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Trying to get more involved in PBT this year, so I'll give this a go, please! c:
Jen K wrote: "My goodness, congrats Hannah!I am done with my first list and am ready for my next one. Here is my completion link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"
No need to copy it! For some reason, I didn't get this notification. Working on this right now.
Jen K wrote: "My goodness, congrats Hannah!I am done with my first list and am ready for my next one. Here is my completion link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"
1. Read a book related to health or self-care
2. Read a book that you obtained for free (a library book, ARC, gift, etc)
3. Read a play by Shakespeare in the No Fear Shakespeare format (original text on 1 page, translation in modern English on the facing page)
4. Read an "alternative" book (alternate history, alternative world, alternate identity, or alternative lifestyles)
5. A book in translation
6. An award winning book
7. A book with a setting or plot that includes a theatrical performance
8. A book by an author whose name is not gender specific - i.e. uses initials like M.A. Carrick or is unusual like Neon Yang.
9. Read a book with a main-page genre of HUMOR. (Tag appears on the book's main page)
10. A book with footnotes
11. An award winner from 2024
12. Read a classic
Flo wrote: "Trying to get more involved in PBT this year, so I'll give this a go, please! c:"Wonderful, Flo! Here you go!
1. Read a book you have borrowed from your local library.
2. Read a book published in 2025
3. Read a book written by an author whose initials are sequential. eg: Amy Brown, Quinn Russell
4. Read a book from the 2025 Play Book Tag Top Ten list.
5. A book with a Pink Cover.
6. A book set in (or about) the wilderness
7. A book tagged literary fiction
8. Book by an author whose name is not gender specific - i.e. uses initials like M.A. Carrick or is unusual like Neon Yang.
9. Read a book with a title that contains all the letters of your first name.
10. Read a book with the character(s) name in the title.
11. Read a non-fiction book on a subject related to your work, job, past job, or job of a significant family member
12. Read a book set in the country where one of your grandparents was born. Give preference to a place that is different from where you now live (if all four grandparents were born where you now live, go another generation back - if this still is not working, use your current home country and celebrate your long heritage). Indicate the reason for the option you use
Anita wrote: "Jen K wrote: "My goodness, congrats Hannah!I am done with my first list and am ready for my next one. Here is my completion link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"
Thanks so much Anita!!
Anita wrote: "Flo wrote: "Trying to get more involved in PBT this year, so I'll give this a go, please! c:"Wonderful, Flo! Here you go!
1. Read a book you have borrowed from your local library.
2. Read a book..."
Thank you! And the book I'm reading right now fits at least three of these categories already, so I'll have to decide which to put it under! c:
This is probably a dumb question, but where can I find the 2025 Play Book Tag Top Ten? I've only found up to 2024. Thanks!
@JenK and @Flo - you have good lists - and each of you have 1 or more of ones I submitted...Flo - if you want to seek recommendations or discuss ideas for your prompts, use PH Discussion
On the 2025 Top 10 list prompt - I don't believe there is one yet actually - Anita will sort it out - maybe there is a typo or missing word.
Flo wrote: "This is probably a dumb question, but where can I find the 2025 Play Book Tag Top Ten? I've only found up to 2024. Thanks!"It’s a typo. It should be 2024. It’s on several other lists.
Flo wrote: "This is probably a dumb question, but where can I find the 2025 Play Book Tag Top Ten? I've only found up to 2024. Thanks!"So sorry Flo! I think the person who submitted that meant 2024 (which was technically compiled in 2025).
Oh yes, that makes sense, sorry!! Thank you! <3
When you have a chance, I'm ready for another list.List 3 - February - March 2025
🟢 1. A book set during the Napoleonic Era
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. - Sandra Gulland - 5 Stars - 2/25/25
Review
🟢 2. Read a book with someone escaping, fleeing, or running from danger
The Auschwitz Escape - Joel C. Rosenberg - 4 Stars - 2/26/25
Review
🟢 3. Find your most read author. Read a new book by them. If you have read everything by that author, use your next most read author.
