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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments  photo reading_challenge_badge_zpsp0icytf1.png

GAVE IT FIVE STARS  photo phil_02.gif
 photo flame2_zps39xwxzkg.jpgeDingus = 3 of 15 (20%)
Home Alone = 5 of 15 (33%)
Leftover Stew = 7 of 8 (88%)
Authorization (Westlake) = 3 of 12 (25%)
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! = 335 of 150 (223%)
ŹٴǴǰٴDZ = 40 of 20 (200%)
Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die = 21 of 5 (420%)
Shortcuts = 32 of 25 (128%)
Shelving Unit/Sai King Recommends = 19 of 12 (158%)
Chain Link Fence/Got Connections = 34 of 33 (103%)
Yearbook = 312 of 191 (163%)
ocsarAnd the Award Goes to... = 63 of 25 (252%)
In a Land Far Far Away = 76 of 25 (304%)
Serial Eyes = 163 of 75 (217%)
Second One To Know = 11 of 10 (110%)
packing heat = 51 of 15 (340%)
Revue = 42 of 15 (280%)
Dying to Read = 181 of 75 (241%)
🐶 Double Dog Dare = 94 of 40 (235%)

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✔️January You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ The Little Paris Bookshop 23 Jan
✔️January You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Crime and Poetry 13 Jan
YLTO! New Year Party -
✔️The Great Alone 31 chapters. 5 Jan
✔️The Yard 6 Jan
✔️Jan. EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - Classics: Anne of Green Gables 15 Jan
✔️Modern Classic/Popular: A Thousand Splendid Suns 19 Jan
✔️Bookshelf Catch-Up: Little Women 150th Anniversary Edition 24 Jan
✔️February You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ Kindred 26 Feb
✔️February You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Black Cat Crossing 12 Feb
✔️EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - Bookshelf Catch-Up: A Clockwork Orange 27 Feb
You'll Love This One! Toppler -
✔️Mr Loverman 16 Feb
✔️The Jungle Books 17 Feb
✔️The Space Merchants 17 Feb
✔️The Affair 17 Feb
✔️The Infinite Blacktop 18 Feb
✔️The Hidden Life of Trees 18 Feb
✔️An Absolutely Remarkable Thing 18 Feb
✔️Violet Eyes: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea 19 Feb
✔️The Princess and the Goblin 19 Feb
✔️All the Birds, Singing 19 Feb
✔️To the Lighthouse 20 Feb
✔️The Skeleton in the Closet 20 Feb
✔️Shylock Is My Name 20 Feb
✔️Tuesdays with Morrie 21 Feb
✔️Beautiful Disaster 21 Feb
✔️Walking the Bones 22 Feb
✔️Naked Tails 22 Feb
✔️March You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ Rosemary and Rue 30 Mar
✔️March You'll Love This One! Challenge -Here, There Be Dragons 15 Mar
✔️EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 17 Mar
✔️April You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ The Trouble with Goats and Sheep 28 Apr
✔️April You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Death at Charity's Point 27 Apr
You'll Love This One! Toppler -
✔️Ketchup Clouds 6 Apr
✔️The Fourth Monkey 6 Apr
✔️Stone Mattress 7 Apr
✔️May YLTO! Group Read ~The Red Tent Anniversary Edition 9781427225450 11 May
✔️May You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Fifty Fifty 9 May
✔️EVERYONE Has Read This But Me - Circe 22 Jun
✔️June You'll Love This One! Group Read Special Topics In Calamity Physics 30 Jun
✔️June You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~The Travelling Cat Chronicles 16 Jun
You'll Love This One! Toppler ~
✔️Thing Explainer Complicated Stuff 10 Jun
✔️A Burnable Book 9 Jun
✔️Tibetan Peach Pie 8 Jun
✔️Tigerman 8 Jun
✔️Red Rising 9 jun
✔️The Wife Between Us. 10 Jun
✔️To All the Boys I've Loved Before 10 Jun
✔️The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line 10 Jun
✔️Barracoon: Story of the Last “Black Cargo� 9 Jun
✔️The Water Knife 12 Jun
✔️Calamity 14 Jun
✔️The Order of Time 15 Jun
✔️July You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ Queen Bee 28 Jul
✔️July You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Something in the Water 1 Jul
✔️August Everyone But Me ~ A Gentleman in Moscow 14 Aug
✔️August Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group The Man in the Queue 4 Aug
✔️August Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group - Whose Body? 5 Aug
✔️August YLTO! Group Read ~ Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 29 Aug
✔️August You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Strangers on a Train 1 Aug
 photo August_zpsvn7ep1fn.pngYLTO! Toppler ~
✔️Good Behavior 10 Aug
✔️Silver Screen Fiend 10 Aug
✔️We Live in Water 10 Aug
✔️Ruff vs. Fluff 10 Aug
✔️September You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ The Soul of an Octopus 14 Sep
✔️September You'll Love This One! Challenge~�In the Shadow of Blackbirds 24 Sep
✔️September Everyone has Read This but Me ~ The Haunting of Hill House 29 Sep
✔️October You'll Love This One! Group Read ~A Study in Charlotte 26 Oct
✔️October You'll Love This One! Challenge ~The Book of the Unnamed Midwife 24 Oct
You'll Love This One! Toppler ~
✔️The Cold Cold Ground 320pages 12 Oct
✔️Say You're One of Them358 p 2008 12 Oct
✔️Two for the Lions 416 pages 1998 12 Oct
✔️Her One Mistake 2018 320 pages 13 Oct
✔️The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 13 Oct
✔️Sweetgirl 13 Oct
✔️ First Bad Man 13 Oct
✔️Book of Three 14 Oct
✔️Fourth of July Creek 14 Oct
✔️One Fifth Avenue 14 Oct
✔️Orphan # 8 15 Oct
✔️Rule of Nine 15 Oct
✔️1421 15 Oct
✔️The Third Secret 16 Oct
✔️Seven for a Secret 16 Oct
✔️ Second Life Nick Mason 16 Oct
✔️The Fifth Woman 17 Oct
✔️Three Hands in the Fountain 17 Oct
✔️Brighton Rock 17 Oct
✔️One Virgin Too Many 18 Oct
✔️The Three-Body Problem 18 Oct
✔️ Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes 18 Oct
✔️The Busy Body 19 Oct
✔️November You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ The Glass Woman 29 Nov
✔️November You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Blindness 4 Nov
✔️December You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Gabriel's Inferno 14 Dec
You'll Love This One! Toppler ~
✔️Joan of Arc: Personal Recollections 28 Dec
✔️The True Story of Hansel and Gretel 29 Dec

