The Lost Challenges discussion

Current challenges:

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Read in 2025:
1) Word to the Wise/Jenn McKinlay (1/12/2025)
2) Leven en laten leven/Hendrik Groen (1/16/2025)
3) Now or Never/Janet Evanovich (1/19/2025)
4) Educated/Tara Westover (2/1/2025)
5) The Hole We're In: A Novel/Gabrielle Zevin (2/5/2025)
6) One Italian Summer/Rebecca Serle (2/8/2025)
7) Finlay Donovan Is Killing It/Elle Cosimano (2/18/2025)
8) Biting Bad/Chloe Neill (2/21/2025)
9) De verwarde cavia/Paulien Cornelisse (3/2/2025)
10) Better Than the Movies/Lynn Painter (3/4/2025)
11) Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show/Bethany Joy Lenz (3/5/2025)
12) Yellowface/R.F. Kuang (3/15/2025)
13) Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life/Bill Perkins (3/17/2025)
14) XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness/Cody Rigsby (3/29/2025)
15) Daisy Jones & The Six/Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/6/2025)
16) The Guncle/Steven Rowley (4/7/2025)
17) The Thursday Murder Club/Richard Osman (4/13/2025)
18) All That Life Can Afford/Emily Everett (4/25/2025)
19) I Will Teach You to Be Rich/Ramit Sethi (5/12/2025)
20) Very Nice/Marcy Dermansky (5/21/2025)
21) The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning/Margareta Magnusson (5/30/2025)
22) Romancing Mister Bridgerton/Julia Quinn (6/15/2025)
23) Sylvia's Second Act/Hillary Yablon (6/21/2025)
24) Promise Me Sunshine/Cara Bastone (7/27/2025)
25) Just Last Night/Mhairi McFarlane (7/31/2025)
26) Quit Like a Woman/Holly Whitaker (9/15/2025)
27) Glucose Revolution/Jessie Inchauspé (10/1/2025)
28) Funny Story/Emily Henry (10/10/2025)
29) Stoorzender/Arjen Lubach (10/20/2025)
30) 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You/Vicki Grant (11/3/2025)
31) Beautiful Chaos/Jessica Urlichs (11/14/2025)
32) Zuid-moeders breken niet/Kimberley Klaver (11/18/2025)
33) Kilt Trip/Alexandra Kiley (11/19/2025)
34) Counterfeit/Kirstin Chen (11/26/2025)

A-Z Titles Challenge 2025
Duration: Jan. 1, 2025 - Dec. 31, 2025

Goal: Read 26 books, each one with a title that begins with a different letter of the alphabet. Disregard A, AN and THE.

*For Q, X, Y and Z, the title only needs to have that letter somewhere in it.

Completed: 24/26

A) All That Life Can Afford/Emily Everett (4/25/2025)
B) Biting Bad/Chloe Neill (2/21/2025)
C) Counterfeit/Kirstin Chen (11/26/2025)
D) Dinner for Vampires/Bethany Joy Lenz (3/5/2025)
E) Educated/Tara Westover (2/1/2025)
F) Finlay Donovan Is Killing It/Elle Cosimano (2/18/2025)
G) The Guncle/Steven Rowley (4/7/2025)
H) The Hole We're In/Gabrielle Zevin (2/5/2025)
I) I Will Teach You to Be Rich/Ramit Sethi (5/12/2025)
J) Just Last Night/Mhairi McFarlane (7/31/2025)
K) Kilt Trip/Alexandra Kiley (11/19/2025)
L) Leven en laten leven/Hendrik Groen (1/16/2025)
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N) Now or Never/Janet Evanovich (1/19/2025)
O) One Italian Summer/Rebecca Serle (2/8/2025)
P) Promise Me Sunshine/Cara Bastone (7/27/2025)
Q) Quit Like a Woman/Holly Whitaker (9/15/2025)
R) Romancing Mister Bridgerton/Julia Quinn (6/15/2025)
S) Sylvia's Second Act/Hillary Yablon (6/21/2025)
T) The Thursday Murder Club/Richard Osman (4/13/2025)
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V) Very Nice/Marcy Dermansky (5/21/2025)
W) Word to the Wise/Jenn McKinlay (1/12/2025)
X) XOXO, Cody/Cody Rigsby (3/29/2025)
Y) Yellowface/R.F. Kuang (3/15/2025)
Z) Zuid-moeders breken niet/Kimberley Klaver (11/18/2025)

Opties:
M - Margo's Got / Thorpe & Midnight library / Haig
U - Under loch and key/Ferguson

A-Z Authors Challenge 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Goal: Read 26 books, each one by an author whose first or last name begins with a different letter of the alphabet. Middle initials/names do not count.

*For Q, U, X, Y and Z, the author only needs to have that letter somewhere in their name.

