The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

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

✔5.1 Here One Moment
✔5.2 Running Cold
✔5.3 Paradise for Christmas
✔5.4 The Party
✔5.5 The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas
✔5.6 The Last Love Note
✔5.7 Fresh Brewed Murder
✔5.8 The Blue Hour
✔5.9 How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
✔5.10 Twelve

✔10.1 Twice in a Blue Moon
✔10.2 The One
✔10.3 The Afterlife of Holly Chase
✔10.4 Secret Santa
✔10.5 The Frozen River
✔10.6 Me
✔10.7 Love and Other Conspiracies
✔10.8 Hounded
✔10.9 The Children on the Hill
✔10.10 Black Ice

✔15.1 The Party Line
✔Lies, Lies, Lies
✔15.2 The Merry Matchmaker
✔ The Lodge
✔15.3 Smile: Behind the Lens of the ‘Dating Game Killer’
✔15.4 The Christmas Party
✔15.5 The Ski Trip
✔15.6 The Trail of Lost Hearts
✔15.7 In the Study with the Wrench: A Clue Mystery, Book Two
✔15.8 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
✔15.9 All the Little Raindrops
✔15.10 Twice on Christmas

✔20.1 I Think I Was Murdered
✔20.2 The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
✔20.3 The Search Party
✔20.4 A Merry Little Meet Cute
✔20.5 A Killing Cold
✔20.6 An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
✔20.7 The Deaths of December
✔20.8 The Alone Time
✔20.9 Tell Me How This Ends
✔20.10 Weyward

✔25.1 The Return of Ellie Black
✔The Bitter End
✔25.2 Where the Crawdads Sing
✔The End of Her
✔25.3 The Maid
✔Beautiful Ugly
✔25.4 The Overnight Guest
✔The Resort
✔25.5 In Her Eyes
✔Kitty's House of Horrors
✔25.6 The Haunting of Room 904
✔You're Invited
✔25.7 The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
✔Dark Places

✔30.1 Arsenic and Adobo
✔When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
✔30.2 One Big Happy Family
✔Edge of Madness
✔30.3 The Boneless Mercies
✔You Shouldn't Have Come Here
✔30.4 No Place Left to Hide
✔How to Steal a Galaxy
✔30.5 Miracle in the Andes
✔The Wind Knows My Name
✔30.6 You Better Watch Out
✔Nick and Noel's Christmas Playlist
✔30.7 The Last Room on the Left
✔Where They Last Saw Her
✔30.8 Getting Away with Murder
✔The Business Trip
✔30.9 The Truth about the Accident
✔The Lifeline

Winter Season 📖

5.9 I- t's Part of My World The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

15.2 - Holiday who-be what-ee?
Book 1: Fall Through Spring
Book 2: Snowdrop ✅

20.6 It's A Fact - Julia103's Task" Getting Older Calling Me Home

30.4 - Susan A's Task: Consecutive Letters
Book1: Hidden in Darkness ✅
Book 2: Fey Conquest
30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year
Option 1: Free Hand
Option 4: Within the Mind ✅

