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52 Book Club**Completed 11/27/2022**
�1. A second-person narrative - Please Look After Mom
�2. Featuring a library or bookstore - The Cartographers
�3. Title starting with the letter "E" - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
�4. Title starting with the letter "F" - Fight Night
�5. Chapters have titles - The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
�6. Household object on the cover - Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
�7. A non-fiction bestseller - Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
�8. Involving the art world - The Bobcat
�9. A book that sparks joy - Little Pieces of Hope: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World
�10. A book based on a real person - The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
�11. A book with less than 2022 ŷ ratings - Cyclopedia Exotica
�12. Set on at least two continents - Tokyo Ever After
�13. Includes a club - The Man Who Died Twice
�14. A character with superhuman ability - City of Ghosts
�15. A five-syllable title - The World Cannot Give
�16. A book you've seen someone reading in a public place - The Shadows
�17. A book picked based on its spine - The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
�18. Jane Austen-inspired - The Jane Austen Project
�19. A book that has an alternate title - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
�20. Related to the word "gold" - Gilded
�21. Published by Simon & Schuster - You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
�22. An unlikely detective - The Boy in the Suitcase
�23. Author with an X, Y, or Z in their name - Love on the Brain
�24. Addresses a specific topic - A Very Large Expanse of Sea
�25. A wealthy character - Nanny Needed
�26. Has an "author's note" - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
�27. Includes a map - The Witch and the Tsar
�28. Award-winning book from your country - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
�29. Over 500 pages long - A Conjuring of Light
�30. Audiobook is narrated by the author - You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
�31. Technology-themed - Firebreak
�32. A book that intimidates you - Magic for Beginners
�33. A bilingual character - The Hacienda
�34. An author's photo on the back cover - Election
�35. From the villain's perspective - Rock Paper Scissors
�36. Recommended by a favorite author - The Book Eaters
�37. Set in a rural area - These Silent Woods
�38. Don't judge a book by its cover - The Sentence
�39. A middle-grade novel - The Honest Truth
�40. A book with photographs inside - 100 Animals That Can F*cking End You
�41. Involves a second chance - She Wouldn't Change a Thing
�42. An indie read - What Storm, What Thunder
�43. Author who's published in more than one genre - The Future of Another Timeline
�44. An anthology - Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
�45. A book with illustrated people on cover - The Dead Romantics
�46. A job title in the title - The Aquanaut: A Graphic Novel
�47. Read during the month of November - Nora Goes Off Script
�48. Redo one of this year's prompts but with a different genre - The Girl in the Lake
�49. Book title starts with the same letter as your first name - The Jumbies
�50. A person of color as the main character - Monster
�51. The word "game" in the title - The Inheritance Games
�52. Published in 2022 - This Time Tomorrow
Read Harder**Completed 11/27/2022**
�1. Biography of an author you admire - James Baldwin: A Biography
�2. Book set in a bookstore - The Cat Who Saved Books
�3. Any book from the Women's Prize - A Thousand Ships
�4. A book in any genre by a POC that's about joy and not trauma - You Should See Me in a Crown
�5. An anthology featuring diverse voices - Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
�6. A nonfiction YA comic - Wonderful Women of the World
�7. Romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40 - Well Matched
�8. Classic written by a POC - Rashomon and Other Stories
�9. Book that's been on your TBR the longest - Magic for Beginners
�10. Political thriller by a marginalized author - Her Name Is Knight
�11. Book with an asexual and/or aromantic main character - Every Heart a Doorway
�12. An entire poetry collection - Call Us What We Carry
�13. Adventure story by a BIPOC author - The Gilded Ones
�14. Book whose movie or TV adaptation you've seen - The Color Purple
�15. A new-to-you literary magazine - 3Cents vol. 4
�16. Book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes - The Mother-in-Law
�17. Memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary - Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
�18. "Best ____ Writing of the year" - The Best American Essays 2021
�19. Horror novel by a BIPOC author - The Ballad of Black Tom
�20. An award-winning book from the year you were born - Jacob Have I Loved
�21. A queer retelling of a class of the canon, fairytale, folklore, or myth - A Spindle Splintered
�22. History about a period you know little about - Unfamiliar Fishes
�23. Book by a disabled author - True Biz
�24. A challenge from any of the previous years' challenges (Humor book 2019) - How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
PopSugar**Completed 10/27/2022**
