The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Ssummer 2024 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge

✔5.1 Summer of '99
✔5.2 The Five Year Lie
✔5.3 A Lovely Lie
✔5.4 Good Neighbors
✔5.5 The Housemaid's Secret
✔5.6 The Hike
✔5.7 The Midnight Feast
✔5.8 Thornhedge
✔5.9A Novel Love Story
✔5.10 Ask for Andrea

✔ 10.1 The Midnight Library
✔10.2 Not My Daughter
✔ 10.3 Bad Summer People
✔10.4 College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
✔10.5Love Letters to a Serial Killer
✔10.6 Missing Clarissa
✔10.7 I Am Still Alive
✔ 10.8 The Duke and I
✔ 10.9 The Reappearance of Rachel Price
✔10.10 Notes on a Murder

✔15.1 One Perfect Couple
✔The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School
✔15.2 California Golden
✔The Jersey Devil
✔15.3 What Have You Done?
✔15.4 Kitty Raises Hell
✔15.5 Funny Story
✔ 15.6 Made for You
✔ 15.7 The Inmate
✔15.8 The Paradise Problem
✔15.9 Gone Girl
✔15.10 Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand

✔20.1 Shutter
✔20.2 One Big Happy Family
✔20.3 The Unwedding
✔ 20.4 The Family Next Door
✔20.5 Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
✔20.6 The Lost Girls
✔ 20.7 Perfect Little Monsters
✔20.8 The Five-Star Weekend
✔20.9 The Love Hypothesis
✔20.10 A Curious Beginning

✔25.1 The Shuddering
✔Long Time Gone
✔25.2 I'll Be You
✔You Always Come Back
✔25.3 The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
✔The Husbands
✔25.4 Rebel Rising
✔Mrs. Nash's Ashes
✔25.5 Crying in H Mart
✔The Travelling Cat Chronicles
✔25.6 Pineapple Street
✔Not So Perfect Strangers

✔30.1 Horror Movie
✔Middle of the Night
✔30.2 Night Road
✔The Honey-Don't List
✔30.3 Lie by the Pool
✔The Girl in the White Van
✔30.4 The Darkest Water
✔Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
✔30.5 Gemina

✔50.1 Same Time Next Summer 320
✔The Disenchantments 310
✔Nineteen Minutes 468

Yay, Summer reading plan time! edits to come
To Place:

One Book Tasks
5.1 - Dodge the Ball - titl.ltrs exclude HIT
5.2 - Hop Hop Jump - titl.wd: 1-10, safe, home
5.3 - TAG You're It - titl=1 3ltr.wd OR 3wd.titl
5.4 - Game of HORSE - sub/titl.ltrs HORSE
5.5 - The Great Cornholio - srs# 2, 7, or 27
5.6 - Outside We Go! - bk w/ outdoor activity plot
5.7 - We All Scream - auth.brn 1980's
5.8 - Sand Made Castles - covr=castle
5.9 - Hot Summer Months - pub'd June-August
5.10 - Easy Breazy Summertime - Any SRC +non-ARBF kids

10.1 - Summer Reading List - frm Berkeley Lists Pachinko, Seveneves, The Fifth Season, To Say Nothing of the Dog
10.2 - Celebrating Dads - titl.wd frm father/child relationship
10.3 - Sumer is icumen in - 4+ltr.sub/titl.wd frm SUMER IS ICUMEN IN
10.4 - Summer Songs - 3+ltr.titl.wd frm Summer Song list
10.5 - Cricket - cover=cricket OR auth.init.in CRICKET
10.6 - Pride - MPG LGBT, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Queer
10.7 - O Canada! - set=Canada
10.8 - Olympics: Equestrian - cvr=horse
10.9 - Olympics: Pentathlon - titl=5wds
10.10 - Olympics: Breaking - auth1st nm/init = B

15.3 - Let The Games Begin - 1bk for both okay
Book 1: cvr75% blue+yellow+black+green+red
Book 2: set50% in1of USA, Great Britain, Greece, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Soviet Union, South Korea, Spain, China, Brazil

15.4 - Anyone For Croquet? - 1bk for both okay
Book 1: srs# 6 or 9
Book 2: cvr=real animal or playing cards

15.5 - Do You Have A Flag? - auth.AΩ.init in CAPTURE THE FLAG
15.6 - Don't Move - MPG Dystopia/n
15.7 - Jailbreak - Prison to Praise
15.8 - Summer Sweets - 1bk by 2auths
15.9 - Summer Blockbusters - frm lists
15.10 - Summer Months - 6-8 titl.wds

20.1 - Most Improved Player: XBM's Task: Enjoy a Summer Road Trip - Home Before Dark
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Laure's Task: Dragons of Summer - 1&5 in pg# or pub.yr;
Dragonlance; char=dragon; titl.wd Wizard, Witch, Wild or One
20.3 - Review Raffle - Trishhartuk’s Task: Midsomer Murders - 140+pgs, noComic
fem.auth AND MPG Mystery,Crime; ALL.auth.init in BADGER’S DRIFT; cvr=sun; titl.wd=SUN
20.4 - Golden Oldies - FLY's Task - Kids’ Games Through the Ages -
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
20.5 - Bigger is Better: Lisa MD's Summer Scavenger Hunt - noComic; bk.frmTBR AND cvr=Swimsuit, Pool float, Starfish, Sandcastle, Surfboard, Seashell, Firefly, Hummingbird, Butterfly, Bicycle, Sun Hat, Firework, Lightning, Watermelon, Hamburger, or Hotdog
20.6 - It's A Fact- KathyP's Task-Summertime Dreaming - noComic
cvr=cloud; titl.ltrs.incl GRASS; auth.AΩ.inits in SWIMMING POOL
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter : Barbara ★' s Task - Scotland or Bust - mn.char=artist;
set=island; MPG *war*; titl.wd monster/s; set50%=Scotland
20.8 - NICKELS & DIMES – Bookwrm526's Task- June Celebrations - 1auth, noComic
auth.AΩ.init in PRIDE MONTH; cvr=domestic cat or >50% of a cake
20.9 - Moderators Pet: Babbling C's Task-Nephews - auth.1st.nm.1st.ltr= A or E;
"21" in pg#; 4+ltr.titl.wd frm AACCEEEEGGHIIILMNNNNR; frm Sibs list
20.10 - Group Reads - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