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✅ 5.1 - It's All Natural Eight Seconds to Ride
✅ 5.2 - Circle of Dark Arctic Fire
✅ 5.3 - Cupid is Coming MPG Romance Married to the Fae
✅ 5.4 - New Year, New Reads! The Hate You Drink
✅ 5.5 - 'Tis the Season to be Festive Heat Transfer
✅ 5.6 - Meanwhile, Back in the Southern Hemisphere Finders Keepers
✅ 5.7 National Cocoa Day- The Wisdom of Tea
✅ 5.10 - Fake Out
✅ 10.1 - Look to the Skies Forbidden Fruit
✅ 10.2 - Crossing Borders Shanghai Tango
✅ 5.8 - Birdwatching Month Black & White
✅ 10.3 - A Mountain of Books On a Midnight Clear
✅ 10.4 - Wonderful Wetlands The Cat Returns to Adderly
✅ 10.5 - A Gateway to the Past The Ruin of a Rake
✅ 10.6 - Inspiration Strikes On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
✅ 10.7 - I Want To Believe The Curse of Redwood
✅ 10.8 - Run Away! Run Away! Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology
✅ 10.9 - Making the National International The Dragon of Monster Island: M/M Romance
✅ 10.10 - Cold As Ice An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
✅ 15.1 - Groundhog Groundhog Groundhog
Book 1: Untouchable Player
Book 2: Knock Knock
✅ 15.3 - Mysterious and Wise Smile: Behind the Lens of the ‘Dating Game Killer’
✅ 15.4 - It's Starting to Look A Lot Like Christmas
Book 1 The Christmas Switch
Book 2: The Prince and the Ice King
✅ 15.5 - Old Saint Nick A Gentleman Never Keeps Score
✅ 15.6 - Why, to the North Pole, of course! This is the Polar Express! Twisted Pretty Things
✅ 15.7 - We Three Kings The Sugared Game
✅ 15.8 - New Year, New Beginnings Horribly Harry
✅ 15.9 - My Bloody Valentine A Simple Mistake
✅ 15.10 - Winter Retreat Wrapped Up in You
✅ 20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays The Prince and the Commander
✅ 20.2 - Rookie at the Top - SheMac's Task: Into 2025
Snow Falling
✅ 20.3 Review Raffle- Trishhartuk's Task: Wordplay
Shelf-Made Man
✅ 20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols Where Waters Meet song 5
✅ 20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC Rat
✅ 20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Kristen IA's Task: Holidays and Hiking
Option A Of Secrets and Wolves
✅ 20.8 Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home A Kiss Before Christmas
✅ 20.9 Moderator's Pet -Jen B's Task: 90s Nostalgia Anything But Fine
✅ 20.10 - Group Reads Weyward
✅ 25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Option 1 The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting
Option 3 The Toymaker's Son
✅ 25.2 - Nick KY’s Task: Rivers
Option 1: Love Me Louder
Option 2: Heart of a Wolf
✅ 25.3: Beth NC's Task- Winter Solstice
Option 1: A Single Man
Option 4: New Year's Resolutions
✅ 25.4 JennRenee's Task: Cold Nights With Winter Reads
Book 1 The Whims of Gods
Book 2: Knight's Fire
✅ 25.5 Jessica S’s Task: The Music of Christmas
Option 1: Exchange of Hearts
Option 3: Benji
✅ 25.6: Lisa MD's Task-New Year Reflections
Option 1: The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love
Option 3: Unholy
✅ 25.7- FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
Option 3: Falling for Disaster
Option 1: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
✅ 30.1 - Truitt_T’s Task: She Blinded Me With Science
Book 1: Fool's Gold
Book 2 Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
✅ 30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Option 1: It Takes Two to Tumble
Option 4: The Invention of Wings
✅ 30.3 - Katrisa's Task: Reunion - Go Norsemen!
Option 2 Book 1: SOS Hotel: For a Supernaturally Safe Stay!
Option 2 Book 2: An Unnatural Vice
✅ 30.5 - Cat's Task: Books of South America
Book 1: The Curse of the Flores Women ✅
Book 2: A Long Petal of the Sea
✅ 30.6 - XBM’s Task – A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Book 1: Permanent Ink
Book 2: Woods of the Raven
✅ 30.7 - Amy FL’s Task: The Headaches of Home Ownership
Option 1: The Return
Option 2: End of the Line
30.8 - Delicious Dee's Task: Codex Alera
✅ Option C – The Furies
Book1: Hot Saltwater Kisses
Book 2: Unraveling the Threads of Fate
✅ 50.1
Book 1: Any Old Diamonds
Book 2: We Could Be So Good
Book 3: Not Catching Love
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✔Winter challenge


✔5.1 The Child Finder
✔5.2 The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf
✔5.3 The Summer Getaway
✔5.4 Mind Games
✔5.5 Bright Lights, Big Christmas
5.6 Blood and Circuses
✔5.7 Lemon Curd Killer
✔5.8 To Night Owl from Dogfish
✔5.9 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
✔5.10 The Survivors

✔10.1 An Extravagant Death
✔10.2 The Only Woman in the Room
✔10.3 Comfort: A Journey Through Grief
✔10.4 Real Americans
✔10.5 The Limehouse Text
✔10.6 Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
✔10.7 The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
✔10.8 Stone Blind
✔10.9 The Queen of Dirt Island
✔10.10 Night Rounds

