My third reading challenge of 2023 is complete. I gave myself the added challenge this year of having zero overlap between any of the 4 challenges that I'm participating in, so these books are all unique to this challenge.
My top 5 books from this list:
Alebrijes by Barba Higuera Donna
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Sir Callie and the Dragon's Roost by Esme Symes-Smith
1. A book with a subtitle: Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky by Lois Ellen Frank 5/5
2. Featuring an inheritance: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin 4/5
3. Title starting with the letter “G”: Gender is really strange by Teddy G. Goetz 5/5
4. Title starting with the letter “H”: Hunted: An Avalon Novella by Steve McHugh 3/5
5. Title starting with the letter “I”: Insectopia by Jiri Kolibac 5/5
6. Under 200 pages: Amazing Cat Facts + Trivia by Tammy Gagne 5/5
7. A city or country name in the title: Xi'am Famous Foods by Jason Wang 5/5
8. Dystopian fiction: Alebrijes by Barba Higuera Donna 5/5
9. A book with a dedication: The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Amanda Lovelace 5/5
10. Takes place during the roaring twenties: The Ballad of Tom Black by Victor LaValle 3/5
11. A book about secrets: Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia 3/5
12. High fantasy: Between Monsters and Marvels by Alysa Wishingrad 5/5
13. Published posthumously: Beowulf by anonymous 4/5
14. A survival story: The Price of a Small Hot Fire by E.F. Schraeder 4/5
15. Set in Australia: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 5/5
16. Featuring one of the “seven deadly sins”: The Sound of Rain by Gregg Olsen 4/5
17. By a Caribbean author: Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson 4/5
18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai 5/5
19. Typographic cover: Dragged to the Wedding by Andrew Grey 4/5
20. A book about siblings: Project F by Jeanne DuPrau 3/5
21. A second-hand book: Greenglass House by Kate Milford 5/5
22. A body-positive message: Sir Callie and the Dragon's Roost by Esme Symes-Smith 5/5
23. An alliterative title: Mary Berry's Baking Bible by Mary Berry 5/5
24. Nordic noir: The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup 4/5
25. A fashionable character: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 5/5
26. Has an epilogue: The Community by N. Jamiyla Chisholm 3/5
27. Newberry Medal winner: Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman 5/5
28. Includes a funeral: Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton 3/5
29. Sends you down a rabbit hole: Unhinged by A.G. Howard 4/5
30. An author with a same name as you: Captured by Erica Stevens 3/5
31. Set in a workplace: Land of Broken Promises by Jane Kuo 4/5
32. Published by Macmillan: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 5/5
33. A banned book: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 4/5
34. Featuring mythology: anOther Mythology by Maxwell I. Gold 3/5
35. A book you meant to read last year: Network Effect by Martha Wells 4/5
36. Chapters have cliffhangers: Where the Lockwood Grows by Olivia A. Cole 5/5
37. Written in present tense: Splintered by A.G. Howard 4/5
38. An enemies-to-lovers plot: To the Princess Bound by Sara King 5/5
39. The final book in a series: The Conjurer by Luanne G. Smith 3/5
40. Written by a comedian: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 5/5
41. A character who is a refugee: In the Tunnel by Julie Lee 4/5
42. Time in the title: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar 3/5
43. A book “everyone” has read: Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers 3/5
44. A contemporary setting: Under Her Eye by Lindy Ryah 5/5
45. First word in the book is “The”: The Beast Within by Serena Valentino 1/5
46. Script font on the spine: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna 5/5
47. Set in the city of Dublin: Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy 4/5
48. A book by Octavia E. Butler: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler 5/5
49. Books on the cover: You Light Up My Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman 4/5
50. Related to the word “murder”: If You Tell by Gregg Olsen 5/5
51. A book that doesn't fit any of the other 51 prompts: The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 4/5
52. Published in 2023: A Bit of Earth by Karuna Riazi 4/5
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