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JANUARY [11]
⏰️ Titles committed for 2025 TBR ⏰42/48
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A=audiobook B=book K=kindle
L=library N=need O=own
⛄=ATY Winter 📊=Bingo 🐘=Tome 🗓️=ATY52
BO🗓️
Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth✅️AO🗓️
Big Little Lies✅️AO📊🗓️
The Borrower✅️AL🐘🗓️
The Bone Clocks✅️AL🗓️
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsBO📊
The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide✅️KO📊
City of Thieves✅️KO⛄🗓️
Crying in H Mart✅️BL⛄🗓️
Danny the Champion of the WorldBL📊
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country(view spoiler)
Around the Year in 52Winter Challenge
01Dec24 through 28Feb25
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15/15
Find a book that...
✔️ Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list [pub in 2024] Wordhunter
✔️ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list [What a Wonderful World] Danny the Champion of the World
✔️ Has a mostly white cover Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories
✔️ Is on a Best of 2024 list The Wedding People
✔️ Is set in the snow [bookr:The Christmas Guest|83814905]
✔️ Is by an author you've read before Joseph Boyden The Orenda
✔️ Features a winter holiday The Songbook of Benny Lament
✔️ Is nonfiction The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
✔️ Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER The Lost Girls of Penzance by Sally Rigby
✔️ Has a mostly blue cover The Island of Missing Trees
✔️ Is a speculative fiction novel The Testaments
✔️ Features family drama Fayne
✔️ Has fire on the cover Fight Night
✔️ Is written by a BIPOC author Crying in H Mart
✔️ Is a love story You Are Here
Read:
Wahoo! Sounds like fun!!BT Bingo Challenge
What's In a Year?
02Dec24 until 30Sep25
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..2004..
Year ~ Title ~ Author ~ Read date
✅2025 The Heart of Winter ~ Jonathan Evison
✅2024 You Are Here ~ David Nicholls
✅2023 The Christmas Guest ~ Peter Swanson
✅2022 Fayne ~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
✅2021 The Songbook of Benny Lament ~ Amy Harmon
✅2020 The Searcher~ Tana French
✅️2019 You Have Arrived at Your Destination ~ Amor Towles
✅2018 Normal People ~ Sally Rooney
✅2017 After ~ Nikki Gemmell
✅️2016 The Unseen World ~ Liz Moore
✅️2015 The Soul of an Octopus ~ Sy Montgomery
✅2014 Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories ~ Ron Rash
✅birth Papillon ~ Henri Charrière
✅️2013 The Orenda ~ Joseph Boyden
✅️2012 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater ~ Sarah Ruhl
✅2011 The Borrower ~ Rebecca Makkai
✅️2010 So Much for That ~ Lionel Shriver
✅2009 February ~ Lisa Moore
✅2008 City of Thieves ~ David Benioff
✅2007 The Invention of Hugo Cabret ~ Brian Selznick
✅️2006 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox ~ Maggie O'Farrell
✅2005 The Golden Spruce ~ John Vaillant
2004 Tree: A Life Story ~ David Suzuki
✅2003 Fresh Eggs ~ Rob Levandoski
✅2002 A Parchment of Leaves ~ Silas House
2025 ~ 🐘 The Year of the Tome 🐘It's time to clear my shelves of all those 500+ page books. I hope to read a biggie each month.
469 pg ~
S.✅️490 pg ~
The Orenda✅534 pg ~
The Invention of Hugo Cabret✅563 pg ~
The Big Rock Candy Mountain✅️576 pg ~
The Lincoln Highway✅️624 pg ~
The Bone Clocks✅️624 pg ~
The Rose Code✅️661 pg ~
Skippy Dies679 pg ~
The Prince of Tides✅️744 pg ~
So Much for That848 pg ~
The Way the Crow Flies✅️897 pg ~
I Know This Much Is True
🧹BT Dusty Books Challenge🧹Each month a number will be pulled from the hat and the corresponding book by that number will be the book you will read.
For this challenge, I have picked the 12 books that I have right here, sitting on my physical shelf, staring at me. This will mean no excuses in trying to find the book or waiting for a hold to come my way.
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2-8-9-3-5-7-1-6-4-11
1. ☑️Magpie Murders
2. ☑️The Orenda
3.☑️The Yellow House
4. Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
5. ☑️Women Talking
6. ☑️The Rose Code
7. ☑️The Lincoln Highway
8. ☑️The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
9. ☑️February
10. The Way the Crow Flies
11. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
12. The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide
Extra: When God Was a Rabbit
. Jan . . . Feb . . . Mar. . . Apr . . . May . . . Jun . . . Jul . . . Aug . . . Sept . .
🏆Best Books of 2025🏆message #5
Monthly Fiction Favourites
1. Jan. 5⭐️ Fight Night
2. Feb. 5⭐️ Horse
3. Mar. 5⭐️ The Heart of Winter
4. Apr. 4⭐️ Skippy Dies
5. May 5⭐️ City of Thieves
6. June 5⭐️The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox & 5⭐️Writers & Lovers
7. July
8. Aug. 5⭐️Magpie Murders
9. Sept. 4⭐️ The Bone Clocks
10. Oct. 4⭐️ The Rose Code
11. Nov.
12. Dec.
My favourite fiction book of 2025 ....
