2024 & 2025 Reading Challenge discussion

OUT ON A LIMB
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

What better way to mark the passing of seasons but with the changing of trees? Will you have a mighty Yggdrasil with all your branches connected to one giant trunk? Or an Amazon Rainforest with lots of different trees of every variety?

Instructions:

1. Choose a book that will be the trunk of your tree. This can be a book you read this year, or an old favorite.
2. Read books that somehow relate to your trunk for the branches of your tree. You should have at least 5 branches for each tree.
3. (Optional) Each branch may also have unlimited leaves, where books relate the branch book instead of the trunk book.

Connections include but are not limited to:
-same author
-same genre
-same publication or setting year
-same subject matter
-part of the same series or collection
-both made into movie/tv
-same format (play, epistolary, etc.)
-same color or type of cover
-same character names
-same setting
-recommended to you by the same person
-won the same award
-on the same listopia
-on the Goodreads section “readers also enjoyed”

Your tree should have at least 5 branches, but you can have as many as you want and you can have as many trees as you want. This challenge is very open. Have fun with it and get creative. For any of those artistically inclined, I would love to see visual renderings of your trees at the end of the year (this is of course not required).

Example:

Trunk: A Game of Thrones
Branch 1: A Clash of Kings (same series)
Leaf 1: A Storm of Swords (same series)
Leaf 2: The Grace of Kings (“Kings” in title)
Branch 2: Neverwhere (publication year)
Leaf 1: American Gods (same author)
Branch 3: His Majesty's Dragon (dragons)
Leaf 1: Napoleon: A Life (subject/character)
Leaf 2: Uprooted (same author)

How to Participate:

1. Post here telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time during the year and may also change your goal whenever needed.

2. When you finish a book for the challenge, post it here to let the challenge leader know.
Please be sure to post the total number of books you have completed and the number of your original message every time you post an update. We use the number of the original message to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.

Example:
Update to message 32: 2/25 books read!

For more information about how challenges work, check out this thread or ask your challenge leader.

P.S. Please do not delete posts! It makes updating very confusing for the Moderators! If you decide to leave the challenge, please just let us know. You can edit your original post to say {deleted}. Thank you!

Participants:

Amy - 0 / 18
Asheena - 12 / 15
Aspasia - 3 / 55
Beth - 72 / 101
Betty - 36 / 35 Completed!
Bobbi - 0 / 20
Briana - 14 / 15
Brianna Raquel - 16 / 16 Completed!
Brittany - 16 / 30
Carmen - 102 / 100 Completed!
Chrissie - 55 / 55 Completed!
Christene Paula - 0 / 20
Crystal - 29 / 60
Debra Diggs - 72 / 70 Completed!
Dominique - 0 / 50
Ela (Mouse333) - 0 / ?
Elizabeth - 0 / ?
Erin - 0 / 19
Eva - 0 / 21
Gina - 0 / 10
Greg - 12 / 50
Jaida - 13 / 25
Janine - 24 / 12
Jannene - 0 / 50
JennH - 26 / 32
Jordan - 10 / 10 Completed!
Julie - 7 / 15
Karen - 5 / 11
Karin - 60 / 60 Completed!
Katy - 0 / 20
Kristina - 0 / 60
Kylie - 0 / 40
Laura - 30 / 30 Completed!
Lina - 36 / 40
Lindey - 24 / 24 Completed!
Lisa - 0 / 10
luna - 0 / 15
Michelle - 0 / 10
MYSTIQUE - 31 / 95
Nat - 15 / 15 Completed!
Rachael - 10 / 10 Completed!
Sara - 0 / 15
Sarah (msg 42) - 31 / 31 Completed!
Sarah (msg 54) - 0 / 21
SarahKat - 15 / 15 Completed!
Sheila - 0 / 40
Susan - 10 / 10 Completed!
Suzanne - 0 /
TerryJane - 240 / 200 Completed!
Theresa - 10 / 15
Vanessa - 11 / 15
Wolf (Alpha) - 0 / 50
Ziggy - 24 / 24 Completed!

STATS
Participants: 50
Books Read: 1071
Book Goal: 1780
Completed: 16

Updated through Message #276 on Dec 17, 2024.

Reserved

Redacted. Sorry, but I’ve decided to skip this challenge.

Out On a Limb

72/70

Tree 1
✔ Trunk: The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman

✔ Branch 1: The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (same author)
✔ Leaf 1: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab (same genre: fantasy)
✔ Leaf 2: The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico (bird on cover)
✔ Leaf 3: System Collapse by Martha Wells (number of reviews between 4,000 - 4,500)

✔ Branch 2: Cry Me a River by Nancy Holder (publication year - 2009)
✔ Leaf 1: Wonka by Sibéal Pounder (novelization)
✔ Leaf 2: The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich (first book in series)
✔ Leaf 3: Crocodile's Kill by Chris McGillion (less than 25 ratings)
✔ Leaf 4: The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler (strong female character)

✔ Branch 3: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (readers also enjoyed)
✔ Leaf 1: This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron (flowers on cover)
✔ Leaf 2: The Children Act by Ian McEwan (nominee for best fiction)
✔ Leaf 3: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (Reese's Book Club)
✔ Leaf 4: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (New York Times bestseller)

✔ Branch 4: Falling Down by Chuck Hogan (Author) Guillermo Del Toro (Author) (number of stars between 3.5 and 4.0)
✔ Leaf 1: All My Darkest Impulses by Lisa Unger (Amazon prime)
✔ Leaf 2: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (first book in series)
✔ Caterpillar Yellow by Reem Al Mubarak (one word title)

✔ Branch 5: A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon (author's initials, "A" "H")
✔ Leaf 1: The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie (character in disguise)
✔ Leaf 2: The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (set in Massachusetts)
✔ Leaf 3: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (New York Times bestselling author)
✔ Leaf 4: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (physical characteristic of main character: tall)
✔ Leaf 5: The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd (based on a remarkable, young girls real life)

✔ Branch 6: Glass Houses by Rachel Caine (same character name: Claire)
✔ Leaf 1: Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman (vampires in story)
✔ Leaf 2: All the Living and the Dead (shelved by 4 of my Goodreads friends)
✔ Leaf 3: Snowflakes by Ruth Ware (author wore/wears glasses)
✔ Caterpillar: Lovers at the Museum by Isabel Allende (less than 50 pages)

✔ Branch 7: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (book with made-up language)
✔ Leaf 1: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (same publisher: Scholastic)
✔ Leaf 2: The Christmas Contest by Theresa Sederholt (new-to-me author)
✔ Leaf 3: Brave Girl, Quiet Girl by Catherine Ryan Hyde (author uses middle name)
✔ Leaf 4: The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson (made into movie)
✔ Leaf 5: What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan (girls name in title)

✔ Branch 8: Claus: Legend of the Fat Man by Tony Bertauski by Tony Bertauski (main character's last name in title)
✔ Leaf 1: What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life by Billy Dee Williams (twins in story)
✔ Leaf 2: Miracle: The True Story of the Wreck of the Sea Venture by Gail Langer Karwoski (book with subtitle)
✔ Leaf 3: The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (adjective in title)

✔ Branch 9: Pied Piper (alliteration in title)
✔ Leaf 1: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (traveling around to different places)
✔ Leaf 2: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (two word title)
✔ Leaf 3: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier (an older main character)
✔ Leaf 4: The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins (dead author)

✔ Branch 10: Aurora, Minnesota by William Kent Krueger (author born in United States)
✔ Leaf 1: Frost and Fire by Ray Bradbury (not original title)
✔ Leaf 2: Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii by Lee Goldberg (name of state in title)
✔ Leaf 3: Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger (Minnesota Book Award Winner)

✔ Branch 11: Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon (date added to my TBR list, Sept. 2023)
✔ Leaf 1: After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell (title with apostrophe in it)
✔ Leaf 2: Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger (same price: kindle book on Amazon for $13.99)
✔ Leaf 3: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (book with fairies in it)

✔ Branch 12: The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (standalone)
✔ Leaf 1: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (duo authors)
✔ Leaf 2: Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu, Vol. 1 by Meng Xi Shi (published in the month of March)
✔ Caterpillar: Blackthorn Winter by Kathryn Reiss (season in title)
✔ Leaf 3: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (color in title)

✔ Branch 13: The Magician by Colm Tóibín (author has written both fiction and nonfiction)
✔ Leaf 1: Out of Love by Hazel Hayes (author has a job other than writing)
✔ Leaf 2: The Art of Neil Gaiman by Hayley Campbell (foreign author)


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Tree 2
✔ Trunk: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

✔ Branch 1 A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury (short story)
✔ Leaf 1: The Man Who Knew How by Dorothy L. Sayers (short story)

✔ Branch 2 Slow Horses by Mick Herron (adjective in title)
✔ Leaf 1: No Cats Allowed by Miranda James (animal in title)
✔ Caterpillar: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (genre: cozy mystery)

✔ Branch 3 The Wind: A Starlite Mystery by Ray Fraser and Michele Fraser (weather in title)
✔ Leaf 1: Black & Blue by James Patterson and Candice Fox (duo authors)

✔ Branch 4 The Strange Bird: A Borne Story by Jeff VanderMeer (same genre: science fiction)
✔ Leaf 1: Sister Raven by Karen Rae Levine (bird in title)

✔ Branch 5 Slade House by David Mitchell (features a house)




..

