madhatter22 Reads ROOTs by Category - 2023 ed.

If I keep repeating these challenges I'm sure I'll complete them again one of these years.
These categories are mostly a little nudge to steer me away once in a while from the Shiny New Book or the comfortable (but not cozy) mystery.
Category goal is at least 3 in each and one of each series. ROOTs are anything I owned as of January 1st, most of which I hope to take off my shelves.

The Next Book in Every Series I've Started
1. Speaking from Among the Bones - #5 in Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series
2. Blue Lightning - #4 in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series (ROOT, 2/8)
3. Silent Voices - #4 in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series
4. The Story of a New Name - #2 of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
5. Broken Harbor - #4 in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series
6. Dragonfly in Amber - #2 in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series
7. The Magician King - #2 in Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy
8. Skin - #4 in Mo Hayder's Jack Caffrey series
9. All Things Wise and Wonderful - #3 in James Herriot's All Ceatures Great and Small series
10. Before Your Memory Fades - #3 in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series (borrowed, 4/7)
11. Many Waters - #4 in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (ROOT, 4/21)
12. An Acceptable Time - #5 in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (borrowed, 5/1)
13. Irene - #2 in Pierre LeMaitre's Verhoeven trilogy
14. The Assassin's Blade - prequel to Sarah Maas' Throne of Glass series
15. Secondhand Souls - #2 of Christopher Moore's Grim Reaper books
16. The Devil's Star - #5 in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series (ROOT, 5/1)
17. The Long Way Home - #10 in Louise Penny's Armand Gamache series (ROOT, 1/17)
18. The Nature of the Beast - #11 in Louise Penny's Armand Gamache series (ROOT, 9/16)
19. A Great Reckoning - #12 in Louise Penny's Armand Gamache series (ROOT, 9/23)
20. Olive, Again - #2 of Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge books (ROOT, (audio), 5/26)

I Want to Read More Books by ... (Have read 3+, not part of a series)
1. Barbara Pym -
2. Jenny Lawson - I Choose Darkness (new, (audio), 1/20)
3. Ben H. Winters - Golden State (ROOT, (audio), 2/10)
4. Stephen King - Later (borrowed), (audio), 4/3)
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It's About Time I Finally Read Something by ...
1. Dawn Powell - Come Back to Sorrento
2. Zadie Smith - White Teeth (ROOT, (audio), 2/20)
3. Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad (ROOT, (audio), 3/30)
4. Anthony Horowitz - The Word Is Murder (ROOT, (audio), 5/12)
5.

Never Lend Me Your Books (I've Had Some of These for Years)
1. Jane of Lantern Hill - L. M. Montgomery ROOT (5/5)
2. Eden's Outcasts - John Matteson
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Classics I've Been Vowing to "Finally Read This Year" for Many, Many Years
1. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy (If I read ONE #&*% book this year ...!)
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
3. The Group - Mary McCarthy

I Love Short Stories and Have an Entire Bookcase of Dusty Collections to Prove It
1. Life Ceremony - Sayaka Murata
2. A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin (ROOT, (audio), 3/21)
3.

I Really Am Interested in All These Books on Language I've Been Collecting for 30 Years
1. Wordslut - Amanda Montell (ROOT, 6/28)
2. Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch
3. Nine Nasty Words - John McWhorter

Proper Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs/Letters (Not Personal Essay Collections by Comedians)
1. Surrender:40 Songs, One Story - Bono (ROOT, (audio), 1/17)
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Nonfiction That Isn't in Either of the Two Categories Above (And Still Isn't Comedic Essays)
1. Rethinking the Native Hawaiian Past - Kanalu G. Terry Young
2. Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste - Carl Wilson (ROOT, 3/30)
3. Cool Gray City of Love - Gary Kamiya
4. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius - Nick Hornby
5. Scribble Scribble - Nora Ephron (ROOT, (audio), 4/25)

Humorous Essays/Memoirs (Because I'm Going to Read Them Anyway)
1. The World Record Book of Racist Stories - Amber Ruffin (borrowed, 1/19)
2. Quietly Hostile - Samantha Irby
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Use It or Lose It: Unread Books That I Already Owned When I Joined LT in 2009
1. We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
2. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Co-Eds - Lynn Peril
3. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Some Books Are More Equal Than Others: Books That Didn't Count Toward My Category Totals
1. Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid (ROOT, 1/1)
2. Blue Ticket - Sophie Mackintosh (ROOT, (audio), 1/26)
3. The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris (ROOT, 2/3)
4. Women Talking - Miriam Toews (new, 2/18)
5. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen (ROOT, reread (audio), keeping, 2/24)
6. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (ROOT, reread (audio), keeping, 3/6)
7. Persuasion - Jane Austen (ROOT, reread (audio), keeping, 3/20)
8. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (ROOT, reread (audio), keeping, 3/23)
9. A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle (ROOT, reread, 4/11)
10. A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle (ROOT, reread, 4/17)
11. The Party Upstairs - Lee Conell (ROOT, 5/19)
12. The Greatest of Marlys - Lynda Barry (ROOT, reread, 5/26)
13. Lenore: Noogies - Roman Dirge (ROOT, reread, 5/26)
14. Lenore: Wedgies - Roman Dirge (ROOT, reread, 6/4)
15. Lenore: Cooties - Roman Dirge (ROOT, reread, 6/10)
16. The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz (ROOT, 6/15)
17. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson (ROOT, reread, 8/12)
18. Persuasion - Jane Austen (ROOT, reread (audio), keeping, 10/13)
19. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (ROOT, reread (audio), keeping, 10/24)
20. Emma - Jane Austen (ROOT, reread (audio), keeping, 11/5)
21. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (ROOT, reread (audio), keeping, 12/16)

2. Before Your Memory Fades
3. Wordslut
4. The Other Black Girl
5. The Plot
6. Persuasion (4.15)
11. Scribble Scribble
12. Blue Lightning
13. The Long Way Home (MysteryKIT - movie/TV detectives)
14. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
16. Miriam Toews
17. White Teeth
19. Lenore: Noogies
22. Many Waters
23. The World Record Book of Racist Stories (61)
25. Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste

Good luck with your 2023 reading

Love your category names! Because Internet is a lot of fun. Hope you like it!

I also love the category names! Broken Harbor is next up for me in the Tana French series, too...maybe this will be my year to finally read it!

Interesting category names! Good luck with your reading this year.

What great choices for your categories. I'll be interested to see how you do.

I loved reading through your categories! Happy Reading in 2023!

Wishing you a wonderful year of reading in 2023.

>2 madhatter22: I love Barbara Pym, and Dawn Powell is on my wish list. Happy reading!

Interesting categories. Good luck with your 2023 reading!

Enjoy your 2023 Category Challenge!

Hope you have a wonderful reading year.

I love the Flavia De Luce and the Shetland series. I have completed both series I would love for there to be further books.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is on my TBR for this year.

Love your categories, there are quite a few I could subscribe to. Happy reading!

>4 lowelibrary: >5 rabbitprincess: >6 christina_reads: >7 hailelib: >8 dudes22: >9 MissBrangwen: >10 lkernagh: >11 pamelad: >12 Tess_W: >13 DeltaQueen50: >14 Zozette: >15 MissWatson: Thank you! I'll be happy if I can set aside enough new, shiny books to finish at least a couple in each category and most of the next-in-series.

>6 christina_reads: I'm looking forward to it, though it'll be hard to top Faithful Place

>11 pamelad: I want to read all the Barbara Pyms but I don't want to have finished all of them. :)