15.1
✔1. The Paris Novel
✔2. Lies, Lies, Lies
15.2
✔1. Leaving
✔2. The Christmas Boutique
15.3
✔1. 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
✔2. Homicide and Halo-Halo
✔15.4 Christmas at the Shelter Inn
✔15.5 The Tiffany Girls
✔15.6 What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
✔15.7 Death in the Clouds
✔15.8 Here One Moment
✔15.9 The Winemaker's Wife
✔15.10 The Christmas Tree Farm

✔20.1 3. The Hunter
✔20.2 1. Lock and Key
✔20.3 1. Margaritas, Marzipan, and Murder
✔20.4 2. The Examiner
✔20.5 1. Must Love Books
✔20.6 2. Hons and Rebels
✔20.7 Get a Life, Chloe Brown
✔20.8 4. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
✔20.9 1A. Just Some Stupid Love Story
✔20.10 Darling Girls

25.1
✔1. The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells
✔2. Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop
25.2
✔1. Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington
✔2. Out of the Clear Blue Sky
25.3
✔2. Arsenic and Adobo
✔4. The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
25.4
✔1. Home Again
✔2. Woodrose Mountain
25.5
✔1. The Nineties
✔3. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
25.6
✔2. It Happened One Wedding
✔2. You Say It First
25.7
✔1. The Magnificent Esme Wells
✔4. Lowcountry Summer

30.1
✔A. Christmas in Silver Springs
✔B2. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
30.2
✔1. Sylvia's Second Act
✔2. Mary Jane
30.3
✔2A. The Paris Daughter
✔2B. The Hellfire Conspiracy
30.4
✔1. Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut
✔2. Growing Wild In The Shade
30.5
1. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
2. The Spanish Daughter
30.6
✔A1. Chances Are...
✔A2. Birding with Benefits
30.7
✔1. Beach House Reunion
✔2. I Was Told It Would Get Easier
30.8
✔CA. Cookies and Clairvoyance
✔CB. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
30.9
✔2. Love & Saffron
✔3. Dead Cold Brew

50.1
✔1. The Lost Man
✔2. This Summer Will Be Different
✔3. The Sweetheart List

GOAL: 20 BOOKS

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
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10

25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4
25.5
25.6
25.7
25.8
25.9
25.10

30.1
30.2
30.3
30.4
30.5
30.6
30.7
30.8
30.9
30.10

50

Winter Reads

20/34 books read
155/300 points

Total # of books: 28
Total points: 300

Big book tickets: 3

✅ 5.2 This Summer Will Be Different 🏫
✅ 5.3 The Alpha's Warlock
✅ 5.4 Iron Flame 🏫
✅ 5.5 PS: I Hate You
✅ 5.6 The Mother-in-Law 🎧
✅ 5.7 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland 🎧
✅ 5.10 Starter Villain


✅ 10.1 Bride 🏫
✅ 10.2 The Last Letter from Your Lover
✅ 10.4 The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
✅ 10.5 The Viscount Who Loved Me
✅ 10.7 Captive Mate
✅ 10.8 A Touch of Darkness 🎧

✅ 15.6 Just This Once (once)
✅ 15.8 Annie Bot 🎧
✅ 15.9 All the Missing Pieces
✅ 15.10 The Christmas Tree Farm 🎧

✅ 20.1 The Spellshop
✅ 20.3 First Blood (option 3a)
✅ 20.5 The Seven Year Slip
✅ 20.7 The Pumpkin Spice Café
✅ 20.8 Real Men Howl
✅ 20.9 She Doesn't Have a Clue

✅ 25.1 The Games Gods Play & Catered All the Way

Additional books:
Phantom

Winter 2024 Reading Plan

5.1 - Scrublands✔ 2663
5.2 - Independent People
5.3 - Helen of Troy
5.4 - The Virgin in the Ice
5.5 - The Leper of Saint Giles
5.6 - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
5.7 - A Pocket Full of Rye✔ 753
5.8 - The Bear and the Nightingale
5.9 - My Life with the Chimpanzees
5.10

10.1 - Shards of Earth✔ 229
10.2 - The Years of Rice and Salt
10.3 - Culdesac✔ 1951
10.4 - Tell No One
10.5 - Little✔ 232
10.6 - Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
10.7 - Midnight Riot
10.8 - Stone Blind
10.9 - Saint Peter's Fair✔ 755
10.10 - 52 Book: Burial Rites

