2021 Challenges

Personal TBR



Goodreads Mystery/Thriller Nominees 2020 (Top 20)
1. And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall
2. All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
3. Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey
4. Winter Counts by David Heska
5. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
6. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
7. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
8. Long Bright River by Liz Moore
9. The Searcher by Tana French
10. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
11. The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
12. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
13. First Girl Gone by L.T. Vargus
14. One by One by Ruth Ware
15. The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
16. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
17. The Wives by Tarryn Fisher
18. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
19. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
20. You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Goodreads Fiction Nominees 2020 (Top 20)
1. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
2. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
3. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
4. Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
5. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
6. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
7. Real Life by Brandon Taylor
8. In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
9. The Death of Vivek Oji
10. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
11. Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
12. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
13. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
14. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
15. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
16. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner 
17. A Burning by Megha Majmdar
18. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
19. Luster by Raven Leilani
20. If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Goodreads Mystery/Thriller Nominees 2019 (Top 20)

1. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
2. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
3. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
4. The Lost Man by Jane Harper
5. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
6. The Whisper Man by Alex North
7. Run Away by Harlan Coben
8. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
9. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
10. The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
11. A Better Man by Louise Penny
12. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
13. The Chain by Adrian McKinley
14. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
15. Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
16. I'll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie
17. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
18. The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
19. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
20. The Line Between by Tosca Lee



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Edgar Awards Challenge (personal)
1. Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton (2012 nominee for Mary Higgins Clark award)
2. Gone by Mo Hayder (2012 Edgar winner for Best Novel)
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2013 nominee for Best Novel)
4. Joyland by Stephen King (2014 nominee for Best Paperback Original)
5. There Was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron (2014 nominee for Mary Higgins Clark award)
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Nebula Awards Challenge (personal)
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Agatha Christie Challenge (personal)
1. And Then There Were None
2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
4. Murder at the Vicarage
5. Dead Man's Folly
6. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
7. The Murder on the Links
8. The Body in the Library
9. Murder on the Orient Express

Orange Prize Challenge (personal)
1. The Keep by Jennifer Egan (2008 longlist)
2. What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (2007 longlist)
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Printz Prize Challenge (personal)
1. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
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