I will sign up for ten books please.🌳

COMPLETED: 10/10

✔️ Trunk: Magic Study
✔️ - Branch 1: Fire Study (same series)
✔️ -- Leaf 1: Poison Study (same series)
✔️ - Branch 2: Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet (magic in title)
✔️ - Branch 3: A Deadly Education (characters learn magic)
✔️ -- Leaf 1: The Last Graduate (same author)
✔️ -- Leaf 2: The Golden Enclaves (same author)
✔️ - Branch 4: Glass Houses (published in the same year, 2006)
✔️ - Branch 5: A Pinch of Magic (magic in title)
✔️ - Branch 6: Shadow and Bone (same genre, fantasy)

I'm in with 10 books! (For now 😅)

Progress: 5/10

Trunk: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry

Branch 1: Too Long a Sacrifice (Same setting: island) ✅
Leaf 1: Almost Gone (Same number of pages: 283) ✅
Leaf 2: Die Nebel von Avalon (Same topic: Mythology)

Branch 2: Voices in the Snow (Same genre: (cozy) Horror) ✅
Leaf 1: In Bloom (In "Readers also enjoyed-list") ✅
Leaf 2: From Below (Same author: Darcy Coates)

Branch 3: The Stone Sky (Same publication year: 2017) ✅
Leaf 1: The Hod King (Same genre: Fantasy)
Leaf 2: Reached (Last volume of a series)

Branch 4: The Ghost Tree (Same author: Christina Henry)
Leaf 1: The Watchers (Same cover color: white)
Leaf 2: The Hollow Places (In "Readers also enjoyed-list")

Branch 5: The Lost World ("Lost" in title)
Leaf 1: The Land That Time Forgot (In "Readers also enjoyed-list")

I'm in for 20.

Trunk: Rot & Ruin

Branch 1: Same Series
Leaf 1:
Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:
Branch 2: Similar Books
Leaf 1:
Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:
Branch 3: Same Author - Jonathan Maberry
Leaf 1: Dead Man's Song - Jonathan Maberry ✧✧✧✧ 1/13/24
Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:
Branch 4: Same Publication Year - 2010
Leaf 1:
Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:
Branch 5: Same Genre - Horror
Leaf 1: One Must Go - Alex Reid ✧✧✧ 1/20/24
Leaf 2: FantasticLand - Mike Bockoven ✭✭✭✭ 2/2/24
Leaf 3: Feral - MFK R ✭✭✭✭✭ 2/11/24

Planning for 15 books:

Completed: 15/15

Trunk: The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Branch 1: Starling House (same author) 7/6
Leaf 1: Murder in the Crooked House ("house" in title) 6/8

Branch 2: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (Hugo nominees for Best Novel) 6/12
Leaf 1: She Who Became the Sun (Hugo nominees for Best Novel) 10/7
Leaf 2: Bryony and Roses (retellings) 7/17

Branch 3: The September House (month in title) 5/28
Leaf 1: Into the Drowning Deep (horror genre) 7/12
Leaf 2: Customs: Poems (red cover) 1/15
Leaf 3: Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future (pub 2023) 5/25

Branch 4: Have You Seen Her (pub 2023) 5/8
Leaf 1: No One Needs to Know (thriller genre) 7/20

Branch 5: A Room of One’s Own (number in title) 9/13
Leaf 1: The Salvation Gambit (purple cover) 8/24
Leaf 2: Time Is a Mother (<150 pages) 4/21
Leaf 3: Wuthering Heights (classics by women) 5/5

I would like to sign up for 24

Yearly Challenge-Out on a Limb

24/24
Completed

Trunk-The Way of Kings

Branch 1: Fantasy book The Thief Lord
Leaf 1: The Door-to-Door Bookstore (originally written in German)
Leaf 2: Family Lore (blue cover)
Leaf 3: The Thief (word Thief in title)


Branch 2: First book in a series The Word is Murder
Leaf 1 Magic Slays (part of a series)
Leaf 2 Writers & Lovers (knife on cover)
Leaf 3 Jade War (black and red cover)


Branch 3: Book over 500 pages Foul Lady Fortune
Leaf 1 Hello Beautiful (acquired from Book of the Month)
Leaf 2 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (title starts with F)
Leaf 3 The Spare Man (published in 2022)


Branch 4: Book that start with “The” The Ickabog
Leaf 1 Garlic and the Vampire (middle grade)
Leaf 2 The Inheritance. (2 word title first word the and second word stats with I)
Leaf 3 Nettle & Bone (first name initials)

Branch 5: Book nominated for The Locus Award The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Leaf 1: Wrong Place Wrong Time (author name starts with a G)
Leaf 2: Piranesi (nominated for same award in same year)
Leaf 3 The Queen of Attolia (same number of pages)


Branch 6: Book first published in the month of August To the Bright Edge of the World
Leaf 1 Love on the Brain (even number of pages)
Leaf 2: Running Wild (Takes place in Alaska)


https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

OUT ON A LIMB
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
0/20

Trunk:

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Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:
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Leaf 2:
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Branch 4:
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Branch 5:
Leaf 1:
Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:

Joining for 15 for now, thanks! Will set this post up later :)

🌳 Out on a Limb - Yearly Challenge 🌳
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2024

🌳 Progress: 36/40 🌳 -
Edit 04.03: Raising my goal to 20.
Edit 29.05: Raising my goal to 30.
Edit 01.09: Raising my goal to 40.



Tracking my books read for this challenge in my corner

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Oh! This is fun. Ill go for 30. Think Ill try it with this set up since I am currently reading Way of Kings and it is sitting beside me right now. For my second tree I'll go with one of my favourite historical fiction books by a favourite author with The Rose Code.
Trying for 3 per branch

24/30

Trunk: The Way of Kings

Branch 1: Author

Branch 2: Publication year (2010)

Branch 3: Genre (Fantasy)

Branch 4: Big books (over 500 pages)

Branch 5: Start of a series


Trunk: The Rose Code

Branch 1: Genre (Historical Fiction)

Branch 2: War

Branch 3: Publication year (2021)

Branch 4: Standalone
Leaf 1: Standalone romance
leaf 2: Standalone

Branch 5: England

I'm so in! I have no idea how many or what trees... but if you must put down a number, let's go with 10 books :)
Thanks!

Finished: 2024/06/02

I really like this creative challenge :)

55/55

Trunk:

Branch 1: Loveless (same author) ✓
Twig 1: Focus 10 Band 5 (female author) ✓
Leaf 1: Focus 10 Band 6 (same author) ✓
Leaf 2: Focus 10 Band 7 (same series) ✓
Leaf 3: Focus 10 Band 8 (same series) ✓
Leaf 4: Focus 10 Band 9 (same series) ✓
Twig 2: Die Namenlose aus der Seine (-less/-los in title) ✓
Leaf 1: Der Geheimbund der Masken (same series) ✓
Leaf 2: Eine Fingerkuppe Freiheit: Historischer Roman Aus dem Leben des Louis Braille Über den Erfinder der Blindenschrift (set mostly in Paris) ✓
Leaf 3: The Maid: Ein Zimmermädchen ermittelt (mystery/crime) ✓
Leaf 4: Noah (audiobook) ✓

Branch 2: The House in the Cerulean Sea (Young Adult) ✓
Twig 1: Yellowface (author with initials) ✓
Leaf 1: TIPTOE - Auf Zehenspitzen ins Glück (bodypart in title) ✓
Leaf 2: Comandante: Roman (same publication year) ✓
Leaf 3: So This Is Ever After (author with initials) ✓
Leaf 4: Barefoot Angel 2 (bodypart in title) ✓
Twig 2: Cemetery Boys (queer author) ✓
Leaf 1: Undertow: Illustrated Novel (LGBTQ+ protagonist) ✓
Leaf 2: The Importance of Being Earnest (queer author) ✓
Leaf 3: If This Gets Out (LGBTQ+ protagonist) ✓
Leaf 4: Therapy Game Restart, Vol. 3 (LGBTQ+ protagonist) ✓

Branch 3: Focus 10 Band 10 (manga/comic/graphic novel) ✓
Twig 1: Der Totengräbersohn 1 (German author) ✓
Leaf 1: 2 (male author) ✓
Leaf 2: Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen. (male author) ✓
Leaf 3: Father Figure (family member in title) ✓
Leaf 4: The Great Gatsby (male author) ✓
Twig 2: Ein Zeichen der Zuneigung 01 (manga) ✓
Leaf 1: Ein Zeichen der Zuneigung 02 (same series) ✓
Leaf 2: Kneel Down and Ask for Love (manga) ✓
Leaf 3: Nagahama to Be, or Not to Be (manga) ✓
Leaf 4: MADK 2 (manga) ✓

Branch 4: Red, White & Royal Blue (LGBTQ+ protagonist) ✓
Twig 1: Wenn die Lichter ausgehen (female author) ✓
Leaf 1: Focus 10 Band 1 (German author) ✓
Leaf 2: Focus 10 Band 2 (German author) ✓
Leaf 3: Focus 10 Band 3 (German author) ✓
Leaf 4: Focus 10 Band 4 (German author) ✓
Twig 2: BENNI - Pink geht immer (LGBTQ+ protagonist) ✓
Leaf 1: Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy: The Heart of the Matter (name in title) ✓
Leaf 2: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman (name in title) ✓
Leaf 3: Book Love: Eine Liebeserklärung an das Lesen (female author) ✓
Leaf 4: Hope in Our Universe (LGBTQ+ protagonist) ✓

Branch 5: (Green cover) ✓
Twig 1: (Green cover) ✓
Leaf 1: Der Donnerstagsmordclub (male author) ✓
Leaf 2: Franny und Zooey (American author) ✓
Leaf 3: Die Verlorenen (male author) ✓
Leaf 4: Haikyu!!, Band 1 (male author) ✓
Twig 2: Buffy, Im Bann der Dämonen, Spike & Dru, Dämonische Liebe (fantasy) ✓
Leaf 1: Haikyu!!, Band 2 (male author) ✓
Leaf 2: Haikyu!!, Band 3 (male author) ✓
Leaf 3: Haikyu!!, Band 4 (male author) ✓
Leaf 4: Haikyu!!, Band 5 (male author) ✓

