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TIOLI CHALLENGES - JUNE 2024

May 2024

June 2024


CHALLENGE #1: From a Little Free Library or with Little, Free or Library in Title - The Little Library on Cherry Lane
CHALLENGE #2: Letters That Form the Word "Read" are in the Title - Day Zero
CHALLENGE #2: Letters That Form the Word "Read" are in the Title - Palisades Park
CHALLENGE #2: Letters That Form the Word "Read" are in the Title - Race the Sands
CHALLENGE #2: Letters That Form the Word "Read" are in the Title - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
CHALLENGE #2: Letters That Form the Word "Read" are in the Title - Salt Redux
CHALLENGE #4: Fits a Prompt for the Seattle Public Library Bingo - The Doll's House
CHALLENGE #4: Fits a Prompt for the Seattle Public Library Bingo - The Fabulous Mrs. V - COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #4: Fits a Prompt for the Seattle Public Library Bingo - Fever - COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #4: Fits a Prompt for the Seattle Public Library Bingo - Grand Ambition
CHALLENGE #4: Fits a Prompt for the Seattle Public Library Bingo - The Sound of Stars - DNF
CHALLENGE #5: Many Words, One Syllable Each - Two of a Kind - READING
CHALLENGE #6: The Word Memory or Remember in the Title - Memory of An Elephant - LISTENING
CHALLENGE #7: Was or Could Have Been Nominated for a Man Booker - Palm Beach, Finland - READING
CHALLENGE #8: A Retelling From a Different Point of View - Exit, Pursued by a Bear
CHALLENGE #10: Title Contains a Color That Starts with "B" - The Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
CHALLENGE #12: Zodiac Challenge - Gemini - The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
CHALLENGE #13: Title and Author's Name are in Different Colors on the Cover - Kitchens of the Great Midwest - COMPLETED




2024
2024 Category Challenge

My 2024 Category Challenge - Part 4
My 2024 Category Challenge - Part 3
My 2024 Category Challenge - Part 2
My 2024 Category Challenge - Part 1

2024 75 Challenge

Reading Through Time Challenge

My 1,001 Books To Read Challenge - Part 2

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2023
2023 Category Challenge

My 2023 Category Challenge - Part 6




Top Books of the First Quarter of 2024

The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh
Molok'ai by Alan Brennert

Top Books 2023

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Starlight by Richard Wagamese
World Departed by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Caroline by Sarah Miller
An Elderly Lady Up To No Good by Helene Tursten

Top Books of 2022

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
November Road by Lou Berney
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farell
Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand
The Untold by Courtney Collins

Top Books of 2021

Romance of the Kingdom by Luo Guanzhong
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Dodgers by Bill Beverly
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
Long Bright River by Liz Moore

Top Books of 2020

All That I Have by Castle Freeman
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer
The Grifters by Jim Thompson
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Trespass by Barbara Ewing

Top Books of 2019

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Legend by David Gemmell
The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
I am Legend by David Matheson
Hell's Bottom, Colorado by Laura Pritchett

Top Books of 2018

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilan
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Under the Skin by Michael Faber
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick

Top Reads of 2017

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
March Vol.1, 2, & 3 by John Lewis
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
Savage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Dog Boy by Eva Hornung

Top Reads of 2016

The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Wool by Hugh Howey
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
An Untamed State by Roxanne Gay
Leave Her To Heaven by Ben Ames Williams
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Top Reads of 2015

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
The Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley
Katherine by Anya Seton
The Snow Child by Ewoyn Ivey
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash



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2.0 ★: I must have been dragged, kicking and screaming, to finish this one!

2.5 ★: Below Average but I finished the book for one reason or another.

3.0 ★: Average, a solid read that I finished but can't promise to remember

3.5 ★: Above Average, there's room for improvement but I liked this well enough to pick up another book by this author.

4.0 ★: A very good read and I enjoyed my time spent with this story

4.5 ★: An excellent read, a book I will remember and recommend

5.0 ★: Sheer perfection, the right book at the right time for me

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