2018 Reading Goals
2017 Reading Goals
2016 Reading Goals
2015 Reading Goals

You'll love this one!~ member since Oct 19, 2011
Books Stephen King Recommends ~ member since Mar 26, 2011
Challenge Yourself ~ member since Dec 14, 2011
Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group ~ member since Jan 06, 2011
Crazy Challenge Connection ~ member since Jul 24, 2012
Around the World ~ member since Dec 15, 2012
Vaginal Fantasy Book Club ~ member since Aug 26, 2013
EVERYONE Has Read This but Me ~ member since Jun 26, 2017


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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments countdown photo: Countdown animated-gif-timer-countdown-i17.gif

2019 Yearbook
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2018 Yearbook
2017 Yearbook
2016 Yearbook


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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments  photo 05943dfd-0970-4bf8-9da4-8b17cdd39413_zps4c3140cb.jpg
✔️Say You're Sorry 4 Feb
✔️Percepliquis 21 Jul
✔️ photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgThe Case of the Love Commandos 12 Nov
✔️Choke Point 6 Oct
✔️The Luminaries 18 Dec
✔️Roma 3 Aug
✔️ photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgThe Fall Guy 26 Jul
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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments
The Devil's Star 12 May
✔️Die for You 2008 Unger, Lisa 30 May
✔️Past Tense 19 May
✔️The Snowman 17 May
✔️Prayers the Devil Answers 2 Apr



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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments

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ROCK BOTTOM REMAINDERS

Kin
Joe Hill
Stephen King
Tabitha King
Owen King
Kelly Braffet

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A Clockwork Orange 27 Feb
✔️To the Lighthouse 20 Feb
✔️Faceless Killers 13 Feb
✔️Schindler's List 11 Feb
✔️Little Women(150th Anniversary Edition of the Classic) 24 Jan
✔️Anne of Green Gables 15 Jan
✔️The Children's Book 10 Jan
✔️Notes From A Small Island 17 Jun
✔️The Lambs of London 18 Jun
✔️Pride and Prejudice 6 Jul
✔️Wuthering Heights 25 Jul
✔️White Teeth 29 Jul
✔️The Picture of Dorian Gray 6 Aug
✔️Cain 9 Aug
✔️The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 29 Aug
✔️The Island of Dr. Moreau 4 Sep
✔️Winesburg, Ohio 6 Nov
✔️Alias Grace 4 Dec
✔️A Fine Balance 20 Dec


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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments Off to See the Wizard! August Toppler

The toppler will run from noon Saturday, August 10th, to noon Sunday, August 11th, ET.

175 pages

Tasks:
Scarecrow - (brain) Read a nonfiction book. �Silver Screen Fiend 4:00/2:00
Munchkins - Read a book of short stories. �Good Behavior 5:47/3:00
Wicked Witch of the West - with water on the cover. ☊☊We Live in Water 4:53/2:30
Toto - a dog on the cover or as the main character. ☊☊Ruff vs. Fluff 7:09/3:30
Lion - (courage) Read a horror book. ☊☊The Picture of Dorian Gray 9:33/4:45
Flying Monkeys - Read a book in the fantasy genre. ☊☊Mort(e) 11:08/5:30
The Wizard - Read a book that includes magic. ☊☊Ship of Magic 35:30
Tin Man - (heart) Read a romance book.  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgChance Assassin: 324 pages
Glinda - Read a book with a witch as a main character.  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgThe Book of Shadows 624
Dorothy -debut by a female author w/ female MC Interrupted Aria does not qualify


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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments HAUNTED MANSION October 2019 Challenge

handsome
hedonism (ist)
heinous
hideous ~  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgHideous Kinky 186 pages
heist
human(s)(noid)(e) ~  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgHumans 355 pages
adios ~  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpg Adios, Scheherazade 188 pages
adieu
amend(s)
amen
amnesia
adhesion
admonish
anoint(ed)(s)
athenian(s)
union(s) ~ photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpg The Union Club Mysteries
union(s) ~ �Murder at Union Station 8:00
unison(ant)
naiad
nude(ist) ~  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgSo Nude, So Dead 223 pages
tension
tedious
thousand ~ photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgSnow Country & Thousand Cranes
thousand ~  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpg The Ten Thousand Things
toad(s) ~  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpg Toads and Diamonds
tsunami
ennui
demons ~ ☊☊Raising Demons 9:40
demons ~  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgDancing With Demons 274 pages
demons ~ Dance Demons
death(s) ~ �Death Masks 11:30
death(s) ~ �Death Without Company 10:00
death(s) ~  photo booktree_zpsxlofir9w.jpgDeath in Captivity 260 pages
death(s) ~ �If Death Ever Slept
dime ~ ☊☊Chasing the Dime 10:30
damn(ation)
dominates(ant)
medusa
minnesota ~ �The Lager Queen of Minnesota 11:00
stamina
sundae
innuendo(s)

unnamed ~ �The Book of the Unnamed Midwife 9:15

Word Picked
4 pts - 7 letters long

Genre:
3 pts - Science Fiction

Pages:
2 pts - 291 pages

Total; Points - 9 points


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October Count Toppler

Saturday start 12:00 +6:00 = 6:00 +5:00 = 11:00 +1:15 =12:15
6:00 Two for the Lions 416 pages, 12H 2M(2,4,5,6,8)
5:00 Cold Cold Ground 1st pub Jan 3 12, aud 4 Jan 5 12, set 81,320p, 10H 3M (1.2.3,5,6)
1:15 Say You're One of Them 1st pub Jun 5 08, aud Jun 19 08, 358 p, 2H 39M (2,5,6,8)