25.5 - Cat's Task - Books of Asia - noComic; 500+pgs
Book 1: set70%in Asia AND auth.brn in Asia

30.5 - RedSycamore's Task: The Sound of Silence - 500+pgs; 1comicOK; 1kidsOK; titl=no.wds AND cvr art= text/ltrs/#s

Two Book Tasks
15.1 - The Long and Short of It -
Book 1: 400+ pgs
Book 2: 200- pgs

15.2 - Stars and Stripes Forever -
Book 1: titl has US state -north/south/west
Book 2: set50% in1of 13 OG US states

25.1 - Amy FL’s task: Farewell to a Legend -
Book 1: auth.AΩ.init in AAAADEFLLNR; Set50%in France or Spain
Book 2: 4+ltr.titl.wd frm ACEFGIKLNOHTY; MPG Mental-Health/-Illness

25.2 - Mazza1's Task: Title Pairs - 601+pgs; NoKids/Comic
Book 1: 1stBk.last.titl.wd same as 2ndBk.1st.titl.wd
Book 2: or 2bks w/ identical title

25.3 - JennRenee's Task - Summer English Lesson - noComic
Book 1: 2ndBk.titl.wd PLURALnoun frm 1st.Bk.4+ltr.titl.noun;
Book 2: 2ndBk.titl.wd PASTverb frm 1st.Bk.4+ltr.titl.verb;
2ndBk.titl.wd synonym/antonym frm 1st.Bk.4+ltr.titl.wd
4+ltr.titl.wd as noun in1stBk, verb in 2ndBkTitl

25.4 - Truitt_T’s Task: It’s a Riot! - 500+pgs, 1comicOK
Book 1: MPG LGBT/Queer + Other MPG frm List
Book 2: auth.AΩ.inits in STONEWALL RIOTS; frm LGBT Lists

25.6 - Delicious Dee's Task - Chronicles of St Mary’s and the Time Police -
Book 1: bk.frm.tsk.nm.srs; auth.nm+pos=tsk.srs.char.nm+pos; cvr=75% white
Book 2: frm pgs1-10 Time Travel list; nonFic, set<1884, NOTset N/S America

30.1 - Susan A's Task: The Stanley Cup Playoffs - 2bk, noComic, 500+pgs
Book 1: MPG Hockey; titl.ltrs NHL; cvr=cup; pub'd in June
Book 2:

30.2 - Katrisa's Task: Summer Zodiac -
Option 1: bk1 frm twins lists; bk2 MPG Romance
Option 2: bk1 srs# 1-12; bk2 cvr= myth creature frm list
Option 3: bk1 frm domestic thriller lists; bk2 MPG Feminism

30.3 - TessaVaness's Task: Feeding the Children - NoComics
Book 1: 4+ltr.titl.wd frm SALVATION ARMY; 200-250 pgs; frm Volunteerism list
Book 2: auth.nm= susan, susanna, zane, suzanne, etc Piranesi

30.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Lots of Books - 500+pgs Relic
Book 1: auth.AΩ.init INTACT/rev'd in SUMMERMEANSREADINGLOTSOFBOOKS
Book 2: frm Comedy list; SRC Sum'24 group read nominee; auth= Paul Auster
Hyperbole and a Half1, Slaughterhouse-Five3, The Martian3

ThreeBook Tasks
50.1 -
Book 1:
Book 2:
Book 3

5.1 Title (ignore subtitles) does NOT include letters HIT

Bad Men

5.2 ONE - NINE or HOME in title

One True Thing

5.3 Read a book with a 3 word only title options

The Anthropocene Reviewed

5.4 Read a book that has all the letters of HORSE in the title/subtitle.

A Touch of Darkness

5.5 Read a book that is #2 or #7 or #27 in a series

Sycamore Gap

5.6 Read a book that features an outside activity

The Lifeline:

5.7 Read a book by an author born in the 1980's.

[[book:Build Your House Around My Body|55656269]

5.8 Read a book with a castle on the cover.

Thornhedge

5.9 Read a book that was first published in one of the 3 Summer months = June July or August

The Instrumentalist

5.10 Book of choice

Honey

10.1 From 2023 Berkley Summer Reading List

A Heart That Works

10.2 Dad, Daddy, Pop, Papa, Father, Husband, Grandfather, Son, Daughter, Baby, Child, Children In Title

Mr Bennet's Dutiful Daughter

10.3 Word of 4 + letters in title/subtitle made from "SUMER IS ICUMEN IN"

A Ruin of Roses

10.4 Read a book with title word at least 3 letters shared with your chosen song title (excluding The)

Death in the Park

10.5 author's initials can be found in the word CRICKET

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

10.6 Read a book with one of the following MPGs: LGBT, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Queer

The Raven and the Reindeer

10.7 Read a book set in Canada

Surfacing

10.8 Horse on Cover

Thinking Racehorse

10.9 exactly 5 words in title

Meet Me in Cockleberry Bay

10.10 Author first name begins with B

Small Hours

15.1a 400 + pages
b 200 or less pages

a. A Short Walk Through a Wide World
b. Sleep Donation

15.2a Name of US state in title ignore Compass Points
b Set in one of 13 original states

a. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
b. Devil's Bridge

15.3 (one book option) Cover Colour + Setting

#Murdertrending

15.4 (one book option) # 6 or 9 in series bird on cover

Death at the Sign of the Rook

15.5 Author's initials are found in CAPTURE THE FLAG.

Deep into the Dark

15.6 Read a book with the MPG Dystopia or Dystopian.

Gemina

15.7 Read a book where the main character is jailed or arrested, or is an ex-prisoner.

Notes on an Execution

15.8 Read a book with two authors

Obsidio

15.9 On movie was better than book list

Legally Blonde

15.10 Read a book that has exactly 6, 7, or 8 words in the title

Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death

20.1 From Task Creator's List

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

20.2 Wizard, Witch, Wild OR One in title

One Year Gone

20.4 Author initials in HOPSCOTCH

Russian Red

20.5 Fireflies on Cover

Firefly Lane

20.6 Non Fiction all letters of GRASS in title

In Praise of Wasting Time

20.7 Takes Place on an Island / or 50% in Scotland

Holy Island

20.8 Author initials in PRIDE MONTH

The Quantum Thief

20.9 Read a book by an author whose first name begins with an A or an E.

The Heron's CryAnn Cleeves

20.10 Group Read

A Tale of Two Cities

25.1
b Set in France
c Word of 4+ words from KING OF CLAY

The Glass-Blowers
The Long Call

25.2 Last word of first book is first word of second book

a My Name Is Red
b Red Side Story

25.3 a Noun of 4+ letters in title
b. Plural of that noun in title

The Voice Inside
Voices of the Dead

25.4 a MPG LGBT / Queer AND one of other listed genres -
b NON FICTION author initials in STONEWALL RIOTS

Orphan Number Eight
Girl in the Dark

25.5a Set 70% + in Asia What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
b Author born in Asia Sweet Bean Paste

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Sweet Bean Paste

25.6 a Book from Chronicles of St Mary's
b. Books Shares a title word with any book in Chronicles of St Mary's

A Second Chance
The Raging Storm

30.1a Read a book with the letters N H L in the title
b Read a book originally published in June Use NG

The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
Now You See Me

30.2a Best books about twins
b MPG Romance

The Unhoneymooners
Luster

30.3a Word of 4+ letters in SALVATION ARMY
b. Author = Suzanne or variation from behind the name

Lost Lake
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

30.4a
a Read a book whose author's initials can be found sequentially in SUMMERMEANSREADINGLOTSOFBOOKS.
b by Paul Auster

In an Instant
Baumgartner

30.5a Book with no words admissable in Scrabble AND
b Writing as part of cover art (other than title)

Illuminae one book option approved

50.1
a Book 1 Author Initials in FINNLAN JAMES
b. Book 2 Author inititals in GREYSON NATHANIEL
Book 3 Author who's first and last initial can be found in JUNIPER HENSLEY GRACE

The Excursion Train
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

Summer Reads

Points: 185
Books read:
Print editions: 4
Ebooks: 3
Audiobooks: 5

Big book tickets: 2


JUNE
5.1 Golden Son/Crown and Bones
5.2 The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
✅ 5.3 A Hard Call
5.4 Song of Silver, Flame Like Night / The Outsider
5.5 Our Violent Ends / American Crown – Samantha & Marshall
5.6 Flawless
5.7
5.8 Defend the Dawn
5.9 Ruthless Fae
5.10

JULY
10.1 The Bee Sting
✅ 10.2 Wayward Son
10.3 All the Sinners Bleed / Mein Leben in deinem
10.4 My Darling Girl / Victory City
10.5 Chasing the Boogeyman / Chain of Thorns
✅ 10.6 Any Way the Wind Blows
10.7 Meet Me at the Lake / Frag nach Jane
10.8 The Men From Echo Creek
✅10.9 None of This Is True
10.10 The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill / Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

AUGUST
15.1 VenCo / Happy Place & How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
15.2 Arriving from Arkansas & A Not So Meet Cute / Vom Himmel die Sterne
📖 15.3 In Memoriam
15.4 When He Was Wicked
📖 15.5 A Tempest of Tea
✅ 15.6 War Hour
✅ 15.7 Migrations
15.8 The True Love Experiment
15.9 Das Lied von Vogel und Schlange
15.10 A Fate of Wrath and Flame / Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

✅ 20.2 One by One (option 3)
✅ 20.3 The Wishing Game (option 1)
✅ 20.4 Darling Girls (option b)
✅ 20.7 The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
✅ 20.8 Ink Blood Mirror Magic (option 1)
✅ 20.9 Starling House (option 1)

✔Summer Challenge


✔5.1 Someone
✔5.2 Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner
✔5.3 The Fiction Writer
✔5.4 The Divorcees
✔5.5 The Summer Kitchen
✔5.6 James
✔5.7 Force of Nature
✔5.8 The Girl in the Castle
✔5.9 Jackie
5.10

✔10.1 Crying in H Mart
✔10.2 Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew
✔10.3 The Summer I Met Jack
✔10.4 Redemption Bay
10.5 Birnam Wood
✔10.6 The Rachel Incident
✔10.7 Under the Dragon's Tail
✔10.8 Unbridled Cowboy
✔10.9 Death in the Devil's Acre
✔10.10 How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

15.1
✔1. Skin & Bones
✔2. Portuguese Irregular Verbs
15.2
✔A. California Girls
✔B. Sandwich
✔15.3 Pieces of Blue
15.4
✔A. Bluegate Fields
✔B. Weyward
✔15.5 The Husbands
✔15.6 World Made by Hand
✔15.7 Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
✔15.8 The Paradise Problem
✔15.9 Confessions of a Shopaholic
✔15.10 The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

✔20.1 Under the Rainbow
✔20.2 The Wild Lavender Bookshop
✔20.3-1. The Comfort of Ghosts
✔20.4-c. The Blight Way
✔20.5 The Girl from the Channel Islands
✔20.6-2. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
✔20.7 Two Wars and a Wedding
✔20.8-3. Reading Up a Storm
✔20.9 The Wishing Game
✔20.10 A Tale of Two Cities

25.1
✔1. Terms and Conditions
✔3. Crow Talk
25.2
✔1. Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
✔2. Hotel Laguna
25.3
✔A-1. You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
✔A-2. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
25.4
✔1. The Last Drop of Hemlock
✔2. The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
25.5
✔1. The Bangalore Detectives Club
✔2. The House of Doors
25.6
✔2. Summers at the Saint
✔5. Welcome to Temptation

