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message 1: by Dina (last edited Aug 15, 2024 08:25AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: - /339

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� 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
� 3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
5. An American Tragedy
6. Angela's Ashes
� 7. Anna Karenina
8. Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
9. The Archidamian War
10. The Art of Fiction
11. The Art of War
12. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
13. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
14. Autobiography of a Face
15. The Awakening
� 16. Babe: The Gallant Pig
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
19. Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
20. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
21. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf
23. Bhagavad Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers
25. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
26. A Bolt From the Blue and Other Essays
27. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
28. Brick Lane
29. Brigadoon
30. Candide
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� 330. What Colour Is Your Parachute?
331. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
332. When the Emperor Was Divine
� 333. Who Moved My Cheese?
334. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
� 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
� 336. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
337. Wuthering Heights
338. The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
339. The Year of Magical Thinking


message 2: by Dina (last edited Aug 15, 2024 08:27AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments List Challenges

Amazon's UK 100 Crime Books and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
2. Along Came a Spider
3. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
� 4. And Then There Were None
5. The Apple Tart of Hope
6. Aunt Dimity's Death
� 7. The Bat
8. Before I Go to Sleep
9. Black and Blue
10. The Black Dahlia
11. The Black Echo
12. The Bourne Identity
13. A Boy Called Hope
14. The Camel Club
15. Case Histories
16. The Case of the Missing Servant
17. The Collector
18. Cover Her Face
� 19. Crime and Punishment
� 20. The Cuckoo's Calling
21. A Dark-Adapted Eye
22. The Day of the Jackal
23. Dead Ends
24. Dead Letter Drop
25. Death of a Ghost
26. Déjà Dead
27. Dissolution
28. A Dram of Poison
� 29. Eeny Meeny
30. Eye of the Needle
� 31. Faceless Killers
32. Five Red Herrings
33. From Doon with Death
34. From Russia with Love
35. Gallows View
� 36. The Girl on the Train
� 37. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
38. The Godfather
39. Gone Girl
40. The Good Girl
41. Gorky Park
42. The Hollow Man
43. Hurting Distance
44. I am Pilgrim
45. The Ice Princess
� 46. In Cold Blood
47. Inheritance
48. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian
49. Killing Floor
50. King's Ransom
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Amazon's 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime - US:

� 1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
� 2. The Hunger Games
� 3. The Martian
� 4. Outlander
� 5. The Hobbit
6. Wool
7. Speaker for the Dead
� 8. The Lord of the Rings
9. A Game of Thrones
� 10. Ready Player One
� 11. 1984
12. The Name of the Wind
13. Dune
� 14. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
� 15. The Way of Kings
� 16. Red Rising
17. The Golem and the Jinni
18. A Wrinkle in Time
19. The Golden Compass
� 20. Old Man's War
21. The Princess Bride
22. Starship Troopers
23. The Forever War
24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
25. Sabriel
26. Hyperion
27. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
28. Graceling
29. Uglies
30. The Mists of Avalon
31. Howl's Moving Castle
� 32. Assassin's Apprentice
33. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
34. Interview with the Vampire
� 35. 20,000 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
36. Childhood's End
37. Pawn of Prophecy
38. Kindred
39. Uprooted
� 40. The Color of Magic
41. The Last Unicorn
42. The Martian Chronicles
43. The Rook
44. 2001: A Space Odyssey
45. Daughter of the Blood
46. A Canticle for Leibowitz
47. Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
48. The Stars My Destination
49. The Dispossessed
50. The Curse of Chalion
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message 3: by Dina (last edited Aug 26, 2023 07:18AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments Every Year of Age

� 1971: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
� 1972: The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
--> 1973: The Mediterranean Caper
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� 1982: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
� 1983: The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett) ***
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� 1986: The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett) ***
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� 1998: The Midnight Palace (Carlos Ruiz Zafon) ***
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� 2002: Coraline (Neil Gaimon) ****
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� 2004: Two Dollar Bill (Stuart Woods) ****
� 2005: The Strange Library (Haruki Murakami) ***
� 2006: The Final Empire (Brandon Sanderson)
� 2007: The Well of Ascension (Brandon Sanderson)
� 2008: The Hero of Ages (Brandon Sanderson) ****
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� 2014: Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel) ****
� 2015: Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)
� 2016: When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi) ****
� 2017: A Court of Wings and Ruin (Sarah J. Maas) ****
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message 4: by Dina (last edited Aug 25, 2023 08:26AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments Reading A to Z by Author's last name:

