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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books


Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter.
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over.

Anne FINISHED

Caraina FINISHED
Catsalive FINISHED
Crystal

Elizabeth
Elle FINISHED
Eva FINISHED

Ferenc FINISHED
Flying Snow

Genevieve FINISHED
Gretel FINISHED

Irza FINISHED

Jan FINISHED
JoAnne FINISHED
Julesy FINISHED

Katrina FINISHED
Kendra FINISHED
Kimberly

Laila Jane
Lynn

Melissa A FINISHED

Olivermagnus FINISHED

Pinar FINISHED

Shash
Suzanne FINISHED

Trina FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024
Single: Read 3-4 books
Read: 4

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!


1. Mistletoe and Molly Janet Dailey 1/3/24
2. A Little Ray of Sunshine Kristan Higgins 1/5/24
3. Parentmoon L.B. Dunbar 1/11/24
4. Holiday Hopes Judith Keim 1/26/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Mexikid by Pedro Martín - Jan. 3
2. Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley - Jan. 6
3. Snow White by Matt Phelan - Jan. 5
4. Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Jan. 9
5. Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables by Kathleen Gros - Jan. 14
6. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely - Jan. 16

FINISHED! January 2024 Standalone
Jan. 1 - 31, 2024
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6/5+

1. Much Ado About You Samantha Young 01/05/23
2. Dominicana Angie Cruz 01/09/24
3. Playing the Witch Card K.J. Dell'Antonia 01/12/24
4. Hana Khan Carries On Uzma Jalaluddin 01/14/24
5. Check & Mate Ali Hazelwood 01/15/24
6. At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities Heather Webber 01/16/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Down Under by Bill Bryson 1/1 4��
2. Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton 2/1 5��
3. Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes 3/1 2��
4. Witch King by Martha Wells 5/1 2��
5. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 7/1 4��
6. Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton 10/1 2��

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

COMPLETED!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1.) Tips for Living by Renee Shafransky 1/6/2024
2.) Miss Eliza's English Kitchen by Annabel Abbs 1/11/2024
3.) The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman 1/15/2024
4.) Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker 1/20/2024
5.) Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte 1/22/2024

Done - 9 books

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. When the Jessamine Grows/Donna Everhart 1/2/24 4.25��

2. The Fox Wife/Yangsze Choo 1/6/24 3.75��

3. Farenheit 451/Ray Bradbury
1/7/24 3.5��

4. Leave No Trace/A.J. Landau 1/10/24 3.25��

5. The Girls We Sent Away: A Novel/Meagan Church 1/13/24 3.25��

6. The Trouble with You/Ellen Feldman 1/21/243.25��

7. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom/McCracken Poston Jr. 1/22/24 2.5��

8. The Phoenix Bride/Natasha Siegel 1/25/24 3.25��

9. The Wicked and the Dead: The Hair-Raising Tale of Hack Long and His Outlaw Gang/William W. Johnstone 1/28/24 4��

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

6 of 6 Complete

1. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler - 1/1/24
2. Burial Rites - Hannah Kent - 1/6/24
3. The Coffee Trader - David Liss - 1/7/24
4. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 1/9/24
5. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer - 1/11/24
6. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - 1/12/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. 72. Koğuş (72nd Ward) by Orhan Kemal 1/1/24
2. Ziyan (Loss) by Hakan Günday 1/3/24
3. Ordular (The Armies) by Evelio Rosero 1/4/24
4. Hiçlikte İhtimal Var (There is a Possibility in Nothingness) by Pelin Kıvrak 1/8/24
5. Beton Ada (Concrete Island) by J.G. Ballard 1/11/24
6. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 1/14/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024


Single: Read 3-4 books


1. Switched by N.R. Walker 1/27/2024
2. On Davis Row by N.R. Walker 1/30/2024
3. Lost in London by Alana Stewart 1/31/2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Below Stairs Margaret Powell 1/1
2. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper Harriet Scott Chessman 1/4
3. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller 1/9
4. The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz Ellie Midwood 1/8
5. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood Trevor Noah 1/13
6. The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor 1/16

Welcome everyone!

Ooh! I’m in!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

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Welcome Crystal!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

Welcome Flying Snow!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Goal: 5/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

�� Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb - 01/17/24
�� Haunthology - Jeremy Haun - 01/21/24
�� A Cosmology of Monsters - Shaun Hamill - 01/23/24
�� The Keeper of Hidden Books - Madeline Martin - 01/28/24
�� The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley - 01/31/24

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Dark Harvest Norman Partridge 1/23/24


Finished

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books

1) Under the Streets of Nice - Rene L. Maurice 08/01/24
2) If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio 24/01/24

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books


Single: 3-4 books

1. Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood by Alida Nugent 01-16-2024
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January Stand Alone
Duration: Jan. 1st, 2024 - Jan. 31st, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