15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4 - A-1: Hercule Poirot's Christmas: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
A-2: Starling House
15.5 - Seveneves
15.6 - Death with Interruptions (with)
15.7 - The Voyage Home✔ 830
15.8 - Year One
15.9 - The Immortals✔ 1281
15.10 - The Children's Blizzard

20.1 - 4: Saturation Point, Alien Clay
20.2 - 1: Murder Your Employer
20.3 - 3b: The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
20.4 - 2: Augustus✔ 1539
20.5 - 1: Trust
20.6 - 1: Remnant Population✔ 357
20.7 - B: The Nature of Fragile Things
20.8 - 4: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel✔ 231
20.9 - 1A: We'll Prescribe You a Cat✔ 1952
20.10

25.1 - 3: Naked in Death
4: Killers of the Flower Moon
25.2 - 1: The Ruin
4: The End of the Affair
25.3 - 1: The End We Start From
2: Howl’s Moving Castle
25.4 - 1: What Alice Forgot (forgot)
2: The Turn of the Key
25.5 - 3: All the Horses of Iceland
4: All the Birds in the Sky
25.6 - 3: Lock In & You
25.7 - 2: Under the Dome
4: Faithful Place

30.1 - A: Empire in Black and Gold
B-2: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
30.2 - 3: Malefactor✔
4: D'Arc✔ 2665
30.3 - 2-A: 10% Happier
2-B: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
30.4 - 1: Deal with the Devil DE
2: Moonflower Murders RS
30.5 - 1: The House of the Spirits
2: Daughter of Fortune
30.6 - A-1: Adrian Tchaikovsky
A-2: Book of Longing
30.7 - 1: Remarkably Bright Creatures
2: The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work
30.8 - C-A: The World We Make (water)
C-B: Maisie Dobbs (aqua)
30.9 - 3: The House of Mirth
4: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

50.1

Winter Challenge 2024 - Tasks completed: 53/57 - Points earned: 955

5.1 Natural landscape cover
⭐️5.2 A Baby for Christmas ✔️#1313
⭐️5.3 The Keeper ✔️#1504
⭐️5.4 Second Chance at First Love ✔️#1279
⭐️5.5 By Winter's Light ✔️#1456
⭐️5.6 Red Dirt Heart 4 ✔️#1277
⭐️5.7 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate ✔️#2356
⭐️5.8 Texas Winter ✔️(#1396) (#2102)
5.9 Non fiction Nature
⭐️5.10 Mist and Marrow ✔️#1408
(40)

⭐️10.1 Muscle and Bone ✔️#1244
⭐️10.2 The Mastermind ✔️#1272
⭐️10.3 Finding Them ✔️#2470
⭐️10.4 Stand in Place ✔️#1154
⭐️10.5 Sail Away ✔️#1971
10.6 Biography
⭐️10.7 Brutus's Surprise ✔️#1071
⭐️10.8 Fantasy Lover ✔️#2087
⭐️10.9 A Bear Wolf for Joel ✔️#1116
⭐️10.10 My First Murder ✔️#1155
(90)

⭐️15.1 (1) Sweet Things For A Crocodile ✔️ (2) Red Red Wine ✔️#2136
⭐️15.2 (1) Fall Through Spring ✔️ (2) Boy Toys ✔️#2520
⭐️15.3 (1) & (2) Smile: Behind the Lens of the ‘Dating Game Killer’ ✔️#2357
⭐️15.4 (1) The Merry Moose's Mates ✔️ (2) Cowboy Healing ✔️#1414
⭐️15.5 Chip's Forever Daddy ✔️#1015
⭐️15.6 A Merry MacIntosh Christmas ✔️#959
⭐️15.7 A Father for His Wolf Cub ✔️#973
⭐️15.8 A New Pack for New Year ✔️#963
⭐️15.9 Tequila Sunrise ✔️#1050
⭐️15.10 A Christmas Promise ✔️#1546
(135)

⭐️20.1 Naughty Elf: Aster ✔️ #781 #902
⭐️20.2 The Melody Thief ✔️#1587
⭐️20.3 His Gentle Omega ✔️#2064
⭐️20.4 A Little Christmas! Travis's Secret ✔️#583
⭐️20.5 The Tech ✔️#901
⭐️20.6 False Scent ✔️#1740
⭐️20.7 Hot Mess 1 ✔️#2190
⭐️20.8 Sasha ✔️#519
⭐️20.9 Stranger in a Foreign Land ✔️#1572
20.10 Group Read
(180)