Trunk: Before I Let Go

16/16

Branch 1: This Could Be Us (same series) 🪴
Leaf 1: Long Shot (same author)🪴
Leaf 2: Block Shot (same author)🪴
Leaf 3: Hook Shot (same author)🪴

Branch 2: The City We Became (duology)🪴
Leaf 1: The World We Make (same series)🪴

Branch 3: Fake It Till You Bake It (Romance)🪴
Leaf 1: The Love Hypothesis (same setting)🪴
Leaf 2: Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun (same setting)🪴

Branch 4: Sari, Not Sari (2022 release)🪴
Leaf 1: Lovestruck (April release) 🪴
Leaf 2: Memphis (April release)🪴
Leaf 3: The Candy House (April release)🪴

Branch 5: The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD (mental health)🪴
Leaf 1: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (nonfiction) 🪴
Leaf 2: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (nonfiction)🪴

🥀 I’m in. I’ll do one tree at a time and read 21 books per tree. So as of right now, put me down for 21 please.
Update: 95

📕📚📖Out On a Limb - 2024📖📚📕
January 1 - December 31, 2024

Updated message #17

🍂Leaf 3 30+chapters Love Bites 3/18/24 4⭐️
🍂Leaf 3 Elven Duty 3/19/24 4⭐️
🌱Twig 2 Elven Game 3/20/24 4⭐️
🍃Leaf 1 (E) Elven Heir 3/20/24 4⭐️
🍃Leaf 2 (THE) The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love 1/26/24 5⭐️
🍃Leaf 1 30+ chapters The Hitman's Guide to Staying Alive Despite Past Mistakes 3/26/24 4⭐️
🌱Twig 2 Zachary 4/26/24 4⭐️
🍃Leaf 2 30+chapters The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot 4/30/24 5⭐️
🍃Leaf 1 Kríe Captivity 5/22/24 4⭐️
🌱Twig 1 Love Bleeds 5/23/24 ⭐️
🍃Leaf 1 The Former Assassin's Guide to Snagging a Reluctant Boyfriend 5/28/24 4⭐️
🍂Leaf 3 30+chapters The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem 6/21/24 4⭐️
🌱Twig 3 Honeymoon for One 6/21/24 4⭐️
🌱Twig 3 (E) Enchanting Exposition 6/25/24 4⭐️
🌱Twig 3 Whispers of the Deep 6/26/24 5⭐️

🌳Progress: 31/95
🍃Leaves: 13/63
🌱Twigs: 7/21
🌿Branches: 7/7
🪵Trunk: 1/1
🪵Roots: 3/3
🌰Seed: 0/0

🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🌱Twig 3 Honeymoon for One 6/21/24 4⭐️
🔗 (Joel Leslie)
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🟩Twig 2
🔗 (Greg Boudreaux)
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🟩Twig 1 Love Among Reptiles
🔗(Wyatt Baker)
🌿Branch 7 (E) Ends of the Earth 2/12/24 5⭐️
🔗(Favorite Narrator’s: all books on branch 7 will be narrated by a narrator I enjoy listening to.)
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🟩Twig 3
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🟩Twig 2
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🟩Twig 1
🌿Branch 6 (C) Cruel Beauty 2/9/24 5⭐️
🔗(Rose: all books on branch 6 have a Rose on cover )
🟨Leaf 3 (T)
🟨Leaf 2 (S)
🟨Leaf 1 (A)
🌱Twig 3 (E) Enchanting Exposition 6/25/24 4⭐️
🟨Leaf 3 (B)
🍃Leaf 2 (THE) The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love 1/26/24 5⭐️
🟨Leaf 1 (Y)
🟩Twig 2 (T)
🟨Leaf 3(U)
🟨Leaf 2 (A)
🍃Leaf 1 (E) Elven Heir 3/20/24 4⭐️
🟩Twig 1 (B)
🌿Branch 5 (N)/(&) Naughty & Nice 2/7/24 4⭐️
🔗(Spell Out: Using the first letter in the title branch 5 will spell BEAUTY, BEAST and read a book that has the word AND & THE in the title.)
🟨Leaf 3 30+chapters
🟨Leaf 2 30+chapters
🟨Leaf 1 30+ chapters
🟩Twig 3 15+hrs
🍂Leaf 3 30+chapters The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem 6/21/24 4⭐️
🍃Leaf 2 30+chapters The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot 4/30/24 5⭐️
🍃Leaf 1 30+ chapters The Hitman's Guide to Staying Alive Despite Past Mistakes 3/26/24 4⭐️
🟩Twig 2 15+hrs
🍂Leaf 3 30+chapters Love Bites 3/18/24 4⭐️
🍃Leaf 2 30+chaptersMicah 3/1/24 4⭐️
🍃Leaf 1 30+ chapters Alpha Deceived 2/15/24 4⭐️
🟩Twig 1 15+hrs Seven Sins of Snow
🌿Branch 4 (A) Aurora's Angel 2/6/24 5⭐️
🔗(Chunkster: all books on branch 4 will be a chunkster either by pages, hours or chapters)
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2 Try
🟨Leaf 1 Psync
🟩Twig 3 The Black Sheep and The Rotten Apple
🔗(Gay Romance With Crazy Jealous Partner/s)
🟨Leaf 3 Blurred Lines
🟨Leaf 2 Heart of the Race
🟨Leaf 1 Fool Hearts
🟩Twig 2 Lost and Found
🔗(Best Gay Friends Become Lovers)
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🍃Leaf 1 Kríe Captivity 5/22/24 4⭐️
🌱Twig 1 It's Not Unusual to Be Loved by an Alien 2/16/24 4⭐️
🔗(Best Gay Science Fiction Romance)
🌿Branch 3 (M) More Than Life 1/25/24 5⭐️Best Gay Friends Become Lovers
🔗(Listopia: all books on branch 3 will be on a specific List)
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🌱Twig 3 Whispers of the Deep 6/26/24 5⭐️
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🌱Twig 2 Zachary 4/26/24 4⭐️
🍂Leaf 3 Kelpie's Claiming 3/5/24 4⭐️
🍃Leaf 2 Alpha Victorious 2/15/24 4⭐️
🍃Leaf 1 His Prince 2/13/24 5⭐️
🌱Twig 1 Love Bleeds 5/23/24 ⭐️
🌿Branch 2 (O) Of Secrets and Wolves 1/19/24 4⭐️
🔗(HumanxOther, OtherxOther, pairing: all books on branch 2 will have a human and other or other and other couple)
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🟨Leaf 1
🟩Twig 3
🟨Leaf 3
🟨Leaf 2
🍃Leaf 1 The Former Assassin's Guide to Snagging a Reluctant Boyfriend 5/28/24 4⭐️
🌱Twig 2 Elven Game 3/20/24 4⭐️
🍂Leaf 3 Elven Duty 3/19/24 4⭐️
🟨Leaf 2 Garron Park
🍃Leaf 1 Alpha Ablaze 2/14/24 4⭐️
🟩Twig 1 For the Fans
🌿Branch 1 (R) Resurrection Reprise 1/16/24 4⭐️
🔗(Blue: all books on branch 1 will have blue on the cover)
🔗(All 7 of my branches are tagged Romance and each branch will start with a letter in the word ROMANCE)
🪵Trunk Broken Beasts of Beauty 1/6/24 5⭐️
🔗(All4 MC’s have elemental magic)
🪵Root 3Captive Mate 1/3/24 4⭐️
🪵Root 2Woods of the Raven 1/3/24 5⭐️
🪵Root 1Forsaken Fae: Book Three 1/2/24 5⭐️
🔗(MC’s that have a connection with the earth/elemental magic)
🌰SeedForsaken Fae: Book One 12/14/23 5⭐️
🔗(Romance tag, favorite color, paranormal, vampires, 5 star, part of a series, magic)

Hola!
Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 135/100 🌳



🪵TRUNK: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China ✔️
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🌿BRANCH 1 La corte de Carlos IV (Royals)✔️
🍃Twig 1: To Shield the Queen✔️ (Queens & Kings)
🍁Leaf 1Mary, Bloody Mary✔️
🍁Leaf 2: The Winter Queen ✔️
🍁Leaf 3: The Queen's Gambit ✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Crónica del rey pasmado ✔️
🍃Twig 2: Lady Helena Investigates✔️(Ladies)
🍁Leaf 1: Lady Odelia's Secret✔️
🍁Leaf 2: A Lady by Midnight ✔️
🍁Leaf 3: A Lady's Luck ✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Lady Hathaway's Indecent Proposal✔️
🍁Leaf 5: El club de las damas maleducadas✔️
🍃Twig 3: Lords of Scandal✔️ (Peers)
🍁Leaf 1: In the Viscount’s Arms✔️

🌿BRANCH 2 La familia Medeiros (Family members)✔️
🍃Twig 1: Daddy's Gone A Hunting ✔️(Mothers and fathers)
🍃Twig 2: The Watchmaker's Daughter✔️ (Sons and daughters)
🍁Leaf 1: The Child ✔️
🍁Leaf 2: Daughter of the Moon Goddess✔️
🍁Leaf 3: Daughter of Time✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Los hijos de Anansi✔️
🍁Leaf 5: Daughter of the Forest✔️
🍁Leaf 6: Son of the Shadows
🍁Leaf 7: Child of the Prophecy
🍃Twig 3: The Perfect Wife (Husbands and wives)
🍁Leaf 1: Recipe for a Perfect Wife
🍁Leaf 2: The Other Wife
🍃Twig 4: Black Widow✔️(Widows)
🍁Leaf 1: The Widow ✔️
🍁Leaf 2: The Case of the Dotty Dowager
🍁Leaf 3: Nocturne for a Widow
🍃Twig 5: La hermana favorita (Brothers and sisters)✔️

