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2020 Challenges
Bookshelf - 20/30
Happy - 3/12
Grumpy - 63/365

2020 Read All the Books: Seven Wonders
1. Rosewater by Tade Thompson 1/2/20
2. Catseye by Andre Norton - 1/5/20
3. Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn - 1/7/20
4. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 1/8/20
5. Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem - 1/8/20
6. White Cat by Holly Black - 1/9/20
7. The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner - 1/12/20
8. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - 1/14/20
9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow - 1/14/20
10. Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett - 1/15/20
11. Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones - 1/16/20
12. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton - 1/20/20
13. Semiosis by Sue Burke - 1/23/20
14. Soulless by Gail Carriger - 1/23/20
15. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 1/27/20
16. The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay - 1/29/20
17. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm - 1/30/20
18. Ubik by Philip K. Dick - 1/31/18
19. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke - 2/20/20
20. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov - 2/20/20
21. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester - 2/23/20
22. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 3/25/20
23. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - 3/29/20
24. The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco - 4/3/20
25. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal - 4/6/20

Short Fiction Challenge
Happy: Read 12 novellas or short fiction collections/anthologies
1. Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson - 1/1/20
2. Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson - 1/6/20
3. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 1/8/20

Grumpy: Read 365* pieces of short fiction (no poems or flash fiction)
January(view spoiler)[
1. Amaryllis by Carrie Vaughan - 1/3/20
2. Arvies by Adam-Troy Castro - 1/3/20
3. More Than the Sum of His Parts by Joe Haldeman - 1/3/20
4. Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back by Joe R. Lansdale - 1/4/20
5. The Silence of the Asonu by Ursula Le Guin - 1/5/20
6. Saying the Names by Maggie Clark - 1/6/20
7. Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son by Tom Crosshill - 1/7/20
8. Velvet Fields by Anne McCaffery - 1/8/20
9. Her Husband’s Hands by Adam-Troy Castro - 1/9/20
10. The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R. R. Martin -1/10/20
11. Gordon, The Self Made Cat by Peter S. Beagle - 1/11/20
12. Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream by Maria Dahvana Headley - 1/12/20
13. The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species by Ken Liu - 1/13/20
14. Family Teeth by Sarah Langan - 1/14/20
15. The Sounds of Old Earth by Matthew Kressel - 1/15/20
16. Deep Blood Kettle by Hugh Howey - 1/16/20
17. The Arne-Thompson Classification Revue by Holly Black - 1/17/20
18. Alive, Alive Oh by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley - 1/19/20
19. The Litigation Master and the Monkey King by Ken Liu - 1/19/20
20. Suzanne Delage by Gene Wolfe - 1/19/20
21. Homecoming by Seanan McGuire - 1/19/20
22. The Master Conjurer by Charlie Jane Anders - 1/19/20
23. In the Dying Light We Saw a Shape by Jeremiah Tolbert - 1/20/20
24. The Thing About Shapes to Come by Adam-Troy Castro - 1/21/20
25. How to Get Back to the Forest by Sofia Samatar - 1/21/20
26. The Day the World Turned Upside Down by Thomas Olde Heuvelt - 1/22/20
27. Second Hand by Rajan Khanna - 1/22/20
28. Each to Each by Seanan McGuire - 1/22/20
29. We Are the Cloud by Sam J. Miller - 1/23/20
30. Secondhand Bodies by JY Yang - 1/24/20
31. Maiden, Hunter, Beast by Kat Howard - 1/25/20
32. Beyond the Heliopause by Keith Brooke - 1/27/20
33. Starfish by Karin Tidbeck - 1/28/20
34. Sparks Fly by Rich Larson - 1/28/20
35. Redking by Craig DeLancey - 1/29/20
36. Michael Doesn’t Hate His Mother by Marie Vibbert - 1/29/20
37. Dragon Brides by Nghi Vo - 1/29/20
38. Origin Story by Carrie Vaughan - 1/29/20
39. The Knobby Giraffe by Rudy Rucker - 1/29/20
40. The Birth Will Take Place on a Mutually Acceptable Research Vessel by Matthew Bailey - 1/30/20
41. Three Points Masculine by An Owomoyela - 1/31/20 (hide spoiler)]

February(view spoiler)[
42. The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch by Seanan McGuire - 2/1/20
43. Deathlight by Mari Ness - 2/2/20
44. Wednesday’s Story by Wole Talabi - 2/3/20
45. A Good Home by Karin Lowachee - 2/4/20
46. Salto Mortal by Nick T. Chan - 2/5/20
47. Hiranyagarbha by Kevin Jared Hosein - 2/6/20
48. Double Time by John Chu - 2/7/20
49. The Red Thread by Sofia Samatar - 2/8/20
50. Delhi by Vandana Singh - 2/9/20
51. Magnifica Angelica Superable by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz - 2/10/20
52. The One Who Isn’t by Ted Kousmatka - 2/11/20
53. 5x5 by Jilly Dreadful - 2/12/20
54. Those Brighter Stars by Mercurio D. Rivera - 2/13/20
55. Taste the Singularity at the Food Truck Circus by Jeremiah Tolbert - 2/14/20
56. See the Unseeable, Know the Unknowable by Maria Dahvana Headley - 2/15/20
57. The Lives of Riley by Sean Williams - 2/16/20
58. Crocodile Tears by Jaymee Goh - 2/17/20
59. Fade to Red: Three Interviews About Sebold’s Mars Trilogy by Stephen S. Powers - 2/18/20
60. The Key to St. Medusa’s by Kat Howard - 2/19/20
61. Plea by Mary Anne Mohanraj - 2/20/20
62. Dinosaur Killers by Chris Kluwe - 2/20/20
63. Shooting Gallery by J.B. Park - 2/20/20
64. Natural Skin by Alyssa Wong - 2/21/20
65. I’ve Come to Marry the Princess by Helena Ball - 2/22/20
66. The Cyborg, The Tinman, The Merchant of Death by Rich Larson - 2/23/20
67. Every Day is the Full Moon by Carlie St. George - 2/24/20
68. The Venus Effect by Joseph Allen Hill - 2/25/20
69. The Death of Paul Bunyan by Charles Payseur - 2/26/20
70. Seven Salt Tears by Kat Howard - 2/27/20
71. The Whole Crew Hates Me by Adam-Troy Castro - 2/28/20
72. Nine-Tenths of the Law by Molly Tanzer - 2/29/20 (hide spoiler)]

March(view spoiler)[
73. Six-Gun Vixen and the Dead Coon Trashgang by Ashok K. Banker - 3/1/20
74. The Worldless by Indrapramit Das - 3/2/20
75. The Stone Lover by Marta Randall - 3/3/20
76. Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes by Adam-Troy Castro - 3/4/20
77. Soccer Fields and Frozen Lakes by Greg Kurzawa - 3/5/20
78. Remote Presence by Susan Palwick - 3/6/20
79. Maybe Look Up by Jess Barber - 3/7/20
80. James, In the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter by Adam-Troy Castro - 3/8/20
81. This Is for You by Bruce McAllister - 3/9/20
82. The Heart’s Cartography by Susan Jane Bigelow - 3/10/20
83. Marcel Proust Incorporated by Scott Dalrymple - 3/10/20
84. The Law of Conservation of Data by John Grant - 3/10/20
85. A Touch of Heart by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro - 3/11/20
86. Mix Tapes From Dead Boys by E. Catherine Tobler - 3/12/20
87. How to Find a Portal by Debbie Urbanski - 3/13/20
88. Tongue by Ashok K. Banker 3/14/20
89. The Shining Hills by Susan Palwick - 3/15/20
90. An Inflexible Truth by Christopher East - 3/16/20
91. Ink by Bruce McAllister - 3/17/20
92. The Last Chang Beng Gift by Jaycee Goh - 3/18/20
93. An Ever-Expanding Flash of Light by Timothy Mudie - 3/19/20
94. A Pound of Darkness, a Quarter of Dreams by Tony Ballantyne -3/20/20
95. Ugo by Giovanni De Feo - 3/21/20
96. Longing for Stars by A. Merc Rustad - 3/22/20 (hide spoiler)]

April(view spoiler)[
97. The. Dragon of Dread Peak (part 1) by Jeremiah Tolbert - 4/1/20
98. The. Dragon of Dread Peak (part 2) by Jeremiah Tolbert - 4/2/20
99. What I Told My Little Girl About the Aliens Preparing to Grind Us into Hamburgers by Adam-Troy Castro 4/3/20
100. The Faerie Tree by Kathleen Kayembe - 4/4/20
101. A Vortal in Midtown by Ashok K. Banker - 4/5/20
102. A Wound Like an Unplowed Field by Max Wynne - 4/6/20
103. Cake Baby by Charlie Jane Anders - 4/6/20
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