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Monthly TagJanuary: Canada
1) Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery
2) The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - Alex Trebek
3) The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism - John U. Bacon
February: Science
1) Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World - Rachel Ignotofsky
2) Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics - Jim Al-Khalili
3) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
4) Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - Mary Roach
5) The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science - Dava Sobel
6) Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War - Mary Roach
7) Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void - Mary Roach
March: Thriller
1) All the Colors of the Dark - Chris Whitaker
2) The Brethren - John Grisham
April: Fun
1) The Refrigerator Monologues - Catherynne M. Valente
2) A Crackup at the Race Riots - Harmony Korine
May: Strong Women
1) The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
2) Dottir: My Journey to Becoming a Two-Time CrossFit Games Champion - Katrin Davidsdottir
3) I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
4) The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom - Shari Franke
June: Summer
1) My Friends - Fredrik Backman
2) Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
3) The Beach - Alex Garland
4) Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid
5) The Pitch That Killed - Mike Sowell
6) After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid
7) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
8) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
9) Love & Gelato - Jenna Evans Welch
10) Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
July: Speculative Fiction
1) Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
2) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3) The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
4) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
August: Family Drama
1) The Vanishing Half -Brit Bennett
2) Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy
3) Still Alice - Lisa Genova
4) Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
5) The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
September: Around the World
1) The Travels Of Marco Polo - Marco Polo
2) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3) The Secret of Secrets - Dan Brown
October: Scifi-Fantasy
1) Sunrise on the Reaping -Suzanne Collins
2) Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
November: British Literature
1) James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
2) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
December:
Compass ChallengeOnly read books from "100 Best Inspirational Books that Will Make You Want to Travel the World" article
1) Start in Tifton Georgia. Travel NE to Iceland Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
2) Start in Iceland. Travel E to Moscow, Russia - The Big Red Train Ride - Eric Newby
3) Start in Vladivostok, Russia. Travel S to Syndey, Australia - In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
4) Start in Perth Australia. Travel NW to Fez, Morocco - A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco - Suzanna Clarke
5) Start in Fez, Morocco. Travel E to Swat Valley Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
6) Start in Swat Valley Pakistan. Travel SE to Ko Samui, Thailand - The Beach - Alex Garland
7) Start in Ko Samui, Thailand. Travel NW to Homer Alaska - The Women - Kristin Hannah
8) Start in Homer, Alaska. Travel E to Iverness, United Kingdom - Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
9) Start in Iverness, United Kingdom - Travel NE to St. Petersburg, Russia - Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
10) Start in St. Petersburg, Russia - Travel NW to Upernavik, Greenland - [[book:An African in Greenland|432213] - Tété-Michel Kpomassie
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Presidential Biographies#21) Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur - Thomas C. Reeves
#22-24) Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character - Alyn Brodsky
#23) - Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior: 1 - Harry J. Sievers
#23) Benjamin Harrison Vol. 2: Hoosier Statesman - Harry J. Sievers
#23 - The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - Homer E. Socolofsky
#25 - William McKinley and His America - H. Wayne Morgan
#26 - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
#26 - Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
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Long Book Once a Month1) Familiaris - David Wroblewski
2) The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron - Howard Bryant
3) The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
4) Shōgun - James Clavell
5) The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
6) Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
7) Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros
8) Mark Twain - Ron Chernow
9) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
10) The Basketball 100: The Story of the Greatest Players in NBA History - David Aldridge
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January: #12
February: #3
March: #11
April: #1
May: #10
June: #9
July: #8
August: #7
September: #5
October: #2
November: #4
December: #5
SeriesRed Rising Saga - Pierce Brown
#1) Red Rising
#2) Golden Son
#3) Morning Star
#4) Iron Gold
#5) Dark Age
#6) Light Bringer
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The Empyrean Series - Rebecca Yarros
#1) Fourth Wing
#2) Iron Flame
#3) Onyx Storm
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Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn
#1) Thrawn
#2) Thrawn: Alliances
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Galactic Football League - Scott Sigler
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Captain Nemo Series - Jules Verne
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#2) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Temeraire - Naomi Novik
#0.5) Vici
#1) His Majesty's Dragon
#1.5) Feast or Famine
#2) Throne of Jade
#2.5) In Autumn, a White Dragon Looks over the Wide River
#3) Black Powder War
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Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
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#2) Anne of Avonlea
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Century Cycle - August Wilson
#1) Gem of the Ocean
#2) Joe Turner's Come and Gone
#3) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
#4) The Piano Lesson
#5) Seven Guitars
#6) Fences
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Book of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
#1) The City of Ember
#2) The People of Sparks
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Civilizations Rise and Fall - Jared Diamond
#1) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
#2) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Asian Saga - James Clavell
1) Shōgun
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Love & Gelato - Jenna Evans Welch
1) Love & Gelato
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Rules in Civility - Amor Towles
1) Rules of Civility
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The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
0) The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
0.5) Sunrise on the Reaping
1) The Hunger Games
2) Catching Fire
3) Mockingjay
Robert Langdon - Dan Brown
1) Angels & Demons
2) The Da Vinci Code
3) The Lost Symbol
4) Inferno
5) Origin
6) The Secret of Secrets
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
.5) Virgins
1) Outlander
2) Dragonfly in Amber
2.5) A Fugitive Green
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Read Everything They WriteBelow are the books I haven't read by some of my favorite Authors.