Sunday start 6:00 +3:00 =9:00 +3:00 =12:00 +5:00 =5:00 +4:00 =9:00
3:00 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 5H 52M, 320 pages, 5, 8, 9,
3:00 Sweetgirl 1st pub. & audio Pub.Feb 2nd 2016, 256 pages, 5H 58M (2.5.6)
5:00 Her One Mistake 1st pub. Jun 1 2018, audio Pub Jan 8 2019, 320 pg 10H (1,6.8,9)
4:00 � First Bad Man 288p, author July, 1st Pub & aud date Jan 13 2015, 8H 7M (1,5,7,8)

Monday start 6:00 +2:30 = 8:30 +8:00 =4:30 +8:15 =12:45
2:30 Book of Three 224p, Mar 12 1964, Oct 10, 2006, #1, 5H 5M (1,3,4,5,6)
8:00 � Fourth of July Creek 466 pages, 1st pub May 27 2014, Aud May 27 2014 15H 41M
8:15 � One Fifth Avenue 433 pages 1st pub May 1 2008, aud Oct 7,2008, 16H 29M

Tuesday start 6:00 +5:30 =11:30 +5:30 =5:00 +6:30 =11:30
5:30 � Orphan # 8 416 pages 1st pub Jul 7 2015, aud Aug 4 2015, 11H 1M
5:30 � Rule of Nine 400 pages #11, 1st published Jun 1 2010, aud June 2, 2010, 11H 9M
6:30 ☊☊ 1421 552p , 1st pub Jan 1 2002, audio Jan 2 2014, 13H, (1,2,4)

Wednesday start 6:00 +6:15 =12:15 +7:00 =7:15 +4:00 =11:15
6:15 � The Third Secret 416 pages, 1st pub May 17 2005, aud May 31 2005, 12H 25M
7:00 � Seven for a Secret 445 pages #2, 1st pub Jul 11 2013, aud Sep 24 2013, 14H 3M
4:00 � Second Life Nick Mason #1, 288p 1st Pub & Aud 5/17/16, Award 2017, 8H 7M (1,2,5,6,7,8)

Thursday start 6:00 +8:30 =2:30 +5:30 =8:00 + 5:00 =1:00
8:30 � The Fifth Woman 423 Pages,#6, 1st pub 1996, audio: Nov 1 2007, 17H 4M
5:30 ☊☊ Three Hands in the Fountain 11H 18M, 368 pages, pub. 1996, #9
5:00 ☊☊ Brighton Rock 310 pages 1938 9H 45M

Friday start 6:00 +5:30 =11:30 +6:45 =6:15 +4:45 =11:00
5:30 ☊☊ One Virgin Too Many #11 302 pages
6:45 � The Three-Body Problem 416 pages, #1, set in 1967 13H 26M, 1, 4, 5, 6, 8
4:45 ☊☊ Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes 1st pub May 3 2018, audio Pub Jul 29, 2019
341p, 9H 33M (3,5,7,8,9)

Saturday
2:45 ☊☊ The Busy Body 2012, Donald E.Westlake, 5H 30M
4:30 � A Study in Charlotte 1st pub. & audio . Mar 1st 2016, 9H 7M , 321 pages. #1 (1,3,6,7.9)

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Embrace your inner Vexillologist NOVEMBER 2019 CHALLENGE

Sao Tome and Principe
Sub-Saharan Africa
☊☊The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
or
MCLS-The Dog Stars
Heller, Peter

Romania
Eastern Europe
Plymouth Dead Tree- The Appointment
by Herta Müller

Solomon Islands
Melanesia
MEL Dead Tree- Devil-Devil
by Graeme Kent
or
☊☊The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
or
MCLS-The Dog Stars
Heller, Peter

Latvia
Northern Europe
Not Available- Soviet Milk
by Nora Ikstena

ܰç
Latin America and the Caribbean
☊☊The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
or
MCLS-The Dog Stars
Heller, Peter

Portugal
Southern Europe
Blindness
José Saramago

Japan
Eastern Asia
☊☊Fire- A Cold Red Sunrise
(Porfiry Rostnikov #5)
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
or
☊☊Fire - The Core of the Sun
by Johanna Sinisalo,
or
☊☊The Faded Sun Trilogy
by C.J. Cherryh