�1. A book published in 2022 - Sea of Tranquility
�2. A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship - Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
�3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society - The Mercies
�4. A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title - The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
�5. A sapphic book - Something to Talk About
�6. A book by a Latinx author - Dominicana
�7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title - Cloud Cuckoo Land
�8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid - Among Others
�9. A book about a "found family" - Good Morning, Midnight
�10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner - The Trees
�11. A #Booktok recommendation - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
�12. A book about the afterlife - House of Hollow
�13. A book set in the 1980s - Paper Girls, Volume 1
�14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title - The Old Woman with the Knife
�15. A book by a Pacific Islander author -Frangipani
�16. A book about witches - The Familiars
�17. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022 - Heartstopper: Volume One
�18. A romance novel by a BIPOC author - You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
�19. A book that takes place during your favorite season - First Frost
�20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read - They Never Learn
�21. A book about a band or musical group - The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
�22. A book with a character on the ace spectrum - To Be Taught, If Fortunate
�23. A book with a recipe in it - With the Fire on High
�24. A book you can read in one sitting - If You Ask Me
�25. A book about a secret - All Her Little Secrets
�26. A book with a misleading title - All's Well
�27. A Hugo Award winner - Artificial Condition
�28. A book set during a holiday - Landline
�29. A different book by an author you read in 2021 - The Lightning-Struck Heart
�30. A book with the name of a board game in the title - The Good Life Elsewhere
�31. A book featuring a man-made disaster - How High We Go in the Dark
�32. A book with with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page - Florida Woman
�33. A social-horror book - When No One Is Watching
�34. A book set in Victorian times - What Moves the Dead
�35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title - A Constellation of Roses
�36. A book you know nothing about - Joan Is Okay
�37. A book about gender identity - Detransition, Baby
�38. A book featuring a party - The Guest List
�39. An #OwnVoices SFF book - Empire of Wild
�40. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - Lab Girl
�41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title - A Mirror Mended
�42. A book that features two language - Arsenic and Adobo
�43. A book with a palindromic title - Mouth to Mouth
�44. A duology (1) - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
�45. A duology (2) - The Book Woman's Daughter
�46. A book about someone leading a double life - Our Woman in Moscow
�47. A book featuring a parallel reality - The Space Between Worlds
�48. A book with two POVs - Honor
�49. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (1) - The Butterfly House (Copenhagen)
�50. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (2) - Go, Went, Gone (Berlin)
StoryGraph's Ladies First Challenge**Completed 11/23/2022**
�1. A book written by a woman author that won an award - Eve out of Her Ruins
�2. Action, adventure written by a woman author - The Tale of Despereaux
�3. Sci-fi, horror, or speculative fiction written by a woman author - The Year of the Flood
�4. History or historical fiction written by a woman author - The Buddha in the Attic
�5. A memoir or biography written by a woman author - Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir
�6. A book by an author that is an indigenous woman or a woman of color - Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
�7. Mystery, suspense, or thriller written by a woman author - All Her Little Secrets
�8. Magical realism or fantasy written by a woman author - The Book Eaters
�9. Women's or romantic fiction written by a woman author - Love on the Brain
�10. YA novel written by a woman author - It Sounds Like This
�11. A book written by a trans or LGBTQ woman - Bitter
�12. A debut by a woman author - Lessons in Chemistry
�13. A book by a woman author currently on the best seller list - Anatomy: A Love Story
�14. An audiobook written by and narrated by a woman author - Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
�15. A book written by a woman that was recommended to you by a woman - A Discovery of Witches
�16. A book written by a woman from a different country than yourself - Ten Women
�17. A book written by a woman with women on the cover - You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
�18. Literary or contemporary fiction written by a woman - Fight Night
�19. The first book of a series written by a woman - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
�20. An anthology featuring women authors - Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Flourish & Blotts**Completed 11/19/2022**
�1. Ancient Runes: A book in translation - Hotel Silence