Completed: 24/26

A) Arjen Lubach/Stoorzender (10/20/2025)
B) Bill Perkins/Die with Zero (3/17/2025)
C) Cosimano, Elle /Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (2/18/2025)
D) Dermansky, Marcy/Very Nice (5/21/2025)
E) Evanovich, Janet/Now or Never (1/19/2025)
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G) Groen, Hendrik/Leven en laten leven (1/16/2025)
H) Holly Whitaker/Quit Like a Woman (9/15/2025)
I) Inchauspé, Jessie/Glucose Revolution (10/1/2025)
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K) Kuang, R.F./Yellowface (3/15/2025)
L) Lenz, Bethany Joy/Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (3/5/2025)
M) McKinlay, Jenn/Word to the Wise (1/12/2025)
N) Neill, Chloe/Biting Bad (2/21/2025)
O) Osman, Richard/The Thursday Murder Club (4/13/2025)
P) Painter, Lynn/Better Than the Movies (3/4/2025)
Q) Quinn, Julia/Romancing Mister Bridgerton (6/15/2025)
R) Rigsby, Cody/XOXO, Cody (3/29/2025)
S) Serle, Rebecca/One Italian Summer (2/8/2025)
T) Taylor Jenkins Reid/Daisy Jones & The Six (4/6/2025)
U) Urlichs, Jessica/Beautiful Chaos (11/14/2025)
V) Vicki Grant/36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You (11/3/2025)
W) Westover, Tara /Educated (2/1/2025)
X) Alexandra Kiley/Kilt Trip (11/19/2025)
Y) Yablon, Hillary/Sylvia's Second Act (6/21/2025)
Z) Zevin, Gabrielle/The Hole We're In (2/5/2025)

Ferguson
Hilton, Paris
Jimenez, Abby
Xie, Jenny - Holding Pattern

A-Z Female Characters Challenge 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Goal: Read 26 books, each one with a female main character whose first or last name begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

*For Q, U, X, Y and Z, the character only needs to have that letter somewhere in their name.

Completed: 18/26

A) Afra Ophof - Leven en laten leven/Hendrik Groen (1/16/2025)
B) Bobby - Zuid-moeders breken niet/Kimberley Klaver (11/18/2025)
C) Cavia - De verwarde cavia/Paulien Cornelisse (3/2/2025)
D) Daisy Jones - Daisy Jones & The Six/Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/6/2025)
E) Elizabeth Best - The Thursday Murder Club/Richard Osman (4/13/2025)
F) Finlay Donovan - Finlay Donovan Is Killing It/Elle Cosimano (2/18/2025)
G) Georgia Pomeroy - The Hole We're In: A Novel/Gabrielle Zevin (2/5/2025)
H) Helena - Better Than the Movies/Lynn Painter (3/4/2025)
I) Isabel - Sylvia's Second Act/Hillary Yablon (6/21/2025)
J) June Hayward - Yellowface/R.F. Kuang (3/15/2025)
K) Katy Silver - One Italian Summer/Rebecca Serle (2/8/2025)
L) Lindsey Norris - Word to the Wise/Jenn McKinlay (1/12/2025)
M) Merit - Biting Bad/Chloe Neill (2/21/2025)
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P) Pippa - All That Life Can Afford/Emily Everett (4/25/2025)
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R) Reese - Promise Me Sunshine/Cara Bastone (7/27/2025)
S) Stephanie Plum - Now or Never/Janet Evanovich (1/19/2025)
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V) Vincent, Daphne - Funny Story/Emily Henry (10/10/2025)
W) Winnie Fang - Counterfeit/Kirstin Chen (11/26/2025)
X) Xiu Fraser - 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You/Vicki Grant (11/3/2025)
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Becca Klein - Very Nice/Marcy Dermansky (5/21/2025)
Iona Iverson - Iona Iverson's Rules for commuting
Iris Adams - The Agathas
Nora Hamilton - Nora Goes Off Script
Nora - In the company of witches
Nora Seed - The Midnight Library
Olivia York - Eliza Starts a Rumor
Oona Lockhart - Oona Out of Order
Olive Smith - The Love Hypothesis
Penelope Featherington - Romancing Mr. Bridgerton
Tara Babcock - The Seven Steps to Closure
Vera Wong
Vero - Finlay Donovan books
Violet Powell - How to read a book
Winnie Fang - Counterfeit
Wheeler, Emma - The Rom-Commers
Yinka - Yinka Where's Your Husband

A-Z Male Characters Challenge 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Goal: Read 26 books, each one with a male main character whose first or last name begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

*For Q, U, X, Y and Z, the character only needs to have that letter somewhere in their name.

Completed: 16/26

A) Arthur Ophof - Leven en laten leven/Hendrik Groen (1/16/2025)
B) Billy Dunne - Daisy Jones & The Six/Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/6/2025)
C) Callum - All That Life Can Afford/Emily Everett (4/25/2025)
D) Declan McCarthy
E) Ethan Sullivan - Biting Bad/Chloe Neill (2/21/2025)
F) Frank - Sylvia's Second Act/Hillary Yablon (6/21/2025)
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I) Ibrahim Arif - The Thursday Murder Club/Richard Osman (4/13/2025)
J) Joe Morelli - Now or Never/Janet Evanovich (1/19/2025)
K
L) Logan Sutherland - Kilt Trip/Alexandra Kiley (11/19/2025)
M) Miles - Promise Me Sunshine/Cara Bastone (7/27/2025)
N) Nowak, Miles - Funny Story/Emily Henry (10/10/2025)
O) Olivier Desjardins - Counterfeit/Kirstin Chen (11/26/2025)
P) Patrick O'Hara - The Guncle/Steven Rowley (4/7/2025)
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R) Robbie Vine - Word to the Wise/Jenn McKinlay (1/12/2025)
S) Steven Donovan - Finlay Donovan Is Killing It/Elle Cosimano (2/18/2025)
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W) Wes Bennet - Better Than the Movies/Lynn Painter (3/4/2025)
X) Max - 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You/Vicki Grant (11/3/2025)
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Z) Zahid Azzam - Very Nice/Marcy Dermansky (5/21/2025)

