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YESTERDAY, TODAY, & THE FUTURE - Carrie's Chronicled Corner of Chaos*******************************************************************
My Year(s) in Books
Carrie's Year in Books 2024
Past Member's Corner Threads
Chronicled Corner of Chaos 2024
Personal Challenge Goodreads Thread
Carrie's 125 in 2025
Multi - Year Challenges
🏛️100+ Must Read Classics 🏛️🟣
🌍Reading Around the World And Beyond🌍🟣
🟤 = Goodreads Challenge
🔵 = Bookly Challenge
🟣 = My Own Challenge
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2025 CHALLENGES (QUICK LINKS)
💖📚📖🎯Personal Challenges:
✔️1. Carrie's 125+ in 2025 (Q1) Q1 Totals: 47 books
✔️2. Carrie's 125+ in 2025 (Q2)Q2 Totals: 28 books
✔️3. Carrie's 125+ in 2025 (Q3)Q3 Totals: 29 books
4. Carrie's 125+ in 2025 (Q4)
⌛Yearly Challenges:
1. 20 QUESTIONS ❓🟤
2. A-Z WOMEN AUTHORS 🔠🟤
3. BIBLIOPOLY 🎲🟤
4. GENRE BINGO 🅱️🟤
5. I SPY 🔍🟤
6. MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR ⚠️🟤
✔️🎉 7. OPPOSITES ATTRACT 🔁🟤
8. POPSUGAR🧁🟤
9. SERIAL READER 🔢🟤
10. Clear the Shelves🏁🟤
11. TBR JAR 🫙🟤
12. WHEEL OF FEELS 🌈🟤
13. THE BIBLE ✝️🟣
🎢🟤Quarterly Challenges:
✔️1. Q1 - EMBRACING THE BLUES💙
✔️2. Q1 - SAD SONGS🎶
✔️3. Q2 - A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS🥣
✔️4. Q2 - A POP OF JOY🍾
✔️5. Q3 - RECREATIONAL ANGER🎬
✔️6. Q3 - RAGE ON THE PAGE😡
7. Q4 - WHAT'S YOUR FEAR FACTOR?😱
8. Q4 - HERE'S TO FEARS 🥂
📆🟤Monthly Challenges:
✔️1. JANUARY(Cozy) - LET'S GET COZY🧸
✔️2. JANUARY(Cozy) - COZY ESCAPES🫖
✔️3. FEBRUARY(Time) - TIME WARP🚀
✔️4. FEBRUARY(Time) - RACING THROUGH TIME🕗
✔️5. MARCH(Food) - READING PICNIC🧺
✔️6. MARCH(Food) - GASTRONOMICAL READS🍴
✔️7. APRIL(Games) - CHILDS'S PLAY🛝
✔️8. APRIL(Games) - BOOK SCRABBLE ♠️♦️
❌9. MAY(Mothers) - THE SWEETEST GIFT🎁
❌10. MAY(Mothers) - MOTHERS AND OTHERS👩🍼
✔️11. JUNE(Sisters) - THE TIE THAT BINDS🪢
✔️12. JUNE(Sisters)-SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING BOOKS 👖
✔️13. JULY(Islands)-TREASURE ISLAND 🏴☠️
✔️14. JULY(Islands)-HOW ARE YOU GETTING THERE? 🧳
✔️15. AUGUST(Sunflowers)-VAN GOGH FOR IT!🌻
✔️16. AUGUST(Sunflowers)-HERE COMES THE SUN☀️
✔️17SEPTEMBER(Whimsy)-DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE♠️🐰
✔️18.SEPTEMBER(Whimsy)-WHIMSICAL YOU🪄
✔️19. OCTOBER(Superstition)-FROM PAGE TO HALLOWEEN PARADE👻
✔️20. OCTOBER(Superstition)-VERY SUPERSTITIOUS🐈⬛
✔️21. NOVEMBER(Pets)-FURS, FINS, & FEATHERS🪶
✔️22. NOVEMBER(Pets)-CURIOUS COMPANIONS🦮
23. DECEMBER(White)-SHADES OF WHITE
24. DECEMBER(White)-WHITE WONDERLAND
Upcoming Monthly Themes
Jan: Self
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✈️Readathons:
🔵BOOKLY
--- 📄Page One Bookly Readathon (Jan29-Feb9)📄 Finished but 4 days late
🟤 GOODREADS
---🏆2025 Winter Readathon: Book Awards Team Readathon (Feb21-Mar2) 🏆
--- 🕰️2025 Summer Readathon: Through The Decades Team Readathon (July18-27)🕰️
💫Other
🟤🔖goodreads Community Favorite Challenge Completed 🎉
🟤🔖goodreads Seasonal Challenge Failed - Completed with one short👎
🟤🔖goodreadsSummer Challenge Completed 🎉
🟤🔖goodreadsFall Challenge
💖📚📖🧑🤝🧑
2025 GROUP READ/BOOK CLUB/BUDDY READS (QUICK LINKS)
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📚Group Reads📚 5/6
❄️January Group Read:Group Discussion❄️
✔️ 1.
The Spellshop Completed 1/19/25 💌 February Group Read: Group Discussion 💌
✔️2.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Completed 2/11/2025none for March (The Midnight Feast - read last year)
🌧️April Group Read: Group Discussion🌧️
✔️3.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Completed 4/17/25none for May (Little Fires Everywhere - read last year)
🌻June Group Read: Group Discussion🌻
✔️4.
Little Women Completed 6/12/25none for July (Great Big Beautiful Life - read in May)
🏫August Group Read: Group Disccussion 🏫
✔️5.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Completed 8/10/25none for September( The House in the Cerulean Sea - read in Jan)
none for October (Weyward - read in Dec 2024)
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📖Book Club📖
none yet
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🧑🤝🧑Buddy Reads🧑🤝🧑5/12
❄️January Buddy Read: Discussion Post ❄️
✔️1.
Thef="e Last Thing He Told Me Completed 1/2/25💌 February Buddy Read: Discussion Post 💌
✔️2.
This Is How You Lose the Time War Completed 2/14/25🍀 March Buddy Read: Discussion Post🍀
✔️3.
The Love Hypothesis Completed 3/6/25🌧️April Buddy Read: Discussion Post🌧️
✔️4.
Sunrise on the Reaping Completed 4/29/25💐May Buddy Reads:
✔️5. By Any Other Name
❌ The House of Eve
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100+ MUST READ CLASSICS
🏛️Beginning in 2025, I will attempt reading through 100 MUST READ CLASSICS - as chosen by Penguin Readers. This may require re-reads as I will not be counting any books read prior to starting this challenge in 2025. This is a long-term goal and will take YEARS for me to complete but I hope to complete at least 4 per year.
