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2025 YLTO! Goes Listmania

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175+ pages/6 hours long.

Report each book as follows:

1. Progress: Identify where you are in the challenge – Badge 1, book 1 (2, 3, etc.)
2. List the Badge number and Task number.
3. Link to book read. Link to the title and not to the cover of the edition you read.
4. List the number of pages of the edition you read, or the number of hours if audiobook
5. Give a very brief summary of the task.
6. State how the book fits the criteria. Any requirements must be included in this section

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WoF - Almeta

List 7 - Specific Word in Title (view spoiler)[completed (hide spoiler)]
1📍A- Away ~ How to Kill Men and Get Away with It Katy Brent
2📍B- Black ~ The Little Black Dress Piper James
3📍C- Crow ~ The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
4📍D- Dark ~ Dark Vineyard
5📍E- Evening ~ The Wednesday Evening Club Alex Wagner
6📍F- Fortune ~ The Malice of Fortune Michael Ennis
7📍G- Girl ~ Perfect Girl Tracy Banghart
8📍H- Hand ~ Sleight of Hand: A Maisie Doss Mystery Tonya Kappes
9📍I- Island ~ The Island Ragnar Jónasson
10📍J- June ~ To Die in June Alan Parks
11📍K- Kind ~ Our Kind of Game Johanna Copeland
12📍L- Lord ~ The Late Lord Thorpe by Peter Grainger
13📍M- Murder ~ Murder on Lexington Avenue 328 pp
14📍N- Name ~ When My Name Was Keoko Linda Sue Park
15📍O- Opal ~ Opal Patricia Wolf
16📍P- People ~ The Wedding People Alison Espach
17📍Q- Quiet ~ The Quiet Man Caimh McDonnell
18📍R- Rain ~ History of the Rain Niall Williams
19📍S- Silver ~ Silver MarkSarah Painter
20📍T- Tree ~ South of the Buttonwood Tree Heather Webber
21📍U- Under ~ Follow Me Under Helen Hardt
22📍V-Valley ~ Valley of the Lost
23📍W- West ~ West With Giraffes Lynda Rutledge
24📍Y- Young ~ Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
25📍Z- Zebra or Zero ~ Pandemic: Patient Zero Amanda Bridgeman

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1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. List 1, Task 1
3. Link – Curiosity
4. Listened to Audiobook, 15.9 hrs
5. Read a book about books
6. The MPG is listed as "Books About Books". In this book Alberto Manguel wrote about authors who had a philosophic curiosity and wrote books that challenged him (and us) to explore as well.

1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. List 1, Task 2
3. Link – An American Childhood
4. Listened to Audiobook, 18.5 hrs
5. Read a book about childhood
6. Annie Dillard recounts her childhood with her eccentric parents growing up in Pennsylvania.

And she's off and running! Great start, Almeta.

1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. List 1, Task 3
3. Link – A Farewell to Arfs
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9 hrs
5. Read a book about dos
6. The dog Chet the Jet narrates and his neighboring dog Iggy goes berserk as usual, and female Trixie smells nice! All are helping human PI Bernie Little solve a mystery.
The main book page is marked "Dogs"

1. Badge 1, Book 4
2. List 1, Task 4
3. Link – Time Shelter
4. Listened to Audiobook 10.3 hrs
5. Read a Fantasy book
6. This is a MPG Fantasy time travel book

I read the first book in Chet & Bernie series, and I may have to read it again to refresh my memory of it (cause it's gone), and then read on.

1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. List 1, Task 5
3. Link – Spook:Science Tackles the Afterlife
4. Listened to Audiobook 8.5 hrs
5. Read a book about Ghosts
6. Main book Page is labeled "Ghosts". Author Mary Roach investigates the search for ghosts and the existence of souls.

YLTO! year-long challenge has been my main reading plan for several years now. Other reading challenges have to either coincide or not be done :)

Lanelle wrote: "YLTO! year-long challenge has been my main reading plan for several years now. Other reading challenges have to either coincide or not be done :)"

Love it!