🌿BRANCH 3 Madame Bovary✔️ (Proper noun in the title)
🍃Twig 1: Las siete muertes de Evelyn Hardcastle (people and animals)✔️
🍁Leaf 1: La promesa de Julia ✔️
🍁Leaf 2:The House of Eve✔️
🍁Leaf 3:Cattoretti's Return✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Ada o el ardor✔️
🍁Leaf 5: Pat of Silver Bush✔️
🍁Leaf 6:La misión de Jane✔️
🍁Leaf 7: Nicholas Nickleby✔️
🍁Leaf 8: Las mujeres Weyward✔️
🍁Leaf 9: Lola Carlyle Reveals All✔️
🍁Leaf 10: The Bette Davis Club✔️
🍁Leaf 11: Alexa entre las olas✔️
🍁Leaf 12: El regreso de Carrie Soto✔️
🍁Leaf 13: Miss Merkel: El caso del jardinero enterrado✔️
🍁Leaf 14: Jane Eyre✔️
🍁Leaf 15: ¡Adiós, Cordera!✔️
🍁Leaf 16: El despertar de la señorita Prim✔️
🍃Twig 2:Murder on The Isabella (places) ✔️
🍁Leaf 1: The Leper of Saint Giles ✔️
🍁Leaf 2:From Potter's Field✔️
🍁Leaf 3: A Cold Day in Paradise ✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Escape from Sudan ✔️
🍁Leaf 5:The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree✔️
🍁Leaf 6: Dizzy in Durango✔️
🍁Leaf 7: 'Salem's Lot✔️
🍁Leaf 8: The Lovers of Algeria✔️
🍁Leaf 9: La calle de las Camelias✔️
🍁Leaf 10: El invierno en Lisboa✔️
🍁Leaf 11: Mackenzie's Mountain✔️
🍁Leaf 12: Summer in Napa✔️
🍁Leaf 13: La trilogía de Nueva York✔️
🍁Leaf 14: The Heartwood Sea✔️
🍁Leaf 15: The Lighthouse Cafe✔️
🍁Leaf 16: El motel Sun Down✔️
🍁Leaf 17: Muerte en El Cairo✔️
🍁Leaf 18: El mal de Corcira✔️
🍁Leaf 19: La llama de Focea✔️
🍁Leaf 20: Un inspector en Fuseta✔️
🍁Leaf 21: Cumbres borrascosas✔️
🍁Leaf 22: La inquilina de Wildfell Hall✔️
🍁Leaf 23: El conde de Montecristo✔️
🍁Leaf 24: The Tailor of Panama✔️
🍁Leaf 25: La mansión Starling✔️
🍃Twig 3: Aura (one word title)✔️
🍁Leaf 1: Yaiza✔️
🍁Leaf 2: Xavier✔️
🍁Leaf 3: Ursula✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Sula✔️
🍁Leaf 5: Electra✔️
🍁Leaf 6: Demian✔️
🍁Leaf 7: March✔️
🍁Leaf 8: Xingu✔️
🍁Leaf 9: Hamnet✔️
🍁Leaf 10: Valentino✔️
🍁Leaf 11: Lavinia✔️
🍁Leaf 12: Delito✔️
🍁Leaf 13: Zikora✔️
🍁Leaf 14: Lulu✔️
🍁Leaf 15:Trafalgar✔️
🍁Leaf 16: Circe✔️
🍁Leaf 17: Bailén✔️

🌿BRANCH 4 Bangkok 8 (Set in Asia)✔️
🍃Twig 1: She Who Became the Sun (Set in China)✔️
🍁Leaf 1: The Consorts✔️
🍁Leaf 2: Todo bajo el cielo✔️
🍁Leaf 3: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather✔️
🍁Leaf 4: A Loyal Character Dancer ✔️
🍃Twig 2: In the Miso Soup(Set in Japan)✔️
🍁Leaf 1: El gorrión de Java✔️
🍁Leaf 2: Face-Off✔️
🍁Leaf 3: The Factory✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Malice✔️
🍁Leaf 5: Ronin✔️
🍁Leaf 6: El elefante desaparece✔️
🍃Twig 3: Rompamos el hielo(Other Asian settings) (Bhutan)✔️
🍁Leaf 1: The Forty Rules of Love (Turkey)✔️
🍁Leaf 2: La sospecha (Thailand)✔️
🍁Leaf 3: Tehran Moonlight (Iran)✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Tren a Samarcanda (Kazakhstan)✔️
🍁Leaf 5: You're Invited (Sri Lanka)✔️
🍁Leaf 6: Donde los escorpiones (Afghanistan)✔️
🍁Leaf 7: Naranjas y cuchillas en Bagdad (Iraq)✔️
🍁Leaf 8: The Bronze Bow (Israel)✔️
🍁Leaf 9: La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom (South Kora)✔️

🌿BRANCH 5 Between the World and Me (Nonfiction)✔️
🍁Leaf 1: People of the Deer✔️
🍁Leaf 2: Braiding Sweetgrass✔️
🍁Leaf 3: Tu cerebro tiene hambre✔️
🍁Leaf 4: La ruta de Orellana✔️
🍁Leaf 5: Al sur del Caribe✔️
🍁Leaf 6: El fútbol a sol y sombra✔️
🍁Leaf 7: Cider With Rosie✔️
🍁Leaf 8: Cuanta más gente se muere, más ganas de vivir tengo✔️
🍁Leaf 9: La noche en que Frankenstein leyó el Quijote✔️
🍁Leaf 10: La verdad de las mentiras✔️

🌿BRANCH 6 La Pieza 25: Operación Salvar a la Infanta (With subtitle)✔️
🍁Leaf1: Cazando a El Chapo: La historia contada desde adentro por el agente de la ley estadounidense que capturó al narcotraficante más buscado del mundo✔️
🍁Leaf 2: Imperiofobia y leyenda negra. Roma, Rusia, Estados Unidos y el Imperio español✔️
🍁Leaf 3: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World✔️
🍁Leaf 4: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood✔️
🍁Leaf 5: Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries✔️
🍁Leaf 6: A toda máquina: De Irlanda a la India en bicicleta✔️
🍁Leaf 7: Remando como un solo hombre: La historia del equipo de remo que humilló a Hitler✔️
🍁Leaf 8:Viajes con Charley: en busca de Estados Unidos✔️
🍁Leaf 9: La liebre con ojos de ámbar: Una herencia oculta✔️
🍁Leaf 10: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China✔️
🍁Leaf 11: Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution✔️
🍁Leaf 12: Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life✔️
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Another awesome and unique challenge! I'm in for 10 right now, but I'll amend later when I have finalized my plans.

OUT ON A LIMB
January 01 2024 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 0/60

Sign me up for 60, please!

Member Corner Tracking Post

I'll commit to 30. I've never done this one before, so I don't want to over-commit. :0)

Progress: 30/30
💎 done ♻ re-read ⏳Currently reading
📖 physical Copy 🎧 Audiobook 📱 Kindle/digital

Tree: New York to Dallas 💎🎧♻ (March)

Branch 1: Salvation in Death (same series) 💎🎧♻ (January)
Leaf 1: Ritual in Death 💎🎧♻ (January)
Leaf 2: Random in Death 💎🎧 (January)
Leaf 3: Promises in Death 💎🎧♻ (February)
Leaf 4: Kindred in Death 💎🎧♻ (February)
Leaf 5: Missing in Death 💎🎧♻ (February)
Leaf 6: Fantasy in Death 💎🎧♻ (March)
Leaf 7: Indulgence in Death 💎🎧♻ (March)
Leaf 8: Possession in Death 💎🎧♻ (March)
Leaf 9: Treachery in Death 💎🎧♻ (March)
Leaf 10: Chaos in Death 💎🎧 ♻ (March)
Leaf 11: Celebrity in Death 💎🎧♻ (April)
Leaf 12: Delusion in Death 💎🎧♻ (May)
Leaf 13: Calculated in Death 💎🎧♻ (May)
Leaf 14: Thankless in Death 💎🎧♻ (July)
Leaf 15: Taken in Death 💎🎧♻ (July)
Leaf 16: Concealed in Death 💎🎧♻ (July)


Branch 2: Opposites Attract (author's pseudonym- Nora Roberts) 💎🎧 (January)

Branch 3: The Fellowship of the Ring 💎📖(same listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...) (January)
Leaf 1: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 💎📖 (February)
Leaf 2: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards 💎📖 (March)
Leaf 3: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 💎🎧 (April)
Leaf 4: Turn Coat by Jim Butcher 💎🎧 (April)
Leaf 5: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis 💎📖 (July)

Branch 4: (same genre/sci-fi)

Branch 5: (strong female lead): Virgin River by Robyn Carr 💎📖 (April)
Leaf 1: Sabriel by Garth Nix 💎🎧 (April)
Leaf 2: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan 💎📖 (May)
Leaf 3: Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James 💎🎧 (May)
Leaf 4: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James 💎🎧 (June)

What a fun and creative challenge! I'd like to start off with 15 and still have to decide on my trunk.

