The 'Book Challenge' Thread

^^ I have read Grace : A Memoir - which I thought was terrific. I always enjoy stories / memoirs of fashion folks. Enjoy :smile:
 
Thank you, @Kiyoko! It's wonderful so far, but I've just been distracted by so many other books haha.
 
I'm way ahead of my usual goal of 52 books a year. Luckily I checked a bunch of books out of the library before it closed.

My 2020 list so far:

1. The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
2. The Education of An Idealist by Samantha Power
3. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
4. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. Possible Side Effects by Agustin Burroughs
6. Free Men by Katy Simpson Smith
7. The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga
8. The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven
9. The Good Works of Ayela Linde by Charlotte Forbes
10. Seinfeldia by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
11. The Emerald Light in the Air by Donald Antrim
12. The Innocents by Michael Crummey
13. Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
14. The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard
15. Temporary by Hilary Leichter
16. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
17. When the Emperor Was Devine by Julie Otsuka
18. The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
19. The End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker
20. The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller
21. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
22. Down the Nile by Rosemary Mahoney
23. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
24. Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere by Lucas Mann
25. Deep in the Green by Anne Raver
26. Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman
 
Did you like this? Not too dry?

It's really fantastic. I thought it would be a lot drier, but the writing is pretty great. The book moves quickly.

I'm a bit behind... possibly because I'm in the middle of three to four books at the moment.

1. Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
2. Leadership in the Performing Arts by Tobie S. Stein
3. The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
4. Constellations by Nick Payne
5. If There Is, I Haven’t Found It Yet by Nick Payne
6. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
7. Invisible Women: Data Biases in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
8. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
9. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
10. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
11. The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
12. First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten
13. A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends by Michael Kirby
14. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nichols
 
^^ I've too have been reading a lot too due to the quarantine. Books 12-19 have been read within the last month LOL and i'll probably finish more. "Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World" looks terrific. It's been on my TBR for a while now.

  1. Threading My Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Rehman*
  2. Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom*
  3. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
  4. Felons by Reginald Dwayne Betts (poems)
  5. Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith*
  6. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado*
  7. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang*
  8. Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
  9. Real Life by Brandon Taylor
  10. That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu
  11. We Real Cool by bell hooks*
  12. Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
  13. The World Doesn't Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
  14. These Ghost Are Family by Maisy Card
  15. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward*
  16. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde*
  17. As Black As Resistance by Zoé Samudzi*
  18. Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper*
  19. Lakewood by Megan Giddings
* - nonfiction books

20. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon*
21. I Don't Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux*
22. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
23. Wow, No Thank You By Samantha Irby*
24. Sula by Toni Morrison
25. The Tradition by Jericho Brown (poetry)*
26. Stateway's Garden: Stories by Jasmon Drain
27. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio*
28. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
 
@axiomatic, if you don't mind me asking how was the The Yellow House by Sarah Broom? I've looked at it, seen great reviews but the size keeps me from really going for it. (For a memoir it seems a little long for me) :lol:
 
@axiomatic, if you don't mind me asking how was the The Yellow House by Sarah Broom? I've looked at it, seen great reviews but the size keeps me from really going for it. (For a memoir it seems a little long for me) :lol:

I definitely recommend it-one of the best books I've read this year. I thought the same thing, about the length, but I read it in two days. It's a great mix of New Orleans history and that of the author and her family.
 
Ohh! I love this thread!! Reading is one of my favorites past times. Unfortunately, I didn't get to the library before quarantine, so I have to keep borrowing books from my sister lol. So I just started one called Escaping Reality by Lisa Renee Jones. It is okay so far, but just maybe not something I would have picked out for myself. However, I am so grateful that my sister has a ton of books that I've never read, because my mind always needs something to read lol.

Anyway, I just wanted to leave a list of books here that I have read, and that I really loved. (A mix of YA, Non Fiction, Adult Contemporary, etc).

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
3. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
4. Carrie by Stephen King
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
6. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
7. Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
8. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
9. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
10. Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman
11. Marlena, by Julie Buntin
12. Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer
13. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
14. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
15. The Guineveres by Sarah Domet
 
Making some time to read more plays!

1. Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
2. Leadership in the Performing Arts by Tobie S. Stein
3. The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
4. Constellations by Nick Payne
5. If There Is, I Haven’t Found It Yet by Nick Payne
6. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
7. Invisible Women: Data Biases in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
8. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
9. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
10. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
11. The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
12. First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten
13. A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends by Michael Kirby
14. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nichols
15. My Short Century by Lorna Arnold
16. Boys and Girls by Dennis Kelly
17. Julia (after Strindberg) by Polly Stenham
 
1. Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
2. Leadership in the Performing Arts by Tobie S. Stein
3. The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
4. Constellations by Nick Payne
5. If There Is, I Haven’t Found It Yet by Nick Payne
6. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
7. Invisible Women: Data Biases in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
8. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
9. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
10. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
11. The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
12. First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten
13. A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends by Michael Kirby
14. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nichols
15. My Short Century by Lorna Arnold
16. Boys and Girls by Dennis Kelly
17. Julia (after Strindberg) by Polly Stenham
18. Sour Heart: Stories by Jenny Zhang
19. Normal People by Sally Rooney
 
Read a lot of brilliant books this year so far! Very happy with my progress. Honestly, I didn't anticipate that I would have this much time to read. :flower:

1. Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
2. Leadership in the Performing Arts by Tobie S. Stein
3. The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
4. Constellations by Nick Payne
5. If There Is, I Haven’t Found It Yet by Nick Payne
6. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
7. Invisible Women: Data Biases in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
8. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
9. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
10. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
11. The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
12. First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten
13. A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends by Michael Kirby
14. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nichols
15. My Short Century by Lorna Arnold
16. Boys and Girls by Dennis Kelly
17. Julia (after Strindberg) by Polly Stenham
18. Sour Heart: Stories by Jenny Zhang
19. Normal People by Sally Rooney
20. The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
21. The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
22. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
23. Brothers on Life by Matt and Mike Czuchry
24. Journalists in Action edited by Edward W. Barrett
 
20. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon*
21. I Don't Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux*
22. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
23. Wow, No Thank You By Samantha Irby*
24. Sula by Toni Morrison
25. The Tradition by Jericho Brown (poetry)*
26. Stateway's Garden: Stories by Jasmon Drain
27. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio*
28. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
29. New Waves by Kevin Nguyen
30. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine*
31.How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor*
32. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman*
33. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
34. Luster by Raven Leilani
35. Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
36. Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith*
37. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
 
I always love coming here and seeing what everyone else is reading! Updating my list. I want to hit 40 books by the end of the year.

1. Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
2. Leadership in the Performing Arts by Tobie S. Stein
3. The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
4. Constellations by Nick Payne
5. If There Is, I Haven’t Found It Yet by Nick Payne
6. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
7. Invisible Women: Data Biases in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
8. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
9. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
10. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
11. The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
12. First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten
13. A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends by Michael Kirby
14. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nichols
15. My Short Century by Lorna Arnold
16. Boys and Girls by Dennis Kelly
17. Julia (after Strindberg) by Polly Stenham
18. Sour Heart: Stories by Jenny Zhang
19. Normal People by Sally Rooney
20. The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
21. The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
22. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
23. Brothers on Life by Matt and Mike Czuchry
24. Journalists in Action edited by Edward W. Barrett
25. The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television Drama edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor
26. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
27. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
28. Intimations by Zadie Smith
29. Passing by Nella Larsen
30. A Word for Love by Emily Robbins
31. I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg
32. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
33. Educated by Tara Westover
 
My 2020 list so far:

1. The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
2. The Education of An Idealist by Samantha Power
3. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
4. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. Possible Side Effects by Agustin Burroughs
6. Free Men by Katy Simpson Smith
7. The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga
8. The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven
9. The Good Works of Ayela Linde by Charlotte Forbes
10. Seinfeldia by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
11. The Emerald Light in the Air by Donald Antrim
12. The Innocents by Michael Crummey
13. Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
14. The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard
15. Temporary by Hilary Leichter
16. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
17. When the Emperor Was Devine by Julie Otsuka
18. The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
19. The End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker
20. The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller
21. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
22. Down the Nile by Rosemary Mahoney
23. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
24. Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere by Lucas Mann
25. Deep in the Green by Anne Raver
26. Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman
27. The Color Master by Aimee Bender
28. Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
29. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
30. The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
31. Apples by Frank Browning
32. Al Capone Does My Homework by Gennifer Choldenko
33. The Pre-War House and Other Stories by Alison Moore
34. We Went to the Woods by Caite Dolan-Leach
35. Marlena by Julie Buntin
36. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
37. Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash
38. Binstead's Safari by Rachel Ingalls
39. Weather by Jenny Offill
40. How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
41. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
42. Al Capone Throws Me a Curve by Gennifer Choldenko
43. Suncatcher by Romesh Gunesekera
44. The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
45. Human Acts by Han Kang
46. Buddhaland Brooklyn by Richard C. Morais
47. Things You Would Know if You Grew Up Around Here by Nancy Wayson Dinan
48. Drifts by Kate Zambreno
49. Sleepovers by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
50. A Burning by Megha Majumdar
51. Red Dress in Black and White by Elliot Ackerman
52. Caste the Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
53. The Book of Atlantis Black by Betsy Bonner
54. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
55. Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
56. Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena by Char Miller, et al
57. Northernmost by Peter Geye
58. Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy
59. Dead Doubles by Trevor Barnes
60. Daddy by Emma Cline
61. Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction by David Hajdu
62. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
63. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
64. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
65. Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty
66. Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga
67. Bright and Dangerous Objects by Anneliese Mackintosh
68. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
69. The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan
70. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
71. Afterland by Lauren Beukes
 
  1. Threading My Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Rehman*
  2. Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom*
  3. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
  4. Felons by Reginald Dwayne Betts (poems)
  5. Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith*
  6. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado*
  7. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang*
  8. Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
  9. Real Life by Brandon Taylor
  10. That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu
  11. We Real Cool by bell hooks*
  12. Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
  13. The World Doesn't Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
  14. These Ghost Are Family by Maisy Card
  15. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward*
  16. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde*
  17. As Black As Resistance by Zoé Samudzi*
  18. Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper*
  19. Lakewood by Megan Giddings
  20. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon*
  21. I Don't Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux*
  22. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  23. Wow, No Thank You By Samantha Irby*
  24. Sula by Toni Morrison
  25. The Tradition by Jericho Brown (poetry)*
  26. Stateway's Garden: Stories by Jasmon Drain
  27. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio*
  28. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
  29. New Waves by Kevin Nguyen
  30. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine*
  31. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor*
  32. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman*
  33. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  34. Luster by Raven Leilani
  35. Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
  36. Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith*
  37. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
  38. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
  39. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  40. Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
  41. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
  42. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays (Revision) by Kiese Laymon*
  43. Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
  44. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable*
  45. Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
  46. How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker*

* - nonfiction books
 

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