1. Badge 1, Book 6
2. List 1, Task 6
3. Link – Distant Mirror: Calamitous 14th Century
4. Listened to Audiobook 28.6 hrs
5. Read a book about History
6. Main book Page is labeled "History" and is about the 14th century

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. List 1, Task 7
3. Link – Writers & Lovers
4. Listened to Audiobook 8.2 hrs
5. Read a book about Love
6. Main book Page is labeled "Romance" The protagonist falls for two very different men at the same time.

1. Badge 1, Book 8
2. List 1, Task 8
3. Link – Bulfinch's Mythology
4. Listened to Audiobook 14.5 hrs
5. Read a book about Mythology
6. Main book Page is labeled Mythology. It is a genealogy of sorts of mythical gods and their exploits with humans.

1. Badge 1, Book 9
2. List 1, Task 9
3. Link – Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
4. Listened to Audiobook 7.2 hrs
5. Read a book about Nature
6. Main book Page is labeled Nature

1. Badge 1, Book 10
2. List 1, Task 10
3. Link – Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
4. Listened to Audiobook 7.7 hrs
5. Read a book about Pirates
6. Main book page is marked "pirates" and the theme is about Peter Pan, the Lost Boys and pirates

1. Badge 1, Book 11
2. List 1, Task 11
3. Link – Lost Boy: American Rapture
4. Listened to Audiobook 14.6 hrs
5. Read a book about Religion
6. Main book page is marked Religion

1. Badge 1, Book 12
2. List 1, Task 12
3. Link – Hard Knocks
4. Listened to Audiobook 11.6 hrs
5. Read a book about Survival
6. A story of survival in outer space when a multitude of various problems arise with the ship's systems

1. Badge 1, Book 13
2. List 1, Task 13
3. Link – Thunderstruck
4. Listened to Audiobook 11.9 hrs
5. Read a book about True Crime
6. Main book page is marked True Crime

Almost badge time for you.

Janice wrote: "Almost badge time for you."

Yes, and here they are!

1. Badge 1, Book 14
2. List 1, Task 14
3. Link – Bad News
4. Listened to Audiobook 9.5 hrs
5. Read a book about Villainy
6. Fitzroy Guilderpost is the criminal mastermind of this caper.

1. Badge 1, Book 15
2. List 1, Task 15
3. Link – The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
4. Listened to Audiobook 12.4 hrs
5. Read a book about Women
6. the story of inseparable friends Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean

Congrats on finishing Badge 1. :)

It's only January, Almeta, and you're already done with Badge 1. Nice job.

Badge One - Themes ~15 books.(view spoiler)[

4 Jan📍B - Books about books ~ ✔️Curiosity 15 hrs & 47 mins
5 Jan 📍C - Childhood ~ ✔️An American Childhood 8 hrs & 27 mins
6 Jan 📍D - Dogs ~ ✔️A Farewell to Arfs 8 hrs & 56 mins
7 Jan 📍F - Fantasy ~ ✔️Time Shelter 10 hrs & 19 mins
8 Jan 📍G - Ghosts ~✔️Spook:Science Tackles the Afterlife 8 hrs & 29 mins
10 Jan 📍H - History ~ ✔️ Distant Mirror: Calamitous 14th Century 28 hrs & 38 mins
12 Jan 📍L - Love ~ ✔️Writers & Lovers 8 hrs & 14 mins
15 Jan 📍M - Mythology ~ ✔️Bulfinch's Mythology 14 hrs & 30 mins
16 Jan 📍N - Nature ~ ✔️Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death 7 hrs & 9 mins
17 Jan 📍P - Pirates ~✔️ Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook 7 hrs & 43 mins
18 Jan 📍R - Religion ~ ✔️American Rapture 14 hrs & 36 mins
20 Jan 📍S - Survival ~✔️ Hard Knocks 11 hrs & 35 mins
22 Jan 📍T - True Crime ~ ✔️Thunderstruck 11 hrs & 56 mins
23 Jan 📍V - Villainy ~ ✔️Bad News 9 hrs & 29 mins
24 Jan 📍W - Women ~ ✔️The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 12 hrs & 25 mins (hide spoiler)]