20/15--->> 29/32

Trunk: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Branch 1: (Author) The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie 1/4/24
Leaf 1: Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie 1/27/24
Leaf 2: Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie 3/1/24
Leaf 3: Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie 3/21/24
Branch 2: (Series) Sugar Plum Poisoned by Jenn McKinlay 1/5/24
Leaf 1: NYPD Red 4 by James Patterson 1/10/24
Leaf 2: Mistletoe, Moussaka, and Murder by Tina Kashian 1/10/24
Leaf 3: Cake and Punishment by Maymee Bell 2/5/24
Branch 3: (Genre - Mystery) Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano 1/16/24
Leaf 1: The Burial Hour by Jeffery Deaver 1/28/24
Leaf 2: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim 1/30/24
Leaf 3: Fear No Evil by James Patterson 3/16/24
Branch 4: (Setting - Transportation) Terns of Endearment by Donna Andrews 3/7/24
Leaf 1: Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee 7/19/24
Leaf 2: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9/20/24
Leaf 3: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie 11/3/24
Branch 5: (Book to Screen) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling 2/18/24
Leaf 1: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 3/14/24
Leaf 2: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 4/11/24
Leaf 3: Erasure by Percival Everett 8/1/24
Branch 6: (Closed Circle Mystery) Fatal First Edition by Jenn McKinlay 5/9/24
Leaf 1: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire 9/16/24
Leaf 2: Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen 9/20/24
Leaf 3: The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 11/13/24
Branch 7: (Plot Twist) Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson 2/24/24
Leaf 1:
Leaf 2:
Leaf 3:
Branch 8: (Inspired by Real Life) Bulletproof Barista by Cleo Coyle 3/11/24
Leaf 1: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn 5/17/24
Leaf 2: Odder by Katherine Applegate 5/26/24
Leaf 3: We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day by Ivana Bodrožić 9/21/24

hi sign me up for 25 books!

11/25

trunk: The Guest

branch 1: Daddy (same author)
leaf 1: Rewards (same author) ⭐️

branch 2: Dark Corners (pool featured on cover)
leaf 1: Serious Moonlight (body of water on cover)
leaf 2: The Summer of Broken Rules (body of water on cover)
leaf 3: Just for the Summer (body of water on cover) ⭐️

branch 3: Nightbitch (Listopia - She's Not Feeling Good at All: Catastrofemale) ⭐️
leaf 1: Boy Parts (Listopia - She's Not Feeling Good at All: Catastrofemale)
leaf 2: Yolk (Listopia - She's Not Feeling Good at All: Catastrofemale)
leaf 3: Crossroads (Listopia - She's Not Feeling Good at All: Catastrofemale)

branch 4: Cleopatra and Frankenstein (readers also enjoy)
leaf 1: Carrie Soto Is Back (name in title)
leaf 2: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (name in title)
leaf 3: Tress of the Emerald Sea (name in title)
leaf 4: The Picture of Dorian Gray (name in title)

branch 5: The Once and Future Witches (set in east coast) ⭐️
leaf 1: Rosemarked (fantasy book) ⭐️
leaf 2: A Court of Thorns and Roses (fantasy book) ⭐️
leaf 3: Crooked Kingdom (fantasy book) ⭐️
leaf 4: The Bone Season (fantasy book) ⭐️
leaf 5: House of Flame and Shadow (fantasy book)

branch 6: Chain of Thorns (2023 release)
leaf 1: Knot So Lucky (2023 release) ⭐️
leaf 2: So Late in the Day (2023 release) ⭐️
leaf 3: The Fabric of Our Souls (2023 release) ⭐️

Not real sure about this one, but I'll put myself down for 50. Should get a couple of trees with that.

Trunk: Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin. Genre Fiction.

Branch 1: Holly by Stephen King Genre Fiction Horror Fiction
Leaf 1: The Inn Of The Two Witches
Leaf 2: Blood and Smoke
Leaf 3: Heart-Shaped Box

Branch 2: Star Splinter by J.G. Cressey Genre Fiction Science Fiction
Leaf 1: Terms of Enlistment
Leaf 2 Pandora's Star

Branch 3: Radigan by Louis L'Amour Genre: Fiction Historical Fiction Western Fiction
Leaf 1: Under Occupation
Leaf 2: 1356

Branch 4: River of Stars Genre: Fiction Fantasy Fiction

12/50

I’ll start with 24 and see how it goes. Updated goal to 101 (trunk, plus 10 branches with 9 leaves each)

Updates 196

✅🌳 Trunk A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) by Louise Penny

✅🪵 Branch 1: The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3) by Louise Penny
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 2: The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 3: Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 4: The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 5: How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 6: The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 7: The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 8: Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 9: Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14) by Louise Penny (hide spoiler)]

✅ 🪵 Branch 2: The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39) by Agatha Christie (character with more than 15 books in series)
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19) by Agatha Christie
🍃 Leaf 2: Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #44) by Agatha Christie
🍃 Leaf 3: Lord Edgeware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9) by Agatha Christie
🍃 Leaf 4: One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2) by Ellis Peters
🍃 Leaf 5: The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5) by Ellis Peters
🍃 Leaf 6: The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6) by Ellis Peters Leaf
🍃 Leaf 7: The Trouble with Turkeys (Zoe Donovan Mystery #2) by Kathi Daley
🍃 Leaf 8: Visions of Sugar Plums (Stephanie Plum, #8.5) by Janet Evanovich
🍃 Leaf 9: Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8) by Agatha Christie (hide spoiler)]

✅🪵 Branch 3: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (female author)
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (Wrexford & Sloane, #6) by Andrea Penrose
🍃 Leaf 2: The Bees by Laline Paull
🍃 Leaf 3: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
🍃 Leaf 4: Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
🍃 Leaf 5: Death of a Hero (Fiji Islands Mysteries, #0) by B.M. Allsopp
🍃 Leaf 6: Does It Hurt? by H.D. Carlton
🍃 Leaf 7: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim
🍃 Leaf 8: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
🍃 Leaf 9: The Girlfriend by K.L. Slater (hide spoiler)]

✅🪵Branch 4: Junkie (Cal Rogan Mysteries #1) by Robert P. French (set in Canada)
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: Lockstep (Cal Rogan Mysteries #3) by Robert P. French
🍃 Leaf 2: Three (Cal Rogan Mysteries #4) by Robert P. French
🍃 Leaf 3: Cabal (Cal Rogan Mysteries #5) by Robert P. French
🍃 Leaf 4: Captive (Cal Rogan Mysteries #6) by Robert P. French
🍃 Leaf 5: Jailed (Cal Rogan Mysteries #7) by Robert P. French
🍃 Leaf 6: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk
🍃 Leaf 7: The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone
🍃 Leaf 8: I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall
🍃 Leaf 9: Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer (hide spoiler)]

✅🪵 Branch 5: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (award-winning book)
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: Beloved by Toni Morrison
🍃 Leaf 2: Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
🍃 Leaf 3. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
🍃 Leaf 4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
🍃 Leaf 5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
🍃 Leaf 6. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
🍃 Leaf 7: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
🍃 Leaf 8: All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 9: 1984 by George Orwell (hide spoiler)]

✅🪵 Branch 6: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (book made into TV shows or movies)
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) by Helen Fielding
🍃 Leaf 2: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
🍃 Leaf 3: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
🍃 Leaf 4: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
🍃 Leaf 5: Psycho (Psycho, #1) by Robert Bloch
🍃 Leaf 6: Once Were Warriors (Once Were Warriors Trilogy, #1) by Alan Duff
🍃 Leaf 7: The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) by Rick Riordan
🍃 Leaf 8: Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
🍃 Leaf 9: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (hide spoiler)]

✅🪵 Branch 7: The Day That Never Comes (Dublin Trilogy, #2) by Caimh McDonnell (second book in a series)
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney, #2) by Stephen King
🍃 Leaf 2: The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) by Rick Riordan
🍃 Leaf 3: Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2) by Jeff Lindsay
🍃 Leaf 4: Among the Heather (The Highlands, #2) by Samantha Young
🍃 Leaf 5: The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2) by Ann Cleeves
🍃 Leaf 6: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin Stevenson
🍃 Leaf 7: Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) by Agatha Christie
🍃 Leaf 8: Thereby Hangs a Tail (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #2) by Spencer Quinn
🍃 Leaf 9: The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman (hide spoiler)]

✅🪵 Branch 8: Reasonable Fear (Joe Dillard #4) by Scott Pratt (long-time married MC)
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: Conflict of Interest (Joe Dillard, #5) by Scott Pratt
🍃 Leaf 2: Blood Money (Joe Dillard, #6) by Scott Pratt
🍃 Leaf 3: A Crime of Passion (Joe Dillard, #7) by Scott Pratt
🍃 Leaf 4: Judgment Cometh: And That Right Soon (Joe Dillard, #8) by Scott Pratt
🍃 Leaf 5: Due Process (Joe Dillard, #9) by Scott Pratt
🍃 Leaf 6: Last Resort (Joe Dillard, #10) by Scott Pratt
🍃 Leaf 7: The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 8: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
🍃 Leaf 9: The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) by Richard Osman (hide spoiler)]

🪵 Branch 9: His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire,#1) by Naomi Novik (same publication year)
🍃 Leaf 1: The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club, #1) by Kate Jacobs
🍃 Leaf 2: Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3) by Naomi Novik
🍃 Leaf 3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
🍃 Leaf 4: Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1) by Jefferson Bass
🍃 Leaf 5: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
🍃 Leaf 6: I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers by Tim Madigan
🍃 Leaf 7: Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3) by C.J. Sansom

✅🪵 Branch 10: A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7 by Louise Penny (title starts with "A")
(view spoiler)[🍃 Leaf 1: A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 2: A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 3: A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny
🍃 Leaf 4: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
🍃 Leaf 5: A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe
🍃 Leaf 6: A Dirty Wedding Night (Dirty, #2.5) by Jaine Diamond
🍃 Leaf 7: A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J. Charles
🍃 Leaf 8: A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle
🍃 Leaf 9: A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition by Lee Mendelson (hide spoiler)]

Progress: 29/60 books

Trunk: The Girl behind the Red Rope
by Ted Dekker and Rachelle Dekker

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Branch 4: Christy Award Winner or Finalist (from any year)
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✔️ Branch 5: Same Settings (Tennessee, hidden deep in the woods, cult or religious community)
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Finished 06/15/24
Set in a Mennonite Community, deep in the woods of Tennessee

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Finished 09/11/24

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Branch 9: Has the name of a color in the title
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10/10 books to start

Trunk: Outlander

Branch 1: Same Series
Leaf 1: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Branch 2: made into movie/tv
Leaf 1: Burning Betrayal
Leaf 2: Through My Window

Branch 3 : Puddly Award
Leaf 1: The Road

Branch 4: same format read (audiobook)
Leaf 1: Hollen the Soulless by Denali Day
Leaf 2: Erik the Tempered by Denali Day.
Leaf 3: Ivan the Bold by Denali Day.

