2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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📗reading goal

yearly:
🌱 hamlet reading challenge
🌱 new to you narrator challenge
🌱 popsugar challenge: selected
🌱 aussie author challenge
🌱 audiobook challenge
🌱 middle grade reading
🌱 what’s in a name
🌱 magical mystery tour

quarterly:
🍎 summer challenge

monthly:
🌸 january: new beginnings
🌸 january: new year resolutions

🥇wishlist

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🌱 hamlet reading challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

2. a happy book:
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3. have prejudice against:
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6. title begins and end with same letter:
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10. set in country w/ fewer residents than finland:
☐ On Midnight Beach by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (ireland)
14. related to sports:
☐ The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata
21. like the first sentence:
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22. an unreliable narrator:
☐ Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman
25. someone is on an island:
☐ On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
27. in verse:
☐ The Little Wave by Pip Harry
29. book/comic book related to japan:
✅ Haikyu!!, Vol. 1 by Haruichi Furudate
32. originally in language you don’t know:
☐ Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami (japanese)
36. recommended by someone famous:
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🍁💥🍃 new to you narrator challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

level: listener
read: 1/10

1. soneela nankani || the red car
2. melody grove || autumn
3. scott aiello || small mercies
4. alana kerr collins || the nothing man
5. vanessa johansson || necessary people 💯
6. daisy edgar-jones || sisters ‼️ [marianne•normal people]
7. gabra zackman || the lightest object in the universe
8. joe thomas || the universe versus alex wood
9. aaron landon || this love story will self-destruct
10. esther wane + sarah feathers || anatomy of a scandal

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🍿🍿 popsugar challenge: selected

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 4/?

3. heart, diamond, club, or spade on cover:
☐ The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori
4. author shares zodiac sign:
☐ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
6. gem, mineral, or rock in title:
☐ The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan
9. family tree:
☐ Inheritors by Asako Serizawa
10. 1990s bestseller:
✅ Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (1997)
14. set in restaurant:
☐ The Dinner by Herman Koch
☐ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
15. black-and-white cover:
☐ My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
21. genre hybrid:
✅ Ricochet by Sandra Brown (romantic suspense)


22. set mostly outdoors:
✅ Commodity by Shay Savage
23. broken thing on cover:
☐ Imagine Us Happy by Jennifer Yu
☐ Watch Me by Jody Gehrman
☐ Every Little Piece of My Heart by Non Pratt
26. oxymoron in title:
☐ All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
30. would like to visit in 2021:
☐ The Dinner by Herman Koch (the netherlands)
☐ Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (sweden)
33. three generations:
☐ Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
☐ The Push by Ashley Audrain
35. graphic novel:
✅ こいいじ 6 Koiiji 6 by Takako Shimura
39. everyone have read but you:
☐ My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
40. favorite past prompt:
2019 - takes place in a single day:
☐ Bright Before Sunrise by Tiffany Schmidt
☐ Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
☐ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

🌸🐥 middle grade challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: ?/?

☐ No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen
☐ That's What Friends Do by Cathleen Barnhart
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🚧 what’s in a name

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: ?/6

1. an ampersand:
☐ Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
☐ Juno & Juliet by Julian Gough
2. an antonym:
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3. four letters or less:
☐ Love by Roddy Doyle
☐ Sway by Kat Spears
4. a given name:
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5. reference to children:
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6. water, air, fire, earth:
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🔍🚨 magical mystery tour

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

level: undercover operative
read: 1/18

#who: ?/3
☐ fbi ||
☐ ceo || jar of hearts
☐ medical ||
☐ construction worker || all the missing girls

#what: ?/3
2. author of color || penance
3. four-word title || because she loves me
4. subgenre - noir || the postman always rings twice
5. color in title || black-eyed susans + white ivy

#when: ?/3
1. in summer || all the missing girls
4. b/w nightfall and sunrise || every last fear
7. reported in 2021 ||

#where: 1/3
3. at home || Jar of Hearts
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#how: ?/3
1. knife || my lovely wife
2. wheels || hidden + all the missing girls
3. gun ||
4. strangulation || jar of hearts

#why: ?/3
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possible titles
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Alone
Unsub
Sisters
Hidden
Find me
Penance audio
Jane doe
Six years
Black out
Watch me
Possession
The dinner
Deep water
Mr. nobody
I found you audio
Old city hall
The witness
Take it back
Jar of hearts
Still missing
Crimson lake
Little threats
Heartbreaker
Sharp objects
A lot like love
A killer’s wife
Every last fear
My lovely wife
A killer’s mind
Good neighbors
The perfect wife
A good marriage
The nothing man
Good girl bad girl audio
The girl in the ice
Our little cruelties
The closer you get
The swing of things
The dangerous kind
We begin at the end
Goodnight beautiful
All the missing girls *reread
Anatomy of a scandal
Because she loves me
You will remember me
And when she was good
When all the girls are gone
All these beautiful strangers
Crooked letter, crooked letter
The postman always rings twice
☐ The Captives by Debra Jo Immergut

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🦘🥝 aussie author reading challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

level: WALLAROO
read: ?/6

• female author: ?/2
• male author: ?/2
• new author: ?/2
• genre: ?/2

☐ There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
☐ Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
☐ The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
☐ On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
☐ Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
☐ Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
☐ The Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson
☐ The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
☐ The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner
☐ The Little Wave by Pip Harry
☐ Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
☐ Honeybee by Craig Silvey

🎧 audiobook challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

level: my precious
read: 3/30+

☐ Sisters • daisy edgar-jones + anna koval
✅ Mr. Nobody • catherine steadman 💯
☐ The Red Car • soneela nankani
✅ Jar of Hearts • january lavoy
✅ Necessary People • vanessa johansson
☐ Between You and Me • jessica ball
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🏄‍♂️🏖 summer challenge

start date: dec 1
end date: feb 28

read: 6/9

favorite: Frederica by Georgette Heyer



T: Crew by Tijan
O:
P: The Little Wave by Pip Harry (AA)
H: The Hermit by Shayne McClendon
A: The Life That Mattered by Jewel E. Ann
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F: Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
L: A Love So Tragic by Stevie J. Cole
A: The Life You Stole by Jewel E. Ann
G: Alone by Lisa Gardner
S: The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner (AA)

⛩ january 2021: new beginnings

start date: jan 1
end date: jan 31

level: easy
read: 3/5

1a. new to you author:
☐ Losing It by Julia Lawrinson (AA)
2a. debut novel:
☐ Forbidden by Seven Rue
3a. title starts with “j”:
✅ Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier
4a. spell “one” in title:
✅ Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak
5a. looking forward to:
✅ Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman

💫🎁 january: new year resolutions

start date: jan 1
end date: jan 31

read: 2/?

1. biggest hope for 2021:
☐ The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
✅ Six Half #1 by Rikako Iketani (perseverance)
2. dream vacation:
✅ こいいじ 3 Koiiji 3 by Takako Shimura
4. character who jogs:
☐ Imagine Us Happy by Jennifer Yu
9. start a new series:
☐ The Program by Suzanne Young
10. favorite genre/subgenre:
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