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RULES
1. No minimum page count
2. Books can be used to complete more than one task, but only for the same monster. If you can find a single book that meets all five tasks, congratulations, you defeated the monster with just one book!
3. Players can have up to 5 monsters to vanquish at any time.
4. Monsters are assigned at random and may be repeated by the same player.
5. Once you vanquish a monster and get a replacement it should be considered locked and you cannot swap out books.
Monster: Ningyo 🪦Wheel: Asian
Difficulty level: Moderate
Tasks
✔ 1. 200 to 299 pages: Rattling Bone
✔ 2. FISH in title (letters, can be out of order): An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
✔ 3. MC over 50: Old Man's War
✔ 4. Storm important to plot: What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
✔ 5. Tagged war (>10 times): Old Man's War
Monster: Snipe 🪦Wheel: Urban Legends
Difficulty level: Easy
Tasks
✔ 1. 100 to 175 pages: Penric’s Fox
✔ 2. Bird on cover: A House with Good Bones
✔ 3. MC is looking for something/someone: Confessions of a Bookseller
✔ 4. "Fool's errand" or "wild-goose chase" in text: Serpentine
✔ 5. Goodreads rating <3.6: The Dark House
Monster: Dr. Zachary Smith (Lost in Space) 🪦Wheel: Fictional Humans
Difficulty level: Moderate
Tasks
✔ 1. 200 to 299 pages: Found: A Life in Mountain Rescue
✔ 2. Set in space or on another planet: System Collapse
✔ 3. Character is untrustworthy: Perfect World, Vol. 3
✔ 4. A cheesy book (your interpretation): The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
✔ 5. MPG science fiction/Sci-fi: System Collapse
Monster: The Enemy / Woman in White (The City We Became) 🪦Wheel: Overly Specific Literary Monsters
Difficulty level: Hard
Tasks
✔ 1. 250 to 300 pages: Walk through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America
✔ 2. Woman wearing white on cover: Band Sinister
✔ 3. "Avatar" in text: Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
✔ 4. "City" in title or series title: City of the Dead
✔ 5. Book from LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy: Witch King
Monster: The 456 🪦Wheel: Doctor Who
Difficulty level: Hard
Tasks
✔ 1. 350 to 450 pages: Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
✔ 2. Author initials (all) in TORCHWOOD: Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
✔ 3. Character regrets a past action: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
✔ 4. "Radio" in text: The Little Dog Laughed
✔ 5. MC has a child or children: The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
Monster: Bunyip 🪦Wheel: Urban Legends
Difficulty level: Moderate
Tasks
✔ 1. 200 to 299 pages: “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
✔ 2. Seal or dog on cover: Wonder Cat Kyuu-chan Vol. 5
✔ 3. Read a book with a ecological message/theme (your interpretation): The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
✔ 4. Takes place in a rural area: The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery
✔ 5. Letter Y in title: “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
Monster: Aoyin 🪦Wheel: Asian
Difficulty level: Hard
Tasks
✔ 1. 350 to 450 pages: Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992
✔ 2. Animal with hooves on cover: Green Rider
✔ 3. White cover (>50%): Adulthood Is a Gift!
✔ 4. Mountains on cover: Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
✔ 5. Tagged classic (>10 times): The Lottery
Monster: Humbert Humbert (Lolita)Wheel: Bad Romance
Difficulty level: How Are You Still Alive
Tasks
1. 650+ pages
2. Relationship with large age gap
✔ 3. Author's first and last initial are the same letter: Catering to Nobody
4. MC in a relationship under false pretenses
5. White cover
Monster: Ent 🪦Wheel: Vegi-Might
Difficulty level: Easy
Tasks
✔ 1. 100-175 pages: How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
✔ 2. Tree on cover: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
✔ 3. MC is described as tall: A Man Lay Dead
✔ 4. "Shepherd" in text: History and Gossip in Mother Goose Rhymes
✔ 5. MC you would describe as "chaotic good": The Orphans of Raspay
Monster: Typhon 🪦Wheel: Greek
Difficulty level: Very hard
Tasks
✔ 1. 500 to 650 pages: Eye of the Beholder: The Almost Perfect Murder of Anchorwoman Diane Newton King
✔ 2. Mentions a volcano: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
✔ 3. Lightning on cover: Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme Weather
✔ 4. Title that contains all the letters of ZEUS: Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
✔ 5. MC is a father: The Big Over Easy
Monster: Dr. Cruces 🪦Wheel: Discworld
Difficulty level: Hard
Tasks
✔ 1. 350-450 pages: Thirteen Storeys
✔ 2. Character has an honorific (general, academic, or title) to their name: Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
✔ 3. Tagged "assassin" 5 or more times: The Assassins of Thasalon
✔ 4. Black cover (>50%): This is Not My Hat
✔ 5. Letters GUN in title: The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
Monster: "Black" Jack Randall (Outlander) 🪦Wheel: Fictional Humans
Difficulty level: How Are You Still Alive
Tasks
✔ 1. 651+ pages: The Way of Kings
✔ 2. A character is abusive: Beneath the Wake
✔ 3. MPG historical fiction: Death in the Spires
✔ 4. "Plaid" in text: Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
✔ 5. Black cover: Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA
Monster: Anula of Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) 🪦Wheel: Around the World Villains and Pirates
Difficulty level: Very Hard
Tasks
✔ 1. 500 to 650 pages: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
✔ 2. Takes place in Sri Lanka: Trouble in Nuala
✔ 3. A queen is important to the plot: The Siren Depths
✔ 4. Set somewhere that starts with the letter A: Dead Silence
✔ 5. "Poison" in text: All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
Monster: Griffin 🪦Wheel: Greek
Difficulty level: Mod/Hard
Tasks
✔ 1. 300-349 pages: The Missing Cryptoqueen
✔ 2. Set in United States: The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top
✔ 3. Red cover: Magic for Liars
✔ 4. "Brave" or "courageous" in text: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
✔ 5. Cross on cover: Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
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Duration: March 4, 2023 - whenever I finish
Monsters mashed: 13
Greek: 2
Asian: 2
Urban legends: 2
Fictional humans: 2
*Overly specific literary monsters: 1
*Doctor Who: 1
*Bad romance: 0
*Vegi-Might: 1
Discworld: 1
Around the world villains and pirates: 1
*Holiday: 0
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Greek
--Griffin: ☠️
--Typhon: ☠️
Asian
--Aoyin: ☠️
--Ningyo: ☠️
Urban Legends
--Bunyip: ☠️
--Snipe: ☠️
Fictional Humans
--"Black" Jack Randall (Outlander): ☠️
--Dr. Zachary Smith (Lost in Space): ☠️
Overly Specific Literary Monsters
--The Enemy / Woman in White (The City We Became): ☠️
Doctor Who
--The 456: ☠️
Vegi-Might
--Ent: ☠️
Discworld
--Dr. Cruces: ☠️
Around the World Villains and Pirates
--Anula of Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka): ☠️