Monthly Non-Fiction Favourites
1. Jan. 3.5⭐️ Crying in H Mart
2. Feb. 4⭐️ The Pursuit of Endurance
3. Mar. 4⭐️ Papillon
4. Apr. 4⭐️ Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
5. May 3⭐️ The Boys in the Boat
6. June
7. July
8. Aug. 4⭐️ Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
9. Sept. 4⭐️ Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
10. Oct. 5⭐️ Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
11. Nov.
12. Dec.
My favourite non-fiction book of 2025 ....
✍️BT Unfinished Sentence Challenge Jan01 to Feb15
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✅1. Mama always told me... we are Normal People
✅2. I wake up in the morning... Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✅3. If it weren't for sex, I would... be Crying in H Mart
✅4. When I am lost I cry for... The Orenda
✅5. The last thing I do at night is.. say So Much for That
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FEBRUARY [7]
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MARCH [10]
In A Word monthly challengeRead a book with this word in its title:
March
✅️girl ~ Brown Girl Dreaming
April
✅️and ~ Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
✅️and ~ The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✅️and ~ The Housekeeper and the Professor
May
✅️all ~ Small Boat
✅️all ~ Mrs. Dalloway
✅️all ~ All the Colors of the Dark
June
never
July
little ~ All the Little Bird-Hearts
August
book
September
✅️an animal ~ Dogtripping
✅️an animal ~ The Soul of an Octopus
October
✅️dark ~ Heart of Darkness
November
under
BT 'Gimme a Pair' challengeCreate pairs of books in whatever manner you see
From 20 Feb to 01 May
🍐1. Titles in a foreign language:
✔Papillon
✔Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
🍐2. Tree on cover:
✔The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
✔The Housekeeper and the Professor
🍐3. Published in 2025:
✔The Heart of Winter
✔Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
4. Author named Moore:
✔The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
✔February by Lisa Moore
🍐5. Irish author & setting:
✔Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
✔Earth by John Boyne
🍐6. Australian author & setting
✔Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
✔After by Nikki Gemmell
🍐7. Words only on cover
✔The Book of George
✔Women Talking
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APRIL [8]
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MAY [8]
2025 Bookshelf50/86
JUNE [6]
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JULY [0]
(bikepacking holiday)
AUGUST [9]
Moment of Truth
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Read 8 autobiographies, biographies or memoires over the next 8 months, ending 30 Apr, 2026.
✅️EK Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
✅️EK The Sharp End of Life: A Mother's Story
✅️EK South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
✅️ EKAlways Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
✅️ BLWhere There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
✅️ET Domestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro
BO Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
BO The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide
EL Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir
EK The Salt Path
Prioritizing Challenge Reads
🧹=dusty book challenge #️⃣=number in title 🔡=word of the month
🎰=publication bingo 🤥=non-fiction challenge 🐘=tome ⏳=TBR
Books I Own
✅️ ~🧹🎰(2009) February
✅️ ~🧹The Yellow House
🎰(2004) Tree: A Life Story
🧹 Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
🧹🐘The Way the Crow Flies
🧹🤥Carbon Cycle
🧹Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Library Books
✅️🤥Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
✅️ The Correspondent
✅️Death at the Sanatorium
✅️Slow Horses
⏳ Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
🐘 S.
E-reader
✅️ ~ 🐘I Know This Much Is True
✅️ ~#️⃣100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
✅️ ~ 🎰(2003) Fresh Eggs
✅️ ~ 🎰(2019)You Have Arrived at Your Destination
✅️ ~ 🤥The Sharp End of Life: A Mother's Story
✅️ ~ 🐘The Bone Clocks
✅️ ~ 🤥South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
✅️ ~ 🤥Domestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro
✅️ ~ 🤥Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
✅️ ~ Allie and Bea
🤥The Salt Path
⛔ ~ 🤥Yearbook
Audiobook
✅️ ~🧹Magpie Murders
✅️ ~ 🔡Mrs. Dalloway
✅️ ~ The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
✅️ ~ ⏳ ~ Maybe in Another Life
✅️ ~ 🐘The Bone Clocks
✅️ ~ 🧹🐘The Rose Code
✅️ ~ What the Wind Knows
✅️First Lie Wins
⛔ ~ 🐘The Prince of Tides
⛔ ~ 🤥The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage
✅️🐘The Big Rock Candy Mountain
✅️Five Found Dead
✅️Beautiful Ugly
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SEPTEMBER [9]
TBR 2026
Books that are getting pushed off for another year 😅
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
S.
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OCTOBER [7]
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NOVEMBER [9]
2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Beautiful Ugly (other topics)Domestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro (other topics)
Five Found Dead (other topics)
Beautiful Ugly (other topics)
Slow Horses (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Sarah Ruhl (other topics)Sy Montgomery (other topics)
Amor Towles (other topics)
David Suzuki (other topics)
Rob Levandoski (other topics)
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1. 85+ books
2. 20% non-fiction (17+)
3. Review every book read
4. Read 30+ from TBR
5. To prioritize reading actual paper books
6. Read 8 500+ page books
Personal Challenges
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🐘Year of the Tome Challenge🐘
Reading Challenges Group
⏰TBR 2025
👯Order of TBR for Challenges 2025
ATY Challenges
⛄Around The Year - Winter
🗓️52 Books of ATY 2025
BT Challenges
📊Publication Bingo
🏆Best Book of 2025
🧹Dusty Books Challenge
✍️Unfinished Sentences
👯♀️Gimme A Pair
🤥Moment of Truth
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