Colin Bridgerton - Romancing Mr. Bridgerton
Daniel Grant - Part of Your World
Frank - How to read a book
Felix - This Summer Will Be Different
Hayden Anderson - Great Big Beautiful Life
Hendrik Groen - Opgewekt naar de eindstreep
Lucas Martin - An American Roommate Experiment
Lachlan Greer - Under Loch and Key
Leo Salinger - Worst in Show
Leo Brewer - This Day Changes Everything
Liam Weston - The Paradise Problem
Miles - Promise Me Sunshine
Miles Nowak - Funny Story
Noah Walker - When in Rome
Yates, Charley - The Rom-Commers

2025 Countdown
January 1 - December 31, 2024

LIGHT VERSION - 80 books

10 originally published in 2025
1) All That Life Can Afford/Emily Everett (4/25/2025)
2) Promise Me Sunshine/Cara Bastone (7/27/2025)
3) Beautiful Chaos/Jessica Urlichs (11/14/2025)
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10 originally published in 2024
1) Now or Never/Janet Evanovich (1/19/2025)
2) Dinner for Vampires/Bethany Joy Lenz (3/5/2025)
3) Sylvia's Second Act/Hillary Yablon (6/21/2025)
4) Funny Story/Emily Henry (10/10/2025)
5) Kilt Trip/Alexandra Kiley (11/19/2025)
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10 originally published in 2023
1) Yellowface/R.F. Kuang (3/15/2025)
2) XOXO, Cody/Cody Rigsby (3/29/2025)
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10 originally published in 2022
1) One Italian Summer/Rebecca Serle (2/8/2025)
2) Glucose Revolution/Jessie Inchauspé (10/1/2025)
3) Zuid-moeders breken niet/Kimberley Klaver (11/18/2025)
4) Counterfeit/Kirstin Chen (11/26/2025)
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10 originally published in 2021
1) Finlay Donovan Is Killing It/Elle Cosimano (2/18/2025)
2) Better Than the Movies/Lynn Painter (3/4/2025)
3) The Guncle/Steven Rowley (4/7/2025)
4) Just Last Night/Mhairi McFarlane (7/31/2025)
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10 originally published in 2020
1) Die with Zero/Bill Perkins (3/17/2025)
2) The Thursday Murder Club/Richard Osman (4/13/2025)
3) Stoorzender/Arjen Lubach (10/20/2025)
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10 originally published in 2019
1) Word to the Wise/Jenn McKinlay (1/12/2025)
2) Daisy Jones & The Six/Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/6/2025)
3) Very Nice/Marcy Dermansky (5/21/2025)
4) Quit Like a Woman/Holly Whitaker (9/15/2025)
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10 originally published in 2018
1) Educated/Tara Westover (2/1/2025)
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Countdown overflow

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2025:
- Scot and Bothered
- Great Big Beautiful Life
- Wedding Dashers
- Any Trope But You
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2024
- The Ministry of Time // The Third Gilmore Girl//Beautiful Chaos
- The Wedding People // We Solve Murders//Under Loch and Key
- The Borrowed Life of Frederik Fife // Kilt Trip
- Is She Really Going Out with Him?//Nothing Like the Movies
- I Hope This Finds You Well//Four Weekends and a Funeral
- The Love of My Afterlife // Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

2023
- Holding Pattern
- Counting the Cost
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2022
- When in Rome
- The American Roommate Experiment
- Nora Goes Off Script
- Zuid-moeders breken niet
- Counterfeit
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2021
- The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
- Malibu Rising
- Rust en Vreugd
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2020
- Witches and Wedding Cake
- Opgewekt naar de eindstreep
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2019
- Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors
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Character Options

Female
Alexis Montgomery - Part of Your World
Bree Camden - The Cheat Sheet
Dani Porter - Love At First Spite
Emma - The Marriage Code
Emilie Hornby - The Do-Over
Maddy Hart - The Many Futures of Maddy Hart
Oona Lockhart - Oona Out of Order
Phoebe Stone - The Wedding People
Rosie Graham - The American Roommate Experiment

Male
Daniel Grant - Part of Your World
Josh - The Do-Over
Lucas Martin - The American Roommate Experiment
Nathan Donelson - The Cheat Sheet
Nick - The Do-Over
Ove - A Man Called Ove
Oliver - The Many Futures of Maddy Hart
Rishi - The Marriage Code
Wyatt Montego - Love At First Spite