Bonded in Death - J.D. Robb - 5 Stars - 3/2/25 - J. D. Robb is by far my most read author, with 73 books on my TBR. Bonded in Death is her latest, published Feb 04, 2025.
Review
🟢 4. Read a book set in a location and time period you would love to visit. I would have liked to witness the English Royal Court during Henry VIII
Sovereign - C.J. Sansom - 5 Stars - 2/18/24
Review
🟢 5. Read a book with a food item in the title.
Murder with Macaroni and Cheese - A.L. Herbert - 3.5 Stars - 2/16/25
Review
🟢 6. Book has the word 'tree' in the title
The Plum Tree - Ellen Marie Wiseman - 4 Stars - 2/14/25
Review
🟢 7. Any book found on PBT's Group Bookshelf
Assistant to the Villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer - 4 Stars - 2/10/25 - this was found on the 5 Stars Shelf and Books with Friends Shelf
Review
🟢 8. Read a Newberry Award Winning book - 1994 Winner
The Giver - Lois Lowry - 4 Stars - 2/11/25
Review
🟢 9. Read a book with recipes in it. Make one of the recipes and include a review of the recipe in your review
Murder with Collard Greens and Hot Sauce - A.L. Herbert - 3 Stars - 2/24/25
Review
〰️ I decided to make Mahalia's Collard Greens recipe. I've had collards in the past and didn't love them. Halia's recipe was just delicious. I think it's because she also included ham hock and plenty of bacon in her recipe. I definitely recommend this recipe if you are ever planning to make collard greens (and most people aren't).
🟢 10. Read a book where the main character is an artist.
Wild Man Creek - Robyn Carr - 3 Stars - 2/20/25
Review
🟢 11. Read a book mentioned in another book
The Drowner - John D. MacDonald - 3 Stars - 3/1/25 - this is one of the eight books referenced in Eight Perfect Murders
Review
🟢 12. Read a noir novel or collection of short stories
I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane - 4 Stars - 2/13/25
Review
Olivermagnus wrote: "When you have a chance, I'm ready for another list.Here you go!
1. A book that has a moon on the cover
2. The book's title or author's name contains a gemstone (diamond, ruby, sapphire, etc.)
3. A book with less than 3,000 ratings on GoodReads
4. A book containing a long walking or hiking trek
5. A gothic novel written by a woman author after 2000.
6. Title includes a world famous monument - example Eiffel Tower or Great Wall or US Capital.
7. Read a book written before 1990 that takes place in the 21st century.
8. A book where the main character takes a plane journey
9. Read a Pulitzer Prize winner.
10. Read a book with the current month in the title.
11. Read a book about immigration.
12. Read a book (fiction or nonfiction) about a religion you know little or nothing about.
Anita wrote: " Olivermagnus wrote: "When you have a chance, I'm ready for another list.Here you go!
1. A book that has a moon on the cover
2. The book's title or author's name contains a gemstone (diamond, ..."
Yikes. Usually I can fit the list into books I'm already planning to read. This is going to take some research. Diabolical!
Anita wrote: "Hannah wrote: "Could I please have my next list? Thank you!..."
You may have a next list only if you teach me your reading ways ;).
Just kidding!"
Anita, that time, it was completely based on listening to audiobooks to make the packing up or my flat, moving to my new house, cleaning everything in the house and then unpacking all of the boxes bearable - though it's definitely not a way to speed up anyone's reading that I would recommend!