Branch 5: same genre (romance)
Leaf 1: Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy Score
Leaf 2: Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
Leaf 3: The Marriage Auction: Book One by Audrey Carlan
Leaf 4: The Marriage Auction: Book Two by Audrey Carlan
Leaf 5: The Marriage Auction: Book Three by Audrey Carlan,
Leaf 6: The Marriage Auction: Book Four by Audrey Carlan.
Leaf 7: The Marriage Auction 2, Book One by Audrey Carlan.

Susan P Member's Corner

Out On A Limb Challenge
Jan 1 2024 - Dec 31 2024
0/20

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Love the sound of this! Please count me in for 3 trees for now.

/3 trees (at least 18 books)

Tree 1

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🌳 OUT ON A LIMB - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 240/200 -- COMPLETE

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🌳 Trunk: Les Misérables

🌳 Branch 1: Martín Fierro translation➡️poetry
🌳 1. The Poet X
🌳 2. milk and honey
🌳 3. Gmorning, Gnight!
🌳 4. The Perfect Nine

🌳 Branch 2: Faust translation➡️play
🌳 1. Bump
🌳 2. Wingspan
🌳 3. Top Secret
🌳 4. Othello
🌳 5. No-No Boy
🌳 6. Hamilton

🌳 Branch 3: A Little History of the World translation➡️history
🌳 1. America the Beautiful
🌳 2. A Brief History of Fascist Lies
🌳 3. Secret Soldiers
🌳 4. The Indifferent Stars Above
🌳 5. Singled Out
🌳 6. Grandma Gatewood's Walk
🌳 7. Cleopatra: A Life
🌳 8. How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
🌳 9. Before and After
🌳 10. Music Is History

🌳 Branch 4: Tropic Moon translation➡️crime/mystery
🌳 1. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
🌳 2. Once Gone
🌳 3. Unmasked
🌳 4. The Devil in the White City
🌳 5. Know My Name
🌳 6. Hairpin Bridge
🌳 7. Our House
🌳 8. Nightshade for Warning
🌳 9. Marigolds for Malice
🌳 10. The Golden Couple
🌳 11. Leave No Scone Unturned
🌳 12. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
🌳 13. The It Girl
🌳 14. Murder at the Serpentine Bridge
🌳 15. Murder at the Merton Library
🌳 16. 12th of Never
🌳 17. Unlucky 13
🌳 18. 14th Deadly Sin
🌳 19. 15th Affair
🌳 20. Grave Peril
🌳 21. What the Lady's Maid Knew
🌳 22. The Night Strangers
🌳 23. No Time to Wave Goodbye
🌳 24. Watching You Without Me
🌳 25. The Trial
🌳 26. Paper Cuts
🌳 27. The Club
🌳 28. The Sound and the Furry
🌳 29. The Kind Worth Killing
🌳 30. 16th Seduction
🌳 31. The Medical Examiner
🌳 32. My Friend Dahmer
🌳 33. Murder on the House
🌳 34. Murder's No Votive Confidence
🌳 35. He Said/She Said
🌳 36. I Know Who You Are
🌳 37. Dream Girl
🌳 38. Summer Knight
🌳 39. How Lucky
🌳 40. Death Masks
🌳 41. White Ivy
🌳 42. The Anteater of Death
🌳 43. Girl One: Murder
🌳 44. In His Blood
🌳 45. Under the Banner of Heaven
🌳 46. Secrets of the Greek Revival
🌳 47. Things Not Seen
🌳 48. A Game of Cones
🌳 49. The Last Resort
🌳 50. Dial A for Aunties
🌳 51. The Double Bind
🌳 52. Huysman's Pets
🌳 53. The Riesling Retribution
🌳 54. Through the Grinder
🌳 55. Latte Trouble
🌳 56. The Cabin in the Woods
🌳 57. Murder Most Frothy
🌳 58. Pick Your Poison
🌳 59. Homicide and Halo-Halo
🌳 60. Flipped for Murder
🌳 61. Second Grave on the Left
🌳 62. Speaking from Among the Bones
🌳 63. Freefall
🌳 64. Hooked on Murder
🌳 65. The 17th Suspect
🌳 66. The 18th Abduction

🌳 Branch 5: Where There Was Fire historical fiction
🌳 1. Trust
🌳 2. The Arctic Fury
🌳 3. Hurricane Song
🌳 4. American Spy
🌳 5. The Children's Blizzard
🌳 6. Amelia & Me
🌳 7. Dance With The Devil
🌳 8. Wolf Hollow
🌳 9. The Home for Unwanted Girls
🌳 10. Mississippi Trial, 1955
🌳 11. Thirteen Moons
🌳 12. The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
🌳 13. Raft of Stars
🌳 14. The Crossing
🌳 15. Northern Spy
🌳 16. The Comfort of Ghosts
🌳 17. The Lincoln Highway
🌳 18. Peach Blossom Spring
🌳 19. Orbiting Jupiter
🌳 20. O Pioneers!

🌳 Branch 6: Fanny Hill Boxall's 1001 Books
🌳 1. The Sun Also Rises
🌳 2. Naked Lunch
🌳 3. American Psycho
🌳 4. Justine
🌳 5. Wise Children
🌳 6. Fear of Flying
🌳 7. The Power and the Glory
🌳 8. Blood Meridian
🌳 9. Grimus
🌳 10. The Age of Innocence
🌳 11. A Farewell to Arms
🌳 12. Watchmen
🌳 13. The Catcher in the Rye
🌳 14. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
🌳 15. The Nose
🌳 16. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
🌳 17. The Sorrows of Young Werther
🌳 18. The Shadow-Line
🌳 19. Nightwood
🌳 20. Dangling Man
🌳 21. Nervous Conditions
🌳 22. Flaubert's Parrot
🌳 23. Three Lives
🌳 24. The Blithedale Romance
🌳 25. Schindler’s List

🌳 Branch 7: The Origin of Species 1800s➡️science
🌳 1. Rise of the Rocket Girls
🌳 2. Cosmic Queries
🌳 3. Zero K
🌳 4. Bewilderment
🌳 5. A Tangled Tale
🌳 6. Ms. Adventure
🌳 7. Failure Is Not an Option

🌳 Branch 8: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland banned
🌳 1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
🌳 2. Flowers for Algernon
🌳 3. Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed
🌳 4. Moonstruck, Vol. 1
🌳 5. Yesterday Is History
🌳 6. Beyond Magenta
🌳 7.Losing the Girl
🌳 8. Stay Gold
🌳 9. V for Vendetta
🌳 10. The Witch Boy
🌳 11. Mexican WhiteBoy
🌳 12. Go Ask Alice
🌳 13. Saga, Volume 1
🌳 14. Lumberjanes, Vol. 1
🌳 15. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
🌳 16. Delicates
🌳 17. The Graveyard Book Vol. 1
🌳 18. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1
🌳 19. Shopgirl
🌳 20. New Kid
🌳 21. They Called Us Enemy
🌳 22. Detransition, Baby
🌳 23. The Best Way to Play
🌳 24. Lighter than My Shadow
🌳 25. Hey, Kiddo
🌳 26. The House on Mango Street

🌳 Branch 9: Of Mess and Moxie spiritual journey➡️self help
🌳 1. Road to the Resurrection
🌳 2. The Way Home
🌳 3. Four Thousand Weeks
🌳 4. Big Magic
🌳 5. Book Girl
🌳 6. Tiny Beautiful Things
🌳 7. Mere Christianity
🌳 8. Cozy
🌳 9. The Year of Less

🌳 Branch 10: The Year of Magical Thinking death➡️memoir
🌳 1. My Escape from Slavery, and Reconstruction
🌳 2. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
🌳 3. Somebody's Daughter
🌳 4. Half Broke
🌳 5. Between Two Kingdoms
🌳 6. The Unwinding of the Miracle
🌳 7. A Grief Observed
🌳 8. I'm Glad My Mom Died
🌳 9. The Council of Dads
🌳 10. Aim High
🌳 11. Fishing With Tardelli
🌳 12. Unsinkable
🌳 13. GIMP
🌳 14. Limitless
🌳 15. Becoming Kareem
🌳 16. Butterfly

🌳 Branch 11: A Train in Winter set in France➡️winter in title
🌳 1. Winter Street
🌳 2. Winter Stroll
🌳 3. Winter Stroll
🌳 4. Winter Solstice

