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TIOLI CHALLENGES - NOVEMBER 2024

November 2024

December 2024

January 2025

CHALLENGE #1: Two Word Title, first word begins iwth O - Outbound Train COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #2: Anita Memorial read - Private Peaceful COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #3: Inspired by Anita - 3 letters from "December" are in the title - A Cosmology of MonstersCOMPLETED
CHALLENGE #3: 3 Letters from December are found in the title - A Cross Country Christmas- COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #3: 3 Letters from December are found in the title - Frost St Midnight - COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #3: 3 Letters from December are found in the title - Love You Dead COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #4: Zodiac Challenge - Daughters of the Storm DNF
CHALLENGE #4: The Zodiac Challenge- Because of MissBidgerton - COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #4: The Zodiac Challenge - La Brava COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #5: In honor of Linda P's father - The Chicago Way
CHALLENGE #5: In honor of Linda Ps father - The Christmas Card Crime - COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #6: All I Want for Chistmas is...Thirteen Guests - READING
CHALLENGE #7: A book that links to PDG's centenary - Christmas At Emmerdale COMPLETED
CHALLENGE #8: Titles alternate between cold and warm - One BrightSummer Morning COMPLETED
Challenge #20: A leftover book - Shadows cast by Stars - COMPLETED

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Top Books of the Third Quarter of 2024

The Trees by Percival Everett
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Phantom Lady by Cornell Woolrich
The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White
World Undone by Sarah Lyons Fleming
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

Top Books of the Second Quarter of 2024

The Memory of an Elephant by Alex Lasker
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Tiger Queens by Stephanie Thornton
Race the Sands by Sarah Beth Durst

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

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How I Rate Books:


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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