30.1
✔2. Playing for the Ashes
✔3. A Dark and Stormy Tea
30.2
✔1-1. The Woman Before Wallis
✔1-2. Not in Love
30.3
✔1. Funny Story
✔2. My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
30.4
✔2. Dial A for Aunties
✔3. A Rip Through Time
30.5
✔1. 29
✔2. The Inheritance

50.1
✔1. Sunrise by the Sea
✔2. Sweet Thunder
✔3. The Backup Plan

Boston Kate


✔ 5.1 A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba
5.2 Take Me Home
✔ 5.3 Girl at War
5.4 Listen for the Lie
5.5 The Hidden Palace
5.6 The Only Game in Town
5.7 Under the Whispering Door
5.8 I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
5.9 Daughter of the Merciful Deep
5.10 A Fate Inked in Blood

10.1 Wandering Stars
10.2 Dust Child
10.3 The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
10.4 The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay
10.5 Evil Eye
10.6 The Guncle Abroad
10.7 Anne of Avonlea
10.8 What Feasts at Night
✔ 10.9 And Then There Were None
10.10 Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

15.1
Book 1: House of Leaves
Book 2: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
15.2
Book 1: The Last Carolina Girl
Book 2: Blackout
15.3
Book 1: Poverty, by America
✔ Book 2: Amazing Grace Adams
15.4
Book 1: The Adventure Zone, Vol. 6: The Suffering Game
Book 2: Weyward
15.5 Pageboy
15.6 Chain-Gang All-Stars
15.7 Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
15.8 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
15.9 Dune
15.10 In the Time of the Butterflies

20.1 Memphis
20.2 (2) Fourth Wing
20.3 (3) Still the Sun
✔ 20.4 (b) The Paris Network
20.5 Love, Just In
20.6 (3) The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
20.7 (5) The Vanished Days
20.8 (1) Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
20.9 (1) The Frozen River
20.10 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

25.1
Book 1: (1) All Good People Here
Book 2: (2) The City of Mist
25.2
Book 1: (2) Plot Twist: A Novel
Book 2: (2) Plot Twist
25.3
Book 1: (A) The Book of Doors
Book 2: (A) Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
25.4
Book 1: (1) Cemetery Boys
Book 2: (3) I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
25.5
Book 1: (1) Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Book 2: (2) American Fever
25.6
Book 1: (1) Just One Damned Thing After Another
Book 2: (3) Symphony of Secrets

30.1
Book 1: (2) The Last Murder at the End of the World
Book 2: (4) The Road to the Country
30.2
Book 1: (1-1) Such Sharp Teeth
Book 2: (1-2) Second Chance Snowmance
30.3
Book 1: (2) The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
Book 2: (3) True Biz
30.4
Book 1: (1) Strange Folk
Book 2: (3) Under the Bridge
30.5
Book 1: Wildblood
Book 2: The Adventure Zone, Vol. 5: The Eleventh Hour


50.1

𝓜𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓀𝒶


⌛ Initiated / pending
✅ Completed / claimed
♦️ Priority


5.1 - Dodge the Ball.
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (329 p.)

5.2 - Hop Hop Jump.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (417 p.) (OR Two Twisted Crowns)

5.3 - TAG You're It!
Masters of Death by Olivie Blake (349 p.)

5.4 – Game of HORSE.
A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (432 p.)

5.5 - The Great Cornholio.
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (481 p.)

5.6 - Outside We Go!
(open)

5.7 - We All Scream.
From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout (613 p.) 📚

5.8 - Sand Made Castles.
Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis (404 p.)

5.9 - Hot Summer Months.
A Song of Shadow and Starlight by Morgan Gauthier (334 p.) (or It Ends with Us)

5.10 - Easy Breezy Summertime.
(OPEN)


10.1 - Summer Reading List.
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (431 p.)

10.2 - Celebrating Dads.
Shadow Child by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (343 p.)

10.3 - Sumer is icumen in.
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (484 p.)

10.4 – Summer Songs.
One for My Enemy by Olivie Blake (427 p.)

10.5 - Cricket.
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein (336 p.) ❗

10.6 - Pride.
La Petite Mort by Olivie Blake (218 p.)

✅ 10.7 - O Canada.
✓ Keep by Jenny Jaysom (280 p.) (8/21/2024)

10.8 - Olympics: Equestrian.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (601 p.) 📚

10.9 - Olympics: Pentathlon.
(open)

10.10 - Olympics: Breaking.
Pensées by Blaise Pascal (342 p.) 🌟


15.1 - The Long and Short of It.
Book 1. The Current by Tim Johnston (408 p.)
Book 2. Letters of a Peruvian Woman by Françoise de Graffigny (195 p.) 🌟

15.2 - Stars and Stripes Forever.
Book A. Florida by Lauren Groff (275 p.)
Book B. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (352 p.) 🌟

✅ 15.3 - Let The Games Begin.
✓ Option 2. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (376 p.) (8/15/2024)

15.4 – Anyone For Croquet? **1-Book Option**
Option 2. When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn (368 p.)

✅ 15.5 - Do You Have A Flag?
✓ Powerless by Lauren Roberts (523 p.) 📚 (7/30/2024)

✅ 15.6 - Don't Move.
✓ Reckless by Lauren Roberts (396 p.) (7/9/2024)

15.7 - Jailbreak.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (635 p.) 📚

15.8 - Summer Sweets.
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan (464 p.)

♦️ 15.9 - Summer Blockbusters.
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (629 p.) 📚

♦️ 15.10 - Summer Months.
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake (288 p.)


