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 The (Unofficial) Magnus Archives Reading Challenge

   #TMARC21 and #tmaReadingChallenge2021.

The Rules:

• there are no rules! 
• adhere to these prompts as rigidly or as loosely as you’d like.
• If you find a book that you think would fit a Fear or a character, but it’s not their assigned prompt, go ahead and fill that one in, anyway. 
• If you want to use one book for more than one prompt, go ahead.
• If you want to just pick and choose your favorite Fears and characters and read books from their prompts, go ahead.
• If you’re bringing over books you started in 2020 but didn’t finish, and want to include them in the challenge, even though you only read the last three pages in 2021, go ahead.
  
• I’m just really honored if you try doing this in the first place.
• the current tags I’m using for this challenge is #TMARC21 and #tmaReadingChallenge2021. If you’re planning on joining in on these shenanigans, I’d love to see it! You’re welcome to post TBRs, bookstacks, Excel spreadsheets, whatever.

 the prompts come in 2 categories:

• 30 prompts that riff on the Fears (2 prompts per Entity), and
• 22 prompts based on Avatars or other characters in TMA.

Completed:  47 /52 prompts

1. √ The Eye: Nonfic about an unfamiliar subject  

• READ The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/20/21


2. √ The Buried: a Bottle Episode (set in a single room/place)

• READ The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/10/21
3. √ The Dark: about/set in space 

• READ Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 9/3/21
4. √ The Flesh: MC/author works in food service

• READ No Good Tea Goes Unpunished by Bree Baker 
• Blog Post  and Good Reads Review 2/10/21
5. √ The Desolation: about a Chosen One
• READ Carry On Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review  11/16/21
6. The Slaughter: set during/about a war before 1800 IDEA: Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women

7. √ The Spiral: by an ND person/with an ND MC 
• READ  The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 6/23/21

8. √ The Hunt: a murder mystery 

• READ  Shakeup by Stuart Woods
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/24/21

9. √ The Stranger: MC/author is a performer 

• READ  Chorus Lines, Caviar and Corpses by Mary McHugh
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/12/21

10. The End: biography of a deceased person IDEA: Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women 

11. √ The Vast: set on a plane/boat  

• READ Peril Through the Panama Canal by Lizzie Josephson
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/12/21

12. √ The Corruption: about a family  

• READ  Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/15/21
13. √  The Lonely: about/set in the Arctic  
• READ  South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby
• Blog Post and GoodReads Review 1/18/21

14. √  The Web: with a puppeteer figure (literal or figurative)  

• READ One of Us is Next by Karen McManus
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 9/5/21

15. The Extinction: post-apocalyptic fiction IDEA: Divergent (Divergent, #1)

16. √  Beholding: with a found footage element  

• READ   Midnight Library by Matt Haig 
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/20/21

17. √ Too Close: a novella 

• READ  Botched Butterscotch by Amanda Flower
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 5/13/21

18. √ Mr. Pitch: with an immortal character 

• READ  The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/27/21
19. √ Meat: with an animal companion/character
• READ   Forests, Fishing & Forgery by Tonya Kappes
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/2/21

20. √ Flame: involves elemental powers 

• READ Death of an Irish Diva by Mollie Cox Bryan
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/18/21

21. √ Piper: music is a plot element 

• READ  Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review  4/7/21
22. √ Es Mentiras: with a door on the cover 

• READ Cold Case Crumble by Jennifer Joy
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/18/21

23. √ Hunter: involves a MacGuffin  

• READ  The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie  
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/5/21

24. √  I Do Not Know You: by an author you’ve never read

• READ Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/6/21

25. √ Terminus: the last book in a series 

• READ  Felicia's Food Truck Bite Size Cozies by Celia Kinsey
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/20/21

26. √ Titan: a graphic novel 

• READ  Ms. Marvel, Vol 2   Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
• Blog Post and Good  Reads Review 2/12/21 

27. √ Filth: with fruit on the cover  

• READ Killer Chardonnay by Kate Lansing
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/15/21
28. √ Forsaken: involves a crew/squad of some kind   
• READ  Misalignment and Murder by Cathy Tully 
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review  1/26/21

29. √ Spider: a childhood favorite  READ Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein  Blog Post and Goodreads Review  11/18/2

30. √ Change: about/involving dinosaurs 

• READ  Z Rex by Steve Cole
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 8/1/21

31. √ Jon: MC/author is ace

• READ   Choppy Water by Stuart Woods
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/21/21
32. √ Sasha: with a female detective 
• READ The Murder Mystery Cruise by Lizzie Josephson
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/13/21

33. √ Tim: with fire on the cover 

• READ A Burning by Megha Majumdar
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/16/21

34. √ Martin: by/about a poet OR includes poetry 

• READ A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/17/21

35. √ Melanie: by/about a social media personality 

• READ Laughing at my Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/30/21

36. √ Basira: MC is a bookworm 

• READ Raspberry Chocolate Murder by Leena Clover 
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/18/21

37. Daisy: involves werewolves IDEA: City of Bones

38. √ Gerry: about ghosts/MC is a ghost 

• READ  Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/17/21
39. √ Oliver: involves dreams 
• READ  The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/13/21
40. Michael: an old favorite IDEA: The Secret Garden

41. √ Annabelle: with an unreliable narrator 

• READ The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/25/21
42. √ Benoît Maçon: with an unexpected partnership/romance
• READ  Killer Kung Pao by Vivien Chien
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/14/21
43. √ Jane Prentiss: with a found family 
• READ  In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/7/21
44. √ Simon Fairchild: MC is elderly 
• READ Tide and Punishment by Bree Baker
• Blog Post  and Good Reads Review 2/11/21
45. √ Jonah Magnus: an epistolary novel OR includes letters 

• READ Murder by the Book by Lauren Elliot
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/6/21
46. √ Breekon & Hope: with an established partnership/romance 
• READ  Deserts, Driving, & Derelicts by Tonya Kappes
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/26/21
47. √ Nikola: with a fictionalized historical figure 
• READ  Lost Palm by Chris Niles
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/17/21
48. √ Adelard Dekker: MC is religious 

• READ  Frontier Follies by Ree Drummond
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/12/21
49. √ Grifter’s Bone: about/featuring an urban legend
• READ  The Sinister Superyacht by Ana T. Drew 1/4/21 
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 
50. √ Gertrude: author/MC has a cat 
• READ Christmas Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review  2/9/21
51. √ Mikaele: involves pirates 
• READ Topped Chef by Lucy Burdette
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/13/21
52. √ Manuela Dominguez: author/MC works in the sciences 
• READ  The Three Mrs. Wrights by Linda Keir
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/29/21