BookDoc's 2026 ROOT Challenge

As always, I'll mark any re-read favorites with an *. So here we go in the new year:

Beloved - Toni Morrison
For One More Day - Mitch Albom

Welcome back BookDoc! Happy ROOTing. Don't forget to become a member.

Welcome back!

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

>2 connie53:
Hello Connie! I've tried to become a member of this group, and found no way to do so other than posting my messages. Is there another?
AHA! This 3rd & final time when I clicked on the "Join Group" button, it WORKED! So now I'm a bona fide member, as you've wished. Let's get to reading!

>3 MissWatson:
Thank you, and I wish a fine year of reading to you. I have, it appears, 3 connections on this Group -- and none of them is in the USA! One lives in The Netherlands, one in Germany, and one in Canada. Glad to know that my online friends are so universal!

Hi BookDoc. Good! you did it! You are now officially a member of the ROOTers.

I always liked following you and I guess our ages are similar as is grandparent stuff.

>7 connie53:
Yes, although my grandchildren are all teenagers or adults now, they're still my favorite people. Makes me feel old sometimes, though!

>8 BookDoc16: Mine are still under 10 years old, all three of them.

The Hurricane - Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
Shadow - Anne Logston

Unnatural Death - Dorothy L. Sayers
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories - Ray Bradbury

These two books are ACTUALLY the first ones I read this year! They just slipped my (aging) mind when I started this thread. Sorry!

That can happen, BD. My aging mind does the same sometimes.

Roseanna – Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö*
Bad Boy Brawly Brown – Walter Mosley

The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
Annie On My Mind - Nancy Garden*
Lucky You - Carl Hiaasen

Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Biography of a Grizzly - Ernest Thompson Seton*
Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

The Song of Roland - C. K. Scott Moncrieff (translator)
The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart*
Boneshaker - Cherie Priest

The Upright Corpse - John Ball
Tilt - Emma Pattee
Skid Road - Murray Morgan

Vigil - George Saunders
Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon - Marjorie Kellogg
The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton*
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales - Oliver Sacks

Middletide - Sarah Crouch
Guns of the West - Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, eds
The Case of the Horrified Heirs - Erle Stanley Gardner

Great Cases of Interpol - Readers' Digest Books
Waterland - Graham Swift
And Then There'll Be Fireworks - Suzette Haden Elgin

The Underground Man – Ross MacDonald
Doc – Mary Doria Russell
Short Tails: Chet & Bernie Short Stories – Spencer Quinn
Of Wolves and Men – Barry Lopez

Hi BD, just popping in again!

>23 connie53: Hello! I'm reading more slowly these past several weeks since my co-author & I are finalizing the publication of the final (4th) book in our long fantasy series. Both the print & Kindle editions will become available from Amazon on Friday the 12th. Wish us luck!

>24 BookDoc16: Lots of Luck, BD.

>25 connie53: Thank you!

Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinnaman
Quantico - Greg Bear
Tarzan the Invincible - Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Stranger: Short Stories - Gordon R. Dickson
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain