases:
- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17)
- FAMILY GATHERING (15)
- HOT APPLE CIDER (13)

[Ninette]

Think I will try with HOT APPLE CIDER

6/13

H: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
O:
T:

A: A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong
P:
P:
L: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
E:

C: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
I:
D: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
E:
R: Mine by A.K. Rose

[Nike]

🍎🍏🍎 HOT APPLE CIDER 🍎🍏🍎

H: Horror - The Collector by John Fowles
O: Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
T: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

A: Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan by Zaure Batayeva and many more
P: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
P: Brandbilen som försvann by Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall
L: The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
E: Ett minne blott by Linn Samuelsson

C: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
I: I See You by Clare Mackintosh
D: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
E: Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
R: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

[Jill]

I think I will try Pumpkin Spice Latte but list the others to see how much I can finish.

12/17
✔️P: The Pairing
U:
✔️M: My Name Is Barbra
✔️P: The Perfumist of Paris
✔️K: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
I:
✔️N: Not Another Love Song
✔️S: The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
✔️P: Passions in Death
I:
✔️C: Worst in Show by Anna E. Collins
E:
✔️L: The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
✔️A: Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki
✔️T: Tangled Up in You
✔️T: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
E:

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9/15
✔️F: Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii
✔️A: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
✔️M: Malas
I:
✔️L: Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter
✔️Y: You Are Here
✔️G: Go as a River
✔️A: ASAP
T:
✔️H: At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber
E:
R: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
I:
N:
G: Daydream by Hannah Grace

******************
7/13
✔️H: The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
✔️O: XOXO by Axie Oh
✔️T: Two Nights in Lisbon
✔️A: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
✔️P: The Partner Plot
P:
L:
E:
✔️C: Second Tide's the Charm by Chandra Blumberg
I:
D:
E:
✔️R: Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

[Marie (UK)]

I will go for the lot

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.

Fall Reading Challenge 2024

P Strumpet City using author surname James Plunkett 18/09/2024
U The Name of the Rose using author forename Umberton 26/11/2024
M Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 25/09/2024 A H author initials or N for non-fiction
P Pardonable Lies 19/09/2024 alternatives Mystery MPG
K Confessions Kanae Minato 26/09/2024
I Identity 18/10/2024
N Neuromancer 09/09/2024 Alternatives WG author - MPG = Science Fiction
S Sunbirds 02/09/2024 Alternatives Penelope Slocombe
P Step on a Crack using Author Surname James Patterson 13/09/2024
I Fire 02/11/2024 MPG Ireland
C Cragside 23/09/2024 Alternatives L R author Mystery MPG
E Sarum Using Edward - Edward Rutherfurd
L Daughters of Night 06/09/2024 Using Author first name LAURA Laura Shepherd-Robinson
A Angel 01/09/2024 Alternatives = L R or C L.J. Ross MPG Crime
T The Fatal Flying Affair 02/09/2024
T The Vanishing Tide 15/09/2024 alternative s Author - H
E Freshwater Akwaeke <b>Emezi</b> 15/09/2024


H High Force: A DCI Ryan Mystery 08/09/2024 alternatives L R author Crime MPG
O The Orchard of Lost Souls 16/09/2024 Alternatives NM - author or F - fiction
T This Is How You Lose the Time War 10/09/2024 Alternatives - Authors Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone MPG = SF - science Fiction

A A Wedding in the Sun 09/09/2024 Alternatives Author LM MPG = Romance
P Passions in Death 17/09/2024 Author = R MPG = Mystery
P There Was Still Love 20/09/2024 using Author surname - Parrett
L Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 19/10/2024 Author Surname Anita Loos
E The Measure 04/09/2024 Using author Surname Nikki Erlick-

C The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise 10/09/2024 Using Author name David Crosby
I The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World 07/11/2024 MPG India
D Dublin 4 16/09/2024
E A Christmas Railway Mystery using Edward Marston 14/10/2024
R Remarkable Creatures 03/09/2024 Alternatives H- MPG Historical Fiction T or C Author names Tracy Chevalier

F Farthing 12/09/2024< JW author Mystery
A A Different Hurricane 27/09/2024
M Million Dollar Staircase 09/09/2024 Alternatives D C author
I The Drowned 05/10/2024 MPG Irish Literature
L The Square of Sevens Laura Shepherd-Robinson 10/10/2024
Y Delicious Monsters 07/10/2024MPG Young Adult