John Grisham
The Widow: A Novel October 2025
Fredrik Backman
All Caught Up!!!
Taylor Jenkins Reid
All Caught Up!!
Walter Isaacson
1) The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
2) American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
3) Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
4) Pro and Con
5) The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
John Green
1) An Abundance of Katherines
2) Will Grayson, Will Grayson
3) The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
James S.A. Corey
All Caught Up!!
Dan Brown
All Caught Up!!
Terrence Real
1) How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
Michael Lewis
1) The Money Culture
2) Trail Fever: Spin doctors, rented strangers, thumb wrestlers, toe suckers, grizzly bears, and other creatures on the road to the White H
3) The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
4) Next: The Future Just Happened
5) The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering The Six Classics of Economics
6) Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
7) Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
8) Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
9) The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
10) The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
11) Playing to Win
12) The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
13) Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Andy Weir
1) Theft of Pride (under the name Jack Sharp)
2) Randomize
3) The Egg and Other Stories
Malcolm Gladwell
1) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
2) Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
3) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Khaled Hosseini
All Caught Up!!
Jon Krakauer
1) Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
2) Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
3) Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault
Pierce Brown
1) Red God - 2026
Jeff Kinney
All Caught Up!!
D.K. Marley
1) Kingfisher
2) the Rowan Tree
Dava Sobel
All Caught Up!!!
Erik Larson
1) Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
2) No One Goes Alone
3) Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
4) The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities
Mike Greenberg
1) Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad
2) Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life
Cormac McCarthy
1) The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
2) The Orchard Keeper
3) Outer Dark
4) Child of God
5) Suttree
6) Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
7) The Passenger
8) Stella Maris
David Grann
1) The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
2) The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
Mary Roach
1) Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Dan Jones
1) Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
2) The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
3) The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
4) Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
5) Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England
6) The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
7) The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
8) Crusaders: An Epic History Of The Wars For The Holy Lands
9) The World Aflame: The Long War 1914 - 1945
10) Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
11) The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A Medieval Ghost Story
12) Essex Dogs
13) Wolves of Winter: A Novel
14) Lion Hearts
January Planningon TBR for Canada
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February Planningon TBR for Science
1) The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
2) The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene
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4) The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality - Brian Greene
5) The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
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7) Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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9) The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women - Kate Moore
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11) Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Mary Roach
12) The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery - Sam Kean
13) The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl Popper
14) Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military - Neil deGrasse Tyson
15) The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet - John Green
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17) A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? - Kelly Weinersmith
18) The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks - Amy Stewart
19) The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative - Florence Williams
20) Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution - Michael J. Behe
21) Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World - Bill Nye
22) This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay
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24) A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos - Dava Sobel
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March Planning on TBR for Thriller
1) The Push - Ashley Audrain
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3) The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - Homer E. Socolofsky
April PlanningOn TBR for Fun:
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May PlanningOn TBR for Strong Women:
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June PlanningOn TBR for Summer:
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5) Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
July PlanningOn TBR for Speculative Fiction:
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Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
August PlanningOn TBR for Family Drama:
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3) Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah
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Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
September PlanningOn TBR for Around the World:
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Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
October PlanningOn TBR for Scifi-Fantasy:
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Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
November PlanningOn TBR for British Literature:
1) Middlemarch - George Eliot
2) The Tempest - William Shakespeare
3) Silas Marner - George Eliot
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5) A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
6) The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
7) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
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9) The Only Story - Julian Barnes
10) The History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffrey of Monmouth
11) Mary Poppins Comes Back - P.L. Travers
12) Circle of Days - Ken Follett
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Circle of Days - Ken Follett
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Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
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Books mentioned in this topic
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty (other topics)The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (other topics)
Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England (other topics)
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (other topics)
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Tété-Michel Kpomassie (other topics)Dan Jones (other topics)
Kenneth Grahame (other topics)
Roald Dahl (other topics)
Tété-Michel Kpomassie (other topics)
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