2019 Reading Challenges: World at War

World At War Reading Challenge
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Duration: January - December 2019
Goal: My goal is to read at least 52 books--fiction, nonfiction.

What I've read:

 1. Veronica. (Sunfire #18) Jane Claypool Miner. 1986. Scholastic. 220 pages. [Source: Bought]
2. The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler. John Hendrix. 2018. Harry N. Abrams. 176 pages. [Source: Review copy]
3. Winnie's Great War. Lindsay Mattick and Josh Greenhut. Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. 2018. Little, Brown. 244 pages. [Source: Library]
4. The Plot Against America. Philip Roth. 2004. 391 pages. [Source: Library]
5. Love to Everyone. Hilary McKay. 2018. 336 pages. [Source: Library]
6. The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank (The Definitive Edition). Edited by Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler. Translated by Susan Massotty. 1947/1996. 352 pages. [Source: Bought]
7. Code Name: Lise. Larry Loftis. 2019. 384 pages. [Source: Library]
8. The Book Thief. Markus Zusak. 2006. Random House. 560 pages. [Source: Bought]
9. I Survived The Nazi Invasion, 1944. Lauren Tarshis. 2014. Scholastic. 112 pages. [Source: Review copy]
10. Hattie Big Sky. Kirby Larson. 2006. 289 pages. [Source: Library]
11. How I Became A Spy. Deborah Hopkinson. 2019. Random House. 272 pages. [Source: Library]
12. Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. Adapted by Ari Folman. Original text by Anne Frank. Illustrated by David Polonsky. 2018. 160 pages. [Source: Review copy]
13. Number the Stars. Lois Lowry. 1989. (Won Newbery in 1990) 137 pages. [Source: Bought]
14. Invisible Heroes of World War II: True Stories That Should Never Be Forgotten. Jerry Borrowman. 2019. Shadow Mountain. 208 pages. [Source: Review copy]
15. The Only Woman in the Room. Marie Benedict. 2019. Sourcebooks. 256 pages. [Source: Library]
16. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Laura Hillenbrand. 2010. Random House. 473 pages. [Source: Bought]
17. Courageous. Yona Zeldis McDonough. 2018. [Nov] Scholastic. 192 pages. [Source: Review copy]
18. Courage to Be Counted. (A Clubmobile Girls Novel) Eleri Grace. 2019. Bugle Call Books. 350 pages. [Source: Review copy]
19. Resistance. Jennifer A. Nielsen. 2018. Scholastic. 385 pages. [Source: Review copy]
20. The Good Son: A Story From the First World War Told In Miniature. Pierre-Jacques Ober. Illustrated by Jules Ober and Felicity Coonan. 2019. Candlewick Press. 104 pages. [Source: Review copy]
21. The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris. 2018. 262 pages. [Source: Library]
22. Crossing Stones. Helen Frost. 2009. FSG. 184 pages. [Source: Library]
22. Ten Cents A Dance. Christine Fletcher. 2008. Bloomsbury. 356 pages. [Source: Review copy]
23. The Girl With The White Flag. Tomiko Higa. Translated by Dorothy Britton. 1989. 130 pages. [Source: Bought]
24. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. Sonia Purnell. 2019. 368 pages. [Source: Library]
25. In Farleigh Field. Rhys Bowen. 2017. Lake Union. 397 pages. [Source: Review copy]
26. Resistance Women. Jennifer Chiaverini. 2019. 608 pages. [Source: Library]
27. The Victory Garden. Rhys Bowen. 2019. 368 pages. [Source: Library]
28. . Mistress of the Ritz. Melanie Benjamin. 2019. Random House. 384 pages. [Source: Review copy]
29. Climbing the Stairs. Padma Venkatraman. 2008. 256 pages. [Source: Bought]
30. Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of World War II. Mary Cronk Farrell. 2019. 208 pages. [Source: Review copy]
31. Lovely War. Julie Berry. 2019. 480 pages. [Source: Library]
32. The Brave Princess and Me. Kathy Kacer. Illustrated by Juliana Kolesova. 2019. 32 pages. [Source: Review copy]
33. A Place to Belong. Cynthia Kadohata. Illustrated by Julia Kuo. 2019. 416 pages. [Source: Library]
34.  The Flight Girls. Noelle Salazar. 2019. 384 pages. [Source: Library]
35. One Good Deed. David Baldacci. 2019. 432 pages. [Source: Library]
36. The Tuscan Child. Rhys Bowen. 2018. 336 pages. [Source: Library]
37. Billy Boyle (Billy Boyle #1) James R. Benn. 2006. 294 pages. [Source: Library]
38. Girl Waits With Gun. (Kopp Sisters #1) Amy Stewart. 2015. 408 pages. [Source: Review copy]
39. The First Wave (Billy Boyle #2) James R. Benn. 2007. 304 pages. [Source: Library]
40. Lady Cop Makes Trouble. Kopp Sisters #2. Amy Stewart. 2016. 310 pages. [Source: Library]
41. Blood Alone (Billy Boyle #3) James R. Benn. 2008. 313 pages. [Source: Library]
42. Evil for Evil. (Billy Boyle #4) James R. Benn. 2009. 320 pages. [Source: Library]

43. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions. (Kopp Sisters #3) Amy Stewart. 2017. 374 pages. [Source: Library]
44. White Bird: A Wonder Story. R.J. Palacio. 2019. 224 pages. [Source: Library]
45. Rag and Bone (Billy Boyle World War II #5) James R. Benn. 2010. 320 pages. [Source: Library]
45.  Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit (Kopp Sisters #4) Amy Stewart. 2018. 309 pages. [Source: Library]
46. Fing's War. Benny Lindelauf. Translated into English by John Nieuwenhuitzen. 2019. 376 pages. [Source: Library]
47.  Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2) Heather Morris. 2019. St. Martin's Pres. 352 pages. [Source: Library]
48. . A Mortal Terror (Billy Boyle #6) James R. Benn. 2011. 345 pages. [Source: Library]
49. Christmas at the Foyles Bookshop. Elaine Roberts. 2019. 297 pages. [Source: Review copy]
50. Christmas on the Home Front. (Land Girls #3) Roland Moore. 2019. 273 pages. [Source: Review copy]
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The "official" categories:

_ Any book published 1914-1918
_ Any book published 1918-1924
_ Any book published 1925-1930
_ Any book published 1931-1938
_ Any book published 1939-1945
_ A nonfiction book about World War I
_ A nonfiction book about 1910s and 20s
_ A nonfiction book about 1920s and 30s
_ A nonfiction book about 1930s
_ A nonfiction book about World War II
_ A fiction book set during World War I
_ A fiction book set 1918-1924
_ A fiction book set in the 1920s
_ A fiction book set in the 1930s
_ A fiction book set during World War II
_ A book set in the United States or Canada
_ A book set in England, Ireland, or Scotland
_ A book set in Europe
_ A book set in Asia or Middle East
_ A book set elsewhere (a country/continent not already read for the challenge)
_ A book focused on "the war"
_ A book focused on "the homefront"
_ Watch any movie released in 1940s
_ Watch any movie released in the 1930s
_ Watch any movie about either war

Feel free to copy/paste this. You can replace the _ with an X or a ✔ (copy/paste it) when you finish reading a book. If you list the books you read, that may help other people decide what to read.


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