Could I please have my next list, Anita? Thank you!Third List
✔️1. A book by an author whose first and last initials are alphabetically consecutive. (Middle initials, if used, can be ignored). Example: L M Montgomery - The Secrets of Hartwood Hall - by Katie Lumsden - Read 8/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️2. A book with more vowels than consonants in the title - Alias Emma - Read 4/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️3. Read a book set in the country where one of your grandparents was born - give preference to a place that is different from where you now live (if all four grandparents were born where you now live, go another generation back - if this still is not working, use your current home country and celebrate your long heritage) Indicate the reason for the option you use. - The Skylark's Secret - Read 11/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
None of my family that I am aware of have been born outside the UK, with everyone in the last 4 generations having been born in England. But, either my Grandad's grandfather or great-grandfather was born in Scotland, which is where this book is set.
✔️4. Read a book that has more then one author - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult AND Jennifer Finney Boylan - Read 6/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️5. Read a book that includes at least 1 recipe - Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Read 17/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️6. A book you have always intended to read but never gotten around to it - Almost Gone - Read 15/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️7. Read a book published or set in the year you were born - The Mummy Case - Read 8/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️8. A book that fits the tag psychology - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Read 27/2/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️9. A book involving evolution, revolution or change - The Women of Chateau Lafayette - Read 18/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️10. A book about a pilot, astronaut, or space traveler - Daughters of the Night Sky - Read 20/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️11. Read a book set primarily in a hospital - The Second Life of Mirielle West - Read 9/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️12. A book set in Africa - His Only Wife - Read 7/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I'm ready for another list. Thanks.List 4 - March 2025
🟣 1. A book that has a moon on the cover
Twice in a Blue Moon - Christina Lauren - 3 Stars - 3/20/25
Review
🟣 2. The book's title or author's name contains a gemstone (diamond, ruby, sapphire, etc.)
Terror in Topaz - A.M. Stuart - 4 Stars - 3/14/25
Review
🟣 3. A book with less than 3,000 ratings on GoodReads.
Die Smiling - Linda Ladd - 4 Stars - 3/4/25 - 559 ratings
Review
🟣 4. A book containing a long walking or hiking trek.
The Hike - Susi Holliday - 4 Stars - 3/21/25
Review
🟣 5. A gothic novel written by a woman author after 2000.
Inheritance - Nora Roberts - 3.5 Stars - 3/16/25 - tagged Gothic 18 times
Review
🟣 6. Title includes a world famous monument - example Eiffel Tower or Great Wall or US Capital.
Murder in the White House - Margaret Truman - 3.5 Stars -3/10/25
Review
🟣 7. Read a book written before 1990 that takes place in the 21st century.
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury - 4 Stars - 3/9/25
Review
🟣 8. A book where the main character takes a plane journey
Missing in Flight - Audrey J. Cole - 3.5 Stars - 3/19/25
Review
🟣 9. Read a Pulitzer Prize winner.
The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer - 3.5 Stars - 3/13/25 - 1980 Pulitzer Prize
Review
🟣 10. Read a book with the current month in the title.
Kopp Sisters on the March - Amy Stewart - 3.5 Stars - 3/16/25
Review
🟣 11. Read a book about immigration.
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri - 4 Stars - 3/18/25
Review
🟣 12. Read a book (fiction or nonfiction) about a religion you know little or nothing about.
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman - 3 Stars - 3/6/25
Review
I am ready for my next list, please!Completed List #2:
✅1. A book with the word "book" in the title
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende - 2/14/25 - 2* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅2. A book written by an Indigenous author
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich - 2/18/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅3. An author’s second published book
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅4. Read a book set primarily in a hospital
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks - 2/21/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅5. Read a cozy mystery
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn - 2/25/25 - 3* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅6. A book featuring a Christmas romance
An Ivy Hill Christmas by Julie Klassen - 2/22/25 - 3* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅7. Read a book that someone else has written a PBT review for this year
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 3/10/25 - 4* - My Review (Pam reviewed this one on 2/1/25)
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅8. The author’s name contains P, B, and T
The Voyage Home by Pat Barker - 3/9/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅9. A book featuring something that flies (e.g., flying insects, birds, airplanes, superheroes)
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy - 2/19/25 - 5* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅10. A book set in a landlocked country (Rwanda)
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron - 3/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅11. A book set on a river cruise
The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville - 2/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅12. A book by an author born in Africa
Secret Son by Laila Lalami - 2/17/25 - 3.5* - My Review (author was born in Morocco)
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hannah, you are amazing no matter how you get all these books in. I am a bad auditory learner, and even when I try to increase my book consumption through audio, I have to re-listen so often. I am bad at audio. If audio was what we had to do in school, I would have failed out. (Fortunately it wasn't!)