20.1 - Most Improved Player: XBM's Task: Enjoy a Summer Road Trip.
(James or Remarkably Bright Creatures)

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Laure's Task: Dragons of Summer.
Option 2. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (640 p.) 📚

✅ 20.3 - Review Raffle - Trishhartuk’s Task: Midsomer Murders.
✓ Option 1. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (476 p.) (8/13/2024)

20.4 – Golden Oldies - FLY's Task- Kids’ Games Through the Ages.
Option D. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (626 p.) 📚

✅ 20.5 - Bigger is Better: Lisa MD's Summer Scavenger Hunt.
✓ Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek (367 p.) (8/31/2024)

20.6 - It's A Fact- KathyP's Task-Summertime Dreaming. ***NON-FICTION***
The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home by Peg Dawson, Richard Guare (294 p.) ❗

♦️ 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter : Barbara ★' s Task - Scotland or Bust.
Option 5. Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon (1,131 p.) 📚📚📚

20.8 - NICKELS & DIMES – Bookwrm526's Task- June Celebrations.
Option 1. Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (320 p.)

✅ 20.9 - Moderators Pet: Babbling C's Task-Nephews.
✓ The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (579 p.) 📚 (8/4/2024)

✅20.10 - Group Reads.
✓ Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (448 p.) (6/16/2024)


25.1 - Amy FL’s task: Farewell to a Legend.
Option 3. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker (352 p.) ❗
Option 4. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (320 p.)

25.2 - Mazza1's Task: Title Pairs.
Book 1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (449 p.) 🌟
Book 2. Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar (232 p.)

25.3 - JennRenee's Task - Summer English Lesson.
Book 1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (671 p.) 📚🌟
Book 2. Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders by Jamie Whyte (157 p.) ❗

25.4 – Truitt_T’s Task: It’s a Riot! **One must be nonfiction**
Option 1. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (848 p.) 📚📚
Option 2. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose (592 p.) 📚❗

25.5 - Cat's Task - Books of Asia. **1-Book Option**
Option 2. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (527 p.) 📚

25.6 - Delicious Dee's Task - Chronicles of St Mary’s and the Time Police.
Option 2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (323 p.)
Option 3. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (724 p.) 📚


30.1 - Susan A's Task: The Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Option 2. Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty (352 p.) ❗
Option 3. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (413 p.)

✅ 30.2 - Katrisa's Task - Summer Zodiac. 🎧
✓ Option 2-1. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer (756 p.) 📚📚 (6/18/2024)
✓ Option 2-2. When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker (576 p.) 📚 (7/21/2024)

30.3 - TessaVaness'S TASK Feeding the Children.
Option 1. Storm Front by Jim Butcher (355 p.)
Option 3. Confessions by Kanae Minato (240 p.)

30.4 – Nick KY’s Task: Lots of Books.
Option 1. Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute (262 p.) ❗
Option 2. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick (275 p.) ❗

30.5 - RedSycamore's Task: The Sound of Silence. ***1-Book Option***
Option 2. Middlemarch by George Eliot (784 p.) 📚📚🌟


50.1 -



❝𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝❞




✓ Goal: 165/150 points
◺ Pages Read... This Season: 4,777 || SRC All Time: 86,443
◺ Books Read... This Season: 10 || SRC All Time: 218

🌟 Golden Oldies: 0 || SRC All Time: 21
📚 Big Book: 5 || SRC All Time: 71
❗It's a Fact: 0 || SRC All Time: 9


❝𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬❞

➵ Most points earned in one season: 335 (Spring 2023)
➵ Most pages read in one season: 9,796 (Summer 2023)
➵ Most books read in one season: 20 (Summer 2023)

Heather's Plan Summer 2024
5.1 -Come Closer or Revery: A Year of Bees
5.2 -A Safe Girl to Love: Stories
5.3 -Loser Takes All
5.4 -Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
5.5 -A Mirror Mended
5.6 -The Hike
5.7 -Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
5.8 -The Enchanted Castle
5.9 -Revenge
5.10 -

10.1 -The Swimmers
10.2 -The Innocence of Father Brown
10.3 -The Souvenir Museum
10.4 -On the Beach
10.5 -First Love : by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
10.6 - Little Fish
10.7 -Denison Avenue
10.8 -The Black Stallion or The Red Pony
10.9 -What We All Long For
10.10 -Goodbye Tsugumi

15.1 -The Good Earth and Apricot Jam
15.2 -The Beans of Egypt, Maine andA Separate Peace
15.3 -Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
15.4 -In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
15.5 -City of Glass
15.6 -Annihilation
✓15.7 -The Mars Room
✓15.8 Hidden
15.9 -I, Robot
15.10 -At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

20.1 -The Berry Pickers
20.2 - One Fell Sweep or One Hundred Days of Rain
20.3 -A Raisin in the Sun
20.4 -Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead or The Pilgrimage
20.5 Sand Castle Bay or The Butterfly Garden
20.6 -The Fire-Dwellers
20.7 -The Fourth Island or The Island of Dr. Moreau
20.8 -The Cement Garden
20.9 -Franny and Zooey
20.10 -A Tale of Two Cities

25.1 -The Drop and Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
25.2 -The Winter Sister and Sister Wife
25.3 -Sweet Tooth and Baby Teeth
25.4 -Pageboy and Swimming in the Dark
25.5 -Sea of Poppies
25.6 -Second Place and Recursion

30.1 Before the Coffee Gets Coldand Birnam Wood
30.2 --Magic Breaks and The Deep
30.3 -The Martian and Spring Torrents or The Grass Is Singing
30.4 -The Winters and Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
30.5 -NOS4A2 or Mary Barton


50.1 -

Haven't done this in a while.