Cumulative Progress: 5/100+
This Year's progress 5/4
1. The Great Gatsby
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Pride and Predujice
✔️4. The Grapes of Wrath
⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 9/28/2025
5. Jane Eyre
6. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
7. Crime and Punishment
8. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
9. Anna Karenina
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
11. The Outsiders
12. The Age of Innocence
13. The Catcher in the Rye
14. Persuasion
15. 1984
16. Les Misérables
17. The Count of Monte Cristo
18. Great Expectations
19. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
20. Things Fall Apart
21. Brave New World
22. Dracula
23. A Tale of Two Cities
24. Lolita
✔️25. One Hundred Years of Solitude
⭐⭐⭐💫 2/11/2025
26. Vanity Fair
27. Middlemarch
28. Wuthering Heights
29. The Call of the Wild
30. The Mill on the Floss
31. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane
Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
32. To the Lighthouse
33. I Capture the Castle
34. Wide Sargasso Sea
35. The Secret History
37. The Illiad
38. The Secret Garden
39. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
40. Catch-22
41. Ulysses
42. The Brothers Karamazov
43. Another Country
44. The Handmaid’s Tale
45. Orlando
46. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
47.The Go-Between
48. Rebecca
49. The Chrysalids
50. In Cold Blood
51. Beloved
52. The Time Machine
53. War and Peace
54. Heart of Darkness
55. The Lord of the Rings
56. Atlas Shrugged
57. The Godfather
58. Mrs. Dalloway
59. The Return of the Native
60. North and South
61. Bleak House
62. The Death of the Heart
63. Tropic of Cancer
64. The Code of the Woosters
65. Lady Chatterly's Lover
66. The Master and Margarita
✔️67. Little Women
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 6/12/2025
68. Scoop
69. Love in a Cold Climate
70. Hard Times
71. The Woman in White
72. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
73. Barchester Towers
74. The Diary of a Nobody
75. Madame Bovary
76. The Wind in the Willows
77. A Christmas Carole
78. The Betrothed
79. Don Quixote
80. Staying On
81. The Quiet American
82. The Picture of Dorian Gray
83. Sense and Sensibility
84. I, Claudius
85. White Nights
86. Silas Marner
87. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
88. The Razor’s Edge
89. The Sea, the Sea
90. A Confederacy of Dunces
91. David Copperfield
92. The Castle
93. The Art of War
94. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
95. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
96. Of Human Bondage
97. Lark Rise to Candleford
98. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
99. The Forsyte Saga
100. Giovanni’s Room
Plus:
101.Crimen y castigo
102.The Chronicles of Narnia
103.Midnight’s Children
104.My Ántonia
105. Peter Pan
106.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
107.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
✔️108.Farenheit 451
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/31/2025
109.Gone with the Wind
✔️110.Animal Farm
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 11/7/2025
111. Emma
112. Suite Française
113.The Last of the Mohicans
114. The Scarlet Letter
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READING AROUND THE WORLD AND BEYOND (Multi-Year Challenge)
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Progress
🗺️Countries: 20/195
🛣️U.S. States: 37/50
🚢U.S. Major Territories: 1/5
🪐Planets in our Solar System: 2/8
🏰Fictional Places 8/10
Total Books Read: 68/268
Totals by Year
✅2024: 36
☑️2025: 32
---duplicates: 68
2026:
Rules - Count books read starting in 2024 - books that the country, state, or planet is relevant to the book or is in the title of the book. Multiple books can be added for each prompt but will not add to the total count. I probably will only add books (especially ones in the US or UK) that the location feels important.
Countries(view spoiler)
U.S. States(view spoiler)
U.S. Major Territories(view spoiler)
Planets in Our Solar System(view spoiler)
Fictional Places(view spoiler)
🎯2025 Personal Challenge: Carrie's 125 in 2025🎯****** Quarter 1️⃣: 125 Books in 2025******
---all books in any format qualify including re-reads
Progress: 47/125
📖 = Physical Copy
📔= Kindle
🎧 = Audio
✴️=Re-read
💫= 1/2 star
See symbols in Challenge Links
(mark each book with symbols to show the other challenges it was used in)
☃️January - 14 books☃️
(view spoiler)
💘February - 15 books💘
(view spoiler)
🍀March - 18 books🍀
(view spoiler)
🎯2025 Personal Challenge: Carrie's 125 in 2025🎯****** Quarter2️⃣ : 125 Books in 2025******
---all books in any format qualify including re-reads
📖 = Physical Copy
📔= Kindle
🎧 = Audio
✴️=Re-read
Progress this quarter: 28/125
Progress this YTD: 75/125
🌧️April - 14 books🌧️
(view spoiler)
💐May - 8 books 💐
(view spoiler)
🌻June - 6 books🌻
(view spoiler)
Up to Challenge Links
🎯2025 Personal Challenge: Carrie's 125 in 2025🎯****** Quarter 3️⃣ : 125 Books in 2025******
---all books in any format qualify including re-reads
📖 = Physical Copy
📔= Kindle
🎧 = Audio
✴️=Re-read
Progress this quarter: 29/125
Progress this YTD: 104/125
🗽July - 7 books🗽
(view spoiler)
🏫 August - 9 books 🏫
(view spoiler)
🏈September - 13 books🏈
(view spoiler)
Up to Challenge Links
🎯2025 Personal Challenge: Carrie's 125 in 2025🎯****** Quarter4️⃣ : 125 Books in 2025******
---all books in any format qualify including re-reads
📖 = Physical Copy
📔= Kindle
🎧 = Audio
✴️=Re-read
Progress: 130/125
👻October - 14 books 👻
(view spoiler)
🦃 November - 12 books 🦃
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🎄Decemember - __ books 🎄
(view spoiler)
Up to Challenge Links
⌛❓Yearly Challenges: 20 Questions ❓⌛❓ 20 QUESTIONS- Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 24/26
Have fun with this bookish version of the 20 Questions parlor game by reading books that represent questions and answers.
Rules: (view spoiler)
20 QUESTIONS Group Thread
My 20 QUESTIONS Tracking Post
🥳Game 1: 5/5 A Reaction
✔️Hint #1: book that is dystopian
---The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Completed 3/13/25
✔️Hint #2: book that is first in a series
---Part of Your World Completed 1/3/25
✔️Hint #3:book that has a blue cover
---Archer's Voice Completed 1/15/25
✔️-Hint #4: book where cover is a body part or facial feature
--- The Silent Patient Completed 8/24/2025
✔️ Answer: (view spoiler)
🥳Game 2: 6/6 A Place
✔️Hint #1: book that is a 2017 Goodreads choice award winner
---Little Fires Everywhere Completed 1/12/25
✔️Hint #2: book that is in the fantasy genre
---The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Completed 1/8/25
✔️Hint #3: book with more than 500 pages
---American Gods Completed 2/23/25
✔️Hint #4: book with a pink cover
---Happy Place Completed 2/5/25
✔️Hint #5: book 3 in a series
---End of Watch Completed 3/20/25
✔️ Answer:(view spoiler)
🥳Game 3: 5/5 A Monster
✔️Hint #1: book written by the King of Horror
---Finders Keepers Completed 1/5/25
✔️ Hint #2: book made into a movie
---Eat, Pray, Love Completed 3/31/25
✔️ Hint #3: book first published in the 1980s
---Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Completed 3/27/25
✔️-Hint #4: book that focuses on friendship/coming of age
---The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✔️ Answer:(view spoiler)
Game 4: 4/5
✔️Hint #1: book set during a war
---The Keeper of Hidden Books Completed 4/7/25
✔️Hint #2: book that flashes back and forth between two diferent time periods
---Great Big Beautiful Life Completed 5/2/25
✔️Hint #3: book with a girls name in the title
---The Return of Ellie Black Completed 2/4/25
✔️Hint #4: book chosen for Reeses's book club
---Where the Crawdads Sing Completed 3/16/25
⏹️ Answer: (view spoiler)
Game 5: 4/5
✔️Hint #1: book with a ghost in it
---A Stitch in Time Completed 2/24/25
✔️Hint #2: a book that is part of a Nora Robert's trilogy
---The Awakening Completed 4/1/25
✔️Hint #3: a book with flowers on the cover
---By Any Other Name 5/30/2025
✔️Hint #4: a book published in 2025
---Famous Last Words 7/24/2025
⏹️ Answer: (view spoiler)
Up to Challenge Links
⌛🔠Yearly Challenges: A-Z AUTHORS🔠⌛🔠A-Z AUTHORS - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 24/26
Read a book for each letter of the alphabet, using women authors’ first names, last names, or initials. Letter rip!