G Greek Lessons 19/09/2024 could be used for H or K author
A All Fours 28/09/2024
T The 5th Horseman 29/09/2024
H The Household 24/09/2024 Alternative S - Author
E The Echo of Old Books 22/10/2024
R The Place of Tides 19/09/2024 Using - author surname Rebanks
I The Hotel New Hampshire 09/11/2024 Using author surnameJohn Irving
N The Night We Lost Him 03/09/2024 alternatives Author = L or D - MPG = Mystery
G Gold Rush 22/09/2024 alternative author - O or P MPG = F

[Diana S]

FALL READING CHALLENGE 2024
Duration: September 1 thru November 30 2024
Spell-out: PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE
Books Read: 1/17


P
U
M - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (9/12/24) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
P
K
I
N

S
P
I
C
E

L
A
T
T
E

[Joy D]

Our Fall challenge starts on September 1, 2024, and finishes on November 30, 2024.

We are tackling an A-Z challenge!

How It Works
For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in ONE of three phrases:

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.

Challenge Completed: 11/18/24

(17)
✅P - Playground by Richard Powers - 9/8/24 - 5* - My Review
✅U - Un Lun Dun by China Miéville - 11/4/24 - 4* - My Review
✅M - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - 9/9/24 - 4* - My Review
✅P - The Seville Communion by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - 9/20/24 - 3* - My Review
✅K - The sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur - 9/8/24 - 3* - My Review
✅I - Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy by David O. Stewart - 9/22/24 - 4* - My Review
✅N - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass - 9/4/24 - 4* - My Review
✅S - What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales - 9/1/24 - 4* - My Review
✅P - Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin - 10/7/24 - 4* - My Review
✅I - Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman - 9/30/24 - 4* - My Review
✅C - Malagash by Joey Comeau - 11/2/24 - 4* - My Review
✅E - A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan - 10/27/24 - 4* - My Review
✅L - Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See - 9/16/24 - 4* - My Review
✅A - Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar - 9/14/24 - 3.5* - My Review
✅T - There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak - 9/5/24 - 5* - My Review
✅T - Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review
✅E - The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago - 10/15/24 - 4* - My Review

(15)
✅F - Death Of A River Guide by Richard Flanagan - 9/14/24 - 4* - My Review
✅A - Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez - 9/18/24 - 3* - My Review
✅M - The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith - 9/26/24 - 4* - My Review
✅I - The Invisible Circus: A Novel by Jennifer Egan - 3* - My Review
✅L - She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb - 9/29/24 - 2* - My Review
✅Y - You Are Here by David Nicholls - 11/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review
✅G - Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh - 9/7/24 - 4* - My Review
✅A - And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier - 9/18/24 - 4* - My Review
✅T - The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - 9/27/24 - 4* - My Review
✅H - Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde - 10/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review
✅E - Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells - 11/11/24 - 3.5* - My Review
✅R - Allegiant by Veronica Roth - 9/30/24 - 2* - My Review
✅I - This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig - 10/28/24 - 4* - My Review
✅N - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick - 9/12/24 - 4* - My Review
✅G - Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman - 10/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review

(13)
✅H - Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris - 10/14/24 - 4* - My Review
✅O - Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - 9/15/24 - 4* - My Review
✅T - To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron - 10/4/24 - 4* - My Review
✅A - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood - 9/26/24 - 1* - My Review
✅P - The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy - 11/5/24 - 4* - My Review
✅P - The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review
✅L - Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester - 10/6/24 - 4* - My Review
✅E - Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler - 11/13/24 - 5* - My Review
✅C - Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner - 9/10/24 - 4* - My Review
✅I - Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger - 11/18/25 - 4.5* - My Review
✅D - Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick - 9/6/24 - 4* - My Review
✅E - The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich - 11/3/24 - 4* - My Review
✅R - A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter - 10/10/24 - 4* - My Review

[Pam]

Pam's Fall Challenge (Sept 1-Nov 30)
Completed 15/15
📗- Finished
- I usually forget to do these seasonal challenges, but I have a plan this time and will try to complete it!