⭐️25.1 (1) The Rivals of Casper Road ✔️ (2) State of Alert ✔️#2223
⭐️25.2 (1) Forgiveness ✔️ (2) The Skunk, the Tibetan Fox and Their Wolf Omega ✔️#2127
⭐️25.3 (1) A Single Man ✔️ (2) Naughty Elf: Merry ✔️#2195
⭐️25.4 (1) An Omega For Dylan ✔️ (2) Deck the Fire Halls ✔️#1217
⭐️25.5 (1) The Bunny, the Wolf, and Their Kangaroo Omega ✔️ (2) Holiday Heart Strings ✔️#1039
⭐️25.6 (1) George's Big Day ✔️ (2) Come Back Around ✔️#1335
⭐️25.7 (1) The Accidental Assassin's Mate ✔️ (2) The Dragon, the Gazelle, and their Unicorn Omega ✔️#243
(175)

30.1 (1) Poseidon's Gold ✔️ (2) Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet ✔️#2627
⭐️30.2 (1) Second Chance Cowboy ✔️ (2) Stranded ✔️#2016
⭐️30.3 (1) Tiny Dancer ✔️ (2) The Murder at Mandeville Hall ✔️#1438
⭐️30.4 (1) No Caller ID ✔️(2) An Omega For Anders ✔️#2043
⭐️30.5 (1) Serving Love at Carnival ✔️ (2) The Stories of Eva Luna ✔️#2526
⭐️30.6 (1) Right to Bare Fangs ✔️ (2) The Dragon, the Bear, and Their Sugar Glider Omega ✔️#916
⭐️30.7 (1) Rescued Omegas ✔️ (2) Into the Fall ✔️#2029
⭐️30.8 (1) The Lights on Knockbridge Lane ✔️ (2) I.N.E.T. 1 ✔️#1298
⭐️30.9 (1) Bar Down ✔️ (2) In the Morning Light ✔️#905
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5⭐️0.1 (1) Woods of the Raven ✔️(2) The Art of Husbandry ✔️(3) Paint by Number ✔️#2572

Winter 2024 Reading Plan

5.1 - Lilac Lane
5.2 - The Rabbit Factor
5.3 - A Seaside Christmas
5.4 - Easter Bonnet Murder
5.5 - An O'Brien Family Christmas
5.6 - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
5.7 - Cremas, Christmas Cookies, and Crooks
5.8 - The Cottage on Pelican Bay
5.9 - North Woods
5.10 - (just whatever i have checked out that doesn't work for others) DONE

10.1 - Service Model
10.2 - Around the World in Eighty Days
10.3 - (just whatever i have checked out that works for pg ct)
10.4 - Rocannon’s World
10.5 - The Scarlet Letter
10.6 - The Woman in Me
10.7 - A New Lease on Death
10.8 - Elektra pg1
10.9 - Robert B. Parker's Bull River
10.10 - Faceless Killers list 1 pg1

15.1A - Winter Counts
15.1B - Dance Dance Dance
15.2A - The Paris Hours
15.2B - A Holly Jolly Christmas
15.3A - Well Played or for both The Ministry of Time if my library hold comes in time.
15.3B - (just whatever i have checked out that works for pg ct)
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7 - Echo Park DONE
15.8
15.9
15.10 - The Christmas Tree Farm

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10

25.1A - How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever (256pgs) (currently reading)
25.1B
25.2A
25.2B
25.3A - Knitmare on Beech Street DONE (waiting on B book)
25.3B - On Borrowed Time

30.1A - Iron Widow (394pgs)
30.1B - The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (261pgs)
30.2A
30.2B - Slow Dance
30.5A
30.5B
30.7A - Rangers, RVs, & Revenge DONE
30.7B - What You Are Looking For Is in the Library DONE

50.1

Winter 2024 Reading Plan

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10

10.1
10.2 The Border - Don Winslow
10.3 Mrs. Dalloway - Virgina Woolf
10.4
10.5 Little Women
10.6 The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
10.7 City of Ashes
10.8 Circe - Madeleine Miller
10.9 A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
✅10.10 Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell

15.1 Apprentice to the Villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer + Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
✅✅15.2 The Maid - Nita Prose + A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
15.3 The Ministry of Time
15.4 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
15.5 American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
✅15.6 Marking Time - Elizabeth Jane Howard (Time) BB #1
15.7 The Pumpkin Spice Café - Laurie Gilmore
15.8 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15.9 The Last Bookshop in London - Madeline Miller
15.10 The Christmas Tree Farm - Laurie Gilmore

