Books

I did this challenge this year after giving it a break for a few years and it was fun to find books for the month. Here’s my reading list:

• JANUARY-The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
• FEBRUARY-Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, Kristina McMorris
• MARCH-The Witch’s Grave (Ophelia & Abby #6), Shirley Damsgaard
• APRIL-The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, Erik Larson
• MAY-Citizen 13660, Mine Okubo
• JUNE-Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck
• JULY-The German House, Annette Hess (country & author)
• AUGUST-Duck the Halls (Meg Langslow #16), Donna Andrews
• SEPTEMBER-American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
• OCTOBER-The Guests on South Battery (Tradd Street, #5), Karen White
• NOVEMBER-The Game (Mary Russell #7), Laurie R. King
• DECEMBER-The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street (Tradd Street, #6, Karen White

Hosted by Escape with Dollycas into a Good Book. I’ve done challenges similar to this in the past and almost had a nervous breakdown trying to finish at the end of the year. So this year I set a personal goal to get 25 of the 50 states in order to consciously get some variety in my locales without too much stress and I managed to exceed my goal with 30 states.

Alabama: The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle (Dahlias #8), Susan Wittig Albert
Alaska: The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
Arizona:
Arkansas:
California: Frankly in Love, David Yoon
Colorado:
Connecticut: Death Overdue (Haunted Library #1), Allison Brook
Delaware: We Dream of Space, Erin Entrada Kelly
District of Columbia: Fates and Traitors, Jennifer Chiaverini
Florida: Squirm, Carl Hiaasen
Georgia: Lost Lake, Sarah Addison Allen
Hawaii: The Color of Air, Gal Tsukiyama
Idaho: The Blight Way (Sheriff Bo Tully #1), Patrick McManus
Illinois: Lincoln’s Grave Robbers, Steve Sheinkin
Indiana:
Iowa: The Witch’s Grave (Ophelia & Abby #6), Shirley Damsgaard
Kansas:
Kentucky: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson
Louisiana:
Maine:
Maryland: Countdown (Sixties Trilogy #1), Deborah Wiles
Massachusetts:
Michigan: Betty Before X, Ilyasah Shabazz
Minnesota: This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger
Mississippi:
Missouri:
Montana: This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind, Ivan Doig
Nebraska:
Nevada:
New Hampshire:
New Jersey:
New Mexico: The Tale Teller (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #23), Anne Hillerman
New York: Murphy’s Law (Molly Murphy #1), Rhys Bowen
North Carolina: The Seventh Witch (Ophelia & Abby #7), Shirley Damsgaard
North Dakota:
Ohio:
Oklahoma: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann
Oregon:
Pennsylvania: Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team, Steve Sheinkin
Rhode Island:
South Carolina: The House on Tradd Street, Karen White
South Dakota:
Tennessee: The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan
Texas: The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia #2), Jacqueline Kelly
Utah: Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family, Yoshiko Uchida
Vermont:
Virginia: The Hen of the Baskervilles (Meg Langslow #15), Donna Andrews
Washington: Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah
West Virginia:
Wisconsin: The Coincidence of Coconut Cake, Amy E. Reichert
Wyoming: Open Season (Joe Pickett #1), C.J. Box

I’m back for another year of What’s in a Name? hosted by Carolina Book Nook.

In 2021, choose 6 books that have titles that contain a:

• One/1 (ex. One Second After; The 100)
• Doubled word (ex. In a Dark, Dark Wood; Wolf by Wolf)
• Reference to outer space (ex. The Fault in Our Stars)
• Possessive noun (ex. The Zookeeper’s Wife)
• Botanical word (ex. The Language of Flowers; The Sandalwood Tree)
• Article of clothing (ex. Bossypants)

The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge is hosted by The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader. Any sub-genre of historical fiction is accepted (Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Fantasy, Young Adult, History/Non-Fiction, etc.

There are several reading levels:

20th Century Reader – 2 books
Victorian Reader – 5 books
Renaissance Reader – 10 books
Medieval – 15 books
Ancient History – 25 books
Prehistoric – 50+ books

I am going to concentrate this challenge on non-mystery historical fiction as I have several mystery challenges going and many of the mystery series I read are historical fiction. So I will count others here and my goal for the year is Renaissance Reader: 10 books.