I was going through my pile of books at the house to find some candidates for the 2013 Keyword Reading Challenge, and have a tentative list for the year. It may change because I'm more enthusiastic about some of these choices than others. I'll sporadically add links and updates to this as the challenge continues and I have reviewed novels, or as my reading list changes.
January (winter, snow, silver, white, cold, shiver, smoke, fire, freeze, breath): Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield, The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore, The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
Total: 3
Total: 3
February: (love, heart, sweet, family, grace, animal, diamond, life, drink, beautiful): Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death by Jim Frederick, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier, The Traitor's Wife by Kathleen Kent, The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, Midwives by Chris Bohjalian, The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht, The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Total: 7
Total: 7
March: (luck, wish, gold, rainbow, green, mountain, valley, magic, farm, treasure): The Magicians by Lev Grossman, City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Total: 3
Total: 3
April (secret, flower, garden, friend, light, shadow, whisper, home, gentle, little): Home by Julie Andrews, The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Total: 7
Total: 7
May (bird, shine, laugh, clothing, name, run, shatter, lost, wings, world): Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm, The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar, The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, Hood by Emma Donoghue, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Vlad: The Last Confession by C.C. Humphreys, A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy, Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Total: 8
Total: 8
June (sand, sun, beach, island, country, sea, fly, away, never, far): Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian, It Happened in Italy by Elizabeth Bettina, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Total: 5
Total: 5
July (high, control, take, candle, night, spark, dreams, soul, beat, spy): Dreams of Joy by Lisa See, Day After Night by Anita Diamant, Aces High edited by George R.R. Martin, The Night Eternal by Guilermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Total: 5
Total: 5
August (come, look, gift, cloud, food, clear, tree, orange, test, broken): Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, Broken Harbor by Tana French, The Dinner by Herman Koch, Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
Total: 4
Total: 4
September (shade, cry, blow, memory, kiss, space, fast, storm, blue, club): My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares, Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell
Total: 2
Total: 2
October (witch, haunt, murder, death, phantom, inside, fear, weapon, trapped, ghost): The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockridge
Total: 3
Total: 3
November (brave, forever, last, right, cave, work, window, number, thief, under): Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal, Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams, The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes, The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand
Total: 4
Total: 4
December (princess, ring, road, midnight, fountain, time, hope, together, star, throne): Time and Again by Jack Finney, The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, Daughters Who Walk this Path by Yejide Kilanko, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Total: 4
Total: 4
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