1. Badge 2, Book 1
2. List 2, Task 5D
3. Link – Dark Knight Station: Origins
4. Listened to Audiobook, 14.4 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with a "D"
6.The title begins with a "D"

1. Badge 2, Book 2
2. List 2, Task 2B
3. Link – .Baskets and Beignets
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with a "B"
6.The title begins with a "B"

1. Badge 2, Book 3
2. List 2, Task 18R
3. Link – The Rest of Us Just Live Here
4. Listened to Audiobook, 6.4 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "R"
6.The title begins with an "R"

1. Badge 2, Book 4
2. List 2, Task 19S
3. Link – Such Sharp Teeth
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9.1 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "S"
6.The title begins with an "S"

1. Badge 2, Book 5
2. List 2, Task 9I
3. Link – The Inheritance
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "I"
6.The title begins with an "I"

1. Badge 2, Book 6
2. List 2, Task 23W
3. Link – The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
4. Listened to Audiobook, 15.3 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "W"
6.The title begins with an "W"

1. Badge 2, Book 7
2. List 2, Task 20T
3. Link –Twisted Love
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "T"
6.The title begins with an "T"

Almeta wrote: "1. Badge 2, Book 6
2. List 2, Task 23W
3. Link – The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
4. Listened to Audiobook, 15.3 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning wi..."

Now that's a title.

1. Badge 2, Book 8
2. List 2, Task 5E
3. Link –Elon Musk
4. Listened to Audiobook, 20.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "E"
6.The title begins with an "E"

1. Badge 2, Book 9
2. List 2, Task 6F
3. Link –Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9.9 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "F"
6.The title begins with an "F"

1. Badge 2, Book 10
2. List 2, Task 3C
3. Link –The Covenant of Water
4. Listened to Audiobook, 31.3 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "C"
6.The title begins with an "C"

1. Badge 2, Book 11
2. List 2, Task 7G
3. Link –Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
4. Listened to Audiobook, 8.9 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "G"
6.The title begins with an "G"

1. Badge 2, Book 12
2. List 2, Task 12L
3. Link – The Last Bookshop in London
4. Listened to Audiobook, 8.2 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "L"
6.The title begins with an "L"

1. Badge 2, Book 13
2. List 2, Task 16P
3. Link – Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10.5 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "P"
6.The title begins with an "P"

1. Badge 2, Book 14
2. List 2, Task 8H
3. Link – An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire
4. Listened to Audiobook, 7.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "H"
6.The title begins with an "H"

1. Badge 2, Book 15
2. List 2, Task 10J
3. Link – Judgment Prey
4. Listened to Audiobook, 11 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "J"
6.The title begins with an "J"

1. Badge 2, Book 16
2. List 2, Task 25Z
3. Link – The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead
4. Read the Hardback, 263 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "Z"
6.The title begins with an "Z"

1. Badge 2, Book 17
2. List 2, Task 22V-
3. Link – 'v' Is For Vengence
4. Listened to Audiobook, 15.2 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "V"
6.The title begins with an "V"

1. Badge 2, Book 18
2. List 2, Task 21U
3. Link –Unnatural Death
4. Listened to Audiobook, 11.8 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "U"
6.The title begins with an "U"

1. Badge 2, Book 19
2. List 2, Task 24Y
3. Link –The Yellow Room
4. Listened to Audiobook, 8.9 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "Y"
6.The title begins with an "Y"

One to go and you'll have badge 2 in the bag.

Janice wrote: "One to go and you'll have badge 2 in the bag."

You are being generous! I've run behind in timely reporting.

I think there are 6 more. Here they are...

1. Badge 2, Book 20
2. List 2, Task 13M
3. Link –The Messy Lives of Book People
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9.9 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "M"
6.The title begins with an "M"