2019 Reading Challenge Roundup - Failed
Perpetual Lists
Goal: 11/30 36.7%
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (FanPro)
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (FanPro; Teen; 365)
Peony in Love by Lisa See (FanPro)
Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist (9/2/19)
Bird Box by Josh Malerman (NPR Horror)
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (NPR Horror; Lit Won)
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (NPR Horror)
The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs (NPR Horror)
The Bridgertons series by Julia Quinn (NPR Romance)
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (NPR Romance; Teen; 365)
The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle (NPR Scifi/Fan; Teen; Lit Won)
Feed by MT Anderson (11/13/19)
Asylum by Madeleine Roux (365)
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (365)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Lit Won)
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han (2/12/19)
Paper Towns by John Green (3/15/19)
Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix (3/19/19)
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (4/8/19)
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (6/26/19)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (8/25/19)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo (10/29/19)
Songbook by Nick Hornby (11/8/19)
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (12/17/19)
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Unread Shelf Project
Goal: 21/50 Books 42%
Zorro by Isabel Allende (1/29/19)
America’s Constitution by Akhil Reed Amar
The Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Ghostland by Colin Dickey (4/7/19)
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (4/24/19)
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Drink of Me by Jacquelyn Frank
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (8/12/19)
Hand of Isis by Jo Graham
The General’s Mistress by Jo Graham
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (4/29/19)
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Frida by Hayden Herrera
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Booknotes edited by Brian Lamb (8/30/19)
1776 by David McCullough
John Adams by David McCullough
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton (1/11/19)
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Eruption by Steve Olson (2/23/19)
In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips (5/30/19)
The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
The Boundaries of Her Body by Deborah Rowland
Contact by Carl Sagan
A Great Improvisation by Stacey Schiff
Duchess by Susan Holloway Scott
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield (3/10/19)
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
Kate Chopin by Emily Toth
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
The Ideal Wife by Mary Balogh (1/17/19)
A Precious Jewel by Mary Balogh (1/22/19)
Dark Angel / Lord Carew’s Bride by Mary Balogh (2/24/19)
A Counterfeit Betrothal / The Notorious Rake by Mary Balogh (3/20/19)
Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by Elizabeth Gaskell (4/28/19)
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (5/29/19)
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager (8/14/19)
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams (9/14/19)
The Lost Duke of Wyndham by Julia Quinn (9/20/19)
Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn (9/25/19)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (11/23/19)
Popsugar
Goal: 35/40 Books 87.5%
Book becoming a movie in 2019 - Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott (4/10/19)
Book that makes you nostalgic - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (4/26/19)
Book written by a musician -
Book you think should be turned into a movie - The Matchmaker’s List by Sonya Lalli (5/2/19)
Book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads - The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo (10/29/19)
Book with a plant in the title or on the cover - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (3/30/19)
Reread of a favorite - Persuasion by Jane Austen (12/23/19)
Book about a hobby - The River by Peter Heller (7/10/19)
Book you meant to read in 2018 - Open House by Elizabeth Berg (1/23/19)
Book with “pop,” “sugar,” or “challenge” in the title - Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (12/17/19)
Book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover - Zorro by Isabel Allende (1/29/19)
Book inspired by mythology, legend, or folklore - Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield (7/6/19)
Book published posthumously - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (9/11/19)
Book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie - Songbook by Nick Hornby (11/8/19)
Retelling of a classic - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (4/24/19)
Book with a question in the title -
Book set on a college or university campus - The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (4/20/19)
Book about someone with superpowers -
Book told from multiple character POVs - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (3/8/19)
Book set in space -
Book by two female authors - The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (1/19/19)
Book with a title that contains “salty,” “sweet,” “bitter,” or “spicy” - The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones (7/12/19)
Book set in Scandinavia - Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist (9/2/19)
