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20.2
Winter 2020-21
20.7-In honor of Harriet E. Wilson, who wrote the first novel by an African American, read any book published during her lifetime (1825-1900).

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
pub. 1855

Task = 20
pre-1998=5
Task Total=25
Grand Total= 45

Seasons used: 1. Fall 2012; 2. Winter 2020-21.

20.3 She Writes
WI 19-20
Read a book by a female author with a female MC
The Book of Two Waysby Jodi Picoult

Task +20
Grand Total: 50

20.2 Favorites

WI '18-19 Over and Under - average rating over 3.74 AND under 1001 ratings

Joseph, the Man Who Raised Jesus by Fr. Gary Caster

+20 Task
Season Total: 45

20.3 Favorites

FA '22 Birthday Read any book whose original publication year is 2 consecutive digits. (e.g. 1944, 1880, 2006)

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle published 1887

+20 Task
+5 Oldie

Task Total: 25
Season Total: 70

15.5
Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore

# 20 prior list
/list/show/1...

#7 new list
/list/show/3...

+20 task
+ 5 before 1998 (1983)
Task total = 25
Season total = 125

20.4 Favorites

Independence Square by Martin Cruz Smith

20 pts 20.4 Favorites

Winter 18-19 20.10 Over and Under (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)

Read any book with an average rating over 3.74 AND under 1001 ratings. (3.75/1000)

Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 80 pts


Tasks used Round 1
Post 23: Spring 2013 20.5
Post 76 : Summer 2014 20.9
Post 142: Spring 2019 20.2
Post 158: Winter 18-19 20.10

10.4. Number of letters in a title word (title only, but book can have a subtitle)

A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
Shadows has 7 letters

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 230

...; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; ...; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...

10.1. Number of letters in author's first or last name

A Caress of Twilight by Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell has 7 letters

+10 task

Post Total = 10
Season Total = 240

10.1 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; ...; ...; ...; 10.9; ...;
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8; ...; ...

15.3 Listopia Chain

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

+15 Task (#17 on previous list: Best Historical Mystery /list/show/1... #42 on Most Brilliant Historical Novels /list/show/2... )

+5 Before 1998 (1997)
+5 Big (704 pgs)

Task total = 25

Season total = 85

15.6 listopia chain
Murder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson

#61 on previous list
/list/show/1...

#35 on new list
/list/show/2...

Task - 20 pts

15.6

Nailbiter, Vol. 1: There Will Be Blood by Joshua Williamson

# 25 Prior list
/list/show/3...

#4 new list
/list/show/9...

+20 task
Season total = 145

20.1 Favorites

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

+20 task (Summer 2017 task 20.9 a book shelved at least 25 times as true crime)
+5 big
Task total: 25

Season total: 45

10.2 Summertime- Round 2
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

+10 Task (7-word title)

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 350

10.6 Summertime- Round 2
Dragondrums (Harper Hall of Pern #3) by Anne McCaffrey
born 1926 as per GR profile & pub 1979

+10 Task ("6" in author's birth year)
+5 Before 1998

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 365

15.2 - Listopia Chain

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

#87 on previous list -- Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction: /list/show/4...
#4 on next list -- 2023: What Women Born In The 1970s Have Read So Far This Year: /list/show/1...

+15 task
+ 5 big (546 pages)

Task total = 20
Season Total = 130

15.7

We3 by Grant Morrison

#3 prior list
/list/show/9...

#23 new list
/list/show/1...

+20 task
Season total = 165

15.4 Listopia Chain

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

#4 on previous list: /list/show/1...

#1 here: /list/show/1...

15 task
_____
15

Running total: 180

Task 20.3 Favorites -
10 tasks from 10 different seasons � all one task, #20.10

Winter 2022-2023

Task 20.10 Mystery (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Read any book with an MPG of mystery.


Death of a Trophy Wife (A Jaine Austen Mystery #9) (2010) by Laura Levine (Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author) (Hardcover 259 pages)

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 50 + 20 = 70

Task 10.2 Number of words in title

Seven words in title.

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (2023) by J. Ryan Stradal

+10 Task

Task Total: 10

Grand Total: 70 + 10 = 80

15.2 Listopia Chain
The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski

+15 Task (#8 from previous list True Stand Alones Worth Reading #42 on new list: All Time Favorite Romance Novels)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 380

20.4 Favorites

Absolutely Positively Connecticut: More Stories from the Award-Winning WTNH-TV Series Now Seen on CPTV by Diane Smith

+20 task FA 22 20.9 ABCs (Author's initials appear in alphabetical order)

Task total: 20
Season total: 110

15.7 Listopia Chain
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

#62 on previous list
/list/show/2...
#65 on new list
/list/show/1...

+20 pts - task
Task Total - 20 pts

20.4 - Favorites

The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton

WI 19-20 task 20.2: Freedom Season: set in the American South (Florida)

+20 task

Task total = 20
Season Total = 150

From Post 82

Tien wrote: "10.10 Summertime
Hideout (Timothy Blake #3) by Jack Heath

+10 Task (title begins with H)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 170"

Just a reminder that all 10-point tasks are worth 10 points.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 58 Norma wrote: "10.5 - Summertime

Death In The Dark by Emily Kimelman

+10 task - 6 letters in setting - Mexico

Task total: 10
Grand total: 20"

I'm sorry, ..."

Elizabeth, I am changing the book for this task to
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming

the story takes place in New York state.

