2020 Reading Challenge Roundup - Failed
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- end of the year
- reading challenges

Perpetual Books
Goal 20/30 Books 66.7%
- The Hunger by Alma Katsu (1/17/20)
- Wither by Lauren DeStefano (1/18/20)
- Kindred by Octavia Butler (3/6/20)
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (3/26/20)
- How to Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran (3/27/20)
- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (5/7/20)
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (5/8/20)
- Asylum by Madeleine Roux (6/7/20)
- The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs (7/10/20)
- The Witches are Coming by Lindy West (7/29/20)
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver (8/21/20)
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (8/22/20)
- The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov (8/30/20)
- Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt (8/2/20)
- Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt (8/16/20)
- Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt (8/29/20)
- Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt (9/2/20)
- Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth Hoyt (9/30/20)
- White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (10/18/20)
- The Troop by Nick Cutter (11/17/20)

UnRead Shelf
Goal 30/50 Books 60%
- The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell (1/21/20)
- Lady Mechanika La Dama de la Muerte (1/29/20)
- Lady Mechanika Vol. 4 (1/30/20)
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (2/7/20)
- The Year of Living Scandalously by Julia London (2/14/20)
- The Revenge of Lord Eberlin by Julia London (2/28/20)
- The Seduction of Lady X by Julia London (3/30/20)
- Well Met by Jen DeLuca (3/28/20)
- 1776 by David McCullough (4/14/20)
- All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace (4/22/20)
- Things in Jars by Jess Kidd (5/6/20)
- The Confessions of a Duchess by Nicola Cornick (5/13/20)
- Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin (5/16/20)
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (5/17/20)
- The Scandals of an Innocent by Nicola Cornick (5/27/20)
- The Undoing of a Lady by Nicola Cornick (5/29/20)
- Whisper of Scandal by Nicola Cornick (6/5/20)
- Asylum by Madeleine Roux (6/7/20)
- The Library of Legends by Janie Chang (6/17/20)
- Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore (6/18/20)
- The Paris Hours by Alex George (6/26/20)
- Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (7/8/20)
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (7/17/20)
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis (7/20/20)
- Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt (8/2/20)
- The End of October by Lawrence Wright (8/14/20)
- Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt (8/16/20)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (8/19/20)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (9/29/20)
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab (12/2/20)

Modern Mrs. Darcy Summer Reading
Goal 13/20 Books 65%
- Beach Read by Emily Henry (8/9/20)
- Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner (10/21/20)
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (6/16/20)
- Clad When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (7/12/20)
- Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon
- The End of October by Lawrence Wright (8/14/20)
- Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
- The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (10/23/20)
- I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman
- I’d Give Anything by Marisa de los Santos (6/28/20)
- The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner (9/26/20)
- Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
- Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
- Lovely War by Julie Berry (10/16/20)
- Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (7/17/20)
- Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (8/4/20)
- Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
- Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
- Strike Me Down by Mindy Mejia
- The Switch by Beth O’Leary
- Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
- Throw Like a Girl by Sarah Henning
- Tweet Cute by Emma Lord (7/22/20)
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Writers and Lovers by Lily KIng

Modern Mrs. Darcy Summer Reading Previous Years
Goal 3/20 Books 15%
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
- The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (6/22/20)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- I was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
- First Impressions by Charlie Lovett
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin
- Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
- Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
- Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
- One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
- Honeymoon in Paris by Jojo Moyes
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist
- At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- Cooked by Michael Pollan
- The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
- Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
- One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
- Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
- Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Love Walked in by Marisa de los Santos
- I’ll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith
- The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
- The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (10/28/20)
- A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg (7/21/20)
- The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

Goodreads to Read Random
Goal 10/12 Books 83.3%
- January - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
- February - The Revenge of Lord Eberlin by Julia London (2/28/20)
- March - Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak (4/8/20)
- April - Planetfall by Emma Newman (4/17/20)
- May - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (5/8/20)
- June - The Daughter of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe (6/30/20)
- July - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (7/28/20)
- August - The Ship of Dreams by Catharine Russell (8/11/20)
- September - Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt (9/2/20)
- October - Dark Desires by Eve Silver (10/17/20)
- November - Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (11/6/20)
- December - Still Life by Louise Penny

May Theme
Goal 4/6 Books 66.7%
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (9/29/20)
- Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke (8/12/20)
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (5/15/20)
- The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Gracia Marquez
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (10/28/20)

August Theme
Goal 4/6 Books 66.7%
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (8/22/20)
- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (10/25/20)
- Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams (8/7/20)
- Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
- The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender (10/24/20)
- The Secrets of Drearcliff School by Kim Newman

September Theme
Goal 1/6 Books 16.7%
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carman Maria Machado
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (9/12/20)
- With Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- TBD

November Theme
Goal 1/6 Books 16.7%
- The Address Book by Deirdre Mask (11/13/20)
- The Buried by Peter Hessler
- The Eye of the Hurricane by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by
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