2024 Build Your Library Reading Challenge

 This is the third year I will be participating in this one. This year's theme is "Reading Through History."

1. War story: The Girl From the Train--Irma Joubert
2. About a turning point in history: Lifting as We Climb--Evette Dionne
3. About revolution: Countdown--Deborah Wiles
4. By a favorite author: These Happy Golden Years--Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
5. About an inspiring person: Ruth Objects--Doreen Rappaport
6. About civil rights: Whistling Past the Graveyard--Susan Crandall
7. About a woman who ruled: Lilibet--Carolly Erickson
8. A new release: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store--James McBride
9. Book based on your family's history or culture: Italian Villas and Their Gardens--Edith Wharton
10. About royals: Red Queen--Victoria Aveyard
11. Set in the Southern Hemisphere: The Forgotten Garden--Kate Morton
12. Graphic novel: Lumberjanes: Out of Time--Noelle Stevenson
13. Set in your state/province/city: Last Night at the Telegraph Club--Malinda Lo
14. Based on mythology or folklore: The Painted Queen--Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess
15. Non-fiction book: Sourdough Sagas--Herbert L. Heller
16. Subgenre you don't normally read (historical mystery, historical horror, etc): The Leper of St. Giles--Ellis Peters
17. Set in the aftermath of a major event: When We Believed in Mermaids--Barbara O'Neal (after a fire)
18. Set during ancient times: Prometheus Bound--Aeschylus
19. About a journey or quest: Watership Down--Richard Adams
20. "Time" in the title: This is How You Lose the Time War--Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
21. About a disaster: Thunderstruck--Erik Larson
22. Published the year you were born: The First Four Years--Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
23. Epistolary novel: Persian Letters--Montesquieu
24. Set in the Victorian era: Scandal--Amanda Quick
25. About a poet or writer: Savage Beauty--Nancy Milford
26. About a historical event that happened in your lifetime: New From Here--Kelly Yang
27. Set in the Medieval era: Mystique--Amanda Quick
28. About a plague: Remote Control--Nnedi Okorafor
29. Alternate history story: Queen of the Sea--Dylan Meconis
30. About the Space Race: Space Walks--Dana Meachen Rau
31. Memoir or biography: Rolling Warrior--Judith Heumann
32. About a major discovery or invention: Broad Band--Claire L. Evans
33. A classic: The Pilgrim's Progress--John Bunyan
34. Book written from multiple perspectives: Weyward--Emilia Hart
35. "History" in the title: Kid's Guide to Native American History--Yvonne Wakim Dennis & Arlene Hirschfeld
36. Featuring time travel: Can I Get There by Candlelight?--Jean Slaughter Doty
37. Set in more than one timeline: Reckoning--Catherine Coulter
38. By a BIPOC author: Blue Sky, White Stars--Sarvinder Naberhaus
39. About refugees: Love is an Ex-Country--Randa Jarrar
40. About LGBTQIA+ history: Branded by the Pink Triangle--Ken Setterington

Challenge completed on December 5