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15.3 Listopia Tag
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
This edition: Romeo and Juliet can be found on this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (#157) with the tag of: couples-pair-book-covers
+15 Task
+5 Before 1980
+5 Not a Novel
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 260 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 235)
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
Shelved as YA & Juv, Low Lexile
+10 Task -- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2000
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 10
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
+20 task
+5 combo (10.9)
+10 female author
Post total: 35
Season total: 35
How to Dance with a Duke by Manda Collins
#15 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
with the tag of "historical romance"
+15 task
Post total: 15
Season total: 15
The Cleverness of Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith.
The author was born in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.
+20 task
Task total: 20
Season total: 55
Beyond the Islands by Alicia Yánez Cossío
-Set entirely in Ecuador (the Galapagos to be specific)-
task=10
female author=10
task total=20
grand total=20
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Shelved as YA, Low Lexile
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 30
15.1 Listopia Tag
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
(5th on my plan)
+5 <1980
Task total = 20
Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke
+10 task
+10 female
Task total: 20
Grand total: 20
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (I started this book last month, but was >50% done by June 1)
(retelling of Beauty and the Beast: she is human he is fae; humans and faeries are enemies)
+10 Task, 416 pages
+10 Female
Task total: 20
Season total: 20
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
+10 Task - set entirely in London
+10 Female
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 20
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
+10 Task
+10 Female
(a lot of this is set in NYC but I don't think it's quite 75%)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 40
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
74 tags western
+20 task
YA at Brooklyn Library and lexile of 720
Task total: 20
Grand total: 20
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
+10 task
+10 female author
Task total: 20
Season total: 20
Clariel (Abhorsen #4) by Garth Nix
YA with 990L
author is born in Melbourne, Australia
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 20
Death of a Scriptwriter by M.C. Beaton.
+10 Task
+10 Female author
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 20
Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit by Francis Chan.
This edition Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit can be found on this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2..., #44, with the tag of Intellect.
+15 Task
+5 Not a novel
Task Total: 20
Grand Total:40
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
BTW....a BIG 5 STARS!... I had never read Naylor before....this woman knew how to write!
task=20
combo= 5 (10.2)
woman author=10
WC=10
task total= 45
grand total=65
Alcestis by Katharine Beutner
+20 task
+10 female author
+10 combo (10.9, 20.4)
Task Total: 40
Grand total: 60
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
20 task
10 female author
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30
Running total: 30
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 Not Quite Jumbo - 427 pages)
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 25
Baking Cakes in Kigali (Bakery #1) by Gaile Parkin
referred to in the book description as a debut
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.7 - Zambia)
+10 Female
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 55
John Dies at the End by David Wong
#35 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
with the tag hilarious
+15 task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 15
Petit pays by Gaël Faye
Born in Burundi
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.4)
Task total = 25
Points total = 25
Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
+ 10 Task
Combo - Female author +10
10.5 Inferno published 2018 +5
+15 Combo Total
Task Total = 25
Grand Total = 25
Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
Can be found on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (#38) with the tag of: maritime
+15 Task
+5 big – 789 pages
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 20
At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson
Can be found on this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5... (#225) with the tag of: shared
+15 Task
+5 not a novel
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 40
When Hoopoes Go to Heaven (Bakery #2) by Gaile Parkin
author born in Zambia
Book set in Swaziland (100%)
+20 Task
+5 Multiple
+10 Female
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 90
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
+20 task
+5 combo (10.5 - 2017)
+5 jumbo (531 pg)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 45
Murder on the Half Shelf by Lorna Barrett.
+10 Task BarrEtt
+10 Multiple
+10 Female author
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 70
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Task: +20
Combo +5 (20.4)
Female Author +10
Task Total = 35
Season Total = 35
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
415pp
Task points 10
Combo 5
Grand Total 15
The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan
+20 Task born in Australia
+ 15 Combo 10.7, 20.4, 20.6
+10 female author
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 95
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.8K Big City, Small Country (New York City)
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.8R Mom
+10 Canon
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 40
King Lear by William Shakespeare
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 10.4 Book Lover's Day
+10 Canon
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 65
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
+10 Task
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 75
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
+20 Task
+10 Combo: 10.4 Book Lover's Day / 10.8R Mom
+10 Canon
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 115
The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
+20 Task
+10 Canon
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 145
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
+20 Task: low lexile
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 165
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
+20 Task
+10 Canon
+10 Female
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 205
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.7 Ambassador
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 225 (Corrected)
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
415pp
Task points 10
Combo 5
Grand Total 15"
I'm sorry, Jayme, the MPE for this title is only 359 pages and does not qualify for 10.7. However, the author name includes both an E and a B, so qualifies for 10.9.
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10.1 Possession
Adam Bede by George Eliot
+10 Task
+ 5 Combo (20.4 Debut Novel)
+10 Canon
+10 Female
+ 5 Multiple
+ 5 Jumbo (624 pgs)
Task Total: 45
Season Total: 235 (assumes mid-season with a previous total of 190)