Hannah wrote: "Could I please have my next list, Anita? Thank you!.."
1. Read a book set in the world of art
2. A book where a featured character has a pet that isn't a cat or a dog
3. A family saga or family drama
4. A book with a privacy theme
5. A book set in your favorite city
6. A book involving death, dying, or grief
7. Pick any prompt you've seen on someone else's Play Harder prompts list but haven't gotten yet yourself
8. Read a book from the 1001 books you must read before you die list
9. Read a book about or set in Eqypt.
10. A book involving codebreaking or secret codes
11. Read a book where the same word appears twice (or more) in the title
12. A book set in 2 or 3 different time periods
Olivermagnus wrote: "I'm ready for another list. Thanks..."
WOW!
1. Read a book by an author who's written more than 15 books
2. A historical fiction title that has been tagged 5 times or more with the tag "historical fiction"
3. Read a book that's been included on a celebrity book list. For example Oprah, Barack Obama, Reese Witherspoon, Bill Gates, etc.
4. A book with an unnamed protagonist
5. The title contains one of the same words as the last book you completed (excluding a, an, and the)
6. A book with nautical elements on the cover
7. Read an essay collection
8. A book that fits an art or artist tag
9. A book with a title that references a nursery rhyme or fairy tale.
10. Read a book set before 1900
11. A book that someone else in the group put on their Top 10 Reads of 2024 list
12. Read a book on PBT's pbt-decathlon book shelf.
Joy D wrote: "I am ready for my next list, please!.."
More power reading! So impressive.
1. A book with more than 75,000 ratings on GoodReads
2. Read a book that you think your mother would like.
3. Read a book set in a war that's NOT WWII.
4. A book on the Tournament of Books longlist (any year)
5. Read a book set in a country, territory, province, or state you have always wanted to visit
6. Read a book where a computer or computer-related technology plays a major role in the story.
7. A book that you think fits Valentine's Day
8. Read a book that includes a protagonist with a physical disability
9. A book containing magic or magical realism
10. Read a book with an animal in the title
11. A book written in first person
12. A book set in the world of art
May I have my next list, please. Thanks! List #2
✔ 1. A travel book - I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away - Bill Bryson
✔ 2. A book with a plot including a circus or carnival - Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
✔ 3. Read a nonfiction book about food and or food culture - Yes, Chef - Marcus Samuelsson
✔4. Read a book related to the Tudors - The Player King - Avi
✔ 5. A book featuring a female athlete - One Life - Megan Rapinoe
✔ 6. A book originally published under a pen name - Dead on Target - M. C. Beaton
✔ 7. A book whose title contains an onomatopoeia - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ian Fleming
✔ 8. A book set in New York - Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly McCreight
✔ 9. The title is one past tense word - Schooled - Ted Fox
✔ 10. Read a book set in a different hemisphere than where you live - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson
✔ 11. Read a book set primarily in a hospital - Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling - Lucy Frank
✔ 12. Read a book set in 1925 or earlier - Little Souls - Sandra Dallas
this sounds like a fun project, and I think it will help me understand better how to shelve, how to post progress and reviews in the group, so I would like to receive my custom built challenge list, please!Thanks!
