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10.1 Readers Also Enjoyed

Choose one book you read last season, and read any book on that book's Readers Also Enjoyed list. Cannot be used for combo. Can only be used one time.

10.2 It's All Relative

Read a book with one of the following words in the title: widow, widower, orphan, man, woman. Plurals and possessives will be accepted.

10.3 Listopia Reigns!

Read one of the top 300 books from the Best Books for Book Clubs list.

10.4 AKA

In honor of Get a New Name Day (Feb 13), read a book published under a pseudonym.

10.5 In Translation

Read a book that won or was nominated for one of these Translation Prizes

Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
PEN Translation Prize Winners
French-American Foundation Translation Prize
ALTA National Translation Award
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

All of these awards have links to the award website. Awards not appearing on the GR page, but included on the award website page are eligible. Please post in the help thread so that they can be added to GR.

10.6 Keep it Short

Read a collection of short stories by a single author.

10.7 For Real (Anika's Task)

Read a novel or play that features an actual famous person (artist, politician, explorer, singer, etc.). Please include in your post the actual famous person who was in the book you're claiming.

10.8 Fantasy! (Cat's Task)

The fact that Father Christmas (other names are used) can deliver all those presents: fantasy! Flying reindeer: fantasy! Identifying good & bad children: fantasy!
Read a book that has been shelved as FANTASY at least 25 times.

10.9 The Power of Five (Ed's Task)

Read a book by an author who has five letters in exactly one of his or her names such as Muriel Spark.

10.10 Group Reads

Read one of the books recommended by RwS readers.

Elizabeth (Alaska): An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Kate S: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Amanda: A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
Karen Michele: Augustown by Kei Miller
Tien: The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi
Rosemary: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Denise: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
Rebekah: Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculée Ilibagiza
Megan: Everything Happens as It Does by Albena Stambolova
Jenny:
Louise Bro: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Coralie: The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri
Jane: 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff
June: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison


15.1-15.10 Page Count Sub-challenge

20.1 Lifetime

Read a book written by any author born during Muriel Spark's lifetime (1918-2006).

20.2 Scottish

Read a book written by any author born in Scotland. See for ideas (not all authors on this list will work, please be sure to verify birthplace). If an author's birthplace is not listed on their GoodReads author page, please provide a qualifying link in the appropriate help thread prior to posting.

20.3 Aged

Read a book written by any author who lived 75 years or longer.

20.4 Doctorate

Muriel Spark earned 8 (!) honorary doctorates in her lifetime, read a book by an author who has been bestowed at least one. Please leave a qualifying link in the help thread, if it is not included in their ÀÏ»¢»úÎÈÓ®·½·¨ Author bio.

20.5 Meta-fiction

From the New Yorker: "To read Spark is always to read about reading. By populating her novels with memoirists and poets, cranky publishers, well-connected hacks, all of them arguing about what makes a character, what propels a sentence, and did you hear about so-and-so’s advance, she draws our attention repeatedly to the artifice of the novel."

Read any book found on or .

20.6 Literature Map

Read any book by an author found on .

20.7 It's Winter (or Summer?) (Karin's Task)

It’s winter in the northern hemisphere, but summer down under. Read a book that is set in the Northern Hemisphere in Winter OR is set in the Southern Hemisphere in Summer. At least 75% of the book must meet the criteria.

20.8 Organization (Amanda)

We have been doing an early Spring clean here in the hope of getting more focused or organized. Read a book about organization (I need all the ideas I can get!) or about re-birth whether it be about passing through some event to become reborn as something new, or a character who becomes something else (think The Changeover or The Metamorphosis and Other Stories).

20.9 Addiction (Kate S)

Read a book in which a main character experiences substance abuse. Some examples can be found on this list.

20.10 First Person (Elizabeth (Alaska))

Read any work (fiction or nonfiction) that is a series of letters or diary entries or read a novel (fiction only) that purports to be an autobiography.

30.1 Holiday Bonus!

Read any book set in one of these unclaimed African countries and earn 30 points plus any applicable styles. This task does not have to be claimed to earn your Mega finish.

Algeria
Angola
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cape Verde
Chad
Comoros
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mayotte
Niger
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Saint Helena
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Swaziland
Togo