🌳 Branch 12: Measure of a Man survival➡️biographical
🌳 1. Beautiful Country
🌳 2. As Fast As Her
🌳 3. The Bear (survival)
🌳 4. Every Falling Star
🌳 5. Hillbilly Elegy
🌳 6. Hungry Heart
🌳 7. Crescendo
🌳 8. Hunting El Chapo
🌳 9. Of Beetles and Angels
🌳 10. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
🌳 11. I Miss You When I Blink
🌳 12. Eat a Peach
🌳 13. A Sporting Chance

🌳 Branch 13: In Bloom romance
🌳 1. Evvie Drake Starts Over
🌳 2. All the Bright Places
🌳 3. Starling House
🌳 4. The Spirit of Want
🌳 5. Twenty-one Truths About Love
🌳 6. Bryony and Roses
🌳 7. It Ends with Us
🌳 8. Wish You Were Here
🌳 9. I Hope You Dance
🌳 10. The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
🌳 11. In Five Years

🌳 Branch 14: Pudd'Nhead Wilson classic➡️fiction
🌳 1. True Grit
🌳 2. Emily of New Moon
🌳 3. How to Train Your Dragon
🌳 4. Sheets
🌳 5. Come and Get It
🌳 6. The Body Snatcher and Other Stories
🌳 7. Ghost Forest
🌳 8. Tales from the Café (hide spoiler)]

This sounds fun & creative. I’ll set my initial goal for 30 books, spread over 3 trees.

Progress: 36/35 - COMPLETE!

🪵Trunk: The Lord of the Rings (my all-time favorite)
✔️𓆱Branch 1: The Iron Ring (ring in title)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom (Indian inspired fantasy)
✔️🍃Leaf 2: Kiki Kallira Conquers a Curse (Indian inspired fantasy)
✔️𓆱Branch 2: Sargasso of Space (published in 1955)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: We're Not from Here (Space Adventure)
✔️🍃Leaf 2: Trouble in the Stars (Space Adventure)
✔️🍃Leaf 3: Asking for Trouble (Space Adventure)
✔️𓆱Branch 3: Heart of the Curiosity (author with initials for first name)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Game On (same author)
✔️𓆱Branch 4: Alphabet of Thorn (high fantasy)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: The Stone Girl's Story (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee)
✔️🍃Leaf 2: The Girl Who Could Not Dream (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee)
✔️𓆱Branch 5: In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (invented languages)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language (same author)


🪵Trunk: Starboard (a favorite middle grade book that I read in 2023)
✔️𓆱Branch 1: A Snicker of Magic (Magical Realism)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Tuesdays at the Castle (Readers Also Enjoyed)
✔️𓆱Branch 2: You Are Here: Connecting Flights (readers also enjoyed)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids (anthology)
✔️🍃Leaf 2: Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes (anthology)
✔️𓆱Branch 3: Impossible Creatures (readers also enjoyed)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Illuminations (middle grade fantasy)
✔️🍃Leaf 2: A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (magical creatures)
✔️𓆱Branch 4: The Adventurers Guild (Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: The Accidental Apprentice (Readers also enjoyed)
✔️𓆱Branch 5: Flight of the Puffin (published in 2021)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Air (Readers also enjoyed)


🪵Trunk: The Words Between Us (a Christian fiction book I enjoyed)
✔️𓆱Branch 1: He Should Have Told the Bees (published by Revell)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Unearth the Tides (Same Listopia: Most Anticipated Christian Fiction 2023)
✔️𓆱Branch 2: The Words We Lost (“words” in the title)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: The Roads We Follow (same author)
✔️𓆱Branch 3: The Forgotten Life of Eva Gordon (Christy Award)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: The Rare Jewel of Everleigh Wheaton (Same Publisher)
✔️𓆱Branch 4: Whose Waves These Are (Listopia - Most Anticipated Christian Fiction 2019)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Falling Between the Pages (Same Listopia - Christian Fiction with Dual Timeline)
✔️𓆱Branch 5: Found in a Bookshop (Books about Books tag)
✔️🍃Leaf 1: Book Love (Books about Books tag)

Progress: 37/35

At least 5 branches for each tree

Connections include but are not limited to:
(view spoiler)[ -same author
-same genre
-same publication or setting year
-same subject matter
-part of the same series or collection
-both made into movie/tv
-same format (play, epistolary, etc.)
-same color or type of cover
-same character names
-same setting
-recommended to you by the same person
-won the same award
-on the same listopia
-on the Goodreads section “readers also enjoyed”

Example:
(view spoiler)[ Trunk: A Game of Thrones
Branch 1: A Clash of Kings (same series)
Leaf 1: A Storm of Swords (same series)
Leaf 2: The Grace of Kings (“Kings” in title)
Branch 2: Neverwhere (publication year)
Leaf 1: American Gods (same author)
Branch 3: His Majesty's Dragon (dragons)
Leaf 1: Napoleon: A Life (subject/character)
Leaf 2: Uprooted (same author)
(hide spoiler)]
(hide spoiler)]

Trunk: Allegiance of Honor

Branch 1: Reckless Souls (multiple POVs)
Leaf 1: Where Angels Rest (1st book in series)
Leaf 2: West of Want (god characters)
Leaf 3: The Red Palace (same pub year)
Leaf 4: Damaged Souls (same series)
Leaf 5: Her Ruthless Warrior (same pub year)
Leaf 6: Highest Bidder (same author initials)
Leaf 7: Faking with Benefits (reverse harem)

Branch 2: The Ninth Rain (blue cover)
Leaf 1: Avempartha (blue cover)
Leaf 2: Tell Me (same pub year)
Leaf 3: Arrows Through Archer (same pub year)
Leaf 4: Rescued By The Merman (MPG Fantasy)
Leaf 5: The Briar Crown (MPG Fantasy)
Leaf 6: Guns of the Dawn (MPG Fantasy)
Leaf 7: Year of the Reaper (MPG Fantasy)

Branch 3: Playing It Cool (blue cover)
Leaf 1: Butcher & Blackbird (MMC pursues FMC)
Leaf 2: King of Wall Street (same pub year)
Leaf 3: A Change in Tide (athlete characters)
Leaf 4: Hello Forever (MPG Sports)
Leaf 5: Fangirl Down (MPG Sports)
Leaf 6: Between the Lines (MPG Contemporary)
Leaf 7: Bad Intentions (MPG Sports)

Branch 4: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (blue cover)
Leaf 1: The Wedding Night (standalone)
Leaf 2: Finders Keepers (children characters)
Leaf 3: Exclusively Yours (family)
Leaf 4: Ghost of a Chance (MPG Cozy Mystery)
Leaf 5: A Forest Between Us (same pub year)
Leaf 6: Anything Rae Touches: A Reverse Grumpy/Sunshine Romance (blue cover)

Branch 5: Phantom Shadows (similar vibe - lots characters + interesting plot)
Leaf 1: Tempest (vampires)
Leaf 2: Vampire in Deceit (vampires)
Leaf 3: Shadow of the Fox (shadow in title)
Leaf 4: Rhapsodic (MPG Paranormal)
Leaf 5: Darkness Rises (same series)

This sounds like so much fun. I've put my thinking cap on to determine what books I want for my trunks.

Put me down for 40 books.

Trunk 1: Anna's Crossing
Branch 1: same series (amish beginnings)
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Branch 3: same genre (amish fiction)
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Trunk 2: Death by Cashmere
Branch 1: same series (seaside knitters)
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Branch 2: same author (sally goldenbaum)
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Branch 3: same genre (cozy mystery)
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Branch 4: same publication year (2008)
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Branch 5: same setting (island)
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I'm going to try for 50 books. We'll see how far I get!

OUT ON A LIMB
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

/50

Tree trunk: The Art of Death 1/28/24

Branch 1:

I'm in 15 books
7/15

TRUNK: Lessons in Chemistry

Branch 1: Same Publication Year
Leaf 1: Ask for Andrea

Branch 2: Both made into movie/tv
Leaf 1: The Last Thing He Told Me
Leaf 2: Dead as a Doornail
Leaf 3: 16 Lighthouse Road
Leaf 4: Love Letters to the Dead

Branch 3: Same Genre
Leaf 1: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Branch 4: Same Award
Leaf 1: The Devil and the Dark Water

Branch 5:

15/15

Dad's Tree
Books off of my dad's shelf- all branches relate to the trunk by being on that shelf
Trunk: The Hobbit
🌳Branch: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
🌳Branch: The Once and Future King by T.H. White
🌳Branch: Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd
🌳Branch: An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters
🌳Branch: Poem: An Anthology
🌳Branch: Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
🌳Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

Trunk: Mere Christianity
🌴Branch: He Leadeth Me by Walter Ciszek
🌴Branch: Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year
🌴Branch: When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers by Marcellino D'Ambrosio
🌴Branch: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
🌴Branch: Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

Trunk: Saga, Volume 1
🌲Branch: Saga, Volume 11
🌲Branch: Big Book of Horror
🌲Branch: IDW's Tales of Terror
🌲Branch: Batman, Vol. 2: The Joker War
🌲Branch: Batman, Vol. 3: Ghost Stories

Reserved

Msg 31 updated - changed my goal to 30

OUT ON A LIMB
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

I'm in for 19 ( for now )

Trunk:

Branch 1:
leaf 1
leaf 2
leaf 3

Branch 2:
leaf 1
leaf 2
leaf 3

Branch 3:
leaf 1
leaf 2


Branch 4:
leaf 1
leaf 2
leaf 3

Branch 5:
leaf 1
leaf 2
leaf 3

I'll start with a goal of 15 books. Progress: 13/15

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Trunk #1: How to Sell a Haunted House *Read in 2023*

✔Branch #1 The Summer House (a house on the cover and in the title) --(Oct. 30)
✔--Leaf 1-1 The Horsewoman (Author James Patterson) --(Feb. 28)
✔--Leaf 1-2 Varnished without a Trace (mystery) --(Dec. 24)
✔Branch #2 Let's Get Quizzical (published the same year) --(Jan. 31)
✔--Leaf 2-1 The Flatshare (romance)--(Aug. 8)
✔Branch #3 All That Is Mine I Carry with Me (a house on the cover)--(Dec. 22)
✔--Leaf 3-1 The Cedar Key (blue cover) --(Nov. 18)
✔--Leaf 3-2 Dear Edward (blue cover) --(Mar. 7)
✔Branch #4 The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise (character with the same name) --(Feb. 17)
✔--Leaf 4-1 A Hard Day for a Hangover (humor) --(Feb. 10)
✔--Leaf 4-2 So Long, Chester Wheeler (similar storyline)--(Jul. 27)
✔Branch #5 Yellowface (published the same year)--(Jan.8)
✔--Leaf 5-1 The Help (yellow cover)--(Jan. 23)


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Sign me up for 31 books.