May I have a new list please. Yes, I am biting my nails on what I am going to get. Thank you. Play book Tag Challenge -Play Harder
12/12 completed on 3/25/25
1. Read a graphic novel--Stitches: A Memoir
2. A book tagged "Literary-Fiction" at least 5 times.-Pachinko
3. Read a book set during a war that's NOT WWII.-1812: The War That Forged a Nation
4. Read a book that's won a prize. For example Pulitzer, Booker, Newbery, etc.--Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool- John Newbery Medal
5. Read a book that's been on your TBR for longer than a year-Judy: A Dog in a Million: From Runaway Puppy to the World's Most Heroic Dog
6. A book with a GoodReads rating of 3.75 or less-Big Weather: Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America
7. A book fully or partially set in the Arctic or AntarcticIn the Ghost Country: A Lifetime Spent on the Edge
8. A book featuring a detective story from any Golden Age of Detective Fiction-Murder on the Orient Express
9. Read a book that is a contemporary romance-Dear John
10. Read a book with a "new to you" author.-The K Team
11. Read a book of non-fiction book related to history-The Killing of Crazy Horse
12. A book with a geometric shape in title-The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Working on this today, Ellen, Algernon, and SWZ!!!
Ellen wrote: "May I have my next list, please. Thanks! ..."
1. Book with a family tree
2. Book with a tree on the cover.
3. A book by a BIPOC author.
4. A book that fits the tag of hip, hippy or hipster
5. Select one of your favorite authors and read their debut book
6. Read a book set in your dream holiday destination
7. A book that has both a prologue and an epilogue
8. Read a book set in Minnesota
9. A book that's won an award (of any kind)
10. Read a book written by an author whose initials are sequential in the alphabet. eg: Amy Brown, Quinn Russell
11. A book whose title contains an onomatopoeia
12. A fiction book based on a true story
Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "this sounds like a fun project, and I think it will help me understand better how to shelve, how to post progress and reviews in the group, so I would like to receive my custom built challenge list..."1. Read a historical mystery NOT set in the US or UK
2. A fiction book featuring a religious ritual
3. A book set in Australia or New Zealand
4. Read the fiction bestseller from the year you were born. If already read it, read the fiction bestseller from the year an immediate family member was born.
5. A book published in the 1980's
6. A book where the setting or plot includes a theatrical performance
7. A book where the main character is an author, writer, or journalist
8. A book by a BIPOC author.
9. Read a book that a PBT member has on their top ten list of 2024; it must be a book you have not read before
10. Read a book about the Civil Rights Movement.
11. Read a book by an author who uses three names i.e. Alexander McCall Smith (note a middle initial doesn't count)
12. Read a book set in Minnesota
SouthWestZippy wrote: "May I have a new list please. Yes, I am biting my nails on what I am going to get. .."1. A book involving a father, fatherhood or Father's Day.
2. A book with footnotes
3. Read a book at least a hundred years older than you are.
4. A book rated 5 stars read by any PBT member whose first name starts with the same initial as yours, i.e. Amy could read one of Anita's 5 star rated books.
5. Read a book set in a country with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea
6. Read a book from NPR's 2024 Best Books of the year list
7. A book considered dark academia
8. A book by an author born in Africa
9. A book that's under 150 pages
10. A book related to sailing, sailors, seafaring, or ships
11. A book where the setting or plot includes a theatrical performance
12. A book with an anti-hero or anti-heroine
I’m ready for my next list please.List#2 completed 3/31/25
✅1. Read the first book in a new to you series -Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
shelved- Thriller, Play Harder
✅2. A book with less than 1,000 ratings on GoodReads -
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You by Rebecca Schwarzlose, 396 ratings
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - Play Harder
✅3. A book with “day” or “night” in the title.
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved -Thriller, Play Harder
✅4. The cover is black and white only
Head On by John Scalzi, Thriller, Play Harder
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - Thriller, Play Harder
✅5. A book incorporating in its format at least one non-prose method of written communication more than 3 times - letters, email, texts, diary or journal entries, lists, newspaper articles, obituaries, recipes, etc.
