beehappy's 2023 Challenge

Hello! It's been several years since I've read 50 books in a year and I'm excited to achieve that goal again. Good luck everyone! :)

1. How to Take Charge of Your Life by Mildred Newman & Bernard Berkowitz
2. Everything You Need to Know About Wheelchair Accessible Cruising by Sylvia Longmire
3. My Three Lives: A Memoir by Tina Cole
4. Nadia Comaneci by Gloria D. Miklowitz

5. Best Cruise Tips: 303 Cruise Hacks Saving You Time, Money & Frustration by Randall Stewart
6. Cruise Packing Made Easy: Stress-free and ready to relax by Kyler Ayim
7. Dare To Fly: Simple Lessons in Never Giving Up by Martha McSally
8. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (25th Anniversary Edition) by Mary Pipher, PH.D and Sarah Pipher Gilliam

42 more books to go!

9. Irish Parade Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery) by Leslie Meier
10. Beloved by Toni Morrison

40 more books to go!

April Reads:
11. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
12. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
13. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
14. Joni: An Unforgettable Story by Joni Eareckson Tada

36 more books to go!

May Reads (so far):

15. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
16. A Girl Named Summer by Julie Garwood
17. The Seventeen Guide to Your Widening World by Enid A. Haupt
18. The In-Between Days by Eve Bunting

32 more books to go!!! I've already exceeded the number of books I read in 2022.

June:

19. Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
20. The Seventeen Guide to Knowing Yourself by Daniel A. Sugarman

30 books to go!

July:

21. Priceless Gifts: How to Give the Best to Those You Love by Daniel A. Sugarman
22. That Special Summer by Deborah Kent
23. Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster
24. Be the Person You Want to Find: Relationship and Self-Discovery by Cheri Huber (reread)
25. Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen by Charles Capps
26. Name It and Claim It! - The Power of Positive Confession by Dr. Frederick K.C. Price
27. Daddy and Me : A Photo Story of Arthur Ashe and his Daughter Camera by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
28. By Yourself by Sara D. Gilbert

22 books to go!

August:
29. Attracting Terrific People: How To Find - And Keep - The People Who Bring Your Life Joy by Lillian Glass
30. Calling Things That Are Not by Charles Capps
31. Ten-Speed Summer (Sweet Dreams, No. 77) by Deborah Kent

19 books to go!

September:
32. Three Minutes for a Dog... My Life in an Iron Lung by Paul R. Alexander
33. Blogging While Disabled: How to Make Money Writing from a Wheelchair by Sylvia Longmire
34. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
35. Belonging by Deborah Kent
36. Big, Bold, and Beautiful: Owning the Woman God Made You to Be by Kierra Sheard
37. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (reread)
38. The River by Gary Paulsen
39. Sounder by William H. Armstrong

11 more books to go!

October:

40. The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
41. Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World by Carl Hiaasen
42. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
43. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
44. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
45. Hedda and Bill: The Story of a Mother and her Son by Jim Davidson
46. Mary Lou Retton, Goal Medal Gymnast by Hal Lundgren
47. The Siren's Dance: My Marriage to a Borderline: A Case Study by Anthony Walker -
48. Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd

Almost there!

November:
49. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry -
50. Love Story by Erich Segal

Mission Accomplished! :)