2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

After an amazing tally in 2021, I want to push myself again to read my socks off in 2022.

This post will capture my master list of books read.

1, Princess of Shadows by A.G. Marshall
2. Princess of Secrets by A.G. Marshall
3. Princess of Mermaids by A.G. Marshall
4. Princess of Roses: Beauty and the Beast Retold by A.G. Marshall
5. Once Upon a Devilishly Enchanting Kiss by Bree Wolf
6. Once Upon a Temptingly Ruinous Kiss by Bree Wolf
7. Once Upon an Irritatingly Magical Kiss by Bree Wolf
8. Once Upon a Devastatingly Sweet Kiss by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 3,352 / 25,000
Colour: 6 / 15
Series: 8 / 40 Started: 2 Continued: 6 Finished: 0
A-Z Author: 2 / 18
Bookworms Take Shelfies: 8 / 40
Popsgar: / 15
Hindsight: / 35
Modern Mrs Darcy:
January Marathon: 8 / 15

High on my To-Read list:

- The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (octogenerians solving crime!)
- books by Jason Ayres
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon;
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
- St Mary's Historian series
- How to Stop Time - Matt Haig
- Helen Oyeyemi - Gingerbread
- The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
- Finish the Peculiar series by Ransom Riggs (4 books)
- The St Marys Series by Jodi Taylor
- Re-read the All Saints books and Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness now that - - A Discovery of Witches season 2 has been shown - have re-read two
- All Creatures Great & Small - James Herriot
- Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill - Abbi Waxman (one to finish)
- The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (re-read)
- Maybe re-read the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
- Oxford Time Travel series - Connie Willis
- The Alchemyst - Michael Scott
- How to Survive a Plague - David French
- So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in "Pride and Prejudice" - Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer
- The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie - Jennifer Ashley
- The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben
- Mary, Everything - Cassandra Yorke
- The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
- The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
- The Last Family in England (The Labrador Pact) - Matt Haig
- The Secret Lives of Color - Kassie St Cleair
- The Apricot Colonel or Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marie Halligan
- Finding Audrey - Sophie Kinsella
- Desperate Fortune - Susanna Kearsley
- Mysteries by E J Copperman eg The Question of the Felonious Friend
- An Elderly Lady is Up To No Good - Helene Tursten
- A Darker Shade of Magic - V E Schwab
- Naomi Novik (Crucible of Gold, Throne of Jade etc)
- The Woman who Wanted More - Vicky Zimmerman
- The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert
- The Wishing Thread - Lisa Van Allen
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - Theodora Goss
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
- A Quiet Life in the Country - T E Kinsey
- Poetry by Emily Dickinson, Wordsworth, Banjo Paterson, Pam Ayers
- Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore
- Many Lives, Many Masters -
- His Convict Wife or Convict Heart - Lena Dowling
- Mysteries by K J Emrick (set in Tasmania)
- The Chocolate Promise - Josephine Moon
- Spindrift - Tamara McKinley
- The Little Paris Bookshop
- Finish the >i>Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
- The Rose Garden - Susanna Kearsley
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- - The Alchemyst, The Necromancer - Michael Scott
- Lies Sleeping - Ben Aaronovitch*
- Living London - Krysten Vayden
- Lemon Meringue Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke*
- Nerdy Birdy Tweets
- Searching for Captain Wentworth - Jane Odiwe

NF
- 60 Ways to Lower your Blood Sugar - Dennis Pollock
- The PDA Paradox - Harry Thompson
- Ifferisms - Mardy Grothe
- Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham
- The Art of Lying Down - Berd Brunner
- Making a Living Without A Job - Barbara Winter
- Don't Eat this if you're taking that - Madelyn Fernstrom
- Don't You Just Hate That - Scott Cohen
- Side Hustle - Chris Guillebeau

1, Princess of Shadows by A.G. Marshall


Let's Turn Pages: 428 / 25,000
January Marathon: 428
Colour: Purple 1 / 15
A-Z Author: M 1 / 18
Series: 1 / 40 Start: 1 Continue: 0 Finish: 0
Bookworms Take Shelfies: Fairytale Retelling 1, Total 1 / 40

2. Princess of Secrets by A.G. Marshall


Let's Turn Pages: 512 pg, total 940
January Marathon running total: 940
Colour: Pink 2 / 15
Series: 2 / 40 Start: 1 Continue: 1 Finish: 0
Bookworms Take Shelfies: Fairytale Retelling 2, Total 2 / 40

3. Princess of Mermaids by A.G. Marshall


Let's Turn Pages: 492 pg - 1,432
January Marathon running Total: 1432
colour: dark blue 3 / 15
Series: 3 / 40 started:1 continued: 2 finished:0
Bookworms Take Shelfies: Fairytale Retelling 3, Total 3 / 40