--do not have to be read in order
A-Z Women Authors Group Thread
My A-Z Women Authors Tracking Post
✔️A - The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams Completed 1/26/25
✔️B - Milkman by Anna Burns Completed 2/26/25
✔️C - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Completed 3/13/25
✔️D - The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Completed 1/2/25
✔️E - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar Completed 2/14/25
✔️F - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke Completed 3/18/25
✔️G - Icebreaker by Hannah Grace Completed 1/24/25
✔️H - Summer Island by Kristin Hannah Completed 1/28/25
✔️I - Bed...and Breakfast by K. Iwancio Completed 3/30/25
✔️J - Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez Completed 1/3/25
✔️K - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Completed 3/28/25
✔️L - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren Completed 3/29/25
✔️M - Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Completed 1/1/25
✔️N - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Completed 1/12/25
✔️O - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Completed 3/16/25
✔️P - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Completed 3/2/25
✔️Q - The Briar Club by Kate Quinn Completed 6/30/2025
✔️R - Inheritance by Nora Roberts
✔️S - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab Completed 1/8/25
✔️T - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera Completed 10/4/2025
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✔️V - The Beekeeper's Promise by Fiona Valpy Completed 11/2/2025
✔️W - Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate Completed 7/23/2025
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✔️Y - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Completed 3/12/25
✔️Z - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Completed 4/17/2025
Up to Challenge Links
⌛🎲Yearly Challenges: Bibliopoly🎲⌛Part 2
🎲BIBIOPOLY- Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 78/80
See the Board: (view spoiler)
" />BIBLIOPOLY-2025 Group Thread
My BIBLIOPOLY-2025 Tracking Post
See the Prompts by Property Groups, Part 1: (view spoiler)
See the Prompts by Property Groups, Part 2: all prompts would not fit, had to move some to post on page 2
⌛🅱️Yearly Challenges: GENRE BINGO🅱️⌛🅱️GENRE BINGO - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Books Read: 22/25
Use the bingo card provided or make your own custom card. Next, read books to reach your goal in bingos, books, or both. Bingo! (five squares in a line - horizontal, verical, or diagonal).
Note - Total books read to complete all 12 BINGOs will only be 25 - one book will count for a Row, Column, and Diagonal BINGO all at the same time.
See the Card: (view spoiler)
GENRE BINGO Group Thread
My GENRE BINGO Tracking Post
Bingo - Blackout
🎉Bingo - Column B:
✔️1. Science Fiction
This Is How You Lose the Time War 2/14/25
✔️2. Memoir
Eat, Pray, Love 3/31/25
✔️3. Young Adult
Shatter Me 1/1/25
✔️4. Historical Romance
What the Wind Knows 10/29/25
✔️5. Contemporary Romance
Part of Your World 1/3/25
Bingo - Column I:
✔️1. Western Fiction
The Outlaw Noble Salt 10/18/25
✔️2. Literary Fiction
Little Fires Everywhere 1/12/25
✔️3. Paranormal
A Stitch in Time 2/24/25
⏹️4. Western Romance
✔️5. Adventure
A Court of Wings and Ruin 2/2/25
Bingo - Column N:
✔️1. Classic Fiction
One Hundred Years of Solitude
✔️2. Crime
The Green Mile 2/25/25
✔️3. Free Space Any Genre
Cloud Cuckoo Land 11/30/25
⏹️4. Christian Fiction
✔️5. Supernatural
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 1/8/25
Bingo - Column G:
✔️1. Horror
It 2/19/25
✔️2. Thriller
Finders Keepers 1/5/25
⏹️3. Political
✔️4. Suspense
The Last Thing He Told Me 1/2/2025
✔️5. Historical Fiction
The Four Winds 2/8/25
🎉Bingo - Column O:
✔️1. Dystopian
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
✔️2. Mystery
The Secret, Book & Scone Society 1/26/25
✔️3. War
Arizona Moon: A Novel of Vietnam 3/1/25
✔️4. Legal Thriller
The Broker 5/10/25
✔️5. Fantasy
The Spellshop 1/19/25
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⌛🔍Yearly Challenges: I Spy 🔍⌛🔍 I SPY - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 31/36
What can you spy with your little eye? This challenge invites you to take a closer look at the covers and titles on your shelves and see what hidden treasures you can uncover!
Read a book that contains a word in the title or item on the cover that fits each of the categories below. This is YOUR challenge, so you can interpret the categories in ways that work best for you. You can use the title or the cover to fulfill each category.
I SPY Group Thread see for examples
My I SPY Tracking Post
✔️1. In your heart: LOVE
The Love Hypothesis 3/6/25
✔️2. In the color wheel: CERULEAN
The House in the Cerulean Sea 1/10/25
✔️3. In the living room: SOFA
Never Lie 3/22/25
⏹️4. In autumn
✔️5. In a cave: SPIDER
Demon Copperhead 3/28/25
✔️6. Of the body: EYES
Shatter Me 1/1/25
✔️7. At the amusement park: CLOWN
It 2/19/25
✔️8. On the table: TEA AND SCONES/TABLE
The Secret, Book & Scone Society 1/26/25
✔️9. On the farm: WHEAT
The Four Winds 2/8/25
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In the church
✔️11. In communication: LETTER
The Last Letter 4/25/25
⏹️12. In the toy box
✔️13. On the beach: LAKE/FLOATIES
Happy Place 2/5/25
✔️14. In the library: BOOK
Finders Keepers 1/5/25
✔️15. In celebration: CHAMPAGNE
The Wedding People 6/21/25
✔️16. At the zoo: SNAKE
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 3/13/25
✔️17. In the garden: TREES AND VINES
The Spellshop 1/19/25
✔️18. In a glass: ICE
Icebreaker 1/24/25
⏹️19. At the ballpark
✔️20. In the castle: CASTLE
Not That Kind of Ever After 11/16/25
✔️21. In the hospital: PATIENT
The Silent Patient 8/24/25
✔️22. In fiction: DRAGON
Fourth Wing 3/12/25
✔️23. In your free time: SEWING(STITCH)
A Stitch in Time 2/24/25
✔️24. In school: TEACHER
The Teacher 9/19/25
⏹️25. At the museum
✔️26. In the closet: SHOES
The Time Traveler's Wife 7/20/25
✔️27. At the police station: DETECTIVE
Dangerous Games 9/25/25
✔️28. In the family: SISTER
My Sister, the Serial Killer 9/11/25
✔️29. In the city: SKYSCRAPERS
Part of Your World 1/3/25
✔️30. In time: YEARS
One Hundred Years of Solitude 2/11/25
✔️31. Under the sea: FISH
End of Watch 3/20/25
✔️32. In the sky: PLANES
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers 2/13/25
✔️33. In the armory: SWORD
A Court of Wings and Ruin 2/2/25
✔️34. In space: MOON AND STARS
To the Moon and Back 11/28/25
✔️35. In the world: PARIS
The Paris Apartment 8/26/25
✔️36. In music: SING
Where the Crawdads Sing 3/16/25
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⌛⚠️Yearly Challenges: Magical Mystery Tour⚠️ ⌛⚠️MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress:
REGULAR: 39/42
BONUS: 0/8
Do you love reading crime genres and solving mysteries? Join the Magical Mystery Tour, where you can rise through the ranks of our Criminal Investigation Department. All crime fiction qualifies – mystery, suspense and thriller – as well as crime nonfiction. Books in other genres may qualify as well, if the protagonist investigates and tries to resolve some evildoing.