31/31

✅Trunk: Jealous Girl (4/1/24)

✅Branch 1: Drama Girl (Same Series) (1/2/24)
✅Leaf 1: The Lottie Project (Goodreads Readers Also Enjoy) (27/8/24)
✅Leaf 2: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Same Genre - Chick Lit) (29/2/24)
✅Leaf 3: The Stand-In: my life as an understudy (Same Genre - Young Adult) (3/9/24)
✅Leaf 4: Finding Gina (Same Character Name - Gina) (5/9/24)
✅Leaf 5: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Same Setting) (21/10/24)
✅Leaf 6: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Same Publication Year: 2010) (23/5/24)

✅Branch 2: Rebel Girl (Same Series) (19/3/24)
✅Leaf 1: The Twits (Goodreads Readers Also Enjoy) (25/11/24)
✅Leaf 2: Pizza My Heart: A Wish Novel(Same Genre - Romance) (10/10/24)
✅Leaf 3: Token Black Girl ("Girl" in the Title) (8/12/24)
✅Leaf 4: Girl Talk ("Lips" on the Cover) (14/2/24)
✅Leaf 5: Ballet Shoes (Two Word Title) (13/1/24)
✅Leaf 6: My Killer Vacation (Pink in the Cover) (13/3/24)

✅Branch 3: Sunshine Girl (Same Series) (1/4/24)
✅Leaf 1: The Magic Finger (Goodreads Readers Also Enjoy) (28/11/24)
✅Leaf 2: Beauty's Release (Same Genre - Romance) (2/11/24)
✅Leaf 3: Curious George (Yellow Cover) (31/8/24)

✅Branch 4: Party Girl (Same Series) (5/5/24)
✅Leaf 1: Love Lessons (Goodreads Readers Also Enjoy) (2/4/24)
✅Leaf 2: Oh So Pretty ("High Heel" on the Cover) (28/1/24)
✅Leaf 3: Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir ("Party" in the Title)

✅Branch 5: Cross My Heart: One girl’s gripping, heartbreaking struggle against the Nazis as a Resistance fighter in WW2 (Same Author) (7/6/24)
✅Leaf 1: Let's Not Be Friends (Goodreads Readers Also Enjoy) (20/3/24)
✅Leaf 2: My Heart ("Heart" in the Title) (25/8/24)
✅Leaf 3: This Woven Kingdom (Three Word Title) (11/1/24)

✅Branch 6: Worn Out Wife Seeks New Life (Same Author) (14/7/24)
✅Leaf 1: Better Off Wed (Goodreads Readers Also Enjoy) (8/9/24)
✅Leaf 2: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (Six Word Title) (19/9/24)
✅Leaf 3: The Gremlins (Same Genre - Fiction) (9/1/24)

Sheila from NC signing on for 40 books although I’m going out on a limb signing up, since I’m still not exactly sure of the guidelines.😄

Sign me up for 40 books please.

What better way to mark the passing of seasons but with the changing of trees? Will you have a mighty Yggdrasil with all your branches connected to one giant trunk? Or an Amazon Rainforest with lots of different trees of every variety?

Instructions:

1. Choose a book that will be the trunk of your tree. This can be a book you read this year, or an old favorite.
2. Read books that somehow relate to your trunk for the branches of your tree. You should have at least 5 branches for each tree.
3. (Optional) Each branch may also have unlimited leaves, where books relate the branch book instead of the trunk book.

Connections include but are not limited to:
-same author
-same genre
-same publication or setting year
-same subject matter
-part of the same series or collection
-both made into movie/tv
-same format (play, epistolary, etc.)
-same color or type of cover
-same character names
-same setting
-recommended to you by the same person
-won the same award
-on the same listopia
-on the Goodreads section “readers also enjoyed”

Your tree should have at least 5 branches, but you can have as many as you want and you can have as many trees as you want. This challenge is very open. Have fun with it and get creative. For any of those artistically inclined, I would love to see visual renderings of your trees at the end of the year (this is of course not required).

Example:

Trunk: A Game of Thrones
Branch 1: A Clash of Kings (same series)
Leaf 1: A Storm of Swords (same series)
Leaf 2: The Grace of Kings (“Kings” in title)
Branch 2: Neverwhere (publication year)
Leaf 1: American Gods (same author)
Branch 3: His Majesty's Dragon (dragons)
Leaf 1: Napoleon: A Life (subject/character)
Leaf 2: Uprooted (same author)

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I will attempt this with a goal of 15 books please!

That will be:
- 5 branches
- at least 2 leaves each

(trunk and tbr tbd...)

Hey, I'm going to try 15 books for now.

Sign me up. I'll start with 15 books but may increase that number later :)

Sign me up. I'll start with 15 books but may increase that number later :)

60/60

TRUNK: One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters read in January

Branch 1 (same author):
Leaf 1: The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters January
Leaf 2: (same author): The Heretic's Apprentice by Ellis Peters January
Leaf 3: Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters January
Leaf 4: The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters January
Leaf 5: The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters January

Branch 2: (murder mystery)
Leaf 1: The Hike by Lucy Clarke - January
Leaf 2: The Rose Rent - January
Leaf 3: The Sanctuary Sparrow - January
Leaf 4: The Red Palace by June Hur - February

Branch 3: (set in England)
Leaf 1: Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Leaf 2: The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer
Leaf 3: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady by Nancy Springer

Branch 4: set during a war
Leaf 1: Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945 by Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
Leaf 2: Rise by Anna Carey

Branch 5: Man solves a murder mystery
Leaf 1: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Leaf 2: Mystery in the Channel
Leaf 3: The Red House Mystery


TRUNK: Miss Melville Rides a Tiger by Evelyn E. Smith January

BRANCH 1: (animal on cover)
Leaf 1: Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
Leaf 2: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa February
Leaf 3 by Paul Acampora
Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe

Branch 2: Author has a name starting with E or S
Leaf 1: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Leaf 2: Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
Lear 3: The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets by Nancy Springer
Leaf 4: Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen

Branch 3: Woman or girl solves a murder mystery
Leaf 1: Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna
Leaf 2: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Leaf 3: Golden by Jessi Kirby
Leaf 4: Murder is a Piece of Cake by Valerie Burns
Leaf 5: Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

Branch 4: Female protagonist over age 50
Leaf 1: The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
Leaf 2: The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
Leaf 3: Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood

Branch 5: Written by an American woman
Leaf 1: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
Leaf 3: Signs of Cupidity
Leaf 4: The Unmaking of June Farrow
Leaf 5: Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen


TRUNK: This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith January

Branch 1 - diversity -
Leaf 1: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung January
Leaf 2 - Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli
Leaf 3 - Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
Leaf 4 - Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
Leaf 5: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera February

Branch 2: Title has a word starting with T, C or O -
Leaf 1: Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns
Leaf 2: Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
Leaf 3: The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
Leaf 4: Once by Anna Carey

Branch 3: author of colour
Leaf 1: Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu
Leaf 2: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Leaf 3: Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall
Leaf 4: Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe
Leaf 5: The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma

Branch 4: author has a name starring with L or C
Leaf 1: This Is Not the Jess Show by Anna Carey
Leaf 2: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Leaf 3: Eve by Anna Carey

Branch 5: One of the author's name starts with the same letter as a word in the title
Leaf 1: The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Leaf 2: Irish Meadows by Susan Anne Mason
Leaf 3: All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

______________
Instructions:

1. Choose a book that will be the trunk of your tree. This can be a book you read this year, or an old favorite.
2. Read books that somehow relate to your trunk for the branches of your tree. You should have at least 5 branches for each tree.
3. (Optional) Each branch may also have unlimited leaves, where books relate the branch book instead of the trunk book.

Connections include but are not limited to:
-same author
-same genre
-same publication or setting year
-same subject matter
-part of the same series or collection
-both made into movie/tv
-same format (play, epistolary, etc.)
-same color or type of cover
-same character names
-same setting
-recommended to you by the same person
-won the same award
-on the same listopia
-on the Goodreads section “readers also enjoyed”

Your tree should have at least 5 branches, but you can have as many as you want and you can have as many trees as you want. This challenge is very open. Have fun with it and get creative. For any of those artistically inclined, I would love to see visual renderings of your trees at the end of the year (this is of course not required).

I'm in for 50.

Hello, this sounds like so much fun! I'm going to tentatively start with 15 books for now. Thank you!