� A: Andrews, Andy --> The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
� B: Bachman, Richard (AKA: Stephen King) --> The Running Man -
� C: Christie, Agatha - Ordeal by Innocence
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� F: Foley, Lucy - The Guest List
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� K: King, Stephen - The Stand
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� M: Maas, Sarah J. - Tower of Dawn
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� R: Riordan, Rick - The Last Olympian
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--> X: Xiaolong, Qiu - Death of a Red Heroine
� Y: Young, Skottie - I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 1: Madly Ever After
� Z: Zentner, Jeff Zentner - The Serpent King


message 5: by Dina (last edited Aug 25, 2023 08:25AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments Reading A to Z by Title:

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L: The Light Fantastic; Terry Pratchett
M: Magic Bleeds; Ilona Andrews
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S: Sparkling Cyanide; Agatha Christie
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Z: Zoo; James Patterson


message 6: by Dina (last edited Feb 20, 2023 08:20AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments I did really well in buying new releases to fit the '17 in 2017', but didn't do so well in reading them all. This year I am going to start with 10, then expand from there.

'10 New Releases in 2018':

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message 7: by Zaz (new)

Zaz | 2969 comments I also prefer starting with 12 books and expend later to the year number as I usually read more new releases at mid-year than at the beginning. I don't like when my progress is slow so with less books at first, it seems more manageable.


message 8: by Dina (last edited Aug 25, 2023 08:25AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments Reading the Fifty States Challenge

1. Alabama:
2. Alaska:
3. Arizona:
4. Arkansas:
5. California:
6. Colorado:
7. Connecticut:
8. Delaware:
9. Florida:
10. Georgia:
11. Hawaii:
12. Idaho:
13. Illinois:
14. Indiana:
15. Iowa:
16. Kansas:
17. Kentucky:
18. Louisiana:
19. Maine:
20. Maryland:
21. Massachusetts:
22. Michigan:
23. Minnesota:
24. Mississippi:
25. Missouri:
26. Montana:
27. Nebraska:
28. Nevada:
29. New Hampshire:
30. New Jersey:
31. New Mexico:
32. New York:
33. North Carolina:
34. North Dakota:
35. Ohio:
� 36. Oklahoma: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
37. Oregon:
38. Pennsylvania:
39. Rhode Island:
40. South Carolina:
41. South Dakota:
42. Tennessee:
43. Texas:
44. Utah:
45. Vermont:
46. Virginia:
47. Washington:
48. West Virginia:
49. Wisconsin:
50. Wyoming:


message 9: by Dina (last edited Aug 15, 2024 08:44AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments The Great American Read - 2019

I have wanted to read the books listed since I heard about The Great American Read, so I am going to read these along with the 2019 Reading Challenge. I am not sure how many books I will get through in 2019 as I plan on going back to work, but I am just gong to enjoy the reading.

Link:

� 01. Nineteen Eighty-Four; George Orwell
02. A Confederacy of Dunces; John Kennedy Toole
03. A Prayer for Owen Meany; John Irving
04. A Separate Peace; John Knowles
05. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Betty Smith
06. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain
� 07. The Alchemist; Paulo Coelho
08. Alex Cross Mysteries (series); James Patterson
� 09. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll
10. Americanah; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

� 11. And Then There Were None; Agatha Christie
12. Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
13. Another Country James Baldwin
14. Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
15. Beloved Toni Morrison
16. Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
� 17. The Book Thief; Markus Zusak
18. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz
19. The Call of the Wild Jack London
20. Catch-22; Joseph Heller

21. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
� 22. Charlotte's Web; E.B. White
� 23. The Chronicles of Narnia (series); C.S. Lewis
24. The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel
25. The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah
� 26. The Color Purple Alice Walker
27. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
� 28. Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoyevsky
� 29. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Mark Haddon
� 30. The Da Vinci Code; Dan Brown

31. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
32. Doña Bárbára Rómulo Gallegos
33. Dune Frank Herbert
� 34. Fifty Shades of Grey (series); E.L. James
35. Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews
36. Foundation (series) Isaac Asimov
37. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
38. A Game of Thrones (series) George R.R. Martin
39. Ghost Jason Reynolds
40. Gilead Marilynne Robinson

41. The Giver Lois Lowry
42. The Godfather Mario Puzo
43. Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
� 44. Gone with the Wind; Margaret Mitchell
� 45. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
46. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
� 47. The Great Gatsby; F. Scott Fitzgerald
48. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
� 49. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
� 50. Harry Potter (series); J.K. Rowling - "Finalist

51. Hatchet (series) Gary Paulsen
52. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
53. The Help Kathryn Stockett
54. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
� 55. The Hunger Games (series); Suzanne Collins
56. The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy
57. The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead
58. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
59. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
60. The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan

61. Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
� 62. Left Behind (series); Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
63. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
� 64. Little Women; Louisa May Alcott
65. Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
66. Looking for Alaska John Green
� 67. The Lord of the Rings (series); J.R.R. Tolkien - "Finalist"
68. The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
� 69. The Martian; Andy Weir
� 70. Memoirs of a Geisha; Arthur Golden