Solve our cases by answering these questions: who, what, when, where, how, and why? After you complete all 42 standard cases, you may attempt eight bonus Interpol cases. Prompts may not be repeated.
Have a killer time on this trip as we go once upon a crime!
Magical Mystery Tour Group Thread
My Magical Mystery Tour Tracking Post
Our Unsolved Cases
Who? 7/7
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below fields.
✔️1. Music: SINGER
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes3/13/25
✔️2. Driving: ZOO TRUCK DRIVER
West With Giraffes 11/14/25
✔️3. Food service: BAKER
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder 3/18/25
✔️4. Healthcare: PSYCHIATRIST
Never Lie 3/22/25
✔️5. Games: VIDEO GAME CREATOR
End of Watch 3/20/25
✔️6. Books: Victim=WRITER Perp=obsessed with book character that victim created
Finders Keepers 1/5/25
✔️7. Events: WEDDING PLANNER
Veil of Night 9/29/25
What? 7/7
What makes your case distinctive?
✔️1. A middle grade or young adult sleuth
It 2/19/25
✔️2. An emotion in the title
Mad Honey
✔️3. A time in the title: Time
A Stitch in Time 2/24/25
✔️4. A color in the title
The Green Mile 2/25/25
✔️5. An animal companion or narrator
Inheritance 2/21/25
✔️6. A food on the cover
The Secret, Book & Scone Society 1/26/25
✔️7. A mostly white cover
We Solve Murders 1/31/25
When? 7/7
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported (published)?
✔️1. In the 1920s
The Only One Left 1/17/25
✔️2. In the last 25 years
High Noon 5/11/25
✔️3. Around a holiday
If We Were Villains 10/23/25
✔️4. During a vacation
Julie Chan Is Dead 8/31/25
✔️5. In your birth month
Winter in Paradise 7/14/25
✔️6. Between dusk and dawn
The Paris Apartment 8/26/25
✔️7. In summer
My Sister, the Serial Killer 9/11/25
Where? 7/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
✔️1. At an orchard or farm
The Berry Pickers 10/8/25
✔️2. On an island
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers 2/13/25
✔️3. In a capital city
The Perfect Marriage 4/28/25
✔️4. At a restaurant or bar
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 3/27/25
✔️5. At a hotel or lodge
The Girl in Cabin 13 10/30/25
✔️6. At a park or campground
One by One 10/16/25
✔️7. In someone’s home
Coraline 3/1/25
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. GUN
The Silent Patient 8/24/25
✔️2. KNIFE
I'll Be Waiting 3/8/25
✔️3. PUSHED FROM HIGH PLACE
Where the Crawdads Sing 3/16/25
✔️4. MAGIC
The Mirror 4/15/25
✔️5. BOMBING
If It Bleeds 10/10/25
✔️6. POISON
The Bane Witch 10/31/25
✔️7. BEATEN TO DEATH
The Berry Pickers 10/8/25
Why? 4/7
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
⏹️1. A favorite mystery author or series: Nora Roberts
✔️2. A favorite mystery subgenre: horror
The Outsider 9/27/25
✔️3. On a Goodreads listopia (Which one?) Books that should be made into movies #116
The Last Thing He Told Me 1/2/25
⏹️4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction:
⏹️5. A challenged or banned crime book
✔️6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year)
Hot Pursuit 4/23/25
✔️7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above
The Return of Ellie Black 2/4/25
Bonus Cases My Goal 0/0 (Possible 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
* * *
Ranks (view spoiler)
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⌛🔁Yearly Challenges: Opposites Attract🔁 ⌛🔁OPPOSITES ATTRACT
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
🎉Progress: 22/12
🎉Pairs: 11/6
Completed
This year-long reading adventure invites you to explore dualities, contrasts, and contradictions through the power of opposites. Sometimes the best way to understand something is to read its opposite! Whether they’re found in titles, characters, genres, or even authors’ styles, select pairs of books across any themes or genres that inspire you, and let the contrasts deepen your understanding of different worlds, mindsets, and values.
OPPOSITES ATTRACT Group Thread
My OPPOSITES ATTRACT Tracking Post
Pair #1: Fire/Ice
✔️🔥 Little Fires Everywhere 1/12/25
✔️ 🧊 Icebreaker 1/24/25
Pair #2: Happy/Mad
✔️😊 Happy Place 2/5/25
✔️😠Mad Honey 3/2/25
Pair #3: True/Lie
✔️💯 Too Good to Be True 3/2/2025
✔️🤥 Never Lie 3/22/2025
Pair #4: Part/Whole
✔️🌓Part of Your World 1/3/25
✔️🌑We All Live Here 10/7/25
Pair #5: Summer/Winter
✔️☀️Summer Island 1/28/25
✔️❄️Winter in Paradise 7/14/25
Pair #6: Me/You
✔️🙋Shatter Me 1/1/25
✔️🫵This Is How You Lose the Time War 2/14/25
Pair #7: Your/My
✔️⭕Yours Truly 5/1/25
✔️🔴Out of My Mind 11/8/25
Pair #8: Marriage/Divorce
✔️💑The Perfect Marriage 4/28/25
✔️💔The Perfect Divorce 8/29/25
Pair #9: Big/Little
✔️⬛Great Big Beautiful Life 5/3/25
✔️▪️Little Women 6/12/25
Pair #10: Light/Dark
✔️🤍The Light Between Oceans 7/25/25
✔️🖤All the Colors of the Dark 9/16/25
Pair #11: Hero/Villian
✔️🦸Some Kind of Hero 9/23/25
✔️👺If We Were Villains 10/23/25
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⌛🧁Yearly Challenges: Popsugar🧁 ⌛🧁POP SUGAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 41/40
The Popsugar Reading Challenge is back for its 10th year! This popular challenge has 50 total prompts for readers to fill with books! See Group Thread for link to website that the challenge originates from. Complete all 50 or choose a handful.
