Planning

[Rosemary]

Here's a place for your plans for the season, if you'd like to post them (not required).

[Rosemary]

reserved

[Connie]

Possibilities:

10.1 Member Lotto (SNOW ANGELS)
The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick

10.2 Shortest Day/Shortest Night (100-175 pages)
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell 157 pages

10.3 New Year, New Book (pub 2021-2026)
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi (or 10.8)
The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick (or 10.1 or 10.8)
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

10.4 Valentine's Day (consumes chocolate)
✓ Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny (check for hot chocolate; 2021; winter)

10.5 Winter or Summer? (set 75% in winter)
✓ The Spectacular by Fiona Davis (Rockettes Christmas Show)

10.6 Old Man Time or Baby New Year (Main character is 70+, or 12 or younger)
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans age 73

10.7 Ancient Times (before 500 CE)
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

10.8 Groundhog Day
✓ The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani
Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi

10.9 Winter Cleanup (on to-read list for more than a year)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

10.10 Group Reads
Playground by Richard Powers

20.1 Sense and Sensibility (siblings)
The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club by Martha Hall Kelly
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

20.2 Pride and Prejudice (shelved as Science 100 or more times)
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel

20.3 Mansfield Park (title has fictional location)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

20.4 Emma (book to movie, or a retelling of one of Austen's novels)
✓ Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

20.5 Northanger Abbey (author in their teens or twenties)
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

20.6 Persuasion (posthumously published book)
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs

20.7 Notable Books
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood

20.8 Talking Heads (set in Caribbean)
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid

20.9 Forces of Nature (natural disaster)
Promise by Minrose Gwin
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

20.10 Mysteries Challenge (mystery or crime pub before 1980)
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins 1856

[Valerie]

10.2 Shortest Day/Night
Reasons to Live = READ

10.3 New Year, New Book
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park = READ

10.4 Valentine's Day
The Poisoned Chocolates Case = READ

10.5 Winter or Summer

10.6 Old Man Time or Baby New Year (Anika's Task)
When the Cranes Fly South = READ

10.7

10.8

10.9

10.10 Group Reads
Greek Lessons

20.1 Sense and Sensibility
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

20.2 Pride and Prejudice
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

20.3 Mansfield Park
Cannery Row

20.4 Emma
Cape Fear

20.5 Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey

20.6 Persuasion
The Man With the Golden Gun

20.7

20.8 Talking Heads
In a Free State

20.9 Forces of Nature
The Nature of Fragile Things = READ

20.10 Mysteries Challenge
God Save The Child = READ

[Denise]

10.1 Member Lotto (Jayme's task)
Read a book whose author's first and last initials are found in SNOW ANGEL.
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan

10.2 Shortest Day/Shortest Night
Read a short book (100-175 pages in the MPE).
✔️Jack Reacher's Rules by Lee Child (160 pgs)
War Factory by Mass-Observation

10.3 New Year, New Book
Read a book first published in the last 5-6 years (2021-2026).
Highway Thirteen: Stories by Fiona McFarlane (2024)
✔️Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld (2025)
Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson (2025)
Lazarus Man by Richard Price (2024)
✔️Liberation Day by George Saunders (2022)
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood (2025)

10.4 Valentine's Day
Read a book where a character consumes chocolate or a chocolate-flavored item.
✔️So Far Gone by Jess Walter (2025)

10.5 Winter or Summer?
Read a book set at least 75% in winter if you live in the northern hemisphere.

10.6 Old Man Time or Baby New Year (Anika's Task)
Read a book whose main character is, throughout the book, either “old” (70+) or a child (for this task, “child” would refer to anyone 12 or younger).
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

10.7 Ancient Times (Claire's task)

10.8 Groundhog Day (Valerie's task)
Read a book by an author you have enjoyed in the past BUT only have read one of their works.
A Relative Stranger: Stories by Charles Baxter

10.9 Winter Cleanup (Norma's task)
Read a book that has been on your to-read list for more than a year (as of December 1st).
✔️Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories by Don Carpenter

10.10 Group Reads
Read one of the following books OR any book by the author of one of these books.
Greek Lessons by Han Kang

20.1 Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Read a book that focuses on a pair or group of siblings.
My Brother's Keeper by Marcia Davenport
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

20.2 Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Read a book shelved as Science 100 or more times.
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith

20.3 Mansfield Park (1814)
Read a novel whose title includes the name of a fictional location.

20.4 Emma (1815)
Read a book that has been adapted into a movie, or read a retelling of one of Austen's novels.
✔️The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown
✔️Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown
✔️Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White
✔️Fat City by Leonard Gardner 1972 film

20.5 Northanger Abbey (1817)
Read a book written when the author was in their teens or twenties.
Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Pub. 1966; Oates born 1938

20.6 Persuasion (1817)
Read a posthumously published book.
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories by Charles Bukowski

20.7 Notable Books (Kathleen's task
Read a book from the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025, or go back in time to 2015 or 2005.
King Sorrow by Joe Hill (2025)

20.8 Talking Heads (Apple's Task)
Read a book by a writer born in a Caribbean country.
The Great Yacht Race by Anthony C. Winkler

20.9 Forces of Nature (Joanna's task)
Read a book featuring a natural disaster.
The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton

20.10 Mysteries Challenge (Rosemary's Task)
Read a book with MPG Mystery or Crime published before 1980.
✔️The Trouble Makers by Celia Fremlin (1963)
✔️A Maigret Christmas And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
✔️I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1933)

[Kathleen (itpdx)]

10.2 Shortest Day/Shortest Night
A British Lady Across Patagonia: Six month's wanderings over unexplored and untrodden ground by Florence Caroline Dixie (Nan) (oldie)

10.3 New Year, New Book
Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson (NAN)

10.8 Groundhog Day
Joyride: A Memoir by Susan Orlean (NAN) (20.7, 10.3, 10.1)

✔ 20.1 Sense and Sensibility
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins by Barbara Demick

20.3 Mansfield Park
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

20.4 Emma
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Link for movie https://www.wweek.com/movies/2025/11/...

✔ 20.6 Persuation
Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny (NAN, LIT, 10.1, 10.3)

20.10 Mysteries Challenge
This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart