Kristel's 75 in 2021.

My plan is to read at least 80 to 85 books in 2021.

Ticker to be here or there.

Welcome back! I hope you make it and even more.

Welcome back, Kristel. That is a pretty accurate target.

Best wishes for a better 2021!

Happy reading in 2021, Kristel!

And keep up with my friends here, Kristel. Have a great 2021.

First book of the year,

Book #1- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: January 29, 2018
Acquisition date: 7/18/2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 out of 5
Book description/summary: marriage disrupted by prison sentence
Challenge(s): 75 Group, 2020 Category, f2f
CAT/KIT: alpha M (Marriage)
Bingo DOG: N/A could work for arts and recreation (she makes dolls)
TIOLI: #9: Read a book someone else picked out for you
American: n/a
British: n/a
List book: n/a

#2,
Book #2- Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1965
Acquisition date: Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 out of 5
Book description/summary: children on vacation find map
Challenge(s): 75 Group
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI: #15, children detectives/adventurers
American: n/a
British British children lit
List book: n/a

# 3. Book In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
Format: audio, Narrated by Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
Original publication date: 1971
Acquisition date/place:
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.6 stars
Book description/summary: Displacement stories in 4 voices
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, Booker list, also Nobel
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: Booker, Nobel

4.

Book The Son by Philipp Meyer
Format: audible
Original publication date: Sept 1, 2012
Acquisition date/place:audible, 12/12/2013
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: Sins of fathers, next generation
Challenge(s): Category, ROOT
CAT/KIT: alpha PM
Bingo DOG: historical or senior citizen protagonist
TIOLI: author you have read before
American: n/a
British: n/a
List book: n/a

5.

Book Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1938
Acquisition date/place: 11/21/18
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.0
Book description/summary: secular morality verses religious morality
Challenge(s): 1001 Books, ROOT, 75 books
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book:

6.
Book The Dark is Rising
Format: Susan Cooper
Original publication date: 1973
Acquisition date/place: Libby Books/Pioneerland
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones.
Challenge(s): 75/British authors/children lit
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: uses dark or light in title
TIOLI: within 21 years of my birthday, 1973
American:
British: yes
List book: no

#7
Book The Voynich Hotel vol 1 by Douman Seiman
Format: manga, book
Original publication date: 2018
Acquisition date/place: my house, left there by gd
Decimal/ Star rating: 0.5
Book description/summary: check in, use drugs, sex
Challenge(s): CAT
CAT/KIT: Read a horror/graphic/YA novel
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book:

8.
Book Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1974
Acquisition date/place: Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Easter Holidays. They are on a mission to recover the celtic golden chalice
Challenge(s): 75
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: one word title
TIOLI:
American:
British: children's lit
List book:

9.
Book The Grey King by Susan Cooper
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1975
Acquisition date/place: Libby, PLL
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Will meets Bran in Wales to continue quest
Challenge(s): 75
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: British children lit
List book: Newberry Medal

10.
Book Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1977
Acquisition date/place: Libby/PLL
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Will joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest against the Dark.
Challenge(s): 75
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: British children lit
List book:

11.
Book The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Format: book
Original publication date: 1968
Acquisition date/place: Bookmooch, 2018, February
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: last unicorn goes on quest to find her people
Challenge(s): read SFF you wanted to read last year
CAT/KIT: kit, SFF
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: NPR best 100 SFF

12.
Book The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Format: book
Original publication date: 1940
Acquisition date/place: 2011, Goodwill used
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.4 stars
Book description/summary: War on Catholics in Mexico
Challenge(s): 1001 BOTM
CAT/KIT: alpha (P)
Bingo DOG: historical novel
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001

13.

Book Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1950
Acquisition date/place: Libby, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary: titus rebels, people die,
Challenge(s):
CAT/KIT: alpha PM
Bingo DOG: Building referenced on cover Gormanghast Castle.
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001

14,

Book A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
Format: audio/kindle
Original publication date: 2019
Acquisition date/place: Amazon/LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2
Book description/summary: Arab women voices about their life
Challenge(s): F2F, 75 book challenge
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: possible new to me author
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: no

15.

Book The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1943
Acquisition date/place: 2019, Audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: wise men play games
Challenge(s): 1001 BOTM
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI: #4, last name only one vowel (e).
American: no
British: no
List book: 1001, Guardian, Nobel Laureate

16.
Book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: audio play
Original publication date: 1892
Acquisition date/place: 2014
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8
Book description/summary: logic solves it all
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, 1001
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001 Books

17.
Book The Music of What Happens
Format: audio, SORA
Original publication date: 1994
Acquisition date/place: 2021, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 1/2 stars
Book description/summary: emo meets macho man
Challenge(s): ROOT, 75,
CAT/KIT: alpha (K)
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

18.

Book Citizen An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Format: book
Original publication date: 2014
Acquisition date/place: LCL, February
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.4
Book description/summary: essays on racism and invisibility
Challenge(s): Lists
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: book under 100 pages or arts/recreation
TIOLI: African American (black American)
American: yes
British:
List book: Vulture 21st Canon, Guardian best 100 of 21st century

19.
Book We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 7/18/2020, Audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4
Book description/summary: space opera, sentient beings, humor
Challenge(s): 75, Cat
CAT/KIT: SFF, sentient
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book:

20.


Book The Yellow House: a memoir by Sarah M. Boom
Format: audio
Publication date: August 13, 2019
Acquisition date/place: 12/2/2020, Audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: aftermath of living in east new orleans
Challenge(s): 75, Cat
CAT/KIT: NF: memoir
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI: black american author, memoir
American: yes
British:
List book:
Awards: National Book Award for Nonfiction (2019)

21.

Book The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin
Format: book
Original publication date: 1994
Acquisition date/place: LCL system 2/2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: short stories, self identity, math, baseball
Challenge(s): American author
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: new to me author
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

22.

Book Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki
Format: audio
Original publication date: Published April 19th 2016 by Roaring Brook Press
Acquisition date/place: 2018, Audio Sync Summer Program
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 stars
Book description/summary: teenage angst, LGBTQ book
Challenge(s): Category, ROOT
CAT/KIT: alpha, for T
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: Canadian author
List book:

23.

Book Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2015
Acquisition date/place: Libby 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: young girl witch fights the wood
Challenge(s): Category, 75
CAT/KIT: alpha for U
Bingo DOG: probably use for title describes you. I am in Florida and not working.
TIOLI: none that I can identify
American: yes
British:
List book: Nebula Award 2015

24. The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

25.

Book The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1929
Acquisition date/place:
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: Southern Aristocrat family falls apart
Challenge(s): 1001, TBR, ROOT
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: on many notable lists

26.

Book Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
Format: book
Original publication date: 2000
Acquisition date/place: Bookmooch 2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.2 stars
Book description/summary: Eden has its snakes and gods of Olympus
Challenge(s): 1001, ROOT
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: some lists

27.

Book: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
Format: e-book
Original publication date: 1907
Acquisition date/place: LCL 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: naturalism/horror story. Creepy willows.
Challenge(s): 1001, ROOT
CAT/KIT: short story/novellas, horror kit
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: NPR 100 horror

28.

Book: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Format: e-book, short story
Original publication date: 1894
Acquisition date/place: on-line
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: one hour of a the life of a woman/wife
Challenge(s):
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

29.

Book: The Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy
Format: audio, Libby
Original publication date: 1986
Acquisition date/place: libby, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.4 stars
Book description/summary: rise and fall of a queen
Groups/Challenge(s): 75 book group
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes, Jean Plaidy
List book: no

30.

Book The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonsco Lee
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2015
Acquisition date/place: Audible, 3/2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: The accidental North Korean defector Genre, memoir
Challenge(s): f2f bookclub read
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book:

31.

Book Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
Format: library book
Original publication date: 1959
Acquisition date/place: 2/2021, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.1 stars
Book description/summary: political novel about advise and consent
Challenge(s): Pulitzer list book
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: 1060 Pulitzer prize

32.

Book Normal People by Sally Rooney
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2018-08-30
Acquisition date/place:
Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary:
Challenge(s): Category challenge
CAT/KIT: alpha R
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: Irish author
List book: no

33.

Book Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2014
Acquisition date/place: Libby electronic, LCL, 3/2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: games, coming of age, romance
Challenge(s): Category challenge
CAT/KIT: SFF Series April
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: no

34.
Book The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1766
Acquisition date/place: 4/2021, Libby, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: fictitious memoir of the vicar's difficulties
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes, Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith
List book: 1001, Guardian 1000

35.

Book Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill Format:
Original publication date: 2007
Acquisition date/place: 2021, LCL, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2 stars
Book description/summary: buy a ghost on ebay
Challenge(s): Category Challenge
CAT/KIT: horror kit
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: no

36.
Book The Children's Book
Format: audio/kindle
Original publication date: 2009
Acquisition date/place: Dec 2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 to 4 stars (too much sexual stuff)
Book description/summary: historical fiction, family saga, political/social commentary, art
Challenge(s): 1001 Qrt read
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:yes
List book: 1001 books

37.

Book The Lost Traveller by Antonia White
Format: kindle
Original publication date: 1950
Acquisition date/place: February 2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: coming of age story of an only child of Catholic converts
Challenge(s): category challenge, virago
CAT/KIT: alpha AW
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: Virago

38.

Book Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2020, September 15
Acquisition date/place: April 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: Labyrinths of the mind, a mental illness, a crime?
Challenge(s): f2f bookclub read
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book:

39.

Book All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Format: kindle
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: kindle, amazon, 2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: construct meets nice humans
Challenge(s): Category,
CAT/KIT: SFF series
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

40.

Book Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir by David Mustaine
Format: audio
Original publication date: 8/3/2010
Acquisition date/place: Libby electronic, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: a look into the heart of a son's love
Challenge(s): American musician who writes
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: arts and recreation
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: no

41.

Book Eugenia Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1833
Acquisition date/place: 3/24/21
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: story of a miser
Challenge(s): 1001 books
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001

42.

Book Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Format: audible
Original publication date: 1914
Acquisition date/place: March 2020.
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: heart of things/isolation/suicide
Challenge(s): 1001, TBR takedown
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

43.

Book The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1951
Acquisition date/place: May 2021 Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: framed collection of dehumanizing technology; beware of the children
Challenge(s): category challenge
CAT/KIT: alpha, genre, time travel,
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: NPR 100 best SFFF

44.

Book I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2006
Acquisition date/place: May 2021 Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 to 4 stars
Book description/summary: essays on being a woman (older mostly)
Challenge(s): category challenge
CAT/KIT: alpha, essay genre, Guardian 21 century list
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: 21st Century Guardian list.

45.

Book The Voice from the Edge, Vol. 1: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Format: audio, read by the author
Original publication date: 1999
Acquisition date/place: from Libby, LCL 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: new wave, soft SF, some what offensive or maybe a lot but creative author.
Challenge(s): not sure why I read this
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: I don't think so

46.

Book Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant
Format: kindle
Original publication date: 1883
Acquisition date/place: Amazon, 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: a woman's life, is a good description
Challenge(s): 1001 BOTM
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Book

47. Book The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: 5/11/21, Audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Faust for bisexuals
Challenge(s): f2f May Book
CAT/KIT: Category, alpha, time travel
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

48.
Book Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration by Rose Brock (editor)
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2019
Acquisition date/place: 2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Hope is a choice
Challenge(s): Category
CAT/KIT: Essays.
Bingo DOG: multiple authors
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

49.

Book Now In November by Josephine W. Johnson
Format: book
Original publication date: 1934
Acquisition date/place: MnLink
Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary: farm family endures the dust bowl.
Challenge(s): category challenge
CAT/KIT: alpha IN
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: Pulitzer prize 1935, and Virago Modern Classic

50.
Book Monkey by Wu ch'eng-en
Format: audio, abridged (I think poetry was left out)
Original publication date: 1570
Acquisition date/place: 2021, AudioFileSync
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Monkey becomes a disciple
Challenge(s):
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001

51.
Book Old Masters: a comedy by Thomas Bernhard
Format: book
Original publication date: 1985
Acquisition date/place: MnLink, 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: that's awful, this is awful, everything is awful. blah, blah,
Challenge(s): 1001 BOTM
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001

52.
Book: Orlando: a biography by Virginia Woolf
Format: audio (free) audible
Original Publication date: 1928
Rating: 3 stars
Why read it: 1001, TBR takedown for 1001
British: yes

53. Book: Descendant of the Crane by Joan He
Format: audio (free) audioSyncFile
Original publication date: 2019
Rating 3.6 stars
Why: alpha CD
AsianAmerican author

54.
Book: Leave the World Behind by Roman Alam
Format: indiespensable, audio from Libby
Original publication date:2020
Acquisition date/place: 11/23/20
Decimal/ Star rating: between 3 and 4 stars
Book description/summary: what if you're suddenly off the grid?
Challenge(s): f2f
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

55.
Book: Salty, Bitter, Sweet by Mayra Cuevas
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: 6/3/21, AudioFile Sync (sora)
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary:
Challenge(s):category
CAT/KIT: alpha
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

56.
Book Artificial Condition
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2018
Acquisition date/place: 2021, libby, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: murderbot continues quest for truth becomes more human
Challenge(s): category
CAT/KIT: kit, travel
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

57.
Book The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: between 3 and 4 stars
Book description/summary: horror goes full circle
Challenge(s): category
CAT/KIT: kit, horror
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

58.
Book The Curse of Crow Hollow by Billy Coffey
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2015
Acquisition date/place: 7/3/18 Audio Sync File (overdrive)
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: good and evil battle it out in the hollow
Challenge(s): ROOT, category
CAT/KIT: alpha
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

59.
Book The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2011
Acquisition date/place: 6/19/19
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: secrets that bind friendships
Challenge(s): ROOT, Category
CAT/KIT: alpha
Bingo DOG: Southern Hemisphere
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book:

60.
Book Astray by Emma Donoghue
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2012
Acquisition date/place: 6/23/19
Decimal/ Star rating: 4stars
Book description/summary: historical fiction/short stories
Challenge(s): ROOT, Category
CAT/KIT: alpha
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book:

61.
Book Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 7/17/2019, AudiobookSync
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: biography of VanGogh/art history
Challenge(s): ROOT
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

62.Book The Go-Between
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 7/24/2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: finding one's true self
Challenge(s): category/ROOT
CAT/KIT: alpha kit
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

63.
Book The Boy Born Dead by David Ring Format:
Original publication date: 2015
Acquisition date/place: 6/4/2016
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Glorifying God with your life
Challenge(s): ROOT, Category
CAT/KIT: alpha kit (D)
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book:

64.
Book Othello by William Shakespeare
Format: audio
Original publication date:
Acquisition date/place: 5/8/2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: tragedy of jealousy
Challenge(s): ROOT, category
CAT/KIT: alpha kit
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book:

65.

Book Extinction by Hannie Rayson
Format: audio
Original publication date:
Acquisition date/place: A play, acquired AudioSync, summer program 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 stars
Book description/summary: sleeping with the enemy
Challenge(s): Bingo
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: less than 20 LT members
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book:

66.
Book Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll
Format: book
Original publication date: 1971
Acquisition date/place: 5/26/2017
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Germans deal with WWII
Challenge(s):Reading 1001
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001 BYMRBYD

67.

Book The Shining by Stephen King
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1977
Acquisition date/place: 12/10/2013
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: the hotel is going to get you
Challenge(s): Category, 1001, Lists
CAT/KIT: alpha (S), horror kit,
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001, 100 best horror

68.

Book The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1987
Acquisition date/place: July 2021, audio FREE
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Journey and growth as writer
Challenge(s):TBR takedown, 1001
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001

69.

Book The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: Libby electronic Books, July 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Accept your life, move on
Challenge(s): f2f
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: no

70.
Book Staying On by Paul Scott
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1977
Acquisition date/place: June 2021, audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Aging British couple face changes in India
Challenge(s): Lists, Booker Prize 1977, Category
CAT/KIT: alpha kit
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: Booker Man

71.
Book The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1959
Acquisition date/place: Libby Books, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary: 4 people visit haunted house
Challenge(s): Category challenge
CAT/KIT: Horror, alpha, 100 best horror list
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: 100 best horror

72.
Book Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Format: book
Original publication date: 1995
Acquisition date/place:MnLink 2021Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary: the story of a corpse
Challenge(s): 1001 randomizer book, Category challenges, 75 books
CAT/KIT: alpha kit (S)
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001 books

73.
Book Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2001
Acquisition date/place: 2021, Libby electronic Books, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: she becomes he and priest at Little No Horse
Challenge(s): American Native American authors, 75 book
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: 21st Canon (Vulture)

74.
Book Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer
Format: Nook
Original publication date: 1932
Acquisition date/place: 2005?
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: predictable murder, mystery, romance
Challenge(s): ROOT, Challenge, 75 Books
CAT/KIT: genre: Romance
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: no

75.
Book Deep Rivers by Jose Maria Arguedas
Format: book
Original publication date: 1958
Acquisition date/place: MNLinks
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: Bridge over the world
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 BOTM August
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001

>80 Kristelh: Congratulations on reaching 75, Kristel!

Congrats!

76.

Book The Terror by Dan Simmons
Format: audible
Original publication date: 2007
Acquisition date/place: 11/21/18
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: small things sink the boat
Challenge(s): category challenge, 75 books, Lists, ROOT
CAT/KIT: horror kit,
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: NPR best horror

77. The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
Format: audible (play)
Original publication date: 1988
Acquisition date/place: July 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 stars
Book description/summary: yes, the room was empty
Challenge(s): 1001, 1001 TBR takedown
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001

78.

Book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Format: book
Original publication date: 1987
Acquisition date/place: 11/16/2013
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2
Book description/summary: AI creates ghost while time traveling
Challenge(s): ROOT, 1001, Category
CAT/KIT: Random Cat
Bingo DOG:
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001

79.
Book The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2012
Acquisition date/place: August 2021, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.3 stars
Book description/summary: walking through the grief
Challenge(s): f2f August Book
CAT/KIT: category
Bingo DOG: character you would be friends with
American:
British: yes
List book:

80.

Book Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1994
Acquisition date/place: 8/17/21 Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description Must be political correct when exploring new worlds
whyCategory, 75 books, American Author
CAT/KIT: exploration
Bingo DOG:
American: yes
British:
List book:

I'm slightly late Kristel but congratulations on passing 75!

>1 Kristelh: You are well on course to decimate that target. x

81.
Book Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2018
Acquisition date/place: Libby 8/20/21
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Female artist fights against abuse
Challenge(s): category
CAT/KIT: Genre; poetry
Bingo DOG: impulse read
TIOLI:
American: yes
British:
List book: no

82.

Book Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman
Format: Graphic novel
Original publication date: 1991
Acquisition date/place: 2017, hard to read on the nook
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Don't mess with sleep
Challenge(s): category
CAT/KIT: Genre; graphic novel
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: NPR 100 best science fiction fantasy

83.
Book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(s) by Jules Verne
Format: was on nook, but not able to locate it,
Original publication date: 1870
Acquisition date/place: 2013
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: adventures under the oceans
Challenge(s): Category Root
CAT/KIT: alpha JV, Travel/adventure
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy (NPR)

84.
Book what is not yours is not yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Format:book
Original publication date: 2016
Acquisition date/place: 2017, did I receive this from JenP? Also on Kindle
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars, originality, great writing, kind of fairy tales
Book description/summary: keys & puppets; originality, great writing, kind of fairy tales
Challenge(s): British author, 75 group
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: Kirkus review
ROOT yes

85.
Book Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1901
Acquisition date/place: January 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: Family, home, job rack & ruin.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
TIOLI: Sept, https://www.librarything.com/topic/334707
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books, Nobel Prize

86.
Book In Watermelon Sugar
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1968
Acquisition date/place: audible 12/2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.6
Book description/summary: Not so sweet in IDEATH
Challenge(s): 1001 TBR takedown
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
TIOLI: Sept, https://www.librarything.com/topic/334707 #1 last three letters author name backwards spell nag
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001

87. New Grub Street by George Gissing


Format: audio
Original publication date: 1891
Acquisition date/place: 7/25/21
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: literature for the cultured or the vulgar
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, BOTM, 75
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI: Sept, https://www.librarything.com/topic/334707
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001

88. Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters


Format: audio
Original publication date: 2016
Acquisition date/place: 10/3/18
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: what if the civil war never happened?
Challenge(s): Category challenge
CAT/KIT: alternate hx (SFF)
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American: yes
British:
List book:

89. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks

Format: audio
Original publication date: 2015
Acquisition date/place: 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Unfocused but brilliant
Challenge(s): 75 British author/science
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American:
British: yes
List book: no

90. The Ballad of Tom Black by Victor LaValle
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2016
Acquisition date/place: 2021, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Author takes on racism of Lovecraft
Challenge(s):
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American: yes
British:
List book:

91. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide

Format: book
Original publication date: 1925
Acquisition date/place: MnLink 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: we're all fake
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 BOTm
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American:
British:
List book: 1001

92.
Book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1932
Acquisition date/place: 11/1/2017
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: government control by science "what's new?"
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 TBR ROOT
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001

93.
Book Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 2014
Acquisition date/place: 2/12/19
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: blind and boxed up
Challenge(s): 75, ROOT, Category
CAT/KIT: SFFF, creatures
Bingo DOG:
American: yes, Michigan
British:
List book: best horror, NPR

94.
Book Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: 2021, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: generic Asian man tries and tries
Challenge(s): F2F book club
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American: yes
British:
List book: National Book Award

95.
Book The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Format: kindle/audio
Original publication date: 1903
Acquisition date/place: 4/23/2017
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Yachting meets Spy
Challenge(s): 1001 BOTM,
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: completed
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001

96.
Book Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Format: book/Audio
Original publication date: 14th century
Acquisition date/place: unknown
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: motley crew tell tales on a walk
Challenge(s): read by 75er's British author, narrative poetry
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American:
British: Yes
List book:

97.
Book Lost Book of Friends by Lisa Wingate
Format:
Original publication date: audio
Acquisition date/place: Libby Electronic Library
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: finding lost family after slavery
Challenge(s): f2f bookclub
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American: yes
British:
List book:

98.
Book Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2019
Acquisition date/place: Sora, Summer Audio File Sync program
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary:
Challenge(s): category challenge
CAT/KIT: creatures, fantasy
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American:
British:
List book:

99.
Book They Went Left by Monica Hesse
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: summer program 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: finding family after holocaust
Challenge(s): category
CAT/KIT: alpha, H
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American:
British:
List book:

Nice to see a surge in your posting. Kristel!

The Ballad of Black Tom caught my eye - haven't heard of that one before.

100. Book Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1995
Acquisition date/place: 2021, Libby Electronic Books
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Farseer bastard son makes good
Challenge(s): Category, Lists
CAT/KIT: alpha, H NPR 100 best SFF
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American: yes
British:
List book:

101.

Book Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Format: audio/book
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 11/1/2017, BOTM bookclub
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: the state of pregnancy devolves
Challenge(s): Category,
CAT/KIT: Alpha E
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American: yes
British:
List book:

I read 10 books in October.

Well done, Kristel!

102.
Book Evidence: Poems by Mary Oliver
Format: book
Original publication date: 2009
Acquisition date/place: borrowed/returned
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: poetry that makes nature real
Challenge(s): none
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG: COMPLETED
American: yes.
British:
List book: no

103.

Book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1883
Acquisition date/place: 8/30/2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: a boy and his adventure with pirates and sailors
Challenge(s): TBR take down, ROOT
American:
British: Scottish
List book: 1001

104.
Book Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: if you could, would you?
Challenge(s): short fiction, SFF and scaredy cat; King family
American: yes
British:
List book: no

105.

Book Mark of the Raven by Morgan L. Busse
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2018, free audio Sync File
Acquisition date/place: 2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: can light and dark, water and raven join forces
Challenge(s): alpha B
American: yes
British:
List book: no

106.

Book The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1982
Acquisition date/place: 2011, gift from PBT
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: cowboy travels alternate universe searching for man in black
Challenge(s): ROOT, scarykit: king family
American: yes
British:
List book: npr best SFF

>114 Kristelh: Treasure Island is great fun and worth a re-read every decade or so!

Have a lovely weekend, Kristel.

107.
Book How late it was, how late
Format:book
Original publication date: 1994
Acquisition date/place: 2021, ILL
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: blackout leads to sightloss
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 BOTM, Booker 1994.
American:
British:
other Scotland
List book: Booker Prize Winner, 1994, 1001 Books You Must Read, 1000 Guardian

108.
Book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Format: kindle/audio
Original publication date: 2009
Acquisition date/place: 12/2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: no one notices old ladies carrying shopping bags
Challenge(s): f2f Nov/Dec 2021, ROOT
American:
British:
List book: Guardian top 21st century books.

109.
Book Selected shorts a celebration of the short story : a touch of magic
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2009
Acquisition date/place: Libby, 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: a variety of short stories from some great authors
Challenge(s): short fiction, SFF
American:
British:
List book:

110
Book Kindred by Octavia E. Butlerr
Format: audio (Sora)
Original publication date: 1979
Acquisition date/place: 7/25/2020, Sora
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: woman meets her ancestors
Challenge(s): Alpha B, Genre SFF, ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book:

A Thanksgiving to Friends (Lighting the Way)

In difficult times
a friend is there to light the way
to lighten the load,
to show the path,
to smooth the road

At the darkest hour
a friend, with a word of truth
points to light
and the encroaching dawn
is in the plainest sight.

Kristel, to a friend in books and more this Thanksgiving

>123 PaulCranswick: Thank you so much Paul. I cherish my friends in books. Thanks for the Thanksgiving blessing.

111.
Book Hard Truth by Nevada Barr
Format: library book
Original publication date: 2005
Acquisition date/place: 2021, November, Pioneerlibrary, Willmar
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 stars
Book description/summary: serial killer in the park
Challenge(s): RandomCat 2021, #doublespin
American: yes, Mississippi, and she is a ranger
British:
List book: no

112.
Book Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1933
Acquisition date/place: audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: feminism and the Great War
Challenge(s): #bookspin, Litsy; Reading 1001, 75 British author wildcard. Also Virago
American:
British: yes
List book:
Waterstones Books of the Century (1997 | No 59)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die ( 2006, 2010)
Guardian Essential Library (Memoir and Autobiography)
500 Great Books by Women (Choices)
The Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All-Time (42)

113.

Book Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Format: book
Original publication date: 1971
Acquisition date/place: Willmar Public Library
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: old lady soldiers on until misses step
Challenge(s): British author challenge, 75 group
American:
British: yes
List book:
Booker Prize Shortlist (1971)
The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (77)
Prix Baudelaire de la SGDL (Nicole Tisserand | 1992)
The Observer's 100 Best Novels (87)

114.
Book The Man Without Qualities
Format: kindle
Original publication date: 1930 to 1943
Acquisition date/place: 1/29/2018
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.6
Book description/summary: search of a sense of life and realityChallenge(s):
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

115.
Book The Hunger by
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2018
Acquisition date/place: 12/1/21, Libby electronic books
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.7
Book description/summary: Donnor Party done supernatural
Challenge(s): scaredy kit
American: yes
British:
List book: NPR horror

116. .
Book Nana by Émile Zola
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1880
Acquisition date/place: 2019-1-13, audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4
Book description/summary: life of beauty and pus
Challenge(s): TBR Takedown, Reading 1001, alpha Z
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

117.
Book The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Format: audible
Original publication date: 1894
Acquisition date/place: 12/10/18
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: putting meaning into Christmas
Challenge(s): reading a book about seasonal holiday, ROOT
American:
British: British
List book:

118.
Book Christmas Eve: 1914
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2014
Acquisition date/place: Audible, free
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Holy Night in the trenches
Challenge(s): read a book about Christmas...., ROOT
American:
British:
List book:

119.

Book Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M.C. Beaton
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2007
Acquisition date/place: borrowed
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: middle aged lady solves murder of old woman
Challenge(s): read a mystery, read a book about Christmas
American:
British: yes
List book:

120.
Book Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1957
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla, audio second reading
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: coming to age in Alexandria
Challenge(s): 1001
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001

121:

Book John Dies at the End by David Wong
Format: audio/kindle
Original publication date: 2012
Acquisition date/place: 2018
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: goofy guys seek paranormals and find alternative universe
Challenge(s): read a book you wanted to read this year
American: yes
British:
List book: 100 best NPR

122.
Book Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 20
Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary:
Challenge(s): reading Pulitzer, alpha G
American: yes
British:
List book: Pulitzer 2018

Have a lovely holiday, Kristel.

123.
Book The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1974
Acquisition date/place: 12/2021, Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: the flood reveals South Africa's owner
Challenge(s): read the Bookers
American:
British:
List book: Booker

124.
Book The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
Format: Kindle book
Original publication date: 1987
Acquisition date/place:
Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary: 11/22/21
Challenge(s): reading 1001
American:
British: yes
List book: Reading 1001

Forget your stresses and strains
As the old year wanes;
All that now remains
Is to bring you good cheer
With wine, liquor or beer
And wish you a special new year.

Happy New Year, Kristel.

>140 PaulCranswick: thank you. I am not sorry to see the old year wane and am looking forward to 2022.