20.1
20.2
20.3 The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
20.4
20.5
✅20.6 The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman
✅20.7 Wild Love- Elsie Silver
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20.10 Weyward - Emilia Hart

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25.4 The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore - Laurie Gilmore
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25.10

30.1 Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros + Something in the Woods Loves You - Jarod K Anderson
30.2 Old Herbaceous - Reginal Arkell + Throne of Glass - Sarah J Mass
30.3 Inferno - Dan Brown + The Honourable Schoolboy - John Le Carre
30.4 No Angel - Penny Vincenzi + The Lost Bookshop - Evie Woods
30.5
30.6 A Gentleman in Moscow- Amore Towles + Heir of Fire - Sarah J Mass
30.7
30.8 City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare + A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
30.9 The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix + The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

50.

Points: 65
BB tickets: 1

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✔ 15.5 Post 1735
✔ Η Δύση του Ποντιακού Ελληνισμού από την πένα του Νίκου Καπετανίδη (audiobook, Jukebooks) 1 IAF

15.6
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15.10 Encabanée (paperback)

✔ 20.1 Post 1397
✔ Option 3: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (audiobook, libro.fm) 1 IAF ticket

✔ 20.2 Post 506
✔ Option 2: Το σεξ και πώς να το αποφύγετε (paperback)

✔ 20.3 Post 491
✔ Option 3.a: Πράγματα που σκέφτεται η παρθένος Μαρία καπνίζοντας κρυφά στο μπάνιο (paperback)

✔ 20.4 Post 1293
✔ Option 1: When I Sing, Mountains Dance (paperback)

✔ 20.5 Post 1450
✔ Option 3: The Short Reign of Pippin IV (kindle)

20.6
To Kill a Mockingbird (kindle)

20.7
Option A: La Morte amoureuse, Avatar et autres récits fantastiques (paperback)

✔ 20.8 Post 1066
✔ Option 1: Le Monde sans fin (hardback) 1 IAF

✔ 20.9 Post 388
✔ Option 2b: Kingdom of Ash (kindle) 2 BB

✔ 20.10 Post 2299
✔ The Moonstone (kindle) 1 GO 1 BB

25.1 Post 1950
✔ Option 1: Κι ως την άλλη μου ζωή θα σε λατρεύω (audiobook, jukebooks)
✔ Option 4: Alpinisme & anarchisme: Essai sur les vertus révolutionnaires de l'art de grimper les montagnes (paperback) 1 IAF

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25.7
Option 2: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (libro.fm) 1 IAF ticket
✔ Option 3: Κατάδικος (Jukebooks) 1 GO ticket

25.8
25.9
25.10

✔ 30.1 Post 686
✔ Option 1: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (kindle)
✔ Option 2: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (audiobook, libro.fm) 1 BB, 1IAF

✔ 30.2 Post 1296
✔ Option 3: Poems (paperback)
✔ Option 4: Sweet Thursday (kindle)

30.3

30.4

30.5

✔ 30.6 Post 823
✔ Option D1: The Christmas Orphans Club (audiobook, jukebooks)
✔ Option D2: SantaLand Diaries (kindle) 1 IAF

30.7
✔ Option 1: Once There Was a War (kindle)
✔ Option 3: Τρικυμίες παθών (Jukebooks, audiobook)

30.8

30.9
Option 1: THE COAT OF ARMS KILLER a BRAND NEW enthralling murder mystery with a twist (Netgalley, kindle)
Option 3: The Winter of Our Discontent (kindle)

50.

My goal for this challenge is to reach 25 books.

Points: 290
BB Tickets: 4
GO Tickets: 2
It's a Fact Tickets: 6
Books read: 19

Masoodah's Winter reading plans:

515/995
Books read: 36
Tasks completed: 27 /57

5.1
5.2
5.3 The Friend Zone
5.4 Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
5.5 The Love Match
5.6
5.7 Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys by Harper Lin
5.8 Pink Clay by Jennifer Lucic (Mauritius Pink Pigeon)
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5.10

10.1 Mind over Magic by Lindsay Buroker
10.2 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueby Victoria E. Schwab
10.3
10.4 A Jewel for Royals by Morgan Rice
10.5
10.6 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
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10.9
10.10

15.1
15.2
1.Weyward by Emilia Hart
2.A Jingle Bell Mingleby Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
15.3
Book 1: Holmes Is Missing
33.8 %#d92928RedThe Devil Wears Scrubs
18.2 %#10161fBlack
15.4 %#fcd208Yellow
9.8 %#8e1f1fRed
Adds up to 77.2%

15.4 No Room at the Little Cornish Inn by Nancy Barone
15.5 The Kingdom of Copper -S.A. Chakraborty SC
15.6 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (Time)
15.7
15.8 A Tribute of Fire by Sariah Wilson
15.9 The Final Gambit
15.10The Christmas Inn by Pamela M Kelly

20.1 Table for Five
20.2 The Liar's House by Carla Kovach
20.3 Option 3 : a) A Dirge for Princes
20.4
20.5 Her Pretty Bones by Carla Kovach (fits all options)
20.6
20.7 Option A: 4 & 5 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
20.8 New Starts and Cherry Tarts at the Cosy Kettle by Liz Eeles
20.9 Option 2 - B Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Stutanto
20.10 Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

25.1
Option 4:I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
Option 2: The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
25.2
25.3 -
Option 1 - Goodbye, Vitamin
25.4
Book 1: Someone Else's Shoes: A Novel by Jojo Moyes
Book 2: Reminders of Him by Collen Hoover
(Both MPG Chick-Lit's)
25.5 Option 1: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Option 3: The Boyfriend Wish by Swati Teerdhala
25.6 Option 2: Dial A for Aunties & Four Aunties and a Wedding
25.7 Option 2: The City of Brass(1296 on list)
Option 3: A Song for Orphans
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25.10

30.1
30.2 Option 4: A Summer Escape and Strawberry Cake at the Cosy Kettle
Option 1: Recipe for Second Chances
30.3
30.4 Book 1: The Dead Romantics
Book 2: The Canopy Keepers/A Clasp for Heirs
30.6
30.7
Option 1: Her Rebel Highness by Diana Ma
Option 3: Morgan Rice - ATFS SERIES
30.9
Option 2: Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse
Option 3: The Devil Wears Scrubs


50. Book 1: The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties - 278 pgs (PB)
Book 2: Betting on You- nominee for Goodreads choice award 2024
Book 3: The Hawthorne Legacy

5.1 Big Sur
5.2 Denison Avenue
5.3 Peaches and Honey
5.4 Green Angel
5.5 The Secret of the Blue Trunk
5.6 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies ( or next in series)
✔5.7 The Devil Drinks Coffee
5.8 The Secret of the Blue Trunk
5.9 Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
5.10 Galatea (page exception)

10.1 Wandering Stars (if not used for 30.4)
10.2 The Lady and the Unicorn
10.3 Woodcutters or Hunger
10.4 Bird's Nest Soup or Yellow Wife
10.5 Fever 1793
10.6 The Woman in Me
10.7The Return of the Witch
10.8 The Goddess Test or The Power of Myth
✔10.9 The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
10.10 Snowblind

15.1 I Who Have Never Known Men and Mary, Mary
15.2 Y is for Yesterday and The Christmas Bet
15.3 The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
15.4Wreck the Halls
15.5 Crazy Rich Asians
15.6 The Noise of Time
✔15.7 Oh, Play That Thing
15.8 Yellow Wife
15.9 Glory in Death
15.10 Home for Christmas

20.1 Chronicle of a Death Foretold
20.2 The Pilgrimage
20.3 The White Bone
20.4Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat
20.5 One Fell Sweep or Where She Has Gone
20.6 Dawn
20.7
✔20.8 Violeta
✔20.9 Dashed
20.10 The Moonstone

25.1: I'll Never Change My Name: An Immigrant's American Dream from Ukraine to the USA to Dancing with the Stars and The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
25.2: The Water Thief and John Dies at the End
25.3: Sisters and If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
25.4: The Monogram Murders and Not a Sound
25.5: The Master Butchers Singing Club and News of the World
25.6: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies and Falling Man
25.7: Carmilla and Night Broken


30.1The Copper Beach and The Past Is Red
30.2 The Bird Eater and Fiends and Festivals
30.3 Born on a Blue Day and Dreams of Significant Girls
30.4 Dear Current Occupant and Wandering Stars
30.5 The Divine Boys and Travels with Rachel: In Search of South America
30.6 The Manticore and The Plague of Doves
30.7 Red Azalea: A Memoir and Us Conductors
30.8 Super Sad True Love Story and Bloodchild and Other Stories or Alligator and Other Stories
30.9 False Dawn and We Have Never Lived On Earth


50.

