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I'm in for the third year. I have 25 that I want to read from the list and 12 I have read already.Already read (12/12):
1. Children of Blood and Bone*
2. Bingo Love
3. Circe*
4. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein*
5. The Death of Mrs. Westaway*
6. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
7. Julián Is a Mermaid
8. Mariam Sharma Hits the Road
9. The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
10. The Prince and the Dressmaker
11. Warlight*
12. Witchmark*
*= I recommend
To read 12/12 (edited as I have DNF and removed some over the year):
2. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge -4/5-
3. Becoming - 1/28-****
5. Half-Witch
7. The Poet X - 4/11-
8. Record of a Spaceborn Few
9. A River of Stars
10. Sadie
11. Scribe-3/9-**
12. Severance - 2/26-***
13. Space Opera - 8/27 - **
14. Spinning Silver
15. Tess of the Road
16. There There
17. Trail of Lightning - 3/15-****
18. Unholy Land - 2/2-***
19. Who Is Vera Kelly?
20. The Witch Elm - 7/12-****
21. The Word Is Murder - 1/4-***
22. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"-3/31-****
23. A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
24. Educated
25. My Sister, the Serial Killer - 8/18-***
Completed 7/19/19NPR's Best Books of 2018
Duration: January 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Bookworm: 5-11 books
8/8 read
1. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly, read 1/19/19
2. Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown, read 5/6/19
3. Becoming by Michelle Obama, read 5/17/19
4. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman, read 1/29/19
5. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh, read 2/10/19
6. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward, read 6/24/19
7. Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, read 7/19/19
8. Transcription by Kate Atkinson, read 3/27/19
Read in 2018:
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Cravings: Hungry for More by Chrissy Teigen
Educated by Tara Westover
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
KRISSY'S SPOTLevel: Bookworm
*COMPLETED*
Already Read:
01. The Immortalists, 1/10 ★★
02. The Prince and the Dressmaker, 1/24 ★★★★
03. The Death of Mrs. Westaway, 1/19 �
04. The Kiss Quotient, 3/18 ★★★★
05. The Witch Elm, 3/22 ★★★★
06. Love, 4/05 ★★�
07. Blue, 4/16 ★★★★
08. Dreamers, 4/25 ★★★★
09. The Friend, 6/25 �
10. Sadie, 7/22 ★★
NPR's Best Books of 2018Read So Far: 9/24
completion posts:
The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas | read 4.4.19 ★★★★
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein | read 6/3 ★★★★
A Duke by Default | read 7.4.19 ★★�
Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide | read 8.11.19 ★★★★
The Word Is Murder | read 8.11.19 ★★★★
Becoming | read 9.2.19 ★★★★�
The Poet X | read 9.18.19 ★★★★�
Trail of Lightning | read 12.20.19 ★★�
NPR's Best Books of 2018Duration: January 1- December 31, 2019
Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books (to start with)
Read: 1/12-24
1. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge | M.T. Anderson - Apr 17
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Sounds great! I'll sign up for Bookworm: 5-11 books .
1. Infidel � 1/16/19
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ideas for books:
The Immortalists
Amal Unbound
Girls Burn Brighter: A Novel
Monster Portraits
The Sky Is Yours
Seafire
Split Tooth
Half-Witch
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
The Cabin at the End of the World
The Way You Make Me Feel
Jan 1, 2019-Dec 31, 2019
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NPR 2018January 1-December 31, 2019
25/25
1. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
2. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
3. Pride by Ibi Zoboi
4. Educated by Tara Westover
5. I Am Enough by Grace Byers
6. We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
7. They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki
8. New Shoes by Chris Raschka
9. Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
10. Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
11. Love by Matt de la Pena
12. Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
13. Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
14. Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DeCamillo
15. Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
16. The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
17. Drawn Together by Minh Le
18. Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka
19. How to Be a Lion by Ed Vere
20. Front Desk by Kelly Yang
21. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
22. Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol
23. Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
24. The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
25. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacey McAnulty
NPR's Best Books of 2018 ChallengeChallenge Accepted: January 2, 2019
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: December 31, 2019
Challenge Level: Catch Me If You Can 12-24
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Books of interest from the 2018 list:
1. The Way You Make Me Feel
2. Bloody Rose (read #1 Kings of the Wyld first)
3. Becoming
4. My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
5. Dragons in a Bag
6. My Ex-Life
7. Hey, Kiddo
8. Making Up
9. The Wedding Date
10. Feel Free: Essays
11. Social Creature
12. Freshwater
13. The Hollow of Fear (Read books #1 & 2 first)
14. Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious
15. The Summer of Jordi Perez
16. Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children
17. To Be Honest
18. My So-Called Bollywood Life
19. Trail of Lightning
20.Everything You Need For a Treehouse
21.Ana MarÃa Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle
22. Milk Street: Tuesday Nights: More than 200 Simple Weeknight Suppers that Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast
23. A Duke by Default
24. The Science of Breakable Things
25. Tell the Machine Goodnight
26. From Twinkle, with Love
27. The Poet X
28. Be Prepared
29. Record of a Spaceborn Few (read #2 first)
30. The Season of Styx Malone
31. Front Desk
32. A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures
33. Emergency Contact
34.Louisiana's Way Home
35. We Don't Eat Our Classmates
36. How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller
37. Spinning Silver
38. Check, Please! Year One
39. Forever or a Day
40. The Prince and the Dressmaker
41. The House That Lou Built
42. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
43. Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
44. Dactyl Hill Squad
45. Unclaimed Baggage
46. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
47. Space Opera
48. Seafire
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Ideas for books....