POP SUGAR Group Thread
My POP SUGAR Tracking Post
Basic Prompts
✔️1. A book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma
---Some Kind of Hero 9/23/25✔️2. A book you want to read based on the last sentence
---If We Were Villains 10/23/25✔️3. A book about space tourism
---To the Moon and Back 11/28/25✔️4. A book with two or more books on the cover or "book" in the title
---The Secret, Book & Scone Society 1/26/25 ✔️5. A book with a snake on the cover or in the title
---Demon Copperhead 3/28/25 ✔️6. A book that fills your favorite prompt from the 2015 PS Reading Challenge- more than 500 pages
---American Gods: Tenth Anniversary 2/23/25✔️7. A book about a cult
---Julie Chan Is Dead 8/31/25✔️8. A book under 250 pages
---This Is How You Lose the Time War 2/14/25✔️9. A book that features a character going through menopause
---Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 3/27/25✔️10. A book you got for free
---Snake-Eater 11/22/25⏹️11. A book mentioned in another book
✔️12. A book about a road trip
---Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted 4/22/25✔️13. A book rated less than three stars on Goodreads - less than 3 stars when I planned it
---The House in the Pines 11/21/25✔️14. A book about a nontraditional education
---Iron Flame 4/8/25✔️15. A book that an AI chatbot recommends based on your favorite book
---The Silent Patient 8/24/25✔️16. A book set in or around a body of water
---Summer Island 1/28/25⏹️17. A book about a run club
✔️18. A book containing magical creatures that aren't dragons
---A Court of Wings and Ruin 2/2/25✔️19. A highly anticipated read of 2025
---Sunrise on the Reaping 4/29/25✔️20. A book that fills a 2024 prompt you'd like to do over (or try out) #38: Cozy Fantasy
---The Spellshop 1/19/25⏹️21. A book where the main character is a politician
⏹️22. A book about soccer
⏹️23. A book that is considered healing fiction
✔️24. A book with a happily single woman protagonist
---Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder 3/18/25✔️25. A book where the main character is an immigrant or refugee
---The Matchmaker's Gift 5/5/25✔️26. A book where an adult character changes careers
---Happy Place 2/5/25✔️27. A book set at a luxury resort
---The Unhoneymooners 3/29/25✔️28. A book that features an unlikely friendship
---The Green Mile 2/25/25⏹️29. A book about a food truck
✔️30. A book that reminds you of your childhood
---A Painted House 8/30/25✔️31. A book where music plays an integral part of the storyline
---The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 3/3/25✔️32. A book about an overlooked woman in history
---Canary Girls8/22/25✔️33. A book featuring an activity on your bucket list: visit Italy>/i>
---Eat, Pray, Love 3/31/25✔️34. A book written by an author who is neurodivergent
---One of Us Knows 2/28/25 ✔️35. A book centering LGBTQ+ characters that isn't about coming out
---The House in the Cerulean Sea 1/10/25 ✔️36. A book with silver on the cover or in the title
---Onyx Storm 9/30/25⏹️37. Two books with the same title (1)
⏹️38. Two books with the same title (2)
✔️39. A classic you've never read
---Little Women 6/12/25✔️40. A book about chosen family
---The Becoming 5/14/25Advanced Prompts
Easy
⏹️41. A book by the oldest author in your TBR pile
✔️42. A book with a title that starts with the letter Y
---Yours Truly 5/1/25✔️43. A book that includes a nonverbal character
---Archer's Voice 1/15/25 ✔️44. A book you have always avoided reading
---The Grapes of Wrath 9/28/25Medium
✔️45. A book with a left-handed character
---It 2/19/25✔️46. A book where nature is the antagonist
---The Four Winds 2/8/25✔️47. A book of interconnected short stories
---If It Bleeds 10/10/25Hard
✔️48. A book that features a married couple who don't live together
---Breaking the Rules 9/8/25✔️49. A dystopian book with a happy ending
---Shatter Me 1/1/25✔️50. A book that features a character with chronic pain
---Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4/17/25Up to Challenge Links
⌛🔢Yearly Challenges: Serial Reader 🔢⌛🔢 SERIAL READER
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 32/32
This challenge encourages you to dive into and make progress on all those wonderful series out there, just waiting for your attention and time. You can read them all for this challenge: long series, short series, companion books, and novellas!
The only rule is that a qualifying book must be described by Goodreads as part of a series.
You don’t need to read the whole series at once. Feel free to finish a series or two that you began in 2024 or earlier, try out the first book in several series, or just enjoy that long-awaited sequel!
SERIAL READER Group Thread
My SERIAL READER Tracking Post
Original Goal
I will start 2 series this year. (2 books)-10
I will finish 2 series I have started before this year. (8 books)-5
I will read 3 series from start to finish this year. (10 books)-9
I will read __ books that are part of a series. (# books)-5
My total number of books is 20. (updated total to 32)
🎉🔢Series to Start🔢 13/10
The Shatter Me Series by Tahereh Mafi
✔️1. Shatter Me
Cerulean Chronicles 1/2 (may move to completed series) by T.J. Klune
✔️1. The House in the Cerulean Sea
Maple Hills 1/3 by Hannah Grace
✔️1. Icebreaker
Secret, Book, & Scone Society 1/7 by Ellery Adams
✔️1. The Secret, Book & Scone Society
The Hales 1/2 by Mia Sheridan
✔️1. Archer's Voice
We Solve Murders 1/tbd by Richard Osman
✔️1. We Solve Murders
Hannah Swenson by Joanne Fluke
✔️ 1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Perfect by Jeneva Rose
✔️1. The Perfect Marriage
Holly Gibney by Stephen King
✔️1. The Outsider
Detective Sami Kierce by Harlan Coben
✔️1. Fool Me Once
FBI by Tess Diamond
✔️1. Dangerous Games
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
✔️1. Out of My Mind
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
✔️1. Beartown
Dream Harbor by Laurie Gilmore
Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Texas Trilogy by Lorraine Heath
Ridley Jones by Lisa Unger
🎉🔢Series to Finish🔢 5/5
Troubleshooters by Suzanne Brockmann
✔️15. Hot Pursuit
✔️16. Breaking the Rules
✔️17. Some Kind of Hero
🎉Stephen King's Bill Hodges Trilogy by Stephen King
✔️2. Finders Keepers
✔️3. End of Watch
🔢Series from Start to Finish🔢 8/9
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
✔️1. Part of Your World
✔️2. Yours Truly
✔️3. Just for the Summer
The Lost Bride Trilogy by Nora Roberts
✔️1. Inheritance
✔️2. The Mirror
3.
The Dragon Heart Legacy by Nora Roberts
✔️1. The Awakening
✔️2. The Becoming
✔️3. The Choice
🎉🔢Part of a Series🔢 6/5
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
✔️3. A Court of Wings and Ruin
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
✔️0. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
✔️.5 Sunrise on the Reaping
The Empryean Series by Rebecca Yarros
✔️1. Fourth Wing
✔️2. Iron Flame
✔️3. Onyx Storm
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⌛🏁Yearly Challenges: Clear the Shelves 🏁⌛🏁 CLEAR THE SHELVES
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 17/34
This challenge is a way to clean out all of your bookshelves, whether that be your physical, your electric, or your audible ones! The aim is to prioritize books you already own, so for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after December 31, 2024 unless you have read at least 5 books that you already own.
CLEAR THE SHELVES Group Thread
My CLEAR THE SHELVES tracking post
Physical Books: 2/10
(choose at least 10 books that I already own or have borrowed)
(view spoiler)
Ebooks: 10/14
(books borrowed from kindle unlimited at beg of year and free reads from prev year or books borrowed and snoozed multiple times-choose at least 14)
(view spoiler)
Audible Books: 5/10
(books started in prev years and not finished and books downloaded in prev years but not started or library books snoozed - choose at least 10)
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⌛🫙Yearly Challenges: TBR Jar🏁🫙🫙 TBR JAR
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 10/16
Different from Clearing the Shelves because I do not already own all of the books on my TBR list. I chose option 2 (specific tasks to pick each book) and will be choosing books based only on my Goodreads Want to Read books as of beginning of 2025.
TBR JAR - 2025 Group Thread
My TBR JAR Tracking Post
⏹️1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
John Adams
✔️2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
A Court of Wings and Ruin --- 2/2/25
⏹️3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
The Count of Monte Cristo
✔️4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
Natural Selection --- 12/4/25
⏹️ Read the earliest published book on your TBR
Sense and Sensibility
✔️6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
Beartooth---11/17/25
⏹️7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8
Fighting Words
✔️8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
The House in the Pines 11/21/25
⏹️9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
1984
⏹️10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
Home Fire Inferno
✔️11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
All the Colors of the Dark---9/16/25
✔️12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
Yours Truly --- 5/1/25
✔️13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
It--- 2/19/25
✔️14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers --- 2/13/25
✔️15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
Fourth Wing --- 3/12/25
✔️16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
The Kite Runner ---11/25/25
⌛🌈Yearly Challenges: Wheel of Feels🌈 ⌛🌈WHEEL OF FEELS
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 44/99
Take a ride on an Emotional Rollercoaster this year as we explore Robert Plutchik’s wheel of emotions. The flower-like illustration above shows eight core emotions at the center with three more levels of intensity as the colors range from dark to light along each petal. An additional eight combined emotions lie between the petals, e.g., Joy + Trust = Love.
