2024 Reading Challenge discussion

2021 Summary Stats & Links:
My year in books 2021:
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# Books YTD: 379
# Pages YTD: 130,310

By Genre:
83 - Non-Fiction
37 - Contemporary Fiction
8 - Fantasy
91 - Historical Fiction
140 - Literary Fiction
20 - Science Fiction

By # Pages:
33 - <200
259 - 202-400
69 - 401-600
14 - 601-800
4 - 801+

By Star Rating:
30 - 5 stars
222 - 4 stars
105 - 3 stars
21 - 2 stars
1 - 1 star

Authors:
177 - Female
3 - NB
199 - Male

Links to Specific 2021 Challenges:

Joy D's 200 in 2021 (2021RC):
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Jade Dragons Treasure Hoarding: (Private Group)
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My Hoard: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Monthly PBT tag:
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Around the World in 80 Books - Tourist Plus Challenge:
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PBT Trim:
Reporting:
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List of 12:
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Winter Challenge (ATY52):
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Group Sites:

Boxall List - Site:
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My List of Boxall Books Read This Year:
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My Complete List of Boxall Books Read to Date:
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20th Century:
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Round Table - Fiction
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Round Table - Non-Fiction:
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Non-Fiction Book Club:
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Audiobooks:
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2021 Reading Challenge - Let's Chat:
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AtWi80B - Post only international books read:
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Ongoing Reading Around the World (AtWi80B)
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International Challenge (Roundtable):
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Ranking the Booker Winners
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Ranking the Booker Nominees and Winners
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CHALLENGES COMPLETED:
2021 Reading for A Better World (2021RC):
Challenge Completed 2/4/21
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Motley Reading Challenge (LoaBA): 4/13/21
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(My Challenge Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)

12+4 Reading Challenge (LoaBA) - completed 5/4/21
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An Author's Body of Work:
Read at least 5 books by a single author (Barbara Kingsolver)
Challenge Completed 5/24/21
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TBR Jar - 20 (2021RC): Challenge Completed 10/30/21
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2021 Clue(do) (2021RC): Challenge Completed 11/28/21
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Around the World in 80 Books - TBR Takedown: Challenge Completed 12/20/21
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PBT Annual Challenge: Fly the PBT Skies - Completed 12/28/21
Folder for Reporting (each month will have a separate thread)
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My PBT challenge tracking https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

P1FM (LoaBA):
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2021 Reading Challenge: Monthly Colors (LoaBA)
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What are you reading in 2021 (LoaBA): This is going away in 2022
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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2 (AAB): (will not continue in 2022)
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✅ LoaBA is being deleted as a group in 2022
Ongoing challenge to read a book for 80 different countries (LoaBA):
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Monthly Favorites: (AAB) - will not continue in 2022
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P1FM and Color Challenges (OtSP):
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Favorite 50 (So Far):

1. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - completed 1/12/21 - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - completed 1/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review
3. Unless by Carol Shields - completed 12/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
4. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott - completed 12/14/21 - 5 stars - My Review
5. Assembly by Natasha Brown - completed 12/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
6. The Colour by Rose Tremain - completed 12/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review
7. A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam - completed 8/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review
8. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - completed 4/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
9. An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson - completed 3/21/21 - 5 stars - My Review
10. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - completed 4/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review
11. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - completed 3/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
12. A Man by Keiichirō Hirano - completed 9/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
13. The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar - completed 5/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review
14. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - completed 7/30/21 - 5 stars - My Review
15. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - completed 2/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review
16. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - completed 10/6/21 - 5 stars - My Review
17. So Much Blue by Percival Everett - completed 2/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review
18. Embers by Sándor Márai - completed 2/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review
19. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt - completed 3/18/21 - 5 stars - My Review
20. Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald - completed 4/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
21. Three Junes by Julia Glass - completed 6/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
22. Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee - completed 1/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
23. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - completed 5/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review
24. The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner - completed 5/28/21 - 5 stars - My Review
25. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw - completed 10/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
26. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild - completed 12/22/21 - 5 stars - My Review
27. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson - completed 8/19/21 - 5 stars - My Review
28. Nelson's Purse by Martyn Downer - completed 7/16/21 - 5 stars - My Review
29. The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije - completed 4/9/21 - 5 stars - My Review
30. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami - completed 8/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review
31. Mating by Norman Rush - completed 3/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
32. Purge by Sofi Oksanen - completed 12/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
33. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - 4 stars - completed 4/22/21 - My Review
34. Our Game by John le Carré - completed 11/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
35. Tin Man by Sarah Winman - completed 2/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
36. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish - completed 1/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
37. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - completed 10/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
38. Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak - completed 10/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
39. The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker - completed 11/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
40. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris - completed 9/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
41. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - completed 8/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
42. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively - completed 9/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
43. Bewilderment by Richard Powers - completed 9/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
44. All Systems Red by Martha Wells - completed 7/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
45. The Only Story by Julian Barnes - completed 7/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
46. Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik - completed 7/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
47. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson - completed 1/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
48. Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff - completed 11/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
49. They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy - completed 1/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
50. War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans - completed 2/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Favorite Fiction (So Far):

1. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - completed 1/12/21 - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - completed 1/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review
3. Unless by Carol Shields - completed 12/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
4. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott - completed 12/14/21 - 5 stars - My Review
5. Assembly by Natasha Brown - completed 12/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
6. The Colour by Rose Tremain - completed 12/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review
7. A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam - completed 8/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review
8. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - completed 4/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
9. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - completed 3/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
10. A Man by Keiichirō Hirano - completed 9/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
11. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - completed 4/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review
12. The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar - completed 5/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review
13. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - completed 7/30/21 - 5 stars - My Review
14. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - completed 2/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review
15. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - completed 10/6/21 - 5 stars - My Review
16. So Much Blue by Percival Everett - completed 2/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review
17. Embers by Sándor Márai - completed 2/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review
18. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt - completed 3/18/21 - 5 stars - My Review
19. Three Junes by Julia Glass - completed 6/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review
20. Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee - completed 1/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
21. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - completed 5/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review
22. The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner - completed 5/28/21 - 5 stars - My Review
23. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw - completed 10/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
24. The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije - completed 4/9/21 - 5 stars - My Review
25. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami - completed 8/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review
26. Mating by Norman Rush - completed 3/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
27. Purge by Sofi Oksanen - completed 12/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
28. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - 4 stars - completed 4/22/21 - My Review
29. Our Game by John le Carré - completed 11/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
30. Tin Man by Sarah Winman - completed 2/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
31. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish - completed 1/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
32. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - completed 10/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
33. Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak - completed 10/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
34. The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker - completed 11/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
35. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris - completed 9/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
36. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - completed 8/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
37. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively - completed 9/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
38. Bewilderment by Richard Powers - completed 9/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
39. All Systems Red by Martha Wells - completed 7/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
40. The Only Story by Julian Barnes - completed 7/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
41. Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik - completed 7/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
42. Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff - completed 11/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
43. They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy - completed 1/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
44. War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans - completed 2/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
45. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul - completed 10/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
46. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - completed 7/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
47. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak - completed 8/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
48. Winter by Ali Smith - completed 5/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
49. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar - completed 4/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
50. The Course of Love by Alain de Botton - completed 5/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Favorite Non-Fiction (So Far):

1. An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson - completed 3/21/21 - 5 stars - My Review
2. Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald - completed 4/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review
3. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson - completed 8/19/21 - 5 stars - My Review
4. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild - completed 12/22/21 - 5 stars - My Review
5. Nelson's Purse by Martyn Downer - completed 7/16/21 - 5 stars - My Review
6. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson - completed 1/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
7. The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle by Laura Coleman - completed 9/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
8. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan - completed 10/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
9. A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout - completed 12/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
10. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan - completed 7/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
11. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson - completed 4/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
12. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe - completed 12/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review
13. Grant by Ron Chernow - completed 6/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
14. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher - completed 12/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
15. Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love by Zack McDermott - completed 1/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review
16. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener - completed 11/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review
17. The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir by Roman Dial - completed 2/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
18. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché - completed 9/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
19. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig - completed 1/15/21 - My Review
20. House in Bali by Colin McPhee - completed 10/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
21. Missing by Thomas Hauser - completed 8/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
22. Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck - completed 12/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
23. The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna - completed 1/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
24. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan - completed 6/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
25. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez - completed 10/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review
26. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney - completed 7/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review
27. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary F. Marcus and Ernest Davis - completed 7/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
28. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar - completed 8/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review
29. Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking - completed 4/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
30. The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell - completed 4/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
31. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich - completed 12/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
32. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates - completed 6/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
33. Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes - completed 5/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
34. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - completed 3/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
35. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe - completed 3/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review
36. Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough - completed 10/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
37. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - completed 9/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review
38. The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern - completed 4/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review
39. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt - completed 3/2/21- 4 stars - My Review
40. The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson - completed 2/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
41. Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel by Banesh Hoffmann - completed 3/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
42. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin - completed 1/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
43. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 1/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review
44. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein - completed 1/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
45. The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna - completed 3/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
46. Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis - completed 5/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review
47. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson - completed 6/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
48. An Owl on Every Post by Sanora Babb - completed 6/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
49. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo - completed 1/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review
50. I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro - completed 10/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review