Rwanda
Sub-Saharan Africa
MEL Dead Tree- The Hard Truth About Sunshine
by Sawyer Bennett
or
Not Available- Sunny Side Up
(Lake Erie Mysteries #1)
by Maureen K. Howard



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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments DECEMBER

Group Challenge Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Volume 1: Prodigal Son too short
naked man on the cover The Back Passage (Mitch Mitchell Mystery, #1) by James Lear 🌴The Back Passage 199 pages
author's name Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mathilda & Other Stories by Mary Shelley
Valperga by Mary Shelley
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
Lodore & Falkner; A Novel by Mary Shelley
Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelley
☊☊Findings by Mary Anna Evans 265 pages
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell 430 pages
Doc by Mary Doria Russell 394 pages
The Swimming Pool by Mary Roberts Rinehart locked room
Just Desserts by Mary Daheim
The Crystal Cave (Merlin, #1/Arthurian Saga, #1) by Mary Stewart The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart 527 pages


Toppler
**Joan of Arc: Personal Recollections 4.07 Twain, Mark
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel 4.03 Murphy, Louise
*Homegoing 4.42 Gyasi, Yaa
**Salt to the Sea 4.36 Sepetys, Ruta
v*The Hunger Games 4.33 Collins, Suzanne
*Still Alice 4.31 Genova, Lisa
Bridge of Birds 4.29 Hughart, Barry
*I, Claudius 4.27 Graves, Robert
*Me Before You 4.26 Moyes, Jojo
v*A Court of Thorns and Roses 4.25 Maas, Sarah J.
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House 4.25 Grissom, Kathleen
The Skystone 4.18 Whyte, Jack
**The Girl Who Drank the Moon 4.18 Barnhill, Kelly
*Moloka'i 4.17 Brennert, Alan
v*Empire of the Summer Moon 4.15 Gwynne, S.C
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories 4.13 Burton, Tim 115 pages
Through Black Spruce 4.12 Boyden, Joseph
*Jane Eyre 4.12 Brontë, Charlotte
*What's Eating Gilbert Grape 4.10 Hedges, Peter
**Death on the Nile 4.10 Christie, Agatha
Little Boy Lost 4.09 Laski, Marghanita
**Water for Elephants 4.08 Gruen, Sara
Girl They Left Behind 4.08 Veletzos, Roxanne
*Sense and Sensibility 4.07 Austen, Jane
*The Butterfly Garden 4.06 Hutchison, Dot
Life with Picasso 4.06 Gilot, Françoise
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books 4.05 Charles Dickens
The Shell Collector: Stories 4.03 Doerr, Anthony
Mudbound 4.03 Jordan, Hillary
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 4.01 Flanagan, Richard
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before 4.00 Horwitz, Tony

