2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge

message 1: by Tanu (last edited Dec 02, 2025 01:51AM) (new)

Dec 02, 2024 12:27AM

r/femalegazesff Fall/Winter Bingo Reading Challenge (1 Sep 25 to 20 Mar 25)

🌿 Title : Nature Theme:
🔲 Bicolor cover:
🐾 Folk Horror:
🐐 Animal on cover:
🅰️ Author’s name begins with A:
🩸 Blood or Bone Magic:
👮Murder Mystery
📖 Translation
👩‍❤️‍👩 WLW
🧛‍♀️ Vampires
🌎 East Asian author

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message 2: by Tanu (last edited Dec 02, 2025 04:43AM) (new)

Dec 02, 2024 10:36PM

Shelf Aware Challenge 2025

28/30 read (note: I live in Aus so am mostly not counting Australian books for this challenge).

Prompts:

1. Black History Month (USA origin):

a. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due ✅
b. Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland ✅
c. Adulthood Rites ✅
d. Focus on Africa - read a book by an African author - Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror ✅
e. NAIDOC Week July 2025- read at least 3 books with (pref. Australian but Māori acceptable too) by Indigenous characters and/or authors

⚫️ No Country for Girls by Emma Styles - ✅
🌕 17 Years Later by J.P. Pomare ✅
🔴

f. The Long, Long Afternoon ✅ (black protagonist)

2. Set in India and/or by an author of Indian ethnicity (Focus on Asia)

🇮🇳 a. Ram Namavi (Mar/April) - with a focus on religion (Hinduism) and/or with a warrior main character
🇮🇳 b. Diwali - a book celebrating a return home from a journey or a book with a character that flies frequently (since Ram and Sita came home on the Pushpak Viman)
🇮🇳 c. Holi - a book with a colourful cover - Match Me If You Can by Swati Hegde ✅
🇮🇳 d. Makar Sankranti (Jan 14-15) - a hopeful book revolving around kindness or where characters are primarily kind and loving towards one another.
🇮🇳 e. Krishna Janmashtami - a book set in a forest, involving cattle, or in a rural area
🇮🇳 A Nest of Vipers by Harini Nagendra ✅

3. Disability Awareness Month

a. The Basilisk of Star Manor: A Tempting Monsters Story - blind MC ✅
b. The Undoing of Violet Claybourne - character with OCD ✅
c. Behind Closed Doors - character with Down Syndrome ✅
d. The Tyrant Alpha's Rejected Mate - physical disability, unspecified, in leg ✅
e. The Beast of Beswick - PTSD & scars ✅

4. Jewish Heritage Month - read 3 books by Jewish authors (Focus on Asia: West Asia)

🔵 Eight Dates ✅ w/ Jewish MMCs
⚪️ Stardust ✅
🔵 The Familiar ✅ w/ Jewish MC

5. Book by a South American author - The Unworthy ✅
6. European setting (non-UK): Moskva by Jack Grimwood ✅
7. Focus on Asia (South exc. India, SE and East Asia):

🇯🇵 a. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (author of Japanese ethnicity) ✅
🇲🇾 The Spider and Her Demons by sydney khoo - author + MC of Malaysian-Chinese descent ✅
🇯🇵 - Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura - Japanese MC and author ✅
🇱🇦 The Coroner's Lunch and Thirty-Three Teeth -Colin Cotterill - Character of Laotian descent; Set in Vientiane ✅ ✅
🇨🇳 Author & MC of Chinese descent Natural Beauty ✅
🇻🇳 Author & MC of Vietnamese descent; MC of mixed Vietnamese and Chinese descent. Set in Vietnam. A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen ✅
🇨🇳 Author & MC of Chinese descent, China setting Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin ✅

8. Other/Misc:

🇲🇽 The Carrying - author of Latina descent. + counts for World Poetry Day (March 21st) ✅
🇻🇺 Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point ✅ Mixed race MC of Chinese and Ni-Vanuatu descent; set in Vanuatu
☀️ Betrothed to the Emperor and Emperor's Wrath ✅ ✅

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message 3: by Tanu (last edited Nov 30, 2025 02:22PM) (new)

Dec 15, 2024 02:27PM

Horror Aficionados Movie Title Challenge:
Progress 12/15

🧛 Silver Bullet - read a book about werewolves - Blooding Night or When the Wolf Comes Home
🧟 Dawn of the Dead - read a book about zombies Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland ✅
💍 The Ring - read a book with curses/cursed object Witchcraft for Wayward Girls ✅
🛸 Annihilation - read a book with Cosmic horror (view spoiler) ✅
🧬 Event Horizon - read a book with Sci-fi horror - The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud ✅
😈 The Conjuring - read a book with vengeful spirits - What Feasts at Night ✅
✝️ The Nun - read a book with religious horror Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror ✅
🧛‍♀️ Shadow of the Vampire - read a book about bloodsuckers - Hungerstone ✅
🐦 The Birds - read a book about animals attacking - The Silence
🩸🐑 The Silence of the Lambs - read a book about a serial killer - Birdman by Mo Hayder ✅
💥Bird Box - read a book with post-apocalyptic horror - Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie ✅
👻 🏘️ The Shining - read a book about a haunted house The Reformatory by Tananarive Due ✅
😂 Beetlejuice - read a book with humorous horror - Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez or Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One
👹The Exorcist - read a book about possession - The Spider and Her Demons by sydney khoo - ✅
👽 The Thing - read a book with aliens Adulthood Rites ✅