January: Month - 31; YTD - 31

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin - completed 1/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee - completed 1/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - completed 1/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker - completed 1/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna - completed 1/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Ballroom by Anna Hope - completed 1/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Every Note Played by Lisa Genova - completed 1/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead - completed 1/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell - completed 1/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo - completed 1/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane - completed 1/11/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - completed 1/12/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler - completed 1/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love by Zack McDermott - completed 1/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig - completed 1/15/21 - My Review

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton - completed 1/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Door by Magda Szabó - completed 1/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green - completed 1/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson - completed 1/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein - completed 1/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon - completed 1/21/21 - 2 stars - My Review

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish - completed 1/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy - completed 1/23/21 - 2 stars - My Review

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić - completed 1/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo - completed 1/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee - completed 1/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 1/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett - completed 1/28/21 - 3 stars - My Review

They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy - completed 1/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Dubliners by James Joyce - completed 1/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review

To Siberia by Per Petterson - completed 1/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review

February: Month - 28; YTD - 59

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - completed 2/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene - completed 2/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan - completed 2/3/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson - completed 2/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Embers by Sándor Márai - completed 2/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Keneally - completed 2/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - completed 2/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks - completed 2/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Tin Man by Sarah Winman - completed 2/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat - completed 2/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review

War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans - completed 2/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante - completed 2/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Deacon King Kong by James McBride - completed 2/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. - completed 2/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman - completed 2/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Country Dark by Chris Offutt - completed 2/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review

So Much Blue by Percival Everett - completed 2/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review

A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe - completed 2/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje - completed 2/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan - completed 2/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir by Roman Dial - completed 2/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan - completed 2/22/21 - 2 stars - My Review

My Interview with Beethoven by L.A. Hider Jones - completed 2/23/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren - completed 2/24/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu - completed 2/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza - completed 2/26/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - completed 2/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Fat Lady's Low, Sad Song by Brian Kaufman - completed 2/28/21 - 2 stars - My Review

March: Month - 31; YTD - 90

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson - completed 3/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt - completed 3/2/21- 4 stars - My Review

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - completed 3/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - completed 3/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - completed 3/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age by Steven R. Gundry - completed 3/6/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Ransom by David Malouf - completed 3/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe - completed 3/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - completed 3/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Secret Knowledge of Water: There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning by Craig Childs - completed 3/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel by Banesh Hoffmann - completed 3/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard - completed 3/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna - completed 3/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review

In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen - completed 3/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review

About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov- completed 3/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor - completed 3/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Afterlife by Julia Alvarez - completed 3/17/21 - 3 stars - My Review

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt - completed 3/18/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen - completed 3/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant - completed 3/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review

An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson - completed 3/21/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison - completed 3/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - completed 3/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 3/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Time In Between by María Dueñas - completed 3/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - completed 3/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett - completed 3/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Mating by Norman Rush - completed 3/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Great House by Nicole Krauss - completed 3/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor - completed 3/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Nutshell by Ian McEwan - completed 3/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review

April: Month - 30; YTD - 120

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - completed 4/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review

There There by Tommy Orange - completed 4/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler - completed 4/3/21- 3 stars - My Review

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam M. Grant - completed 4/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - completed 4/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - completed 4/6/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - completed 4/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - completed 4/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije - completed 4/9/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass - completed 4/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki - completed 4/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia - completed 4/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel - completed 4/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Petersburg by Andrei Bely - completed 4/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson - completed 4/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - completed 4/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

River Thieves by Michael Crummey - completed 4/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - completed 4/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern - completed 4/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Alena by Rachel Pastan - completed 4/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell - completed 4/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - 4 stars - completed 4/22/21 - My Review

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 4/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak - completed 4/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Madam by Phoebe Wynne - completed 4/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald - completed 4/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Barkskins by Annie Proulx - completed 4/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Removed by Brandon Hobson - completed 4/28/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking - completed 4/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar - completed 4/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review

May: Month - 32; YTD - 152

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes - completed 5/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Middlemarch by George Eliot - completed 5/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - completed 5/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review

On Beauty by Zadie Smith - completed 5/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Watership Down by Richard Adams - completed 5/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday - completed 5/6/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - completed 5/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury - completed 5/8/21 - My Review

The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith - completed 5/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson - completed 5/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Course of Love by Alain de Botton - completed 5/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor - completed 5/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson - completed 5/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - completed 5/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - completed 5/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters by Jason A. Ramos - completed 5/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Winter by Ali Smith - completed 5/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker - completed 5/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Conclave by Robert Harris - completed 5/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Appelfeld - completed 5/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 5/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - completed 5/22/21 - 1 star - My Review