�2. Deathly Hallows: A book that has a symbol on the cover - A Discovery of Witches
�3. Tales of Beedle the Bard: A fairytale retelling - A Spindle Splintered
�4. Mistranslation: Title is translated differently - Little Eyes
�5. Parseltongue: A book that contains a fictional language - A Conjuring of Light
�6. Arithmancy: A book with a number on the cover or in the title - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
�7. Golden trio: A book that's part of a series - Ink and Bone
�8. Hoggy Warty Hogwarts: A book that involves music - Blood: A Memoir
�9. Magical Numbers: A book that relates to a magical number - Where the Drowned Girls Go
�10. Mad Eye Moody: A book with multiple POVs - A History of Wild Places
�12. Astronomy: A book set in space - To Be Taught, If Fortunate
�13. Star Gazing: A book with a star on the cover or in the title - Good Morning, Midnight
�14. Star Struck: A book about a celebrity - If You Ask Me
�15. Sirius Black: Includes a character with a celestial name - The Mercies
�16. Telescope: A book you spotted on social media - Nanny Needed
�17. Care of Magical Creatures: Includes a magical creature - Empire of Wild
�18. Niffler: A book with a shiny cover - How High We Go in the Dark
�19. Fantastic beasts: A book with an animal on the cover - How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
�20. Unicorn: Your most anticipated book of the year - Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
�19. Monster Book of Monsters: A scary looking book - The Space Between Two Deaths
�21. Charms: A book by a favorite author - The Comfort Book
�22. Cheering Charm: A funny or happy book - Yearbook
�23. Flitwick: A short book or book of short stories - 9 From the Nine Worlds
�24. Wingardium Leviosa: A book that contains a feather - In an Absent Dream
�25. Time Turner: A book with dual timelines - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
�26. DADA: A book featuring good vs. evil - The Girl Who Drank the Moon
�27. Dark Arts: A book featuring dark magic - Gilded
�28. Death Eaters: A book with a dark cover - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
�29. Magical Me: A book with an incompetent character - Breathless
�30. Remus Lupin: A paranormal book - Come Tumbling Down
�31. Divination: A book set in the future - Wires and Nerve
�32. Trelawney: A book featuring a prophecy - Elektra
�33. Star Chart: A book related to your zodiac sign - The Book Woman's Daughter
�34. Unfogging the Future: A mystery or thriller - The Guest List
�35. The Grim: Contains a death - The Death of Vivek Oji
�36. Herbology: A book with a plant on the cover or in the title - Frangipani
�37. Pomona Sprout: Contains a character with an herbology related name - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
�38. Greenhouses: A book with a green cover - Across the Green Grass Fields
�39. Mandrake: A book that made you cry - My Brilliant Life
�40. Neville Longbottom: Contains a character who is an underdog - Election
�41. History of Magic: A book that mentions a historical witch or wizard - Payback's a Witch
�42. Harry Potter: A book that mentions Harry Potter - The Dead Romantics
�43. Hogwarts, A History: An historical fiction - Our Woman in Moscow
�44. Helena Ravenclaw: A novella or prequel - Family of Liars
�45. Cuthbert Binns: A book that you "slept" on - The Unit
�46. Muggle studies: An own voices book - Joan Is Okay
�47. Flying Car: A book related to STEAM - Below Zero
�48. Hogwarts: A book set in a school - All's Well
�49. Daily Prophet: A nonfiction book - Black Box
�50. Rubber Duck: A book with a yellow cover - The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
�51. Potions: A book that includes a poison - Arsenic and Adobo
�52. Amortentia: A book that includes a romance - Legends & Lattes
�53. Severus Snape: A book with page 394 - A Face Like Glass
�54. No Foolish Wand Waving: A book without magic - The Boy in the Suitcase
�55. Liquid Luck: Choose a book randomly - The Things She's Seen
�56. Transfiguration: A book to screen adaptation - Practical Magic
�57. Animagus: Includes a shapeshifter - Trail of Lightning
�58. Switching spell: A book whose cover and dust jacket are different colors - Lessons in Chemistry
�59. Minerva McGonagall: Contains a strong female character - Beneath the Sugar Sky
�60. Vanishment spell: A bestseller - Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Feminist Nook's Feminist Reading ChallengeCompleted: 24/25
�1. By bell hooks - Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
�2. About climate change - The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
�3. Asian writer in translation - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
�4. About immigration/written by a refugee - When Stars Are Scattered
�5. Published by an indie press - The Midnight Bargain
�6. By a non-binary writer - Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
�7. A memoir by a Muslim writer - Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph
�8. About disability/chronic illness - Rx
9. Historical fiction by an African writer - Under the Udala Trees
�10. Jhalak Prize nominee - The Roles We Play
�11. Poetry by a Black author - Call Us What We Carry
�12. Mythology retelling outside of Ancient Greece - The Witch and the Tsar
�13. South American writer in translation - Little Eyes