📗F: Fifth Business (title)
📗A: The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
📗M: We Solve Murders (Mystery)
📗I: Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior (Author)
📗L: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (Author)
📗Y: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
📗G: Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov (title)
📗A: The Wild Robot (Adventure)
📗T: An African in Greenland (Travel)
📗H: Carrie (Horror)
📗E: Every Leaf a Hallelujah by Ben Okri (Title)
📗R: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Author)
📗I: Invitation to Dinner by Alba de Cespedes (short story)
📗N: Shahrzad and the Angry King by Nahid Kazemi (Author)
📗G: The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (graphic novel)

[JessicaMHR]

2024 Fall Reading Challenge
For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in ONE of three phrases:
- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17)
P: Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
U: Untamed
M: The Worst Ronin Maggie Tokuda-Hall
P: Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel
K: The Stonekeeper's Curse Kazu Kibuishi
I: If You'll Have Me
N: Nick and Charlie

S: The Secret of the Old Clock
P: Prince of the Elves
I: Ink Girls
C: The Cloud Searchers
E: Escape from Lucien

L: The Last Romantics
A: Act
T: This Winter
T: Tetris: The Games People Play
E: The Enchanted Hacienda

- FAMILY GATHERING (15)
F: First Frost
A: Anzu and the Realm of Darkness: A Graphic Novel
M: 40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954 Marcelino Truong
I:
L: Leslie F*cking Jones
Y: Yellowface

G: The Whistler John Grisham
A: Aster and the Accidental Magic
T: The Dragonet Prophecy Tui T. Sutherland
H: The House on Biscayne Bay
E: Swan Song Elin Hilderbrand
R: Roller Girl
I: It's Your Funeral!
N: Nimona
G: Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

- HOT APPLE CIDER (13)
H: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
O: Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales
T: Treasure Island

A: Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort Of)
P: Pizza Face: A Graphic Novel
P: Poverty, by America
L: The Last Council
E:

C: Camp
I:
D: Drama
E:
R: Red, White & Royal Blue

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.

**I just finished the ATY challenge so, I'm not sure which one I'm gonna go for yet.**

[Sandra]

For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in ONE of three phrases:
- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17)
- FAMILY GATHERING (15)
- HOT APPLE CIDER (13)

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.

[Roe]

17/17

✔️P - The Perfect Place to Die
✔️U - The Unmaking of June Farrow
✔️M - Making It Up As I Go Along
✔️P - Paper Ghosts
✔️K - The King's Daughter
✔️I - It Happened One Summer
✔️N - Naked Graves

✔️S - Smart Mouth
✔️P - Playing with Matches
✔️I - I Told You This Would Happen
✔️C - Cloudy Jewel
✔️E - Elizabeth I

✔️L - The Last One at the Wedding
✔️A - A Lesson in Vengeance
✔️T - The Bullet That Missed
✔️T - The Wife Upstairs
✔️E - Everything is Illuminated

[Michelle]

I have a huge TBR so maybe I can actually finish more than one - certainly worth I try I suppose

15/17
P - Planes, Trains, and All the Feels
U - Unsteady
M - Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant
P - Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story
K - The Kiss Curse
I - Indigo Ridge
N - The Nightingale Before Christmas
S - The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
P - Pane and Suffering
I - Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours
C - The Christmas Wager
E - The Ex Hex
L - Lauren Asher, The Fine Print
A - Arrogant Devil
T - Twisted Games
T - The Truth According to Ember
E - Ellery Adams, Murder in the Storybook Cottage



COMPLETE 15/15
F - The Final Gambit
A - A Cyclist's Guide to Crime & Croissants
M - My Sister, the Serial Killer
I - India Holton, The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
L - Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places
Y - Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
G - Gail Carriger, Changeless
A - Ellery Adams, Written in Stone
T - The Thursday Murder Club
H - The Hawthorne Legacy
E - Ellie Palmer, Four Weekends and a Funeral
R - Katie Ruggle, Fish Out of Water
I - I've Got My Mind Set on Brew
N - Not in Love
G - Gail Carriger, Curtsies & Conspiracies



COMPLETE 13/13
H - How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
O - Of Hoaxes and Homicide
T - The Thug and His Doll
A - A Court of Thorns and Roses
P - Peril in Pink
P - Pen Pal
L - Love Redesigned
E - The Echo of Old Books
C - Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in An Age of Innocence
I - In a Holidaze
D - The Dead Guy Next Door
E - The Eyre Affair
R - The Right Sort of Man

[Robin H-R]