I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury - completed 5/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver - completed 5/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar - completed 5/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol - completed 5/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash - completed 5/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Amistad by David Pesci - completed 5/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner - completed 5/28/21 - 5 stars - My Review

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - completed 5/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis - completed 5/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich - completed 5/31/21 - 2 stars - My Review

June: Month - 30; YTD - 182

Less by Andrew Sean Greer - completed 6/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Grant by Ron Chernow - completed 6/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Home by Toni Morrison - completed 6/3/21 - 2 stars - My Review

The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick - completed 6/4/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson - completed 6/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Origin by Dan Brown - completed 6/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

An Owl on Every Post by Sanora Babb - completed 6/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy - completed 6/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel - completed 6/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Random Harvest by James Hilton - completed 6/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes - completed 6/11/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan - completed 6/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Let Me Not Be Mad: My Story of Unraveling Minds by A.K. Benjamin - completed 6/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan - completed 6/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Three Junes by Julia Glass - completed 6/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates - completed 6/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani - completed 6/17/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Grace by Paul Lynch - completed 6/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Third Hill North of Town by Noah Bly - completed 6/19/21 - 2 stars - My Review

The Citadel by A.J. Cronin - completed 6/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively - completed 6/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell - completed 6/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Camino Island by John Grisham - completed 6/23/21 - 2 stars - My Review

A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy - completed 6/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever by Tim Wendel - completed 6/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review

An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute - completed 6/26/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian - completed 6/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz - completed 6/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck - completed 6/29/21 - 3 stars - My Review

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo - completed 6/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review

July: Month - 31; YTD - 213

By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz - completed 7/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Gathering by Anne Enright - completed 7/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb - completed 7/3/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan - completed 7/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman - completed 7/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai - completed 7/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - completed 7/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Keep by Jennifer Egan - completed 7/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport - completed 7/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney - completed 7/10/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - completed 7/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich - completed 7/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill by Julie Klassen - completed 7/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney - completed 7/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World by Roy A. Adkins - completed 7/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Nelson's Purse by Martyn Downer - completed 7/16/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Warcross by Marie Lu - completed 7/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson - completed 7/18/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha - completed 7/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik - completed 7/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles - completed 7/21/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - completed 7/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Only Story by Julian Barnes - completed 7/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

All Systems Red by Martha Wells - completed 7/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras - completed 7/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman - completed 7/26/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Idaho by Emily Ruskovich - completed 7/27/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary F. Marcus and Ernest Davis - completed 7/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides - completed 7/29/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - completed 7/30/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner - completed 7/31/21 - 3 stars - My Review

August: Month - 31; YTD - 244

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells - completed 8/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink - completed 8/2/21- 3 stars - My Review

This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan - completed 8/3/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells - completed 8/4/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique - completed 8/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen - completed 8/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam - completed 8/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota - completed 8/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela - completed 8/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie - completed 8/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Missing by Thomas Hauser - completed 8/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar - completed 8/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - completed 8/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz - completed 8/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna - completed 8/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri - completed 8/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak - completed 8/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov - completed 8/18/21 - 2 stars - My Review

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson - completed 8/19/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh - completed 8/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene - completed 8/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center - completed 8/22/21 - 3 stars - My Review

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood - completed 8/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - completed 8/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami - completed 8/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste - completed 8/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera - completed 8/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy - completed 8/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson - completed 8/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman - completed 8/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells - completed 8/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review

September: Month - 30; YTD - 274

The Promise by Damon Galgut - completed 9/1/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan - completed 9/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead - completed 9/3/21 - 2 stars - My Review

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris - completed 9/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Second Place: A Novel by Rachel Cusk - completed 9/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review

An Island by Karen Jennings - completed 9/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson - completed 9/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford - completed 9/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Lanny by Max Porter - completed 9/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede - completed 9/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review

A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold - completed 9/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald - completed 9/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates - completed 9/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - completed 9/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review

A Man by Keiichirō Hirano - completed 9/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones - completed 9/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively - completed 9/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy - completed 9/18/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald - completed 9/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle by Laura Coleman - completed 9/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Summit Fever by Andrew Greig - completed 9/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - completed 9/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché - completed 9/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

LaRose by Louise Erdrich - completed 9/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Bewilderment by Richard Powers - completed 9/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - completed 9/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney - completed 9/27/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan - completed 9/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Distant Marvels by Chantel Acevedo - completed 9/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores - completed 9/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review

October: Month - 31; YTD - 305

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw - completed 10/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden - completed 10/2/21 - 3 stars - My Review