The Seasonal Reading Challenge — Winter 2024-2025

Goal: 500 points

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20.4: Option 3 – Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
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20.8: Option 1 – An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim (published 2018)
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30.1: Option 1 – The 12 Week Year for Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Your Writing Done by A Trevor Thrall; Option 4 – May Day by Jess Lourey
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30.8: Option C, Book A (AIR) – Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict; Book B (AERIS) – Girl Wash your Face by Rachel Hollis
30.9: Option 4 — Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker

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Books to be placed somewhere:

Books / tasks completed and posted are in bold.

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5.7 Miss Melville Regrets
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10.10 Snowblind

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50.1

5.1 cover w/natural landscape scene
5.2 set a country or US state partly w/in the Arctic Circle - Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Alaska.
5.3 MPG Romance
5.4 initials in HAPPY NEW YEAR
5.5 word of 4+ from CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS
5.6 set in Southern Hemisphere AND pub in December/January.
5.7 hot beverage on the cover
5.8 word from list of Top 100 Remarkable Birds in title
5.9 NF w/ MPG Nature.
5.10 Choice

10.1 cover depicts stars, the moon, or a night sky
10.2 set in at least two countries
10.3 page count includes 9, 1, 4, 4
10.4 word 4+ letters in title from WORLD WETLANDS DAY.
10.5 set prior to 1903
10.6 bio/autobiography, memoir about artist, musician, poet or writer
10.7 MPG of Paranormal
10.8 shelf: Mythology Books
10.9 word from current or proposed National Scenic Areas from list
10.10 lists: Nordic Noir, 52 Book Club 2023: #24 Nordic Noir, or Nordic/Scandinavian Mysteries: Female Voices

15.1 B1: 4+ letter word from: SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER or SPRING WILL ARRIVE EARLY
Book 2: repeated word consecutively in title
15.2 B1: 75% green cover
B2: MPG Christmas
15.3 B1: 75% red black and yellow
B2: two of 2, 8 and 9 in page count
15.4 B1: ornament, garland, wreath, Christmas lights, Santa, or deer on cover.
B2: initials in MERRY AND BRIGHT.
15.5 author shares initials with a Santa name
15.6 4+ letter word from "When Christmas Comes to Town" song
15.7 series only 3 books published as of February 28, 2025 or read a book that is number 12 in a series
15.8 4+ word made from "NEW YEAR BRINGS FRESH BEGINNINGS"
15.9 MPG Romance as well as MPG of War, Thriller or Mythology,
15.10 cover that shows a secluded house or cabin in a snowy landscape

20.1
Op1: list: Genealogy Books
Op2: set in California, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, or Germany.
Op3: pub either 1981 or 2024
20.2
Op1: key, door or a gate on the cover
Op2: set in one or more of these countries of Roman Empire
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Op1: title at least three words start with the same letter
Op2: title including a bit of wordplay or a pun.
Op3: A) total number of letters in the title can be averaged by the number of words
B) words in the title (not subtitle) equals the number of letters in the first word.
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Op1: word of 4 or more letters in the title that matches a word in the name of a carol
Op2: set in Germany. France, England, Wales, Ukraine, or Italy
Op3: initials in SATB
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⌛ Initiated / pending
✅ Completed / claimed
♦️ Priority


✅ 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC.
✓ Option 2. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (527 p.)

✅ 20.8 - NICKELS & DIMES – Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home.
✓ Option 1. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (626 p.) 📚

✅ 20.9 - Moderators Pet - Jen B's Task: 90s Nostalgia.
✓ Option 3A. Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (320 p.)


✅ 30.7 – Amy FL’s Task: The Headaches of Home Ownership.
✓ Option 2. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (640 p.) 📚
✓ Option 3. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (362 p.)



❝𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝❞




✓ Goal: 90/150 points
◺ Pages Read... This Season: 2,475 || SRC All Time: 89,658
◺ Books Read... This Season: 5 || SRC All Time: 225

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


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➵ 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)