Not sure which one yet...maybe all three

- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17/17)
--P - The Postwoman
--U - An Untimely Frost
--M - 20 Minutes To Midnight
--P - Paradise on the Pike
--K - Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen
--I - The Invisible Host: A Golden Age Mystery
--N - Northfield: A Western Story
--S - The Murder of Willie Lincoln, Burt Solomon
--P - Saint Peter's Fair, Ellis Peters
--I - The Ironclad Alibi
--C - Cupboards All Bared
--E - Evangeline: A totally gripping mystery thriller
--L - Leaden Skies
--A - All Roads Lead to Whitechapel
--T - A Trail Through Time
--T - Truth and Beauty
--E - Ella

FINISHED 11/30/2024

[Ana]

Hello...

I wil try the middle one: FAMILY GATHERING (15)

F - Finalmente Compreendo o Meu Cão by Nicole Gil - Book
A - Alice do Lado Errado do Espelho by Pedro Rodrigues - Book
M - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides - Last Name - Author
I - What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez - First Name - Author
L - Companhia Silenciosa by Laura Purcell - First Name - Author
Y - Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross - Young Adult

G - Secret Lives of Royal Women: Fascinating Biographies of Queens, Princesses, Duchesses, and other Regal Women by Marlene Wagman Geller - Last Name - Author
A - Rapazes do Cemitério by Aiden Thomas - First Name - Author
T - O Demónio das Águas Sombrias by Stuart Turton - Last Name - Author
H - Heartless by Elsie Silver - Book
E - Powerlessby Elsie Silver - First Name - Author
R - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross - First Name - Author
I - The Taken by Inbali Iserles - First Name - Author
N - A menina que veio do outro lado: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 2 by Nagabe - Name - Author
G -Os Senhores do Tempo by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi - Surname Name - Author

[Vicki]

Fall Reading Challenge
(I love hot apple cider!)
Titles: 13/13

H The Help (9/9)
O The Old Wine Shades (9/14)
T This is Where I Leave You (9/28)

A Ambush (10/8)
P Passions in Death (9/22)
P The Prince (10/12)
L The Lion's Share (9/20)
E The Education of Little Tree (10/14)

C The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook (10/19)
I I Shall Not Want (10/5)
D Den of Iniquity (9/18)
E The Enemy You Gnocchi (10/21)
R Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos (9/10)

Author Given Names: 15/15

F Felix Francis: Hands Down (10/27)
A Andrew Child, co-author: In Too Deep (10/29)
M Mary Balogh; Always Remember (11/19)
I Ian Rankin: Knots & Crosses (10/31)
L Lois Lowry: Anastasia Krupnik (10/31)
Y Yann Martel: Life of Pi (11/3)

G Graham Brown: The Eden Prophecy (11/8)
A Ann Granger: Candle for a Corpse (11/17)
T Tina Fey: Bossypants (10/26)
H Harlan Coben: Don't Let Go (11/21)
E Evelyn Waugh: Scoop (11/24)
R Richard Osman: We Solve Murders (11/18)
I Iris Rainer Dart: 'Til the Real Thing Comes Along (11/29)
N Neil Simon: Lost in Yonkers (11/22)
G Gail Honeyman: Eleanor Oliphant Is
Completely Fine (11/27)

[Vi]

This is my first challenge with the group! So I’m going to start with the shortest one:
H
O
T
A
P
P
L
E
C
I
D
E
R
!

[Barbara]

I'm moving some time in the next six weeks, so shorter one for me as my house descends into chaos.

- H: Hera by Jennifer Saint (book title)
✅ O: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie (book title) 9/24/24
- T: A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki (book title)

✅ A: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie (author first name) 9/1/24
✅ P: The Voyage Home by Pat Barker (author first name) 9/16/24
- P: The Promise of Tomorrow by Mary Ellen Taylor (book title)
✅ L: West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (author first name) 9/28/24
✅ E: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (author last name) 9/20/24

✅ C: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (author last name) 10/7/24
- I: Those Fatal Flowers by Shannon Ives (author last name)
✅ D: Divorce: An American Tradition (book title) by Glenda Riley 10/4/24
- E: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (book title)
- R: The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever by Lydia Reeder (author last name)

[Andrea]

I finished the ATY challenge early this year, so I'm going to challenge myself to the 17-letter one. I'm also returning to grad school this semester, so this may prove to be a little too ambitious for me 😄

P- Burn by Peter Heller
U- Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
M- Mixed Signals by B.K. Borison
P- The President and the Frog by Carolina De Robertis
K- Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
I- In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
N- Running by Natalia Sylvester

S- Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
P- Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda
I- In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
C- Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
E- Llorando en el baño by Erika L. Sánchez

L- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
A- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
T- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
T- Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte
E- El túnel by Ernesto Sabato

[Turid]

Exciting!
Not sure if I'll do one or more of these, time will show.