I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro - completed 10/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey - completed 10/4/21 - 2 stars - My Review

The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck - completed 10/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - completed 10/6/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Unsettled Ground: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 by Claire Fuller - completed 10/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Network Effect by Martha Wells - completed 10/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Matrix by Lauren Groff - completed 10/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell - completed 10/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough - completed 10/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak - completed 10/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The North Water by Ian McGuire - completed 10/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell - completed 10/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - completed 10/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - completed 10/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells - completed 10/17/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead - completed 10/18/21- 3 stars - My Review

House in Bali by Colin McPhee - completed 10/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert - completed 10/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave - completed 10/21/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez - completed 10/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Zorrie by Laird Hunt - completed 10/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul - completed 10/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker - completed 10/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain - completed 10/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner - completed 10/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan - completed 10/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China by Karoline Kan - completed 10/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Doña Barbara: A Novel by Rómulo Gallegos - completed 10/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman - completed 10/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review

November: Month - 31; YTD - 336

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - completed 11/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin - completed 11/2/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - completed 11/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Of God and Madness: A Historical Novel by T. Byram Karasu - completed 11/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Violeta by Isabel Allende - completed 11/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker - completed 11/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - completed 11/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Garden of Burning Sand by Corban Addison - completed 11/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener - completed 11/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw - completed 11/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer - completed 11/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson - completed 11/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac - completed 11/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume - completed 11/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky - completed 11/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman - completed 11/16/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Our Game by John le Carré - completed 11/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo - completed 11/18/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Insurrecto by Gina Apostol - completed 11/19/21 - 3 stars - My Review

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin - completed 11/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Native Son by Richard Wright - completed 11/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Virgil Wander by Leif Enger - completed 11/22/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs - completed 11/23/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran - completed 11/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Expats by Chris Pavone - completed 11/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti - completed 11/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid - completed 11/27/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Deadline in Athens: An Inspector Costas Haritos Mystery by Petros Markaris - completed 11/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth - completed 11/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff - completed 11/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard: Annotated by Arthur Conan Doyle - completed 11/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review

December: Month - 38; YTD - 374

Unless by Carol Shields - completed 12/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - completed 12/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Northern Spy by Flynn Berry - completed 12/3/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Black Wave by Michelle Tea - completed 12/4/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - completed 12/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe - completed 12/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan- completed 12/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - completed 12/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Noel Diary: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans - completed 12/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review

A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Eunsun Kim - completed 12/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith - completed 12/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Purge by Sofi Oksanen - completed 12/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck - completed 12/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review

In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration by Shane O'Mara - completed 12/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott - completed 12/14/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Assembly by Natasha Brown - completed 12/15/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman - completed 12/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Colour by Rose Tremain - completed 12/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett - completed 12/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff - completed 12/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher - completed 12/19/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Train by Georges Simenon - completed 12/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon - completed 12/21/21 - 2 stars - My Review

The Fear Index by Robert Harris - completed 12/21/21 - 2 stars - My Review

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild - completed 12/22/21 - 5 stars - My Review

Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji - completed 12/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz - completed 12/23/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Unchain Your Brain by Daniel G. Amen - completed 12/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell - completed 12/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Ice by Ulla-Lena Lundberg - completed 12/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage - completed 12/27/21 - 3 stars - My Review

White Noise by Don DeLillo - completed 12/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Silverview by John le Carré - completed 12/28/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Snow Hunters: A Novel by Paul Yoon - completed 12/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich - completed 12/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson - completed 12/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout - completed 12/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Island Queen - Review not yet posted

Monthly P1FM and Color Challenges:
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Fall Flurries

October -- Halloween, scary, Canadian Thanksgiving, autumn setting, etc.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - completed 10/6/21 - 5 stars - My Review
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman - completed 10/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review

November -- Thanksgiving, Veterans' Day, Native American themed, etc.
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw - completed 11/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

December -- Christmas, Hanukkah, winter themed, etc.
The Noel Diary: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans - completed 12/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Author's Body of Work (2021):
Challenge completed 5/24/21

Barbara Kingsolver: 2021
1. The Poisonwood Bible - 4 stars - My Review
2. The Bean Trees - 4 stars - My Review
3. Animal Dreams - 4 stars - My Review
4. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never - 4 stars - My Review
5. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver - 4 stars - My Review
6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - 4 stars - My Review
7. Unsheltered - 3 stars - My Review

Author's Body of Work (2015 - 2020):
Every year, I select an author and read at least five of his or her books. If I read another, I add it to the list no matter what year I read it.