5.1 by Hao Jingfang
5.2 by Shehan Karunatilaka
5.3 by Suzanne Berne
5.4 by Jack London
5.5 by Gene Wolfe
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10


10.1 by Kazuo Ishiguro
10.2 by Christa Carmen
10.3 by Richard Lister
10.4 by Gerri Lewis
10.5 by Ted Chiang
10.6 by C.L. Polk
10.7 by Margaret Atwood
10.8 by Per Petterson
10.9 by Sue Lynn Tan
10.10 by Bea Setton


15.1.a. by Elizabeth George -- b. by Aimee Ogden
15.2.a. by Peter Jenkins -- b. by Richard Francis
15.3 by Octavio Paz
15.4.a. by Agatha Christie -- b. by Vicki Delany
15.5 by Alastair Reynolds
15.6 by Lionel Shriver
15.7 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
15.8 by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
15.9 by Bram Stoker
15.10 by Valerie Martin

5.1 Title (ignore subtitles) does NOT include letters HIT (Dreamer's Pool)
5.2 ONE - NINE or HOME in title (A Long Way from Home)
5.3 Read a book with a 3 word only title (Many options)
5.4 Read a book that has all the letters of HORSE in the title/subtitle. (Horse)
5.5 Read a book that is #2 or #7 or #27 in a series (Sycamore Row)
5.6 Read a book that features an outside activity (Summers at the Saint)
5.7 Read a book by an author born in the 1980's. (The Morningside)
5.8 Read a book with a castle on the cover. (Castle Shade)
5.9 Read a book that was first published in one of the 3 Summer months = June July or August (The Beach Quilt)
5.10 Book of choice

10.1 From 2023 Berkley Summer Reading List Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
10.2 Dad, Daddy, Pop, Papa, Father, Husband, Grandfather, Son, Daughter, Baby, Child, Children In Title The Case of the Spellbound Child
10.3 Word of 4 + letters in title/subtitle made from "SUMER IS ICUMEN IN" (The Summer Guest)
10.4 Read a book with title word at least 3 letters shared with your chosen song title (BAY) The House on Biscayne Bay (Libby)
10.5 author's initials can be found in the word CRICKET (RC) - Sunrise Point
10.6 Read a book with one of the following MPGs: LGBT, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Queer (Every Heart a Doorway)
10.7 Read a book set in Canada (Sea of Tranquility)
10.8 Horse on Cover (The Ride of her life)
10.9 exactly 5 words in title (The Wind Knows My Name)
10.10 Author first name begins with B (Lessons in Chemistry) - Libre

15.1a 400 + pages - Moloka'i
b 200 or less pages - The Secret

15.2a Name of US state in title ignore Compass Points (Love Finds You in Revenge, Ohio)
b Set in one of 13 original states New York and North Carolina included (Love Finds you in Folly Beach, Carolina)

15.3 (one book option) Cover Colour + Setting - All We Ever Wanted
15.4 (Option 2) A: Read a book which is either #6 or #9 in a series. B: Read a book which features either an animal/bird (Hitting the books)

15.5 Author's initials are found in CAPTURE THE FLAG. (Aeddon's or Guidebook to Murder)
15.6 Read a book with the MPG Dystopia or Dystopian. (I Cheerfully Refuse)
15.7 Read a book where the main character is jailed or arrested, or is an ex-prisoner. (If Beale Street Could Talk)
15.8 Read a book with two authors (The Paradise Problem)
15.9 On Book was better than movie list (Chocolat)
15.10 Read a book that has exactly 6, 7, or 8 words in the title (The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip - Libby)

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10


25.1a
b

25.2a
b


25.3a
b

25.4a
b

25.5a
b


30.1a Option 2: Read a book with the letters N H L in the title. (Death by Darjeeling)
b Option 3: Read a book with a cup on the cover. (Fortune's Daughter)
(Read 2 options - must total 500)

30.2a Book 1 - Read a book from one of these lists featuring books with twins
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
(The Holiday Swap) p. 1
b - Read a book with Romance listed on the main page genres.
Easy - many choices

30.3
b Author named Suzanne or variation https://www.behindthename.com/name/su... (Susan Mallery)
c Read a book with 200 - 250 pages (A Night To Remember, print, e, audio)


30.4a
b


30.5a
b

Summer Reading Plan

5.1
5.2
5.3 - Succulents at Home: Choosing, Growing, and Decorating with the Easiest Houseplants Ever✔ 1507
5.4 - Plant Parenting: Easy Ways to Make More Houseplants, Vegetables, and Flowers✔ 1726
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9 - Gardening Under Lights: The Complete Guide for Indoor Growers
5.10 - Grow in the Dark: How to Choose and Care for Low-Light Houseplants✔ 1823

10.1 - Berkeley: Seveneves
10.2
10.3
10.4 - When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail (#37 "you")
10.5 - Half a Lifelong Romance
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9 - The Lily and the Lion✔ 1689
10.10 - Midnight Riot

15.1 - 1:
2: The Dispatcher
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5 - Not Another Jungle: Comprehensive Care for Extraordinary Houseplants✔ 1667
15.6 - Dogs of War✔ 2611
15.7
15.8
15.9 - The Pillars of the Earth
15.10 - The Weaver and the Witch Queen

20.1 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
20.2 - 1: The She-Wolf✔ 1508
20.3 - 2: How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life✔ 2514
20.4 - B: Wild at Home: How to style and care for beautiful plants✔ 1509
20.5
20.6 - 3: How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart✔ 1510
20.7 - 2: Stonehenge: A Novel✔ 2515
20.8 - 1: Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens✔ 1511
20.9
20.10 - A Curious Beginning

25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4
25.5
25.6

30.1
30.2
30.3
30.4
30.5

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10

10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

✓ 15.1 Post 1620
✓ Book 1: Η Παναγιά η γοργόνα (JukeBooks) 1 GO ticket
✓ Βοοκ 2: Το κόκκινο σπίτι (JukeBooks)

15.2


✓ 15.3 Post 1194
✓ Option 2: Η ζωή εν τάφω (JukeBooks) 1 GO ticket https://labs.tineye.com/color/39a9198...

