Rules:
Each category must be a unique book.
They all have to be books you haven’t read unless noted.
| Mrs. | Mr. | Greeney | Speechie | French76 | Horseradish | Corner Kick |
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| Book with a Christmas Theme | Sugar Cookie Murder | A Paperbag Christmas (KA Milne) | Angels at the Table (Debbie Macomber) | A Christmas Story (Jean Shepherd) | |||
| A “Who Done It” | Gone Girl | Gone Girl | Winter's Child (Margaret Maron) | Evil Under the Sun (Agatha Christie) | I Am Not a Serial Killer (Dan Wells) | ||
| Science Fiction | The Handmaid's Tale | Cloud Atlas | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Doug Adams) | Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) | The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) |
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| Biography of a US President or his family (Greeney will lend any Kennedy books) | Franklin and Eleanor | The Family: The Story of the Bush Dynasty (Kitty Kelly) | Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves (Henry Wiencek) | Lion in the White House: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt (Aida Donald) | |||
| Author with a Polish last name | The Winter Palace | John Paul II: The Biography (Tad Szulc) | The Pianist (Wladyslaw Szpilman) |
The Lullaby of Polish Girls
(Dagmara Dominczyk)
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| Romance novel | Sultry with a Twist | Indiscretion (Robyn McDonald) | Five Days in Paris (Danielle Steel) | Dating Mr. December (Phillipa Ashley) | |||
| Takes place in Asia | Dreams of Joy | The Story of My Assassins (Tarun Tejpal) | Rain Fall (Barry Eisler) | ||||
| Takes place during a Civil War ( American or other country – it doesn’t have to be about the war – just during it) | The Time In Between | Gods and Generals (Jeff Shaara) | Team of Rivals (Doris Kearns Goodwin) | The Union Quilters (Jennifer Chiaverini) | |||
| On the BBC list | Night Watch | A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute) | A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) | |||
| A classic from this list | The Thirty-Nine Steps | The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) | Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) | Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) | |||
| A book someone read last year (French76 recommends Moby Dick) | Death Comes to Pemberley | The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde) | The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) | Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog (Lisa Scottoline) | |||
| 800 pages long | War and Peace | The Lion's Game (Nelson DeMille) | The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (Doris Kearns Goodwin) | Nightmares and Dreamscapes (Stephen King) | |||
| Sports Theme | The Games | Those Guys Have All the Fun | Go for the Goal (Mia Hamm) | Sacred Hoops (Phil Jackson) | Let's Go Bucs: The Story of the Pittsburgh Pirates (John McCollister) | My Losing Season (Pat Conroy) |
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| Vampire Theme | Interview with the Vampire | Memnoch The Devil | Dead Until Dark (Charlane Harris) | The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice) | |||
| Book based on a movie (for example – Star Wars the movie came before the book) | The Piano | The Perfect Score (David Leviathan) |
Morning Glory
(Diana Peterfreund)
| Morning Glory (Diana Peterfreund) | |||
| Book w/ red cover | Sweet Tooth | The Angel's Game | No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy) | My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store (Ben Ryder Howe) | For One More Day (Mitch Albom) | True Confections (Katharine Weber) | |
| Picture of an animal on the cover (it doesn’t have to be about the animal) | Jaws | Straight Man | The Pineapple Grenade (Tim Dorsey) | Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (David Sedaris) | The First Christmas (Marcus Borg & John Crossman) | Maybe a Miracle (Brian Strause) | |
| Story taking place during a hurricane or blizzard | Shutter Island | Shutter Island | Shutter Island (Dennis Lehane) | Shutter Island (Dennis Lehane) | |||
| Book of short stories | Don't Look Now | Wolfbane and Mistletoe (Charlane Harris) | EPIC: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (Clint Willis) | The Mammoth Book of Modern Crime Stories (George Hardinge) | |||
| Another childhood favorite | An Old-Fashioned Girl | The Secret of the Glowing Eye (Carolyn Keene) | The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) | Meet Kirsten: An American Girl (Janet Beeler Shaw) | |||
| Any non-fiction book over 150 pages | Catherine the Great | Desire of the Everlasting Hills | Unorthodox (Deborah Feldman) | The Zookeeper's Wife (Diane Ackerman) | Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison (Geoffrey Giuliano) | The Gospel of Food (Barry Glassner) | |
| A sequel to any book you have ever read | Tatiana and Alexander | Living Dead in Dallas (Charlane Harris) | The Lost World (Michael Crichton) | You Know You Love Me (Gossip Girl #2) (Cecily von Ziegesar) | |||
| Book whose plot has a medical theme | Midwives | The Surgeon (Tess Gerritson) | Stiff (Mary Roach) | Bones are Forever (Kathy Reichs) | Handle with Care (Jodi Picoult) | ||
| Author with a Q in their last name | Black and Blue | The 500 (Matthew Quirk) | The 500 (Matthew Quirk) | Blessings (Anna Quindlen) | |||
| A book that encompasses as many as the above categories as possible – for example an 800 page non-fiction book, with a red cover that takes places during a sporting event during the Civil War by a Polish author and takes place during a blizzard. Good luck on finding that one! | A Christmas to Remember 4 Categories: Christmas theme, Romance, Red cover, Short stories | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 4 Categories: 800 pages, Animal on the Cover, Red Cover, Sci Fi | My Brother My Enemy (Joseph Persico) 3 Categories: Non-fiction over 150, Red Cover, Civil War | The Perfect Storm (Peter Junger) 5 Categories: Red Cover, Taking Place During a Hurricane, Nonfiction Book over 150 Pages, Read Last Year, and could potentially encompass a Sports Theme |
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