Empire of the Sun 3.99 Ballard, J.G.
The Bonesetter's Daughter 3.99 Tan, Amy
The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America 3.99 Larson, Erik
A Canticle for Leibowitz 3.98 Miller Jr., Walter M.
The Android's Dream 3.97 Scalzi, John
The Snow Child 3.97 Ivey, Eowyn
vMy Cousin Rachel 3.96 du Maurier, Daphne
Who Fears Death 3.96 Okorafor, Nnedi
Exiting Nirvana: Daughter's Life w/ Autism 3.94 Park, Clara
The Talented Mr. Ripley 3.94 Highsmith, Patricia
The Girl With All the Gifts 3.94 Carey, M.R.
New Found Land 3.93 Wolf, Allan
The Gabriel Hounds 3.92 Stewart, Mary
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack/Japanese Psyche 3.90
Timebound 3.87 Walker, Rysa
Gone 3.86 Grant, Michael
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 3.86 Green, Hannah
Five Quarters of the Orange 3.85 Harris, Joanne
Second Star To The Right 3.84 Kruesi, Mary Alice
The Aeneid 3.83 Virgil
vMoon Tiger 3.83
Suite Française 3.83 Némirovsky, Irène
Six Years 3.82 Coben, Harlan
vPompeii 3.82 Harris, Robert
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.82 Carey, Peter
A Year of Marvellous Ways 3.81 Winman, Sarah
Minding Frankie 3.80 Binchy, Maeve
Mrs. Dalloway 3.79 Woolf, Virginia
The Flanders Panel 3.79 Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
The Maid and the Queen 3.78 Goldstone, Nancy
The Tenderness of Wolves 3.76 Penney, Stef
The Black Dahlia ) 3.75 Ellroy, James
The Windup Girl 3.75 Bacigalupi, Paolo
The Girl in Red 3.74 Henry, Christina
The Girl in the Photograph 3.72 Riordan, Kate
Sugar Money 3.72 Harris, Jane
Among Others 3.69 Walton, Jo
Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc 3.66 Garden, Nancy
Brooklyn 3.66 Tóibín, Colm
The Age of Miracles 3.65 Walker, Karen Thompson
22 Britannia Road 3.64 Hodgkinson, Amanda
Hunter's Run 3.63 Martin, George R.R
The Witchfinder's Sister 3.62 Underdown, Beth
Murder on the Lusitania 3.60 Allen, Conrad
The Essex Serpent 3.60 Perry, Sarah
The Monsters of Templeton 3.60 Groff, Lauren
Peony In Love 3.60 See, Lisa
The Rose of Sebastopol 3.59 McMahon, Katharine
It Rains in February 3.59 Summers, Leila
vOn Chesil Beach 3.58
The Invention of Everything Else 3.51 Hunt, Samantha
Beneath the Sands of Egypt: 3.48 Ryan, Donald P
The Maid 3.41 Cutter, Kimberly
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 3.29 Grahame-Smith, Seth
Becoming Jane Eyre 3.27 Kohler, Sheila
The Lifeboat 3.20 Rogan, Charlotte


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Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments Does the 1001 books before you die list change?
I have a word doc copy that I downloaded from

Does your list start with #1 Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro?
Mine does not have Schindler's List, but shows Schindler's Ark.
All of the rest you show above are listed.


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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments Cherie wrote: "Does the 1001 books before you die list change?
I have a word doc copy that I downloaded from

Does your list start with #1 Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro?
Mine does not have Schindler's List, but shows Schindler's Ark.
All of the rest you show above are listed. .."


As you have speculated, the list changes, as new books are added, and therefore someone must go! This makes the 1001 Books a moving target.

I am using a March 2008 hardcover book which I own. It is organized by era rather than ranking. If any books have been added since then I won't have a clue about the more contemporary additions. I can live with that. I'll never get to them all anyway! lol!�.

Schindler's Ark is the original title for Schindler's List.


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Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments Ah, that makes sense. I do not know what year my list was published. I have a link to where I got it, but I do not know if it is still active. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is on it, so it is a few years old. Does your list have this book as #13? It has Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro at #1.

It is not like I am ever going to read them all, but I like to look every once in a while and see the titles. I have the ones that I have read highlighted in bold. I have read 109 of them. I own about 10 more that I have not read yet.


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Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments Cherie wrote: "Ah, that makes sense. I do not know what year my list was published. I have a link to where I got it, but I do not know if it is still active. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is on it, so it is a few..."

Never Let Me Go is the very last book listed in this volume. However, since this volume is listed by era rather than ranking, being last means nothing. It just means that a 2005 publication was the last book added to the overall list.

I've read 116 of Boxall's recommendations, not all with successful outcomes. So I don't try really hard to read a bunch of them. I shoot for 5 to 10 a year.


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Cherie (crobins0) | 21536 comments I saw your post in the monthly challenge thread. Noted that you read and read Here, There Be Dragons.

I have been following this series, when my library gets the books.
I finished the first three and am waiting on #4. I like the concept of the authors being keepers of the book, and trying to find out who they are. It is a little vague and clunky in parts, but fun.


message 20: by Almeta (new)

Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11294 comments Cherie wrote: "I saw your post in the monthly challenge thread. Noted that you read and read Here, There Be Dragons.

I have been following this series, when my library gets the books.
I finished the first three and am waiting on #4. I like the concept of the authors being keepers of the book, and trying to find out who they are. It is a little vague and clunky in parts, but fun. ..."


Took me a while to catch on to the inclusion of the many well known fantasy authors and stories. It is fun when realization hits. I wondered if the series continued these "tributes".


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