15.4

✓ 15.5 Post 2473
✓ Η Ήρα δεν ήταν ζηλιάρα

15.6
15.7

✓ 15.8 Post 2426
✓ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (kindle)

15.9
The Notebook (kindle)

15.10
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (kindle)

20.1
20.2
Option 2: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (kindle)

20.3 Option 2: The Satanic Verses (kindle) Mentioned in both Read dangerously and in Sunset park

20.4
Option d: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives https://labs.tineye.com/color/cc351ec... (kindle)

✓ 20.5 Post 1433
✓ Η δασκάλα με τα χρυσά μάτια (JukeBooks) 1 GO ticket

✓ 20.6 Post 485
✓ Option 2: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (libro.fm) 1 IAF ticket Reference to turtle carrying the world (30.4)

20.7
Option 5: Shuggie Bain (hardback)

✓ 20.8 Post 1891
✓ Option 1: Ο Δύτης

✓ 20.9 Post 308
✓ Option 1: Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (libro.fm) 1 IAF ticket

✓ 20.10 Post 1035
✓ Option 3: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (paperback - SDL) 1 IAF ticket

✓ 25.1 Post 1331
✓ Option 1: Αναζητώντας μια θεωρία των πάντων: Η φιλοσοφία πίσω από τη φυσική (JukeBooks) 1 IAF ticket
✓ Option 3: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (libro.fm) 1 IAF ticket Achilles' heel reference

25.2

25.3

✓ 25.4 Post 1062
✓ Option 1: Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture (libro.fm) 1 IAF ticket
✓ Option 3: The Song of Achilles (kindle)

25.5
Option 2: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (TB)

25.6
Option 1: Just One Damned Thing After Another (TB)
Option

✓ 30.1 Post 591
✓ Option 1: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts (libro.fm) 1 IAF ticket
✓ Option 4: The Silkworm (paperback) 1 ΒΒ ticket

✓ 30.2 Post 1434
✓ Option 3 Book 1: Gone Girl (kindle)
✓ Option 3 Book 2: The Handmaid's Tale (paperback)

30.3
Option 1: La Seconde mort de Lazare (paperback)
Option 3: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (hardcover)

✓ 30.4 Post 702
✓ Option 2: The Colour of Magic (kindle)
✓ Option 4: Sunset Park (kindle)

✓ 30.5 Post 286
✓ Option 2: 11/22/63 (kindle) 2 BB tickets

50.1
✓ Book 1 Option 1: Evil Under the Sun (kindle) 1 GO ticket
✓ Book 2 Option 1: The Art of Racing in the Rain (kindle)
Book 3 Option 2: Mornings in Jenin (kindle)


My goal for this challenge is to reach 500 points.

25/08
Points: 330
BB Tickets: 3
GO Tickets: 3
It's a Fact Tickets: 8
Books read: 23

Summer Plan 2024 - Part 1
Total to beat: 225 (Spring 2024)

Date: 28/06
Total: 175

*5.1 - book without letter HIT in title
X by Vona Groarke (95 pages)
5.2 - book with 1 to 10, SAFE, HOME in title
The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien de Castell
Five Broken Blades by Mai Cortland
5.3 - 3 words in title
The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire
5.4 - book with letters of HORSE in the title
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
5.5 - book 2 or 7 in a series
Empire of Dirt by Philip C. Quaintrell
5.6 - book with outside activity
🌸Happy Place by Emily Henry
5.7- author born in the 80s
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (14th March 1985)
Ali Hazelwood ...
5.8 - castle on the cover (moat, tower, drawbridge)
I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S Beagle (New May 24)
5.9 - published June, July, August
The Honourable Lucas Kincaid by Emma Melbourne (June 24)
5.10 - book of choice

10.1 - recommended books - lists
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
10.2 - Dad, Daddy, Pop, Papa, Father, Husband, Grandfather, Son, Daughter, Baby, Child, Children in title/subtitle (Grand, Great, Step accepted)
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
10.3 - 4 letter word in title from SUMER IS ICUMEN IN
The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts (CURSE)
10.4 - 3+ letter title word from song list
Dragons of Summer Flame by Margaret Weis (SUMMER)
🌸10.5 - Cricket on cover or letters CRICKET in author's initials
Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio book
10.6 - MPGs: LGBT, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Queer
Game On by Amy Aislin
10.7 - set in Canada
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
*10.8 - horse on cover
The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews
10.9 - 5 words in title
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
10.10 - author's first name starts with letter B
Grace by Beverley Watts (182 pages)

15.1
Book 1 - more than/or 400 pages
🌸Uprooted by Naomi Novik book (435 pages)
Book 2 - less than/or 200 pages
🌸Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (159 pages, set in France)

15.2
Book 1 - US state in title
Louisiana Long Shot by Jana Deleon
Book 2 - 50% set in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

15.3 - option 2 (both)
Book 1 - A 75% made up of any combination: blue, yellow, black, green, and red
🌸Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
Book 2 - B 50% set in: USA, Great Britain, Greece, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Soviet Union, South Korea, Spain, China or Brazil.
🌸The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews


15.4 - Option 2 (Both)
Book 1 - A book 6 or 9 in series
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinneman (#6)
Book 2 - B no-fictional animal/bird or playing card(s) on cover
To Fetch a Thief by Spencer Quinn

15.5 - author's initials in CAPTURE THE FLAG
Traitor's Moon by Lynn Flewelling
15.6 - MPG Dystopia or Dystopian
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
15.7 - main character is jailed or arrested, or is an ex-prisoner
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
15.8 - book with two authors either writing under both names or or using a single name
🌸Caliban's War by James SA Corey
15.9 - book from lists (book to movies)
🌸The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (page 2)
15.10 - book with 6, 7 or 8 words in title (no subtitle)
The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles

20.1 - book from list 'Roadtrip Around America'
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
20.2 The Second Generation by Margaret Weis

20.3
1 MPG of Mystery and/or Crime, written by a Female author.
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles

20.4
a-Cover for Old Ropes list (see post)
The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin
b- author's initials in HOPSCOTCH
c- books set in Idaho list (see post)
d-cover with 75% red or red/green

20.5 - on cover: Swimsuits/Pool floaties
🌸Happy Place by Emily Henry
20.6 - NON FICTION
1 cloud on cover / 2 all letter GRASS in title/3 author's initial in SWIMMING-POOL
Option 1: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

20.7
1 main character an artist
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Audible)
2 setting on an island
Jade City by Fonda Lee (Book)
3 MPG war
4 word 'monster' in title
5 setting 50% in Scotland