4. Princess of Roses: Beauty and the Beast Retold by A.G. Marshall


Let's Turn Pages: 624 pg, total 2,056
January Marathon: 2,056 - 4 books
Colour: yellow 4 / 15
Series: 4 / 40 started:1 continued: 3 finished: 0
Bookworms Take Shelfies: Long Books Over 500pg 1, Total 4 / 40

5. Once Upon a Devilishly Enchanting Kiss by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 294 pages, total 2,350
January Marathon: 5 / 15
Series: 5 / 40 started: 2 continued: 3 finished: 0
A-Z Author: W 2 / 18
Bookworms Take Shelfies: Historical Romance 1, Total 5 / 40
Hindsight: Book set between 1801-1900

6. Once Upon a Temptingly Ruinous Kiss by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 322 pg, total 2,672
January Marathon: 6 / 15
Series: 6 / 40 started: 2 continued: 4 finished: 0
Bookworms Take Shelfies: Historical Romance 2, Total 6 / 40
Hindsight: 2 / 35

7. Once Upon an Irritatingly Magical Kiss by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 340 pg, total 3,012
January: 7 / 15
Colour: grey
Series: 7 / 40 started: 2 continued: 5 finished: 0
Bookworms Take Shelfies: Historical Romance 3, Total 7 / 40
Hindsight: 3 / 35

8. Once Upon a Devastatingly Sweet Kiss by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 340 pg, total 3,352
Colour: green 6 / 15
Series: 8 / 40 started: 2 continued: 6 finished: 0
Bookworms Take Shelfies: Historical Romance 4, Total 8 / 40
Hindsight: 4 / 35

challenges updated to here

9. Once Upon a Kiss Gone Horribly Wrong by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 106 pg
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Bookworms Take Shelfies: (shelf), Total / 40
Hindsight: / 35

10. Once Upon an Achingly Beautiful Kiss by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 286 pg
Series: / 40 started: 2 continued: finished: 1
Bookworms Take Shelfies: (shelf), Total / 40
Popsugar - #1 Book Published in 2022 1 / 15
Hindsight: / 35

11. How to Wake a Sleeping Lady by Bree Wolf



Let's Turn Pages: 300 pg
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Bookworms Take Shelfies: (shelf), Total / 40
Popsugar - / 15
Hindsight: / 35

12. How to Tame a Beastly Lord by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 289 pg
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Popsugar - / 15
Hindsight: / 35

13. How to Climb a Lady's Tower by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 316 pg
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Bookworms Take Shelfies: (shelf), Total / 40
Popsugar - / 15
Hindsight: / 35

14. How to Steal a Thief's Heart by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 291 pg
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Bookworms Take Shelfies: (shelf), Total / 40
Popsugar - / 15
Hindsight: / 35

15. How to Return a Lady's Slipper by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 302 pg
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Popsugar - / 15
Hindsight: / 35

16. How to Turn a Frog into a Prince by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 342 pg
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Popsugar - / 15
Hindsight: / 35

17. How to Live Happily Ever After by Bree Wolf


Let's Turn Pages: 99 pg
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Popsugar - / 15
Hindsight: / 35

18. A Quartet of Pleasures - Annabel Joseph

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

19. The Elusive Orgasm by Vivienne Cass

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

20. Submitting to the Rake - Em Brown

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

21 - Binding the Baroness by Em Brown

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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22. The Ex Hex - Erin Sterling

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

23. Mr Malcolm's List - Suzanne Allain

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

24. The Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Pamela Mingle

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Popsugar - / 15
Hindsight: / 35

25. Miss Lattimore's Letter by Suzanne Allain

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

26. The Marquess Next Door by Virginia Heath

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

27. The Viscount's Unconventional Bride by Virginia Heath

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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28. How Not to Chaperon a Lady by Virginia Heath

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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29. Never Fall for Your Fiance by Virginia Heath

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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30. Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

31. Submitting to His Lordship by Em Brown
(Also including Submitting to Lord Rockwell, short story)

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

32. Submitting to the Marquess by Em Brown

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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33. Submitting for Christmas by Em Brown
(and Submitting for Christmas: the Epilogue)

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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34. Friends with Kinky Benefits by James Hardcourt

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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35. The One-Bar Prison by James Hardcourt

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36. Tease for Two: A First Time Maledom BDSM Novella by James Hardcourt

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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37. Three-Line Whip: A First Time Maledom BDSM Novella by James Hardcourt

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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38. On All Fours: A First Time Maledom BDSM Novel by James Hardcourt

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

39. Bound to Submit by Laura Kaye

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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Hindsight: / 35

40. The Uncompromising Lord Flint by Virginia Heath

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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41. The Mysterious Lord Millcroft by Virginia Heath

Let's Turn Pages: pg
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42. The Disgraceful Lord Grey by Virginia Heath

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