Each set of books is listed in order of my personal preference:

José Saramago: 2020
1. The Cave by José Saramago - 5 stars - My Review
2. Blindness - 4 stars - My Review
3. Seeing by José Saramago - 4 stars - My Review
4. The Stone Raft by José Saramago - 4 stars - My Review
5. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - 4 stars - My Review
6. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - 3 stars - My Review

Isabel Allende: 2019
1. Daughter of Fortune – 5 stars - My Review
2. Eva Luna - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Japanese Lover - 4 stars - My Review
4. Portrait in Sepia - 4 stars - My Review
5. Violeta by Isabel Allende - completed 11/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review
6. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende - 4 stars - My Review
7. The House of the Spirits - 4 stars - My Review
8. In the Midst of Winter - 4 stars - My Review
9. Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende - 4 stars - My Review
10. Island Beneath the Sea - 3 stars - My Review

Margaret Atwood: 2018
1. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - 5 stars - My Review
2. Cat's Eye - 5 stars - My Review
3. The Handmaid's Tale - 5 stars - My Review
4. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - 5 stars - My Review
5. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - 4 stars - My Review
6. Oryx and Crake - 4 stars - My Review
7. Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold - 4 stars - My Review
8. Alias Grace - 3 stars - My Review
9. Surfacing - 2 stars - My Review

Erik Larson: 2017
1. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson - 5 stars - My Review
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - 4 stars - My Review
4. Thunderstruck - 4 stars - My Review
5. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History - 4 stars - My Review
6. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - 4 stars - My Review

2021 Reading from the Boxall List:

1. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee - completed 1/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
2. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić - completed 1/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene - completed 2/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
4. Embers by Sándor Márai - completed 2/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review
5. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson - completed 3/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
6. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor - completed 3/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
7. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt - completed 3/18/21 - 5 stars - My Review
8. Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant - completed 3/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review
9. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - completed 3/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review
10. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - completed 4/5/21 - 5 stars - My Review
11. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass - completed 4/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review
12. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - completed 4/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review
13. Middlemarch by George Eliot - completed 5/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
14. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - 5 stars - completed 5/3/21 - My Review
15. On Beauty by Zadie Smith - completed 5/4/21 - 4 stars - My Review
16. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - completed 5/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review
17. Winter by Ali Smith - completed 5/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review
18. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol - completed 5/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review
19. The Gathering by Anne Enright - completed 7/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review
20. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - completed 7/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review
21. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides - completed 7/29/21 - 3 stars - My Review
22. The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela - completed 8/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review
23. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - completed 8/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
24. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene - completed 8/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
25. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald - completed 9/19/21 - 4 stars -
26. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - completed 5/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
27. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - completed 10/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review
28. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - completed 10/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review
29. A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert - completed 10/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review
30. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul - completed 10/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review
31. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - completed 11/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review
32. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - completed 11/7/21 - 3 stars - My Review
33. Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac - completed 11/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review
34. Native Son by Richard Wright - completed 11/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review
35. Deadline in Athens: An Inspector Costas Haritos Mystery (aka The Late-Night News) by Petros Markaris - completed 11/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
36. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth - completed 11/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review
37. Unless by Carol Shields - completed 12/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review
38. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - completed 12/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review
39. The Colour by Rose Tremain - completed 12/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review
40. Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz - completed 12/23/21 - 3 stars - My Review
41. White Noise by Don DeLillo - completed 12/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

PBT Challenge #1: Fly the PBT Skies
1) Carson City, Nevada to South Africa
10,310.83 mi + 500 bonus = 10,810.83 mi
2) South Africa to Hawaii
11798.57 + 500 bonus = 12298.57
3) Hawaii to Botswana
12189.38 + 500 = 12689.38
4) Botswana to Alaska
9572.92 + 500 = 10072.92
5) Alaska to Antarctica
11495.67 + 500 = 11995.67
6) Antarctica to Iceland
9559.61 + 0 = 9559.61
7) Iceland to Western Australia
9154.45 + 0 = 9154.45
8) Western Australia to Martinique
11693.07 + 500 = 12193.07
9) Martinique to Bali, Indonesia
11927.61 + 500 = 12427.61
10) Bali, Indonesia to Venezuela
12351.54 + 0 = 12351.54
11) Venezuela to Java
12140.38 + 0 = 12140.38
12) Java to Las Vegas
8987.36 + 0 = 8987.36

Continents: Africa, North America, Antarctica, Europe, Oceania, Asia, South America (completed all 7)

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3. Travel to your original birthplace or where your family is originally from. You'll need to note this in your review when you post your read as well. Be sure to tell us if it was you or another member of your family who is from there and any other information you may know about them! (Limit of ONE)
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Favorite Authors A - L:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1. Half of a Yellow Sun - 4 stars - My Review
2. Americanah - 4 stars - My Review
3. Purple Hibiscus - 4 stars - My Review

Rick Atkinson
1. An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 - 5 stars - My Review
3. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - 4 stars - My Review

Pat Barker
1. Regeneration - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Eye in the Door - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Silence of the Girls - 4 stars - My Review

Julian Barnes
1. Arthur & George - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Noise of Time - 4 stars - My GR Review
3. The Only Story - 4 stars - My Review
4. The Sense of an Ending - 4 stars - My Review

Sebastian Barry
1. The Secret Scripture - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Temporary Gentleman - 4 stars - My Review

Peter Carey
1. Oscar and Lucinda - 4 stars - My Review
2. A Long Way From Home - 3 stars - My Review

Michael Chabon
1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - 5 stars - My Review
2. Wonder Boys - 5 stars - My Review
3. Moonglow - 2 stars - My Review

Michael Crummey
1. River Thieves - 4 stars - My Review
2. Galore - 4 stars - My Review

Patrick deWitt
1. The Sisters Brothers - 4 stars - My Review
2. Ablutions - 4 stars - My Review

Anthony Doerr
1. All the Light We Cannot See - 5 stars - My Review
2. Cloud Cuckoo Land - 5 stars - My Review

Timothy Egan
1. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero - 4 stars - My Review
2. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - 4 stars - My Review

Louise Erdrich
1. The Round House - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Master Butchers Singing Club - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Sentence - 4 stars - My Review
4. The Night Watchman - 4 stars - My Review
5. Love Medicine - 4 stars - My Review
6. LaRose - 3 stars - My Review

Richard Flanagan
1. Narrow Road to the Deep North - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - 4 stars - My Review

Aminatta Forna
1. The Memory of Love - 5 stars- My Review
2. Happiness - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna - 4 stars - My Review
4. The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion - 4 stars - My Review
5. Ancestor Stones: A Novel - 4 stars - My Review
6. The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest - 4 stars - My Review

Amitav Ghosh
1. The Hungry Tide - 5 stars - My Review
2. Gun Island - 3 stars - My Review

Matt Haig
1. The Humans - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Midnight Library - 4 stars - My Review
3. Reasons to Stay Alive - 4 stars - My Review

Nathan Harris
1. The Sweetness of Water - 4 stars - My Review

Kazuo Ishiguro
1. The Remains of the Day - 5 stars - My Review
2. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - 5 stars - My Review
3. Never Let Me Go - 4 stars - My Review
4. An Artist of the Floating World - 4 stars - My Review

Eowyn Ivey
1. To the Bright Edge of the World - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Snow Child - 4 stars - My Review

John le Carré
1. Our Game - 4 stars - My Review
2.A Legacy of Spies - 4 stars - My Review
3. Silverview - 3 stars - My Review

Penelope Lively
1. Moon Tiger - 4 stars - My Review
2. How It All Began - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Road to Lichfield - 4 stars - My Review

Favorite Authors (M - Z):

Hilary Mantel
1. The Mirror & the Light - 5 stars - My Review
2. Wolf Hall - 5 stars - My Review
3. Bring Up the Bodies - 4 stars - My Review

Cormac McCarthy
1. The Road - 4 stars - My Review
2. All The Pretty Horses - 4 stars - My Review
3. Cities of the Plain - 4 stars - My Review
4. The Crossing - 4 stars - My Review
5. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy - completed 8/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review
6. No Country for Old Men - 3 stars - My Review

Ian McEwan
1. Atonement - 5 stars - My Review
2. Machines Like Me - 4 stars - My Review
3. Nutshell - 4 stars - My Review

Philipp Meyer
1. American Rust by - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Son - 4 stars - My Review

Téa Obreht
1. Inland - 4 stars - My Review
2. The Tiger's Wife - 4 stars - My Review

Tim O'Brien
1. In the Lake of the Woods - 5 stars - My Review
2. Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried - 5 stars - My Review

Maggie O'Farrell
1. Hamnet - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - 4 stars - My Review
3. This Must Be the Place - 3 stars - My Review

Michael Ondaatje
1. Warlight - 4 stars - My Review
2. The Cat's Table - 4 stars - My Review

Ann Patchett
1. State of Wonder - 4 stars - My Review
2. Bel Canto - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Dutch House - 4 stars - My Review
4. Commonwealth - 3 stars - My Review
5. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett - 3 stars - My Review

Per Petterson
1. Out Stealing Horses - 4 stars - My Review
2. To Siberia - 4 stars - My Review

Richard Powers
1. The Time of Our Singing - 5 stars - My Review
2. Bewilderment - review not yet posted
3. The Overstory - 4 stars - My Review
4. Orfeo - 3 stars - My Review