20.8
1 - author's initials in PRIDEMONTH
The Night Circus by Erin Morgernstern
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (book)
2 - whole cake on cover
3 - domestic cat on cover

20.9<
1 author's first name begin by A or E
The Paid Companion by Amanda Quick

20.10 - Group Read
🌸A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

Summer Plan - Part 2

25.1 - 2 books
1 - author's initials in RAFAEL NADAL
The Duke Heist by Erica Ridley
2 - 50% set in France or Spain
3 - title word 4+ letter from KING OF CLAY
Witch King by Martha Wells
The Sword of Kaigen by ML Wang
4 - MPG of Mental Health or Mental Illness

25.2 (2 books, at least 2-word titles, 600+ pages)
1 - last title word same as first title word
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (640 pages) book
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames book
2 - 2 books with same title

25.3 (2 books)
A - 1 book with 4 letter noun + in title / 2 plural noun of same noun in title
B - 1 4+ word verb in title / 2 same verb in past tense in title
C - 1 4+ word verb/noun in title/2 synonym/antonym of same word in title (thesaurus.com)
🌸Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid Spotify
🌸Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin
D - 1 4+ noun in title / 2 same word used as verb in title

25.4 (2 books, 500 + pages, one non fiction)
1 - Mpg LGBT + fantasy, science-fiction, historical fiction, humour
The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles
2 - author's initials in STONEWALL
3 - read book from lists (see post)

25.5 (2 books)
A1 70% set in Asia/2 authors born in Asia
B book 500+ pages meet both A prompts

25.6 (2 books, 500 + pages)
1 - book from 'the Chronicle of St Mary', 'the Time Police'
2 - name shared with characters in series - see list in post (no single names)
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Benett
ROBERT WELLER
3 - 4 letter word in St Mary's book titles (all books)
4 - time travel books - see list
5 - cover 75% white

30.1 (2 books, 500 pages +)
1 - MPG Hockey
Game Changer by Amy Aislin (270 pages)
2 - NHL in title (ignore subtitles)
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (New June 24/403 pages)

30.2 (2 books, 500 pages +)
1 - A book lists about twins/ B MPG romance (embedded allowed)
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (twin/262 pages)
Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (New June 24/352 pages)
2 - A book 1 to 12 in series/ B creature on cover: Sphinx, Dragon, Mermaid , Yeti or Bigfoot, Medusa, Fairy, Unicorn/Pegasus
3 - A domestic thriller lists/ B MPG Feminism

30.3 (2 books)
1 - 4 letter title word from SALVATION ARMY
🌸Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb (ROYAL)
2 - author's name Suzanne (or alternatives)
🌸Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke Audible
3 - 200 - 250 pages
4 - list Volunteerism

30.4 (2 books, 500 + pages)
1 - author's initials sequentially (forward/backwards) in SUMMERMEANSREADINGLOTSOFBOOKS
The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
🌸Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire
2 - book list (25 pages) Comedy
🌸Sourcery by Terry Pratchet (page 1)
3 - not used Summer 2024 group reads
4 - Paul Auster's books

30.5 (2 books, option 2 together, 500 + pages)
Book 1 - hyphenated, punctuated word in title
🌸A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (149 pages)
The Shabti by Megaera C. Lorenz
Book 2 - one letter/number in title part of the cover art
Relic by D. Preston and Lincoln Child, #1 Pendergast (MM 468 pages)

To fit in later...
Infinity Gate by MR Carey
Echo of Worlds by MR Carey (New June 24)
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman'
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Ashlea's reading plan for Summer 2024

5.1 - Murder Road

5.2 - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

5.3 - The Whispering Dead

5.4 – All the Dangerous Things

5.5 - Cursed Cruise

5.6 - What Stalks Among Us

5.7 - The Love Hypothesis

5.8 - Thornhedge

5.9 - You Won't Believe Me

5.10 - Hunted

10.1 - Crying in H Mart

10.2 - Mother-Daughter Murder Night

10.3 - It Happened One Summer

10.4 – All Good People Here

10.5 - Burden Falls

10.6 - Scout's Honor

10.7 - This One Summer

10.8 - Something Wicked This Way Comes

10.9 - The Haunting of Gillespie House

10.10 - Cured

15.1 -
1- The Reappearance of Rachel Price
2- The Halloween Grindhouse: An Anthology

15.2 -
1- The Impossible Knife of Memory
2- Zombie, Ohio

15.3 - The Haunting

15.4 – Chaotic Corgis

15.5 - Murder in the Family

15.6 - Stung by Bethany Wiggins

15.7 - The Inmate

15.8 - Autoboyography

15.9 - My Sister’s Keeper

15.10 - A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic

20.1 - Mad Honey

20.2 - In the Wild Light

20.3 - Just Like Home

20.4 - 13 Minutes

20.5 - People to Follow

20.6 - Strange Things In The Woods: A Collection of Terrifying Tales

20.7 - Small Town Monsters

20.8 - The Dare

20.9 - Human Remains

20.10 - Into the Drowning Deep

25.1 -
1- Dare You to Lie
2- Find Him Where You Left Him Dead

25.2 -
1- The Good Girl
2- Girl in Ice

25.3 -
1- The Birthday Girl
2- Dead Girls Walking

25.4 –
1- The Witchery
2- Hollow Fires

25.5 -
1- Tokyo Ever After
2- A Magic Steeped in Poison

25.6 -
Option 2 - My Murder (Katie)
Option 3 - After the Fire

30.1 -
1- All the Living and the Dead
2- Middle of the Night

30.2 -
1- Identical
2- Spoiler Alert

30.3 -
1- In Nightfall
2- Horror Hotel

30.4 –
1- The Twisted Ones
2- Teeth in the Mist

30.5 -
1- XOXO
2- Ghoster

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Not feeling competitive this season. Since Im not posting my books, they have not been checked for length or age level

5.1 Dual Memory
5.2 The Bridge Home