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. Recipes in every chapter.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - Thriller, play harder
✅6. A noir novel or collection of noir short stories - The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, 1934 pub., 367 noir tags.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - thriller, Play Harder
✅7. A book related to science or technology - The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut, about John Von Neumann et al.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
shelved - Science, Compass, Play Harder.
✅8. A book by an author whose first and last initials are alphabetically consecutive.
Dan Egan - The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - Science, play harder
✅9. A book featuring a ruler, monarch, or dictator
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It by Corey Brettschneider
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - Play Harder
✅10. A book that mentions the sea (in title or in book)
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - Thriller, Compass, Play harder
✅11. Fiction book featuring a religious ritual - can be for a religion created by the author or pagan -
The Wedding People by Allison Espach. The groom’s mother led the party in saying grace before every course of the dinner. (A common religious ritual.)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - Thriller, Compass, Play Harder
✅12. Ask a friend or fellow PBT member to pick a book off your TBR (if you don’t have a TBR, make a list of at least ten books for your friend to pick from). I asked Joy. She suggested 3 books that I didn’t read yet, I read the two that I could obtain first for prompts 11 and 12.
The Light Pirate by Lily Dalton Brooks.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Shelved - Thriller, Compass, Play Harder
NancyJ wrote: "I’m ready for my next list please.."
1. A book with the word "book" in the title
2. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title
3. A book published before 1980
4. Read a book about the Civil Rights Movement.
5. Read a Newberry Award Winning book
6. A book where the title references a nursery rhyme or fairy tale.
7. A book with a nonhuman narrator (animal, alien, monster, AI)
8. An award winner from 2024
9. A book translated from another language
10. A book set in Jungle
11. A book with a STEM related tag - stem, science, technology, engineering, or math.
12. A book tagged language or linguistics
Anita wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "I’m ready for my next list please.1. A book with the word "book" in the title
"
Thanks Anita!
Anita, I have completed List One and am Ready for List Two!!! Can't wait!
Amy wrote: "Anita, I have completed List One and am Ready for List Two!!! Can't wait!"Congratulations, Amy! I am reading one of the 2 I have remaining to finish my first list.
Thank you, friends! I’m excited to see what happens next.
Hi Amy! Will get on this very shortly.
Amy wrote: "Anita, I have completed List One and am Ready for List Two!!! Can't wait!"Congratulations!!!
1. Read an anthology or short story collection
2. A book by a Nobel Prize winner
3. Read one of the top ten most popular books on your tbr (defined by number of ratings)
4. Read a book with the name of a month in the title that matches
the month you read it.
5. Historical fiction that takes place between World War I and World War II
6. Read a book by an author whose last name could be a first name: example: Christopher ROBIN
7. A book involving archeology or an archeologist
8. Read a book published the year you started reading with Play Book Tag
9. Read a nonfiction book about food and or food culture
10. Read a book by a debut author
11. Read a book set in a country with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea
12. Read a book that another PBT member posted last month in the Monthly Tag or Other thread.
Hi Anita - I'm ready for another list when you get a chance. Thanks.List 5 - March - April 2025
🟠 1. Read a book by an author who's written more than 15 books
Battle Mountain - C.J. Box - 5 Stars - 3/29/25 - C. J. Box has written over 30 books
Review
🟠 2. A historical fiction title that has been tagged 5 times or more with the tag "historical fiction"
Three Sisters, Three Queens - Philippa Gregory - 4 Stars - 4/8/25
Review
🟠 3. Read a book that's been included on a celebrity book list. For example Oprah, Barack Obama, Reese Witherspoon, Bill Gates, etc. - 144 Books Recently Selected by the Big Celebrity Book Clubs
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt - 5 Stars - 4/6/25 - Read with Jenna May 2022 selection
Review
🟠 4. A book with an unnamed protagonist
Butterflies in November - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - 3.5 Stars - 4/7/25
Review
🟠 5. The title contains one of the same words as the last book you
|completed (excluding a, an, and the)
To Darkness and to Death - Julia Spencer-Fleming - 4 Stars - 3/28/25 - read A Beautiful Blue Death on 3/27/25
Review
🟠 6. A book with nautical elements on the cover - Lighthouse and Sailboat
Make or Break at the Lighthouse B&B - Portia MacIntosh
Review
🟠 7. Read an essay collection
Meaty - Samantha Irby - 3 Stars - 4/3/25
Review
🟠 8. A book that fits an art or artist tag
Clara and Mr. Tiffany - Susan Vreeland - 4 Stars - 4/2/25
Review
🟠 9. A book with a title that references a nursery rhyme or fairy tale.
Along Came a Spider - James Patterson - 3.5 Stars - 3/30/25
Review
🟠 10. Read a book set before 1900
A Beautiful Blue Death - Charles Finch - 3.5 Stars - 3/27/25 - set in 1865 London
Review
🟠 11. A book that someone else in the group put on their Top 10 Reads of 2024 list
The Frozen River - Ariel Lawhon - 5 Stars - 3/31/25 - Joanne had this in her Top Ten
Review
🟠12. Read a book on PBT's pbt-decathlon book shelf.
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows - Alan Bradley - 5 Stars - 4/4/25
Review
Olivermagnus wrote: "Hi Anita - I'm ready for another list when you get a chance. Thanks...."
1. A book that someone else in the group put on their Top 10 Reads of 2024 list (with link to that thread)
2. A book with a common farm animal in the title
3. Primarily set in a country bordering the Arabian Sea
4. Read a book with a tag that starts with "social" (Sociology, society, social psychology, social sciences, social, social- justice, sociable, sociopath, social engineering, social commentary, etc. )
5. A book with less than 1,000 ratings on GoodReads
6. Read a book of non-fiction related to history
7. A book you thought you would never read
8. A book related to science or technology
9. A book containing a map
10. A book set in Alaska or Hawaii
11. A book that fits an intelligence tag (could be AI, espionage, intelligence)
12. The title contains at least six words
Anita - I'm ready for my next list whenever you have time. Thank you!Fourth List
✔️1. Read a book set in the world of art - The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby - Read 24/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️2. A book where a featured character has a pet that isn't a cat or a dog - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - Read 9/4/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Harry owns an owl, Ron has a rat, and Hagrid gets a pet dragon.
✔️3. A family saga or family drama - The Vegetarian - Read 2/4/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️4. A book with a privacy theme - People Like Her - Read 22/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️5. A book set in your favorite city - Vienna Spies - Read 23/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️6. A book involving death, dying, or grief - Sister - Read 1/4/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️7. Pick any prompt you've seen on someone else's Play Harder prompts list but haven't gotten yet yourself - Honor Bound - Read 6/4/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Used for the prompt to read a book with a Goodreads rating of 3.75 or less
✔️8. Read a book from the 1001 books you must read before you die list - Corelli’s Mandolin - Read 5/4/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️9. Read a book about or set in Egypt - Moon Tiger - Read 3/4/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️10. A book involving codebreaking or secret codes - Labyrinth - Read 29/3/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️11. Read a book where the same word appears twice (or more) in the title - In a Dark, Dark Wood - Read 8/4/25
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔️12. A book set in 2 or 3 different time periods - The Last House on the Street - Read 30/3/25
Review: Posted on 31st March in the Thriller folder, but the link won't paste here.
Hannah wrote: "Anita - I'm ready for my next list whenever you have time. Thank you!"
1. Find a book you gave 5-stars, then read a book with the same colors on the cover
2. A book with a character who is lonely, ostracized, or reclusive
3. A book that takes place in New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New Caledonia, New Zealand or Papua New Guinea
4. Read A book on the Tournament of Books longlist (any year).
5. A legal thriller
6. Read a book set in your dream holiday destination
7. A book set in the South Pacific - on land or at sea
8. A detective story from any Golden Age of Detective Fiction
9. A book set in Africa
10. A book by an author born in Asia
11. Read a mountaineering book
12. A book that includes a family tree
Ready for my 2nd list!PLAY HARDER FIRST LIST - finished 4/11/2025
🎟️1. Read a Pulitzer Prize winner. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie - won 1985 - no monthly tag match Review no tag match
🎟️2. A book with a predominantly RED cover. (At least 50%) Ten Lords A-Leaping C.C. Benison
- 81.6% - no monthly tag match - Review 🎟️3. A book featuring a journey, trip, or quest - The Shadow Cabinet Juno Dawson - no monthly tag match - My Review
🎟️4. Read a book about Vietnam - Up Country Nelson DeMille - thriller tag 135x - My Review
🎟️5. Read a book that has been tagged dnf at least 1000x Lessons in Chemistry - tagged 3,418x - science tag match 635x - My Review
🎟️6. A book that fits “hip, hippy or hipster.” Third Girl Agatha Christie - no monthly tag match - My Review
🎟️7. Read a book with a kitchen utensil in the title. eg: The Fork in the Road, A Knife in My Back - 'Twas the Knife Before Christmas by Jacqueline Frost - no monthly tag - My Review
🎟️8. Book with a bird on the cover.
- The Frangipani Tree Mystery Ovidia Yu - no monthly tag match - My Review🎟️9. A book related to or featuring the game of baseball - Double Play - no monthly tag match My Review
🎟️10. Read a book that's won a prize. For example Pulitzer, Booker, etc. Witch King - Locus Award for Fantasy 2024 - no monthly tag match My Review
🎟️SWAP11.
🎟️12. Read a book set during a war that's NOT WWII. The Crescent Spy by Michael Wallace -
Civil War and Battle of New Orleans -no monthly tag match - Review
Theresa wrote: "Ready for my 2nd list!."
Way to go! And here you go!
1. A book where the plot includes a circus or carnival
2. Read a book published in the year you joined PBT
3. Read a book set in another time -- past or future
4. A book where the title contains all the vowels (A, E, I, O, U)
5. A dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel
6. Read a book whose author's first and last initials match your own.
7. Read a book you find on PBT's happy 15th birthday PBT shelf
8. A book where a character makes or serves something chocolate
9. Give an author a second look - read a book from an author you didn't like.
10. The first book in a series you'd like to read
11. A memoir by a chef or a food writer
12. Read a book set in a National Park
Thanks, Anita! I am extremely amused - a third or more of the prompts are ones I submitted. 🤣
I am ready for my 4th list!Completed List #3 as of 4/19/25:
✅1. A book with more than 75,000 ratings on GoodReads
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke - 3/24/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅2. Read a book that you think your mother would like.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - 4/2/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅3. Read a book set in a war that's NOT WWII.
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - 4/18/25 - 5* - My Review (Vietnam)
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅4. A book on the Tournament of Books longlist (any year)
Liars by Sarah Manguso - 4/9/25 - 3* - My Review (2025 ToB List)
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅5. Read a book set in a country, territory, province, or state you have always wanted to visit
The Bone People by Keri Hulme - 4/17/25 - 4* - My Review (New Zealand)
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅6. Read a book where a computer or computer-related technology plays a major role in the story.
Delta-v by Daniel Suarez - 3/22/25 - 4.5* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅7. A book that you think fits Valentine's Day
Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal - 4/15/25 - 3.5* - My Review (romance set on a tropical island)
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅8. Read a book that includes a protagonist with a physical disability
Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅9. A book containing magic or magical realism
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig - 4/5/25 - 3* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅10. Read a book with an animal in the title
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe - 4/19/25 - 3.5* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅11. A book written in first person
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler - 4/4/25 - 4* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅12. A book set in the world of art
Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey - 4/16/25 - 3* - My Review
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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I am done with my first list and am ready for my next one. Here is my completion link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Let me know if you prefer for me to copy it all here. Thanks in advance for the new list!