13/6

1. Ru by Kim Thúy - Jan. 1st
2. Stag's Leap: Poems by Sharon Olds - Jan. 2nd
3. The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor by Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key - Jan. 10th
4. Black Friend: Essays by Ziwe - Jan. 11th
5. Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame by Lisa Robinson - Jan. 12th
6. Quit Being an Idiot: Life Lessons from The Golden Girls by Robb Pearlman - Jan. 14th
7. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher - Jan. 18th
8. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow - Jan. 21st
9. Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler - Jan. 23rd
10. You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love by Marcia A. Zug - Jan. 24th
11. Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Tracy Borman - Jan. 28th
12. Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English by Valerie Fridland - Jan. 28th
13. Me: Moth by Amber McBride - Jan. 30th

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

Goal : 3 books (Single, Read 3-4 books)
Progress : 3/3

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Jan 3rd
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - Jan 6
3. Tweet Cute by Emma Lord - Jan 20th

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - FINISHED
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/6

1. Afterlives - Abdulrazak Gurnah 1/2/24
2. Winter Cottage - Mary Ellen Taylor 1/5/24
3. Five Winters - Kitty Johnson 1/7/24
4. Where Wild Peaches Grow - Cade Bentley 1/8/24
5. Christmas on Mimosa Lane - Anna DeStefano 1/13/24
6. Where We Fall - Rochelle B. Weinstein 1/19/24

Welcome everyone!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1-31, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books

1. The Last Close Call | Laura Griffin - Jan 4
2. The Night I Died | Anne Frasier - Jan 9

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books

1. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - 01/03/2024
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 01/11/2024

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: 1/1-31/24
Goal: Solitary 0/6

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Stand Alone
January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

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Welcome Elle, Eva, Elizabeth and Kimberly!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 2024

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

Welcome Shash!

The Lost Challenges
January 2024 Stand Alone
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Progress: 6 out of 6 (Solitary: Read 5-6 books)

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

1. The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer - - 1/1/2024 - 416 Pages
2. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix - - 1/7/2024 - 419 Pages
3. XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness by Cody Rigsby - *** - 1/9/2024 - 240 Pages
4. When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal - **** - 1/13/2024 - 348 Pages
5. Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan Henry - **** - 1/22/2024 - 432 Pages
6. The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen - **** - 1/23/2024 - 368 Pages


Challenge Rules
(view spoiler)[*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter.
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over. (hide spoiler)]

Welcome Suzanne!

Done

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Down Under by Bill Bryson 1/1 4��
2. Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton 2/1 5��
3. Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes 3/1 2��
4. Witch King by Martha Wells 5/1 2��
5. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 7/1 4��
6. Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton 10/1 2��

WOOHOO Catsalive!

~~~ Complete ~~~

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

6 of 6 Complete

1. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler - 1/1/24
2. Burial Rites - Hannah Kent - 1/6/24
3. The Coffee Trader - David Liss - 1/7/24
4. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 1/9/24
5. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer - 1/11/24
6. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - 1/12/24

WOOHOO Lynda!

Completed

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Below Stairs Margaret Powell 1/1
2. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper Harriet Scott Chessman 1/4
3. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller 1/9
4. The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz Ellie Midwood 1/8
5. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood Trevor Noah 1/13
6. The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor 1/16

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. Mexikid by Pedro Martín - Jan. 3
2. Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley - Jan. 6
3. Snow White by Matt Phelan - Jan. 5
4. Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Jan. 9
5. Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables by Kathleen Gros - Jan. 14
6. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely - Jan. 16

WOOHOO Jan and Julesy!

FINISHED

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1. 72. Koğuş (72nd Ward) by Orhan Kemal 1/1/24
2. Ziyan (Loss) by Hakan Günday 1/3/24
3. Ordular (The Armies) by Evelio Rosero 1/4/24
4. Hiçlikte İhtimal Var (There is a Possibility in Nothingness) by Pelin Kıvrak 1/8/24
5. Beton Ada (Concrete Island) by J.G. Ballard 1/11/24
6. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 1/14/24

WOOHOO Pinar!

January 2024 - Stand Alone

Goal: 1/2

1. By the Book by Amanda Sellet (01/22/24)
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Welcome Laila Jane!

***Finished***

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books

Goal : 3 books (Single, Read 3-4 books)
Progress : 3/3

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Jan 3rd
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - Jan 6
3. Tweet Cute by Emma Lord - Jan 20th

WOOHOO Irza!

Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

COMPLETED!

Solitary: Read 5-6 books

1.) Tips for Living by Renee Shafransky 1/6/2024
2.) Miss Eliza's English Kitchen by Annabel Abbs 1/11/2024
3.) The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman 1/15/2024
4.) Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker 1/20/2024
5.) Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte 1/22/2024

WOOHOO Anne!

Finished!

The Lost Challenges
January 2024 Stand Alone
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Progress: 6 out of 6 (Solitary: Read 5-6 books)

Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!

1. The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer - - 1/1/2024 - 416 Pages
2. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix - - 1/7/2024 - 419 Pages
3. XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness by Cody Rigsby - *** - 1/9/2024 - 240 Pages
4. When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal - **** - 1/13/2024 - 348 Pages
5. Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan Henry - **** - 1/22/2024 - 432 Pages
6. The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen - **** - 1/23/2024 - 368 Pages