Annie Proulx
1. The Shipping News - 4 stars - My Review
2. Barkskins - 4 stars - My Review

Diane Setterfield
1. Once Upon a River: A Novel - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Thirteenth Tale - 5 stars - My Review

Elif Shafak
1. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - 5 stars - My Review
2.Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Island of Missing Trees - 4 stars - My Review

Hampton Sides
1. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - 5 stars - My Review
2. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West - 5 stars - My Review
3. Ghost Soldiers - 3 stars - My Review

Jane Smiley
1. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton - 5 stars - My Review
2. A Thousand Acres - 3 stars - My Review
3. Private Life - 3 stars - My Review

Ali Smith
1. Winter - 4 stars - My Review
2. Autumn - 4 stars - My Review
3. The Accidental - 3 stars - My Review

Zadie Smith
1. On Beauty - 4 stars - My Review
2. White Teeth - 4 stars - My Review
3. Swing Time - 3 stars - My Review

Wallace Stegner
1. The Big Rock Candy Mountain - 5 stars - My Review
2. Angle of Repose - 4 stars
3. Crossing to Safety - 4 stars - My Review
4. The Spectator Bird - 4 stars - My Review

Emily St. John Mandel
1. The Glass Hotel - 4 stars - My Review
2. Station Eleven - 4 stars - My Review

Thrity Umrigar
1. The Secrets Between Us - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Space Between Us - 4 stars - My Review

Simon Winchester
1. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - 5 stars - My Review
2. The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible - 5 stars - My Review
3. The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - 4 stars - My Review
4. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories - 3 stars - My Review

Markus Zusak
1. The Book Thief - 5 stars - My Review
2. Bridge of Clay - 4 stars - My Review

P1FM Monthly Selections:
Jan - Everything Here Is Beautiful, Gorilla and the Bird, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Reasons to Stay Alive
Feb - Tin Man, Country Dark, So Much Blue, Warlight
Mar - Convenience Store Woman, What I Loved, Legends of the Fall, The Hungry Tide
Apr - Little Fires Everywhere, Neverwhere, The Wide Sargasso Sea, The Diary of a Bookseller
May - The Course of Love, Flight Behavior, Animal Dreams, The Last Ballad
Jun - Origin, Three Junes, The Citadel, Summer of '68
Jul - Heaven and Hell, The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Purple Hibiscus, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Aug - Missing, The Hired Man, The Shadow King, Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Sep - The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle, Summit Fever, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Oct - The Lemon Tree, The Dream Daughter, The Yellow Bird Sings, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Nov - Rough Magic, The Almond Tree, Deadline in Athens, In Patagonia
Dec - The Trigger, Rooftops of Tehran, Let the Great World Spin, Enchanted Islands

P1FM Monthly Colors:
Jan - White - Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee - 1/2/21
Feb - Pink - My Interview with Beethoven - Hider-Jones - 2/23/21
Mar - Yellow - Convenience Store Woman - 3/9/21
April - Lime Green - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 4/23/21 and Wide Sargasso Sea - 4/16/21
May - Grey - Smokejumper - 5/16/21
June - Green - The Road to Lichfield - 6/21/21
July - Blue - Heaven and Hell - 7/18/21
Aug - Gray - The Underdogs - 8/9/21
Aug - Rust - The Honorary Consul - 8/21/21
Sep - Yellow/Purple - The Distant Marvels - 9/29/21
Oct - Black/White/Orange - Unsettled Ground - 10/7/21
Nov - Brown or Fuschia - Violeta - 11/5/21
Dec - Red or Silver - The Trigger - 12/19/21

Authors List:
I need to read more to see if they become favorites (so far I have only read one or two)

Tim Butcher*
Alexander Chee*
E.L. Doctorow (only 1 recently - others long ago)
Tan Twan Eng*
Percival Everett*
Michel Faber*
Tim Gautreaux*
Julia Glass*
Three Junes by Julia Glass - 5 stars - My Review
Jennifer Haigh*
Nathan Harris*
Keiichirō Hirano*
Siri Hustvedt*
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt - 5 stars - My Review
Thomas Keneally*
Hari Kunzru*
Laila Lalami*
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami - 5 stars - My Review
Rebecca Makkai*
David Malouf*
Sandor Marai*
Rohinton Mistry*
Haruki Murakami*
Iris Murdoch*
The Sea, The Sea - 5 stars - My Review
Remy Ngamije*
Chris Offutt*
Michael Punke (2)
Vaddey Ratner*
Philip Roth (only 1 recently - others long ago)
Carol Shields*
William Trevor*
Larry Watson*

* = read one

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