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10.1 Popular

Using the Popular book option on GoodReads, find a new book to read. Navigate to the page, choose any year you like to find a title. You may use the More Options choice at the bottom to get beyond the top 15. I can't see your list, so you are on your honor. This task may be used only once. This task may not be used for combo.

10.2 Easter

Read a book with a title consisting of at least three words, in which the initials can each be found in EASTER.

10.3 Shakespeare

In honor of All's Well That Ends Well, read one of the top 250 from this list of Best Endings.

10.4 Name

Read any book by an author whose given name is 3, 4, or 5 letters long.

10.5 Database Anniversary

Read any book in which computers are the focus. Your book can be fiction or non-fiction. See help thread for ideas.

10.6 Space Out

In celebration of First Contact Day (April 5th), the day Vulcans establish first contact with humanity, and Towel Day (May 25th), a day when fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Read a book that features space travel.

10.7 Three Favorite Women (Karen Michele's Task)

I have more favorite women authors than I could count, but I chose 3 of those favorites for this task. Read any book by one of my 3 favorites or a book by any woman on the literature map of one of my 3 favorites.
Literature Map:

Toni Morrison

Margaret Atwood

Louise Erdrich


10.8 Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished (Anika's Task)

I lived in Ukraine for a year and a half and often heard the national anthem while there, which begins: "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina," or, Ukraine has not yet perished. I hope that remains true.

Read a book set at least 50% in Ukraine or written by an author born in Ukraine.

10.9 Dual (Tien's Task)

Read a book with dual timeline.
For examples, see /shelf/show/...

10.10 Group Reads

Read a book recommended by a fellow RwS member

Elizabeth (Alaska): Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
Kate S: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Valerie: The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections by V.S. Naipaul
Kristina Simon: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Denise: Beyond This Place by A.J. Cronin
Owlette: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Ed: Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins
Lagullande: Neverhome by Laird Hunt
Mary: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Rosemary: When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
Bea: The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Coralie: Natural Histories: Stories by Guadalupe Nettel

A new RwS twist, no sub-challenge, but rather a group of tasks designed to encourage reading books from some less well-known areas.

Read books set at least 51% in the below regions of Africa and Asia. Your book can move between countries as long as the total within the region is at least 51%. You may repeat tasks at will and skip some if you wish, much as you do for the 10- and 20-point tasks. There is a separate finishers bonus if you complete all 10 tasks just as if this were a sub-challenge.

15.1 Northern Africa

Algeria, Canary Islands, Ceuta, Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Melilla, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara

15.2 Western Africa

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast), The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

15.3 Central Africa

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe

15.4 Eastern Africa

Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Southern Territories, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Reunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambi, Zimbabwe

15.5 Southern Africa

Botswana, Eswatini (Swaziland), Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa

15.6 Central Asia

Read a book set in the Central Asia region: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan

15.7 East Asia

China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau

15.8 South Asia

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Iran, The Maldives

15.9 Southeast Asia

Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam

15.10 Western Asia

Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Bonuses:
15-point tasks will be eligible for all styles except combo
20-point bonus for any book set in one of our remaining group project countries as of this posting.
100 point bonus for completing one book per task (while you can complete the 15-point tasks as often as you like, this bonus will only be awarded once this season.)

20.1 Pulitzer

Read a book published during Joseph Pulitzer's lifetime 1847-1911.

20.2 Prize

Read a book that has won the Pulitzer Prize in the following categories: Fiction/Novel, Poetry, Drama, General Nonfiction, History, Biography

20.3 Our Town

In honor of the 1938 drama winner, read a book set at least 80% in a small town. The town can be in any country.

20.4 The Reivers

Definition of Reive: verb, historical/Scottish: carry out raids in order to plunder cattle or other goods.
In honor of the 1963 winner, read any book whose focus is thieves, robbers or outlaws.

20.5 The Killer Angels

In honor of the 1975 winner, read any book having to do with a Civil War. See the preamble for the GR genre "Civil War"

20.6 The Color Purple

In honor of the 1983 winner, read one of the top 100 BBBC most inspiring novels.

20.7 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

In honor of the 2008 winner, read any book by an author who immigrated. This does not work for those authors like Thackeray, for example, born in India because of father's work, but who then returned to Britain.

20.8 Texas Independence (Rebekah's Task)

Spring is special in Texas. Not only for the fields of wildflowers that turn roadsides blue with the state flower, the Bluebonnet, but in its history as well.

Read a book written by an author who was born in, died in, or currently lives in Texas. If not obvious from the GR profile, please link to reference in appropriate help thread.

See post 2 in help thread for some key dates.

20.9 Birthdays (Kate S's Task)

In honor of several spring birthdays in my personal life, read a book in which a character or group of characters eat cake.

20.10 Between the Wars (Elizabeth(Alaska)'s Task

Read any book that takes place 1919-1938. The book could be historical fiction taking place in the period, nonfiction history/biography of the period, or the book may have been originally published during the period and be contemporary to it. Flashbacks or foretelling will be minimal, if at all, amounting to no more than a very few pages.