Becoming
In Pieces
The Perfect Nanny
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
The Fifth Risk
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start Up
An American Marriage
The Winter Story
My Sister the Serial Killer
Unsheltered:A Novel
There there
Warlight
The House of Broken Angels
Milkman
Social Creature
The Kiss Quotient
NPR's Best Books of 2018Duration: January 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Reading Superhero: 25+ books
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This looks great! I'm going to start out with Catch Me If You Can and see what happens....Catch Me If You Can
12-24 books
1. Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht ★★★★ Read: 2/3/19
2. Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka ★★★★ Read: 2/3/19
3. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite ★★★★ Read: 2/8/19
4. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou ★★★★� Read: 2/12/19
5. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang ★★★★ Read: 2/15/19
6. Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 by Ngozi Ukazu ★★★★ Read: 2/23/19
7. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo ★★★★� Read: 2/28/19
8. Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol ★★★★ Read: 3/8/19
9. Sabrina by Nick Drnaso ★★ Read: 3/22/19
10. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang � DNF: 6/19/19
11. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi ★★� Read: 7/18/19
12. Sadie by Courtney Summers ★★★★ Read: 9/11/19
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NPR's Best Books of 2018Progress - 5/15
1. Sadie by Courtney Summers
2. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
3. Circe by Madeline Miller
4. Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
5. Becoming by Michelle Obama
6. Educated by Tara Westover
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** POSSIBLE OPTIONS **
My Sister the Serial Killer
Emergency Contact
Two Sisters
An American Marriage
Children of Blood & Bone
Text Me When You Get Home
Warlight
Cixin Liu - Ball Lightning
Census
The Perfect Nanny
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
I'm in for the coin!
-- Read 3/4
-- Read 3/25
-- Read 3/27
-- Read 4/17
-- Read 5/10
-- Read 5/28
-- Read 7/6
-- Read 7/26
-- Read 8/9
-- Read 10/19
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-- Read 11/19
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Links are in message #4!
I'm in! I'd love to read 30+, but I'll commit to 1-5. (It's also dependent on how many holds my library has on these books before I put in my request...) :)2. The Infinite Blacktop, by Sara Gran (I have read neither of the first books of this series...)
3. Motherhood, by Sheila Heti
4. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
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I'm in. To start with, I'll commit to the level of bookworm (6-11). I'm hoping to read more though.4/11 completed
1. She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan - Finished 01/19 - � � �
2. Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires - Finished 01/20 - � � �
3. An American Marriage
4. My Sister, the Serial Killer - Finished 07/14 - � � � � �
5. The Poet X - Finished 07/07 - � � � � �
6. Children of Blood and Bone
7. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
8. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
9. Pride
10. Circe
11. Sadie
I would love to join this challenge. There were so many books on the list that I have been wanting to read. There are 41 books I want to read and a lot that are on my shelf, which makes me very happy.0/41
1. Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1
2. The Way You Make Me Feel
3. Making Up
4. Housegirl
5.Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure
6. Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
7. You Think It, I'll Say It
8. From Twinkle, with Love
10. Trail of Lightning
11. Girls Burn Brighter
12. Unclaimed Baggage
13. Pride
14. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
15. Emergency Contact
16. The Chalk Man
17. Witchmark
18. The Immortalists
19.An American Marriage
20.Children of Blood and Bone
21.The Poet X
22. Odd One Out
23.The Summer of Jordi Perez
24. The Mars Room
25. The Kiss Quotient
26. Circe
27. Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
28. To Be Honest
29. This Is Not A Love Letter
30.The Death of Mrs. Westaway
31.Iron Gold
32. When Katie Met Cassidy
33. Seafire
34. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
35. Spinning Silver
36. Intercepted
37. Tess of the Road
38. Becoming
39. The Wedding Date
40. The Cabin at the End of the World
41. Grist Mill Road
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Your challenges are updated in post #4!