71. Mind Invaders Dave Hunt
72. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
73. The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
74. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
� 75. Outlander (series); Diana Gabaldon - "Finalist"
� 76. The Outsiders; S.E. Hinton
� 77. The Picture of Dorian; Gray Oscar Wilde
78. The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan
79. The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
80. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen - "Finalist"

� 81. Ready Player One; Ernest Cline
82. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
� 83. The Shack; William P. Young
84. Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
85. The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
� 86. The Stand; Stephen King
87. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
88. Swan Song Robert R. McCammon
89. Tales of the City (series) Armistead Maupin
90. Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston

91. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
92. This Present Darkness Frank E. Peretti
� 93. To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee - "Best Loved"
� 94. The Twilight Saga (series); Stephenie Meyer
95. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
� 96. Watchers; Dean Koontz
97. The Wheel of Time (series) Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
98. Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
99. White Teeth Zadie Smith
100. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë


message 10: by Rachelnyc (new)

Rachelnyc | 943 comments To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my all-time favorites so I was so glad to see it win.

I think this show finally convinced me to read Outlander as well!


message 11: by MJ (new)

MJ | 900 comments I like the idea of the alphabetical list of authors from your tbr. My list is rather unwieldy and it was rather challenging to go through it while making up next year's list.

I am also eyeing the reject 2019 list... I should start a thread of my own in this section, just so I can ignore it!!


message 12: by Dina (last edited Aug 15, 2024 08:41AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments BBC 200: 8/200

� 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- The Fellowship of the Ring - 5/3/2014
- The Two Towers - 5/3/2014
- The Return of the King - 5/3/2014
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
� 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - 11/14/2014
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
� 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell - 5/3/2014
� 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis - 5/6/2014
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
� 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell - 5/3/2014
� 22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling - 4/11/2020
� 23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling - 9/18/2020
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien - 5/3/2014
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
� 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1/7/2021
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

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message 13: by Reed (new)

Reed (reedster6) | 79 comments How does this work for me ? I'm a new member of the group


message 14: by Reed (new)

Reed (reedster6) | 79 comments 1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire
2. Charlotte's web🕸
3. The Great Gatsby
4. Moby Dick
5. Pretty little liars
6. Red Blood, Snow White
7. Black Beauty
8. Twilight
9. Breaking Dawn
10. Finding Nemo
11. Wuthering Heights
12. Secretariat
13. Wonder
14. The Outsiders
15. Cold Nose, Warm Heart
16. The Crystal Cave
17. I am Malala
18. Counting on Grw
19. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child


message 15: by Dina (last edited Aug 15, 2024 08:35AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments If You've Read 10% of These Books You're Very Well Read:

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. 2666 (Roberto Bolano)
3. 84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)
4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
7. The Aeneid
8. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
� 9. All the Light We Cannot See
10. All Quiet on the Western Front
11. Along Came a Spider
12. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
13. American Born Chinese (Gene Luen Yang)
� 14. American Gods
15. American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
16. Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
17. An Ember in the Ashes (Sabaa Tahir)
18. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (P. D. James)
19. Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)
20. And Then There Were None
21. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
22. Animal Dreams (Barbara Kingsolver)
23. Animal Farm
24. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
25. Anna Karenina
26. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
27. Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
28. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Saenz)
29. The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach)
30. The Assistant
31. Atlas Shrugged
32. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
33. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
34. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
35. Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
36. Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal (Vaunda Micheaux Nelson)
37. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Sijie)
38. Becoming
39. Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
40. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
41. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
42. Beowulf
43. Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
44. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
� 45. Binti
46. Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)
47. Bless Me, Ultima (Rudolpho Anaya)
48. Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
49. The Bluest Eye

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message 16: by Dina (last edited Aug 15, 2024 08:35AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments If You've Read 10% of These Books You're Very Well Read (continued):

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� 450. The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
451. Underworld (Don Delillo)
452. The Universe in a Single Atom (Dalai Lama)
453. Uprooted (Naomi Novik)
454. The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
455. The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)
456. Villette
457. A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
458. Waiting for the Barbarians
459. Waiting for Godot
460. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
461. The Waste Land and Other Poems (T. S. Eliot)
462. Watchers
463. Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons)
464. Water for Elephants -
465. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
466. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - 2/2018
467. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
468. The Wedding (Dorothy West)
469. The Wedding Date (Jasmine Guillory)
470. The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)
471. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Raymond Carver)
472. Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple)
473. White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
474. The White Tiger
475. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Barbara Comyns)
476. Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers)
477. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - 1/2015
478. Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
479. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
480. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
481. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
482. Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
483. The Witches
484. Wittgenstein's Mistress
485. A Wizard of Earthsea
486. Wolf Hall
487. The Woman in the Dunes (Kobo Abe)
488. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
489. The Woman Warrior
490. The Women of Brewster Place (Novel)
491. World War Z (Max Brooks)
492. The Wrath and the Dawn (Renee Ahdieh)
493. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'engle)
494. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
495. The Year of Magical Thinking
496. The Yellow Wallpaper
497. You Shall Know Our Velocity
498. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Audre Lorde)
499. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
500. Zorro


message 17: by Dina (last edited Aug 15, 2024 08:13AM) (new)