Book that takes place in a single day - They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (9/27/19)
Debut novel - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (4/29/19)
Book that’s published in 2019 - The Light Over London by Julia Kelly (5/10/19)
Book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature - Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (10/30/19)
Book recommended by a celebrity you admire - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (6/24/19)
Book with “love” in the title - P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han (3/23/19)
Book featuring an amateur detective - The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas (2/10/19)
Book about a family - Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (5/15/19)
Book written by an author from Asia, Africa, or South America -
Book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title - The Huntress by Kate Quinn (6/28/19)
Book that includes a wedding - A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (3/2/19)
Book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman (2/20/19)
Ghost story - Craven Manor by Darcy Coates (2/8/19)
Book with a two-word title - Watching You by Lisa Jewell (5/28/19)
Novel based on a true story - Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (7/5/19)
Book revolving around a puzzle or game - Code Girls by Liza Mundy (1/31/19)
Fave prompt from a past challenge - Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan (6/29/19)
Finishing the Series
Goal: 6/10 Series 60%
Chronicles of St. Mary’s ✓
#7.7 Desiccated Water (1/16/19)
#8 And the Rest is History (1/16/19)
#8.1 Markham and the Anal Probing (1/16/19)
#8.5 A Perfect Storm (1/16/19)
#8.6 Christmas Past (1/19/19)
#9 An Argumentation of Historians (2/27/19)
#9.5 Battersea Barricades (3/21/19)
#9.6 The Steam-Pump Jump (3/22/19)
#9.7 And Now for Something Completely Different (4/11/19)
#10 Hope for the Best (8/17/19)
Vintage Magic Mystery ✓
#4 Skirting the Grave (1/30/19)
#5 Cloaked in Malice (4/3/19)
#6 Tulle Death Do Us Part (4/9/19)
Her Royal Spyness
#5 Naughty in Nice (5/23/19)
#6 The Twelve Clues of Christmas (8/3/19)
#7 Heirs and Graces (11/27/19)
#8 Queen of Hearts
#9 Malice at the Palace
#10 Crowned and Dangerous
#11 On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
#12 Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding
#13 Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
Stalking Jack the Ripper ✓
#2 Hunting Prince Dracula (4/17/19)
#3 Escaping from Houdini (5/14/19)
#4 Capturing the Devil (10/15/19)
Dark Angel
#1 Dark Angel (2/23/19)
#2 Lord Carew’s Bride (2/23/19)
#3 The Famous Heroine
#4 The Plumed Bonnet
#5 The Ideal Wife (1/17/19)
#6 A Precious Jewel (1/22/19)
#7 A Christmas Bride
#8 Christmas Beau
Winter ✓
#3 Winter Storm (1/18/19)
#4 Winter Solstice (1/23/19)
All Souls
#1 A Discovery of Witches (3/29/19)
#2 Shadow of Night (10/4/19)
#3 The Book of Life
Shatter Me
#1 Shatter Me (4/8/19)
#1.5 Destroy Me (4/8/19)
#2 Unravel Me
#2.5 Fracture Me
#3 Ignite Me
#4 Restore Me
#4.5 Shadow Me
#5 Defy Me
River of Teeth ✓
#2 Taste of Marrow (6/18/19)
#3 American Hippo (short story) (6/18/19)
Rogues of Redmere ✓
#2 When a Rogue Loves a Woman (11/12/19)
#3 Waiting for a Rogue Like You (11/19/19)
#4 What’s a Rogue Got to Do With It (11/19/19)
Alphabet Soup: Authors
Goal: 22/26 Authors 80.8%
A - Zorro by Isabel Allende (1/29/19)
B - A Counterfeit Betrothal / The Notorious Rake by Mary Balogh (3/20/19)
C - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (4/26/19)
D - If, Then by Kate Hope Day (6/8/19)
E - American War by Omar El Akkad (2/16/19)
F - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (12/10/19)
G - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (3/14/19)
H - P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han (3/23/19)
I - A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa (3/18/19)
J - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (2/13/19)
K - The Light Over London by Julia Kelly (5/10/19)
L - The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy (5/7/19)
M - Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco (5/14/19)
N - Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix (3/19/19)
O - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi (5/6/19)
P - The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips (5/30/19)
Q - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (6/24/19)
R - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (5/29/19)
S - Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield (3/10/19)
T - Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor (8/17/19)
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V
W - The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (4/20/19)
X
Y - Fight or Flight by Samantha Young (4/14/19)
Z
Literary Escapes
Goal: 25/51 Books 47.1%
Alabama - Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber (11/5/19)
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California - A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (3/2/19)
Colorado - The Christmas Layover by Robert Tate Miller (11/25/19)
Connecticut - Cloaked in Malice by Annette Blair (4/3/19)
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida - Paper Towns by John Green (3/15/19)
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (8/7/19)
Indiana - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (4/27/19)
Iowa - Growing Season by Melanie Lageschulte (3/27/19)
Kansas
Kentucky - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Ricardson (11/23/19)
Louisiana - Taste of Marrow by Sarah Gailey (6/18/19)
Maine - Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (7/28/19)