See the Wheel: (view spoiler)
WHEEL OF FEELS Group Thread
My WHEEL OF FEELS Tracking Post
Prompts:
Emotional Spelling 24/49
Choose an emotion from the wheel, and spell it out using the first main word of your book titles (omitting articles such as a, an, or the).
1. JOY
----J -
✔️ O - One Hundred Years of Solitude
----Y -
J -
-Y🎉2. AWE
✔️A - American Gods
✔️W - We Rip the World Apart
✔️E - End of Watch
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3. TRUST
✔️ T - This Is How You Lose the Time War
✔️ R - The Return of Ellie Black
✔️U - The Unhoneymooners
✔️ S - Shatter Me
---T -
-
-
-T4. FEAR
✔️ F - Finders Keepers
---E -
✔️A - Archer's Voice
---R -
-E-
-R4. SURPRISE
✔️ S - The Secret, Book & Scone Society
---U -
---R -
---P -
---R -
✔️ I - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✔️ S - Summer Island
---E -
-U-R-P-R-
-E5. GRIEF
✔️ G - The Green Mile
---R -
✔️ I - Icebreaker
---E -
✔️F - Fourth Wing
-R-
-E-
6. DISGUST
---D -
✔️ I - It
✔️ S - A Stitch in Time
---G -
---U -
---S -
---T -
D-
-G-U-S-T7. RAGE
---R -
✔️A - Arizona Moon: A Novel of Vietnam
---G -
---E -
8. VIGILANCE
---V -
✔️ I - Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers
---G -
✔️I - I'll Be Waiting
✔️ L - Little Fires Everywhere
---A -
✔️N - Never Lie
✔️ C - Coraline
---E -
V-
-G-
-
-A-
-
-EEmotional Titles 2/3
Find named emotions from the wheel in the titles of your books. Variations and synonyms are allowed.
✔️1. Red: Mad Honey
✔️2. Yellow to Green: The Love Hypothesis
Emotional Experiences 9/8
Make up to 32 matches with the named emotions based on how your books make you feel, or an emotion experienced within the book.
Yellow:
✔️1. SERENITY
Eat, Pray, Love
2. JOY
3. ECSTASY
Light Green:
✔️4. ACCEPTANCE
The House in the Cerulean Sea
5. TRUST
6. ADMIRATION
Dark Green:
✔️7. APPREHENSION
The Only One Left
8. FEAR
9. TERROR
Blue:
10. DISTRACTION
11. SURPISE
✔️12. AMAZEMENT
The Spellshop
Dark Blue/Purple:
13. PENSIVENESS
14. SADNESS
✔️15. GRIEF
The Four Winds
Pink:
✔️16. BOREDOM
Milkman
17. DISGUST
18. LOATHING
Red:
19. ANNOYANCE
20. ANGER
21. RAGE
Orange:
✔️22. INTEREST
Inheritance
23. ANTICIPATION
24. VIGILANCE
25. Yellow/Green: LOVE
26. Green/Dark Green: SUBMISSION
27. Dark Green/Blue: AWE
28. Blue/Purple: DISAPPROVAL
29. Purple/Pink: REMORSE
✔️30. Pink/Red: CONTEMPT
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
31. Red/Orange: AGGRESSIVENESS
✔️32. Orange/Yellow: OPTIMISM
Demon Copperhead
Emotional Colors 9/32
Read books whose cover colors match the emotions on the wheel. Combined emotions should include the two colors on either side from which that emotion is derived. There are 24 named emotions, 8 unnamed shades, and 8 combinations, for a total of 40 possibilities.
Yellow
1. Ecstasy
✔️2. Joy - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
3. Serenity
Light Green
4. Admiration
5. Trust
6. Acceptance
Dark Green
7. Terrror
8. Fear
✔️9. Apprehension - The Last Thing He Told Me
Blue
10. Amazement
✔️11. Surprise - Part of Your World
12. Distraction
Dark Blue/Purple
13. Grief
14. Sadness
✔️15. Pensiveness - Bed...and Breakfast
Pink
✔️16. Loathing - A Court of Wings and Ruin
✔️17. Disgust - Happy Place
18. Boredom
Red
19. Rage
✔️20. Anger - We Solve Murders
21. Annoyance
Orange
22. Vigilance
23. Anticipation
✔️24. Interest - Where the Crawdads Sing
Color Combos
25. Love yellow and green
26. Submission light green and dark green
27. Awe green and blue
28. Disapproval blue and purple
29. Remorse purple and pink
30. Contempt pink and red
31. Aggressiveness red and orange
✔️32. Optimism orange and yellow - The Awakening
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🎢💙Quarterly Challenges: Quarter 1 2025- Embracing the Blues💙🎢💙EMBRACING THE BLUES💙
Duration: January 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025
🥳Completed: 21/12 🥳
EMBRACING THE BLUES Group Thread
My EMBRACING THE BLUES Tracking Post
Four books with a blue cover or title:
10/4
✔️1. Part of Your World 1/3/25
✔️2. Shatter Me 1/1/25
✔️3. Little Fires Everywhere 1/11/25
✔️4. Archer's Voice 1/15/25
✔️5. Icebreaker 1/24/25
✔️6. The Secret, Book & Scone Society 1/26/25
✔️7. We Rip the World Apart 2/27/25
✔️8. One of Us Knows 2/28/25
✔️9. The Love Hypothesis 3/6/25
✔️10. It Happened One Summer 3/21/25
AND 8 more by reading a book that starts with each letter to spell out "The Blues.":
8/8
✔️ (T): This Is How You Lose the Time War 2/14/25
✔️(H): The House in the Cerulean Sea 1/10/25
✔️ (E): End of Watch 3/20/25
✔️ (B): The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 3/13/25
✔️(L): The Last Thing He Told Me 1/2/25
✔️ (U): The Unhoneymooners 3/29/25
✔️ (E): Eat, Pray, Love 3/31/25
✔️(S): The Spellshop 1/19/25
AND Books that me physically cry:
3/0
✔️Summer Island 1/28/25
✔️The Four Winds 2/8/25
✔️ Demon Copperhead 3/28/25
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🎢🎶Quarterly Challenges: Quarter 1 2025- Sad Songs🎶🎢🎶SAD SONGS🎶
Duration: January 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025
🥳Completed: 20/20🥳
SAD SONGS Group Thread
My SAD SONGS Tracking Post
✔️1. “Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?” — Derek & the Dominos
Read a book with "love" in the title, or a game piece on the cover (domino, playing card, etc.). - Completed 3/6/25
The Love Hypothesis✔️2. “There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)” — Billy Ocean
Read a book with "cry" in the title, or with an ocean scene on the cover. - Completed 1/17/25
The House in the Cerulean Sea✔️3. “Sad Lookin’ Moon” — Alabama
Read a book set in the south, or with a moon on the cover. - Completed 2/25/25
The Green Mile✔️4. “The Sad Café” — The Eagles
Read a book with a restaurant setting, or with a bird on the cover. - Completed 2/14/25
This Is How You Lose the Time War✔️5. “Too Young for Sad Memories” — Alvin Stardust (Shane Fenton)
Read a young adult novel, or a book with a night sky on the cover. - Completed 1/3/25
Part of Your World✔️6. “So Why So Sad” — Manic Street Preachers
Read a book with a map in it, or with a religious leader (Rabbi, Swami, Priest, etc.). - Completed 3/12/25
Fourth Wing✔️7. “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” — Bob Dylan
Read a book with a lady's eyes on the cover, or involving a festival. -Completed 1/1/25
Shatter Me✔️8. “Sad Girlz Luv Money” — Amaarae and Moliy
Read a book with currency on the cover, or with a made-up word or spelling in the title. - Completed 3/29/25
The Unhoneymooners✔️9. “No More Sad Songs” — Little Mix featuring Machine Gun Kelly
Read a book with mixed genres, or with a firearm on the cover. - Completed 3/31/25
Eat, Pray, Love✔️10. “Sad Caper” — Hootie and the Blowfish
Read a book involving a heist or caper, or a book with sea life on the cover. - Completed 1/5/25
Finders Keepers✔️11. “Sad Beautiful Tragic” — Taylor Swift
Read a book with something beautiful on the cover, or with "swift" or a synonym in the title (quick, fast, etc.). - Completed 2/13/25
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers✔️12. “Sad” — Pearl Jam
Read a book with jewelry on the cover, or involving any sweet food (jam, pie, honey, etc.).