1. The Mars Room2. Becoming 23/03/2019
3. Spinning Silver 29/01/2019
4. Transcription
5. Record of a Spaceborn Few 02/02/2019
6. Scribe
7. Bitter Orange 15/05/2019
8. The Word Is Murder 07/04/2019
9. Number One Chinese Restaurant
10. Educated 13/08/2019
11. My Sister, the Serial Killer
12. The Kiss Quotient 12/08/2019
13. Warlight 12/08/2019
14. Sadie 23/10/2019
15. Bitter Orange 15/05/2019
16 Fascism: A Warning 23/04/2019
17. There There 17/10/2019
for now I may add more
I'm in!NPR's Best Books of 2018
Duration: January 1- December 31, 2019
Catch Me If You Can: 12-24 books
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I will start with ten. Have allready read a few in 2018
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If I am able to still join this challenge I want to try the Reading Superhero 25+ books
I think that I have already selected 25 books from the list I would love to read this year
1.Full Disclosure
2.My Brother's Husband, Volume 2
3.To Be Honest
4.The Hellfire Club
5.Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
6.Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television
7.How Long 'til Black Future Month?
8.Back Talk
10.Fear: Trump in the White House
11.Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
12.Emergency Contact
13.Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
14.White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
15.The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
16.Becoming
17. The Immortalists
18.The Summer of Jordi Perez
19.Amal Unbound
20.Heart Berries: A Memoir
21.The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
22.The Order of the Day
23.The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
24.Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Nothing But Reading ChallengesNPR's Best Books of 2018 Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2020-December 31, 2020
Progress: 16 out of 25+ (Reading Superhero: 25+ books)
Back again, because you, the readers, requested this challenge!
NPR (National Public Radio) has published their list of the staff's favorite reads of 2018. With over 300 titles on the list, there is sure to be something for everyone.
My Shelf
1. Love by Matt de la Pena - - 3/15/2018
2. Bingo Love by Tee Franklin - - 6/12/2018
3. Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow - - 6/12/2018
4. Drawn Together by Minh Lê - - 7/5/2018
5. Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love - - 8/10/2018
6. How To Be A Lion by Ed Vere - - 9/18/2018
7. The Rough Patch by Brian Lies - - 10/21/2018
8. We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins - - 11/12/2018
9. They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki - - 11/13/2018
10. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang - - 12/4/2018
11. Dreamers by Yuyi Morales - - 12/19/2018
12. All the Animals Where I Live by Philip C. Stead - - 6/23/2019
13. Circe by Madeline Miller - - 6/25/2019 - 393 Pages
14. Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote - - 11/27/2019 - 168 Pages
15. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo - - 12/9/2019 - 368 Pages
16. Becoming by Michelle Obama - - 7/13/2020 - 426 Pages
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Completed 7/19/19NPR's Best Books of 2018
Duration: January 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Bookworm: 5-11 books
8/8 read
1. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly, read 1/19/19
2. Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown, read 5/6/19
3. Becoming by Michelle Obama, read 5/17/19
4. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman, read 1/29/19
5. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh, read 2/10/19
6. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward, read 6/24/19
7. Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, read 7/19/19
8. Transcription by Kate Atkinson, read 3/27/19
Read in 2018:
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Cravings: Hungry for More by Chrissy Teigen
Educated by Tara Westover
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
NPR's Best Books of 2018 Duration: January 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Goal: Bookworm 5-11 books
Read: 6
1. Becoming
2. Pride
3. Sadie
4. Little
5. The Library Book
6. The Poet X
Read:
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Congratulations Erin!
Will there be a 2019 version of this challenge set up? I'd like to give it a try again! :)
Yes, someone usually shouts out once the NPR list is released and a new thread will be created shortly after.
Laura wrote: "Yes, someone usually shouts out once the NPR list is released and a new thread will be created shortly after."
Navi wrote: "Laura wrote: "Yes, someone usually shouts out once the NPR list is released and a new thread will be created shortly after."The list is up!"
Thank you, I already have read 19 of them but All Systems Red was published in 2017. I still love the series if anyone has not read it.
Lexi wrote: "Navi wrote: "Laura wrote: "Yes, someone usually shouts out once the NPR list is released and a new thread will be created shortly after."The list is up!"
Thank you, I already have read 19 of the..."
Oh, wow, that s a nice start!
Navi wrote: "Laura wrote: "Yes, someone usually shouts out once the NPR list is released and a new thread will be created shortly after."The list is up!"
Thanks Navi for the heads up. The new thread will be released in a couple of days or less:-)
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The list is up!"
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Back again, because you, the readers, requested this challenge!
NPR (National Public Radio) has published their list of the staff's favorite reads of 2018. With over 300 titles on the list, there is sure to be something for everyone.
Duration: January 1, 2019-December 31, 2019