Maryland
Massachusetts - Fight or Flight by Samantha Young (4/14/19)
Michigan
Minnesota - Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal (10/22/19)
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana - Once Upon a Royal Christmas by Robin Bielman (12/7/19)
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (3/8/19)
New Jersey - Hope and Other Punch Lines by Julie Buxbaum (8/22/19)
New Mexico
New York - Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey (6/30/19)
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio - Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey (8/10/19)
Oklahoma
Oregon - If, Then by Kate Hope Day (6/8/19)
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island - A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams (11/26/19)
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas - The Magnolia Inn by Carolyn Brown (4/6/19)
Utah
Vermont - The Broken Girls by Simone St. James (10/18/19)
Virginia - The Christmas Bride by Hope Ramsay (11/24/19)
Washington - Finding Christmas by Karen Schaler (12/11/19)
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming - Falling for Her Bachelor by Robin Bielman (12/4/19)
Non-Fiction Bingo
Goal: 17/25 Books 68%
Made into a movie -
Baillie Gifford award winner - Peacemakers; 1599; Into the Silence; How to Survive a Plague
About feminism -
Religion or Spirituality - Ghostland by Colin Dickey (4/7/19)
Essay Collection - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman (2/20/19)
Self-help title - I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott (8/9/19)
Celebrity or public figure memoir - Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon (1/28/19)
Nature or the environment - Eruption by Steve Olson (2/23/19)
Pre-2000 Title - The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (9/17/19)
Food, wine, or cooking - Coffee Talk by Morton Satin (1/12/19)
Indigenous author -
True crime - The Library Book by Susan Orlean (4/4/19)
Free space - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (3/9/19)
Medical condition - Rabid by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (11/9/19)
Set outside of North America - City of Light by Rupert Christiansen (6/19/19)
Biography - Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux (4/16/19)
Author of color -
2019 release - Cities by Monica L. Smith (6/13/19)
5-star read for a friend - Columbine by Dave Cullen (8/6/19)
Goodreads winner - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (9/11/19)
Canadian author -
Science and technology - Code Girls by Liza Mundy (1/31/19)
Parenting or relationships -
Travel - Atlas of the Unexpected by Travis Elborough (4/5/19)
Translated -
Dancing with Fantasy and Science Fiction
Goal: 21/52 Books 40.4%
Fantasy
Classic Fantasy - How Long ‘til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin (4/27/19)
Magic School -
Necromancers -
PTSD -
Dragons -
Fairytale (Retelling) - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi (5/6/19)
Grimdark -
Ghosts - The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton (1/11/19)
Uncommon Fantasy Creatures - Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield (7/6/19)
Shapshifters -
Gods -
Animal Companion -
Maternal Heritage - Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber (11/5/19)
Set in our World - The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (8/12/19)
Witches - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (3/29/19)
Magical Law Enforcement - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harnkess (10/4/19)
Thief -
Pirates -
Portal Fantasy -
Warrior
Science Fiction
On a Different Planet - Alien: Echo by Mira Grant (9/4/19)
Utopia - The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones (7/12/19)
Space Ship -
Steampunk - Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine (10/11/19)
Time Travel - Recursion by Blake Crouch (8/16/19)
Artificial Intelligence POV -
Proto Sci-Fi - The Second Deluge by Garrett P. Serviss (11/6/19)
Hive -
Alien - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (4/29/19)
Virtual Reality -
Super Powers -
Science - American War by Omar El Akkad (2/16/19)
Replicate -
Space Colonization -
Mecha -
Space Creatures / Beasts -
Teleportation -
Space Western -
The Moon -
Invasion -
Generic
Satire - Feed by M.T. Anderson (11/13/19)
Under 500 Pages - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (2/13/19)
Over 800 Pages -
Novella - Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan (6/29/19)
Finish a Series - The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (4/12/19)
Mental Health -
Disability -
Published Before 1990 -
Set in Africa -
Library - The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg (5/27/19)
By a Woman of Color - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (1/30/19)
One Word Title -
Mystery
Goal: 9/25 Books 36%
Guidebook to Murder by Lynn Cahoon (1/24/19)
The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas (2/10/19)
Tulle Death Do Us Part by Annette Blair (4/9/19)
The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen (8/3/19)
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth (8/20/19)
The Woman in the Lake by Nicola Cornick (9/7/19)
Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen (11/28/19)
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (12/19/19)
Bewitched and Betrothed by Juliet Blackwell (12/21/19)
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Creativity
Goal: 2/10 Books 20%
Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon (1/28/19)
Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin (6/14/19)
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