Completed 1/19/25
The Spellshop✔️13. “Mr. Dieingly Sad” — The Critters
Read a book that includes a death, or a book with animals on the cover. - Completed 1/15/25
Archer's Voice✔️14. “So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)” — The Everly Brothers
Read a book with "good" or "bad" in the title, or a book that includes siblings. - Completed 1/17/25
The Only One Left✔️15. “Sad Day” — The Rolling Stones
Read a book with a daytime scene on the cover, or with a verb in the title. - Completed 2/27/25
We Rip the World Apart✔️16. “Sad Memory” — Buffalo Springfield
Read a historical book (fiction or nonfiction), or a book with a mammal on the cover. - Completed 2/8/25
The Four Winds✔️17. “Sad Sun” — Deer Tick
Read a book with "sun" in the title, or with an arachnid on the cover. - Completed 3/28/25
Demon Copperhead✔️18. “Sad Mood” — Sam Cooke
Read a book with a mood in the title, or a book about a royal figure. - Completed 2/2/25
A Court of Wings and Ruin✔️19. “Don’t Be Sad” — Scotty Sire
Read a book with a negative in the title (no, can't, etc.), or a book that explores fatherhood. - Completed 3/22/25
Never Lie✔️20. “Why Do I Feel So Sad” — Alicia Keys
Read a book with a question word in the title (who, where, etc.), or with a musical instrument on the cover. - Completed 3/16/25
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🎢🥣Quarterly Challenges: Quarter 2 2025- A Recipe For Happiness🥣🎢🥣A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS🥣
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2025
Completed: 15/15
A dash of delight, a sprinkle of smiles, and a heaping spoonful of your favorite reads—mix them all together, and you have the perfect recipe for happiness! This open prompt challenge is all about embracing what makes you happy as a reader.
A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS Group Thread
My A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS Tracking Post
Ingrediants you will need:
A cupful of your favourite genre
– What genre always lifts your spirits? Romance, fantasy, mystery? Indulge!
✔️1. Historical Fiction
-------- 🟣When the World Fell Silent 4/30/25
✔️2. Romantic Suspense
-------- 🟣High Noon 5/11/25
✔️3. Fantasy Fiction
-------- 🟣Iron Flame 4/8/25
A spoonful of your favourite author
– Revisit an old favorite or discover a new gem from an author who never disappoints.
✔️1. Nora Roberts
-------- 🟣The Awakening 4/3/25
✔️2. Suzanne Brockmann
-------- 🟣Hot Pursuit 4/23/25
✔️3. Stephen King
------- 🟣Fairy Tale 4/13/25
A pinch of an anticipated new release
– Is there a book you've been eagerly awaiting? Now’s the time to savor it.
✔️1.-------- 🟣The Mirror 4/15/25
✔️2.-------- 🟣Sunrise on the Reaping 4/29/25
✔️3.-------- 🟣Great Big Beautiful Life 5/3/25
A drop of a long unread book from your TBR pile
– Dust off that book you've been meaning to get to forever.
✔️1. -------- 🟣Little Women 6/12/25
✔️2.-------- 🟣Between Sisters 6/9/25
✔️3.-------- 🟣The Broker 5/10/25
And a cherry on top
- Book(s) with a pretty cover – Because sometimes, judging a book by its cover is the best kind of treat.
✔️1. -------- 🟣The Becoming 5/14/25
✔️2.-------- 🟣The Matchmaker's Gift 5/5/25
✔️3.-------- 🟣The God of the Woods 6/26/25
Quantities have been altered to make a triple batch of the perfect recipe.!
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🎢🍾Quarterly Challenges: Quarter 2 2025- A Pop of Joy🍾🎢🍾A POP OF JOY🍾
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2025
Completed: 11/11
Based on the theme of Joy, this quarterly challenge highlights references to joy in various aspects of popular culture. Pop over to the library, bookshop, or your own shelf, and join us in this Ode to Joy.
A POP OF JOY Group Thread
My A POP OF JOY Tracking Post
✔️1. Spark Joy - A popular decluttering and organizing book written by Marie Kondō.
🟣- Read a book that has been on your TBR for over 2 years
The Broker- Read a self-help book
✔️2. Joy - The embodiment of the first emotion created in the Disney/Pixar's movie Inside Out.
- Read a book with 'yellow' in the title or with a yellow cover
🟣- read the first book in a series
The Awakening 4/3/25✔️3. Ode to Joy - In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven used Friedrich Schiller's 1785 poem in his Symphony No. 9.
🟣- Read a book first published in 18th or 19th centuries
Little Women- Read a translated book originally written by a European author
✔️4. Joy of Cooking - First published in 1931, over 20 million copies are in print.
🟣- Read a book that has been on a 'bestseller' list
The God of the Woods- Read a book about food and food culture, or where the main character works in a food-related industry
✔️5. Joy to the World - While not initially associated with Christmas, this hymn is now the most published Christmas carol in North America.
- Read a book that you have been gifted, or have gifted, in a holiday or gift exchange
🟣- Read a book by an author from a different religion or belief system (or lack thereof) than yours
Iron Flame✔️6. Tears of Joy 😂 - Widespread in digital communication, this emoji conveys the feeling of laughing so hard that tears are shed.
- Read a graphic novel or a book from the humor and comedy genres
🟣- Read a book that includes new technology or a science fiction book
Fahrenheit 451✔️7. The Joy Luck Club - A popular novel by Amy Tan that explores relationships between four Chinese immigrant mothers, their daughters, and families.
🟣- Read a book about immigrants or immigration
The Matchmaker's Gift- Read a book that has been adapted for film, television, or the stage
✔️8. Joy Ride< - A ride taken for pleasure, often involving reckless driving in a stolen vehicle.
🟣 - Read a thriller, or a book where the main character goes on an adventure
Fairy Tale - Read a book with less than 120 pages, so you can zip through it
✔️9.Joy by Jean Patou - An expensive, luxury perfume introduced in 1930, and voted Scent of the Century in 2000.
🟣- Read a book where one of the main character is wealthy, or pretends to be
The Last Mrs. Parrish 4/11/25- Read an award winning book (any award of your choice!)
✔️10. Nurse Joy - A patient and caring recurring character from the Pokémon series.
🟣- Read a book about healthcare or medicine, or about a character who works in these fields
Yours Truly- Read a book written by an East Asian woman
✔️11. Joy of Missing Out - JOMO embraces finding joy and contentment, focusing on what you want to do, rather than what you feel pressured to do.