✅️ Pumpkin Spice Latte (17/17) - completed 1st Nov
✔️ P is for (the) Pumpkin: The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (completed, audiobook)
✔️ U is for Undset: Kransen by Sigrid Undset (completed, audiobook)
✔️ M is for Mockingjay: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (completed, audiobook)
✔️ P is for (the) Picture: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (completed, audiobook)
✔️ K is for Keller: The World I Live In by Helen Keller (completed, e-book)
✔️ I is for Ijeoma: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (completed, audiobook)
✔️ N is for Naomi: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (completed, audiobook)

✔️ S is for Samantha: Orbital by Samantha Harvey (completed, audiobook)
✔️ P is for Pratchett: Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (completed, audiobook)
✔️ I is for (the) Invisible: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab (completed, audiobook)
✔️ C is for Collins: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (completed, audiobook)
✔️ E is for Elizabeth: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (completed, audiobook)

✔️ L is for (a) Living: A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung (completed, audiobook)
✔️ A is for Agatha: Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (completed, audiobook)
✔️ T is for Trinity: A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen (completed, audiobook)
✔️ T is for Tjønn: Kvit, norsk mann by Brynjulf Jung Tjønn (completed, e-book)
✔️ E is for Eve: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon (completed, physical book)


✅️ Family Gathering (14/15) - completed 10th Nov
✔️ F is for Fantasy and Fanfiction: Manacled by SenLinYu (completed, e-book)
✔️ A is for And: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (completed, audiobook)
✔️ M is for Mrs: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (completed, e-book)
✔️ I is for If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (completed, audiobook)
✔️ L is for Lauren: The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James (completed, audiobook)
✔️ Y is for Yumi Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson (completed, audiobook)

✔️ G is for Gallant: Gallant by Victoria Schwab (completed, audiobook)
✔️ A is for Alexandra: Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter (completed, audiobook)
✔️ T is for Terry: Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (completed, audiobook)
✔️ H is for Haushofer: The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (completed, audiobook)
✔️ E is for Elizabeth: The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout (completed, audiobook)
✔️ R is for Rainbow: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (completed, audiobook)
✔️ I is for Iain: I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (completed, audiobook)
✔️ N is for Nagamatsu: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (completed, audiobook)
✔️ G is for Gaskell: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (completed, audiobook)


✅️ Hot Apple Cider (13/13) - completed 6th Nov
✔️ H is for Halloween: Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie (completed, audiobook)
✔️ O is for (the) Old: The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata (completed, physical book)
✔️ T is for Tolkien: The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien (completed, physical book)

✔️ A is for Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (completed, audiobook)
✔️ P is for Positurene (the positions): Positurene by Heidi Sævareid (completed, physical book)
✔️ P is for (the) Poppy: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (completed, audiobook)
✔️ L is for Lalli: A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli (completed, audiobook)
✔️ E is for Emmeline: Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm by Emmeline Clein (completed, physical book)

✔️ C is for Chang: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (completed, audiobook)
✔️ I is for Intermezzo: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (completed, e-book)
✔️ D is for Donna: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (completed, audiobook)
✔️ E is for Evil: Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (completed, audiobook)
✔️ R is for Romancing: Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn (completed, audiobook)

[Liv]

I finished the ATY main challenge so I'm going to try this

Family Gathering 13/15

F is for Fantasy - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke✅
A is for Alison - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel✅
M is for McQuiston - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston✅
I is for I - I Am Legend by Richard Matheson✅
L is for Lessons - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus✅
Y is for YA - A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid✅

G is for Gladstone - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone✅
A is for Alix - Starling House by Alix E. Harrow✅
T is for Thriller - Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll✅
H is for Henry - Open Throat by Henry Hoke ✅
E is for Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway✅
R is for Rebecca - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier✅
I is for Invisible - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
N is for Naomi - The Power by Naomi Alderman
G is for Gaiman - Stardust by Neil Gaiman✅

