Joy D's Tome Challenge 2025

[Joy D]

Goal is 12:

1. Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright - 1/7/25 - 4* - My Review (774 pages)
2. Greenwood by Michael Christie - 1/11/25 - 4* - My Review (512 pages)
3. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - 1/31/25 - 4* -My Review (1169 pages)
4. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari - 2/4/25 - 4.5* - My Review (528 pages)
5. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham - 2/8/25 - 5* - My Review (576 pages)
6. Horizon by Barry Lopez - 2/13/25 - 5* - My Review (572 pages)
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review (576 pages)
8. Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen - 3/11/25 - 4* - My Review (528 pages)
9. The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré - 3/29/25 - 4.5* - My Review (515 pages)
10. Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review (501 pages)
11. The Bone People by Keri Hulme - 4/17/25 - 4* - My Review (546 pages)
12. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy - 5/19/25 - 3* - My Review (640 pages)
13. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition by Margaret Ferguson - 5/21/25 - 4* - My Review (1424 pages)
14. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson - 5/28/25 - 5* - My Review (880 pages)
15. Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff - 6/5/25 - 5* - My Review (832 pages)
16. Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music by Richard Crawford - 6/9/25 - 5* - My Review (560 pages)
17. The Famished Road by Ben Okri - 6/18/25 - 3.5* - My Review (594 pages)
18. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 by Ian W. Toll - 6/20/25 - 4* - My Review (688 pages)
19. One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson - 6/21/25 - 4* - My Review (509 pages)
20. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon - 6/26/25 - 4* - My Review (512 pages)
21. Wool by Hugh Howey - 7/21/25 - 4* - My Review (594 pages)
22. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 7/22/25 - 3.5* - My Review (608 pages)
23. Version Control by Dexter Palmer - 8/16/25 - 4.5* - My Review (514 pages)
24. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 8/29/25 - 4* - My Review (715 pages)
25. The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon by Laurie Gwen Shapiro - 9/8/25 - 4* - My Review (509 pages)
26. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai - 9/26/25 - 4* - My Review (688 pages)
27. The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez - 9 /28/25 - 4* - My Review (526 pages)
28. A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement by Anthony Powell - 9/29/25 - 4* - My Review (718 pages)
29. Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya by William Carlsen - 10/4/25 - 5* - My Review (528 pages)
30. Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman - 10/26/25 - 3* - My Review (504 pages)
31. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price - 10/27/25 - 4.5* - My Review (656 pages)
32. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton - 10/29/25 - 3* - My Review (558 pages)
33. The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness - 10/31/25 - 2* - My Review (530 pages)