�14. Short story collection - The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
�15. By a Latinx writer - Certain Dark Things
�16. Memoir in translation - Black Box
�17. Listen to an audiobook - Killers of a Certain Age
�18. A graphic novel - Almost American Girl
�19. Feminist non-fiction by a writer of color - Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
�20. About queer joy - Heartstopper: Volume One
�21. By an East African writer - Eve out of Her Ruins
�22. Feminist lit beyond UK/USA - Where the Wild Ladies Are
�23. By a Caribbean author - What Storm, What Thunder
�24. By an indigenous author - The Sentence
�25. Middle grade by a Black author - The Girl in the Lake
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Jackie wrote: "You are going for so many challenges! Do you overlap across challenges?"Oh, yes, definitely! I have an addiction 🤣. I aim to read about 200 books per year and fit them where I can.
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�1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y - The Reading List
�2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021 - Dear Justyce
�3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title - How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
�4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list - The Sweetness of Water (Obama's reading list)
�5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name - Blood: A Memoir
�6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover - Bewilderment
�7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind - The Comfort Book
�8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1 (Europe) - Anatomy: A Love Story
�9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2 (North America) - When We Were Birds
�10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3 (Africa) - The Death of Vivek Oji
�11. A book from historical fiction genre - The Viscount Who Loved Me
�12. A book related to glass - A Face Like Glass
�13. A book about a woman in STEM - The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
�14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on ŷ - Bitter
�15. A book without a person on the cover - A Thousand Ships
�16. A book related to Earth Day - Underland: A Deep Time Journey
�17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge - Red Island House
�18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author - My Brilliant Life
�19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history - Ink and Bone
�20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951 - A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
�21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover - Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
�22. A book with a Jewish character or author - Yearbook
�23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship - Honey Girl
�24. A book related to inclement weather - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
�25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages - The Bobcat
�26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1 - Hotel Silence
�27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2 - Dead Silence
�28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards - Before the Ever After
�29. A book set on or near a body of water - Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story of the Refugee Crisis
�30. A book related to mythology - The Space Between Two Deaths
�31. A book published at least 10 years ago - Garden Spells
�32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer- Keeper
�33. The next book in a series - Down Among the Sticks and Bones
�34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role - They Never Learn
�35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1- Lab Girl
�36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2 - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
�37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name - The Underground Railroad
�38. A book by a Latin American author - Ten Women
�39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time - You Should See Me in a Crown
�40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards - Days of Blood & Starlight
�41. A book with a theme of food or drink - Taste: My Life through Food
�42. A book with a language or nationality in the title - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
�43. A book set in a small town or rural area - A History of Wild Places
�44. A book with gothic elements - The Death of Jane Lawrence
�45. A book related to a game - We Are Watching Eliza Bright
�46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters - Remarkably Bright Creatures
�47. A book with handwriting on the cover - Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir
�48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022 - Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
�49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons" - When Women Were Dragons
�50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years - Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
�51. A book published in 2022 - Shit Cassandra Saw
�52. A book with a time-related word in the title - The Future of Another Timeline