Thanks Norma

10.1 - Summertime

Cranberry Bluff by Deborah Garner

+10 task - letters in authors last name - 6

Task total: 10
Grand total: 130

20.4 Favorites

Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin

+20 Task SU '20 Canada - author born or book set in Canada (100% Toronto)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 90

20.2 Favorites

Banker by Dick Francis

+20 Task (Fall 2022, 20.9, ABCs, author initials in alpha order)
+5 Before 1998 (1982)

Task total = 25

Season total = 110

20.5 Favorites

The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

20 pts 20.5 Favorites

Fall 2022 20.9 ABCs (Kate S's Task)

Read a book in which the author's initials appear in alphabetical order. Double letters do not count. Authors who work: Dean Koontz, José Saramago, Anne Rivers Siddons. Authors who don't work: Richard Russo, J.R.R. Tolkien

Task total: 20 pts
Season total: 100 pts


Tasks used Round 1
Post 23: Spring 2013 20.5
Post 76 : Summer 2014 20.9
Post 142: Spring 2019 20.2
Post 158: Winter 18-19 20.10
Post 183: Fall 2022 20.9

20.3

Bloodline by Will Wight

Winder 10/11
20.3 � Shortest Day/Month of the Year
Winter contains the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, as well as February, the shortest month of the year. Read a book with a short title...so short that it only consists of one word. For this task, no subtitles are allowed.

+20 task
Season total = 185

20.3 Favorites

What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski

+20 task (Summer 2017, Task 20.5 It's Elemental-earth, air, or fire in title)

Task total=20
Season total=65

(edited to correct year of original task to 2017 instead of 2013 .)

20.2 Favorites
The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb

+20 pts-Task (Fall 2021, 20.8 Gothic)
Task Total - 20 pts

20.5 Favorites
The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien de Castell
avg rating 4.10 / 660 ratings

+20 Task (WI 18-19 - rating over 3.74 AND under 1001 ratings)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 395

10.3 Summertime

Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain by Simon Garfield

+10 Task - number of words in subtitle
+ 5 Big (544 pages)

Post Total: 15
Season Total: 195

10.4 Summertime

The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths

+10 Task - 6 letters in Locked

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 205

20.6 Favorites

Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

Spring 2022 - Task 20.10 Between the Wars - Read any book that takes place 1919-1938.

+20 Task (pub 1928 and all stories taking place in the 1920s)
+ 5 Before 1998

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 230

15.2 Listopia Chain

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

+15 Task
#1 on previous list: Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2023
/list/show/1...
#57 on current list: Historical Fiction Ireland
/list/show/1...

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 95

10.9 Summertime

Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman

+10 Task: Author first/last name begins with the 6th, 7th, 8th letter of the alphabet (F, G, H)

Post Total: 10
Season Total: 105

20.3 Favorites

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

+20 Task (Spring 2022

20.10 Between the Wars (Elizabeth(Alaska)'s Task
Read any book that takes place 1919-1938. "evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.")
+. 5 Before 1998 (1949)

Post Total: 25
Season Total: 130

20.4 Favorites

Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks

+20 Task (Spring 2021 20.1 Prize
A Spell of Winter was the inaugural winner of the Bailey's/Orange/Women's Prize for fiction 25 years ago. In honor of this anniversary, read any book that has won or been nominated for this prize (under any name) nominated 2023)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 150

20.2 Favorites

Black Earth: A Journey through Ukraine by Jens Mühling

Spring 2015 20.8 Read a book classified as a travelogue at BPL (call number 910- 919)

+20 task (call number at BPL 914.77)

Season total: 65

20.6 Favorites
Fresh Doubt (Ingrid Skyberg FBI Thriller #1) by Eva Hudson

+20 Task (WI 19-20 - woman author & POV)

Post Total: 20
Season Total: 415

20.4 Favorites

Bukowski for Beginners by Carlos Polimeni

+20 task (SP11, 20.1 - Alliteration-title has words that begin with the same consonant or vowel sound. Ex. Rabbit Run, Bag of Bones)

Task total=20
Season total=85

15.8 Listopia Chain
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

#74 on previous list
/list/show/1...
#31 on new list
/list/show/1...

+30 pts - task

20.6 Favorites - Addiction

Post Office by Charles Bukowski

winter 17/18 task 20.9 main character experiences substance abuse
(MC is an alcoholic)

20 task
5 oldie
_____
25

Running total: 205

Task 20.4 Favorites -
10 tasks from 10 different seasons � all one task, #20.10

summer 2014
20.10 World Series Read a novel set primarily (more than half) in one of the cities which has won a world series
Won world series: NEW YORK CITY

Novel set > 90% in New York City

Good Riddance (2019) by Elinor Lipman

+20 Task

Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 80 + 20 = 100

20.7 Favorites - Winter Birthdays

Find a Victim by Ross Macdonald

winter 18/19 20.1 Winter birthdays Read any book by an author born in December, January or February = RM bday Dec. 13

20 task
5 oldie
____
25

Running total: 230

My goodness this was good!! My first 'Lew Archer'. Audiobook recommended, read by Tom Parker.

15.4 Listopia

Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey

#33 on previous list: /list/show/4893
#98 on new list: /list/show/549

+15 Task
+5 500+ pages

Task total: 20
Grand total: 190

20.7 Favorites
Nonhuman -Spring 2023
Dead to the Worldby Charlaine Harris
Vampires are nonhuman

Task +20
Grand total: 70

20.4 Favorites
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

+20 Task (WI 19-20 She Writes: Read a book written by a woman with a woman main character)

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 80

100 points (10 tasks from 10 different seasons (20.1-20.10 tasks chosen from 10 seasons)