Dina | 234 comments r/Fantasy 2024 Book Bingo - April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025

The Squares:

First Row Across: 1/5

� 1. First in a Series: The Blade Itself

2. Alliterative Title: Read a book where multiple words in the title begin with the same letter. For example, Legends and Lattes, A Storm of Swords, Children of Blood and Bone. HARD MODE: The title has three words or more that start with the same letter.

3. Under the Surface: Read a book where an important setting is either underground or underwater. HARD MODE: At least half the book takes place underground or underwater.

4. Criminals: Read a book in which the main character is a criminal. This could be a thief, assassin, someone who commits mail fraud, etc. HARD MODE: Features a heist.

5. Dreams: Read a book where characters experience dreams, magical or otherwise. HARD MODE: The dream is not mystical or unusual, just a normal dream or nightmare.

The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) by Joe Abercrombie

Second Row Across: 3/5

6. Entitled Animals: Read a book that has an animal in the title. The animal in the title does not have to appear in the story. Examples: The Raven Tower, Wolfsong, A Feast for Crows. HARD MODE: The animal in the title is a fantasy or sci-fi creature, i.e. The Last Unicorn, Leviathan Wakes, or The Kaiju Preservation Society.

� 7. Bards: A Fire Endless - *HARD MODE*: The character is explicitly called a bard

8. Prologues and Epilogues: Read a book that has either a prologue or an epilogue. HARD MODE: The book must have both.

� 9. Self-Published or Indie Publisher: Of Blood and Fire

� 10. Romantasy: In The Darkest Midnight

A Fire Endless (Elements of Cadence, #2) by Rebecca Ross Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and the Broken, #1) by Ryan Cahill In The Darkest Midnight (Wraith Kings, #2.5) by Grace Draven

Third Row Across

11) Dark Academia: Read a book that fits the dark academia aesthetic. This includes school and university, secret societies, and dark secrets. Does not have to be fantasy, but must be speculative. HARD MODE: The school itself is entirely mundane.

12) Multi-POV: Read a book with at least three point of view characters. HARD MODE: At least five point of view characters.

13) Published in 2024: A book published for the first time in 2024 (no reprints or new editions) First translations into your language of choice are allowed. HARD MODE: It's also the author's first published novel.

14) Character with a Disability: Read a book in which an important character has a physical or mental disability. HARD MODE: A main character has a physical or mental disability.

� 15) Published in the 1990s: Ship of Magic - 1998

Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) by Robin Hobb

Fourth Row Across

16) Orcs, Trolls, and Goblins - Oh My!: Read a book featuring orcs, trolls, or goblins. HARD MODE: As a main character.

17) Space Opera: Read a sci-fi book that features a large cast of characters and has a focus on social dynamics which may be political or personal in nature. Set primarily in space or on spaceships. HARD MODE: Written by an author of marginalized gender identity (e.g. women, trans people, non-binary people).

18) Author of Color: Read a book by an author of color. HARD MODE: Must be a debut novel published in the last five years.

19) Survival: Read a book in which the primary goal of the characters and story focuses on survival. Surviving an apocalypse, surviving a war, surviving high school, etc. HARD MODE: No superviruses or pandemics.

20) Judge A Book By Its Cover: Choose because you like its cover. HARD MODE: Pick the book based only on the information available on the cover. No reading the blurb!

Fifth Row Across

21) Set in a Small Town: The primary setting is a small town. HARD MODE: The small town can be real or fictional but the broader setting must be our real world and not a secondary world.

22) Five SFF Short Stories: Any five short stories or novelettes. HARD MODE: Read an entire speculative anthology or collection.

23) Eldritch Creatures: Read a book featuring a being that is uncanny, unearthly, and weird. This can be a god or monster from another plane or realm and is usually beyond mortal understanding. See this link for further information. HARD MODE: The book is not related to the Cthulhu mythos.

24) Reference Materials: Read a book that features additional material, such as a map, footnotes, glossary, translation guide, dramatis personae etc. HARD MODE: Book contains at least two types of additional materials.

� 25) Book Club or Readalong Book: The Tainted Cup


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Bingo:

The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) by Joe Abercrombie X X X X

X A Fire Endless (Elements of Cadence, #2) by Rebecca Ross X Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and the Broken, #1) by Ryan Cahill In The Darkest Midnight (Wraith Kings, #2.5) by Grace Draven

X X X X Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) by Robin Hobb

X X X X X
X X X X The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett


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