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message 4: by Tanu (last edited Nov 30, 2025 01:58AM) (new)

Dec 15, 2024 02:55PM

Horror Aficionados Cover Challenge

Progress: 8/18

Haunted House/Building - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due ✅
Ghosts - Diavola ✅
Witch - Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Graveyard/Tombstone
Mummy - Kun'yan no jou.
Full Moon The Spider and Her Demons by sydney khoo ✅
Body Parts Cackle by Rachel Harrison ✅
Death -

by Craig DiLouie ✅
Cursed Objects - The Amulet
Nightmares My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
Monsters - Sister, Maiden, Monster ✅
Pumpkins/Jack o'Lanterns - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Werewolf - Blooding Night
Blood - Isolation: A Suburban Apocalypse
Skeleton/Bones - What Feasts at Night ✅
Vampire - Hungerstone ✅
Creepy Woods - Bone White or The Haunted Forest Tour
Knives/Weapons

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message 5: by Tanu (last edited Nov 30, 2025 05:51PM) (new)

Dec 15, 2024 03:10PM

Magical Mystery Tour Challenge
Progress 29/42

Who: 4/7
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below fields.
1. Music (singer, drummer, etc.) - Company of Fiends??
2. Driving (courier, taxi driver, etc.)
3. Food service (chef, barista, etc.) - 17 Years Later by J.P. Pomare (chef) ✅
4. Healthcare (psychiatrist, midwife, etc.) - The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill - medical doctor ✅
5. Games (athlete, game programmer, etc.) - The Game ✅
6. Books (editor, librarian, etc.) What Lies Between Us by John Marrs ✅
7. Events (wedding planner, photographer, etc.) -Her Last Holiday (motivational speaker)

What: 5/7
What makes your case distinctive?
1. A middle grade or young adult sleuth - No Country for Girls by Emma Styles ✅
2. An emotion in the title - These Violent Delights
3. A time in the title - Nightwatching ✅
4. A color in the title - The Undoing of Violet Claybourne ✅
5. An animal companion or narrator - We Used to Live Here (thriller) ✅
6. A food on the cover - Strange Pictures / A Certain Hunger
7. A mostly white cover - Dark Matter: A Ghost Story by Michelle Paver ✅

When: 4/7
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported (published)?
1. In the 1920s - A Nest of Vipers by Harini Nagendra ✅
2. In the last 25 years -

The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1) by Laura Dave

by Laura Dave ✅
3. Around a holiday (e.g. Christmas, Eid, Diwali)
4. During a vacation -
5. In your birth month
6. Between dusk and dawn No One Will Know ✅
7. In summer - The Butterfly Women ✅

Where: 5/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
1. At an orchard or farm -
2. On an island - The Escape Room ✅
3. In a capital city Moskva - Jack Grimwood ✅
4. At a restaurant or bar -
5. At a hotel or lodge - The Quiet House ✅
6. At a park or campground - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore ✅
7. In someone’s home - Never Have I Ever ✅

How: 7/7
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
1. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due - (view spoiler) ✅
2. Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris (view spoiler) ✅
3. The Mysterious and Amazing Blue Billings (view spoiler) ✅
4. Thirty-Three Teeth (fall from height) ✅
5. The Chilling (view spoiler) ✅
6. The Long, Long Afternoon - (view spoiler)
7. The Cloisters ✅ (view spoiler) ✅

Why: 4/7
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. A favorite mystery author or series - Network Effect ✅
2. A favorite mystery subgenre Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point ✅ (police procedural/murder mystery)
3. On a Goodreads listopia (Which one?)
4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction (Which one?)- Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense 2025 First Lie Wins ✅
5. A challenged or banned crime book
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year)- The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above - The Stolen ✅

Bonus Cases: 0/8

After completing all 42 standard cases, you may become an Interpol Fugitive Investigator by solving a crime in each of the eight inhabited regions of the world.
1. Africa
2. Asia
3. Europe
4. Oceania
5. Caribbean
6. North America
7. Central America
8. South America

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message 6: by Tanu (last edited Jan 01, 2025 01:12AM) (new)

Jan 01, 2025 01:11AM

Aussie Readers Annual Road Trip Challenge A-Z

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Jan 02, 2025 03:16PM

Tanu's A-Z Real Life Locations Aussie Readers Challenge

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Jan 28, 2025 01:02PM