[Mel]

Hot Apple Cider (2/13):

H
O
T is for Tamsyn: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (currently reading)

A is for Agatha: Crooked House by Agatha Christie (completed!)
P is for Pandora: Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes (currently reading)
P
L is for Link:
E

C is for Can't: Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne (completed!)
I
D
E is for Erin:
R

[Misty]

I think I am going for FAMILY GATHERING, but I reserve the right to change it! :)
- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17)
- FAMILY GATHERING (15)
- HOT APPLE CIDER (13)

✅F - Fool: A Fool and His Honey by Charlaine Harris
✅A - Allende: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
✅M - McElhinney: Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History by Hannah McElhinney
✅I - Incendiary: Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova
✅L - Last: Last Scene Alive by Charlaine Harris
✅Y - Yoshimoto: Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto

✅G - Game - A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair
✅A - Agnes/Anne: Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
✅T - Ta-Nehisi: The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
✅H - Hala: The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
✅E - Elena: In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
✅R - Rivera: Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up by Naya Rivera
✅I - Isaacs: Takes One to Know One by Susan Isaacs
✅N - Nnedi: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
✅G - Gilman: The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

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✅H - Harris: A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris
✅O - Okorafor: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
✅T - Tremor: The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

✅A - Andrea: Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
✅P - Palm: A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
✅P - Percival: The Trees by Percival Everett
✅L - Locked: The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
✅E - Elizabeth: The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits by Elizabeth Peters

✅C - Cordova: Illusionary by Zoraida Córdova
✅I - In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
✅D - Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled by Dorothy Gilman
✅E - The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
✅R - Real Murders by Charlaine Harris

[Michelle]

I am going to go for my favorite fall treat, Hot Apple Cider. Completed 11/26/2024

H: The Hunger
O: The Games Gods Play
T: Throne of Glass

A: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout
P: Phantasma
P: The Deer and the Dragon
L: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
E: Eruption

C: Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen
I: I Could Pee on This: and Other Poems by Cats
D: Defy the Night
E: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
R: Gothikana by RuNyx

[Beth]

Fall Reading Challenge completed 21 November 2024

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Latte
👨🏻‍👩🏼‍👧🏻‍👦🏻 Family Gathering
🍎 Hot Apple Cider

P - Percival Everett - James
U - Una Mannion - Tell Me What I Am
M - M.W. Craven - The Cutting Season (Washington Poe, #4.5)
P - Prose, Nita - The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)
K - Kurkov, Andrey - Death and the Penguin
I - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
N - Nicci French - The Day of the Dead

S - Snakes and Ladders (Ziba MacKenzie, #3) by Victoria Selman
P - Prose, Nita - The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)
I - Inmate, The by Freida McFadden
C - Craven, M.W. - The Botanist (Washington Poe, #5)
E - Elphinstone, Margaret - The Sea Road

L - Locked Door, The by Freida McFadden
A - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The by Mark Twain
T - The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1) by Steve Berry
T - T. Kingfisher - Minor Mage
E - Erik Larson - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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F - Friday on My Mind (Frieda Klein, #5) by Nicci French
A - Anton Treuer - Where Wolves Don't Die
M - Mercy Chair, The (Washington Poe, #6) by M.W. Craven
I - I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall
L - Last Murder at the End of the World, The by Stuart Turton
Y - Yolen, Jane - The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen

G - Gai-Jin (Asian Saga, #3) by James Clavell
A - A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle
T - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
H - Hutchison,Dot - The Summer Children (The Collector, #3)
E - Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3) by Jane Harper
R - Richard McGuire - Here
I - I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! by Robert Elliott Burns
N - Nicci French - Sunday Silence
G - Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye

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H - Housemaid's Secret, The (The Housemaid, #2) by Freida McFadden
O - Olivia T. Turner - Cherry Poppins
T - The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan

A - Apt Pupil by Stephen King
P - Patterson, James - Taking the Titanic
P - Penrose, Andrea - Murder at King’s Crossing (Wrexford & Sloane, #8)
L - Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
E - Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

C - Cut Short (Washington Poe, #3.5) by M.W. Craven
I - I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers by Tim Madigan
D - Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2) by C.J. Sansom
E - Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho
R - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King