🟣- Read a book with less than 500 reviews on Goodreads
Hot Pursuit- Re-read and re-visit a book that you love
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🎢🎬Quarterly Challenges: Quarter 3 2025- Recreational Anger🎬🎢🎬RECREATIONAL ANGER🎬
Duration: July 1 - Septmeber 30, 2025
🥳Completed: 18/18
RECREATIONAL ANGER Group Thread
My RECREATIONAL ANGER Tracking Post
Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of, by losing it.
-- Jack Nicholson as Dr. Buddy Rydell in "Anger Management"
The third quarter of 2025’s emotional rollercoaster brings us to the theme of Anger. The prompts for this three-month challenge are based on a wide variety of movies from around the world with titles that reflect the theme. Try to keep your cool as we explore films about folks who are hot under the collar.
☑️1. Anger Management, 2003 - This buddy comedy involves a businessman sentenced to complete an anger management program.
Read a self-help book, a humor or comedy book, or a book about male friendship.
Breaking the Rules 9/8/2025
☑️2. The Upside of Anger, 2005 - This family drama involves a woman whose husband has disappeared, their four daughters, and a romance with a neighbor.
Read a romance, a book involving a disappearance, or a book with a sibling group.
Winter in Paradise 7/14/25
☑️3. To Sleep with Anger, 1990 - Danny Glover stars as an evil but charming drifter, who visits an old acquaintance, and brings trouble to a his family.
Read a book by a BIPOC author, a book published in the 1990’s, or a book with a manipulative character.
Julie Chan Is Dead 8/31/25
☑️4. Day of Anger, 1967 - In this violent spaghetti western, a garbage boy becomes the pupil of a violent gunfighter.
Read a book set in Southern Europe,with a weapon on the cover, or about a teacher-pupil relationship.
The Teacher 9/19/25
☑️5. Look Back in Anger, 1959 - Originally a UK stage play, this film tells of a disillusioned university graduate with a grudge against middle-class values.
Read a book published in the 1950’s, a play, or a book that’s been adapted to or from another medium.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 8/10/25
☑️6. Praying with Anger, 1992 - In M. Night Shyamalan’s first film, we meet an Americanized teenager of East Indian heritage who is sent back to India, where he discovers his roots.
Read a book by an Asian author, one that explores religion or spirituality, or an author’s debut novel.
The Time Traveler's Wife 7/20/25
☑️7. La Rabia, 2008 - In this Argentinian movie, a married woman has a forbidden relationship with her neighbor, and both her mute daughter and her lover’s son know of their infidelity.
Read about someone with a communication disorder, a book set in South America, or a book with an adulterous affair.
The Perfect Divorce 8/29/25
☑️8. Halls of Anger, 1970 - During desegregation, students at an all-black inner city school are opposed to having white kids transferred in, and a tough black teacher is brought in to assist.
Read a book involving race relations, a book set in a school, or a historical fiction novel.
Shelterwood 7/23/25
☑️9. Love and Anger, 1969 - This film includes five short stories by different directors.
Read an anthology, a short story collection, or a book with opposites in its title.
Beautiful Ugly 7/30/25
☑️10. Anger, 2024 - This Italian action film involves a gambling addiction, illegal drugs, and undercover police work.
Read a new release, a book involving an addiction, or a crime novel.
Famous Last Words 7/24/25
☑️11. Fighting with Anger, 2007 - In this western about a young female assassin and an older male hitman, she is targeted by the Korean government after botching a job.
Read a western, a book with male-female work partners, or a book about the consequences of a mistake.
Home Is Where the Bodies Are 9/13/25
☑️12. The Anger, 2021 - This film involves a postwar relationship between a Lebanese woman and a European man, and explores Middle Eastern cultures and traditions.
Read a book set in the Middle East, originally written in Arabic, or involving a cross-cultural relationship.
A Painted House 8/30/2025
☑️13. Absolute Anger, 2023 - In this Canadian psychological noir thriller, a detective tries to solve a series of murders amidst a cat-and-mouse game with the killer.
Read a psychological thriller, a book by a Canadian author, or a detective novel.
The Paris Apartment 8/26/25
☑️14. Anger Me, 2006 - This film is a biographical documentary of Avant-Garde filmmaker Kenneth Anchor.
Read a biography, an experimental literature book, or a book about visual arts.
The Silent Patient 8/24/25
☑️15. Queen Bee's Anger, 1958 - This Japanese crime film was released in 1958.
Read a book set in Asia, involving royalty, or with an insect on the cover.
Onyx Storm 9/30/2025
☑️16. Anger in the Wind, 2016 - Filmed in Niger, this film explores ethical and environmental issues surrounding uranium mining and radioactive dust.
Read a book by an African author, involving mining or miners, or a book about the environment.
My Sister, the Serial Killer 9/11/25
☑️17. Anger of the Dead, 2015 - This horror film features a pregnant woman struggling to survive in a world where a virus is creating zombies.
Read a horror novel, a survival/adventure story, or a book with a pregnant main character.
The Light Between Oceans 7/25/25
☑️18. Mad Max, 1979 - The first film in the Mad Max franchise, this post apocalyptic movie involves an Australian policeman trying to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Read a dystopian book, a book set in Australia, or a book that’s the first in a series.
Here One Moment 8/18/25
🎢😡Quarterly Challenges: Quarter 3 2025- Recreational Anger😡🎢😡RAGE ON THE PAGE😡
Duration: July 1 - Septmeber 30, 2025
Progress: 15/6
RAGE ON THE PAGE Group Thread
My RAGE ON THE PAGE Tracking Post
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For this open-ended quarterly challenge, we are focused on the theme of Anger.
▪ Read books about handling anger -- seeking revenge, controlling anger, compromising, etc.
1. Beautiful Ugly 7/30/2025
2. The Paris Apartment 8/26/2025
3. The Silent Patient 8/24/2025
4. The Perfect Divorce 8/29/2025
5. Julie Chan Is Dead 8/31/2025
6. The Teacher 9/19/2025
▪ Read books with titles containing rage, anger, annoyance, or similar words
7. The Grapes of Wrath 9/28/2025
▪ Read books with covers in shades of red
8. Winter in Paradise 7/14/2025
9. Famous Last Words 7/24/2025
10. Just for the Summer 9/3/2025
11. Breaking the Rules 9/8/2025
12. All the Colors of the Dark 9/16/2025
13. Home Is Where the Bodies Are 9/13/2025
14. Some Kind of Hero 9/23/2025
15. Veil of Night 9/29/2025
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🎢😱Quarterly Challenges: Quarter 4 2025- What's Your Fear Factor?😱🎢😱WHAT'S YOUR FEAR FACTOR?😱
Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 1/12
What are you afraid of?
This challenge invites you to explore the vast and varied world of fear—literal or symbolic, intense or subtle.
*Horror or thrillers filled with suspense, monsters, and shadows
*Read books that reflect common phobias and personal anxieties: fear of flying, the dark, animals, failure, the unknown, being alone.
*Books can count if they include a fear or phobia in the cover art, title, or theme
WHAT'S YOUR FEAR FACTOR? Group Thread
My WHAT'S YOUR FEAR FACTOR? Tracking Post
✅1. Mnemophobia - fear of the process of remembering
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Listen for the Lie 10/4/2025
✅2. Abductophobia - fear of your child being abducted
Genre: Historical Fiction Mystery
The Berry Pickers 10/8/25
✅3. Social Anxiety - fear of not fitting in , being left out, or what people think or say about you
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
We All Live Here
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🎢🥂Quarterly Challenges: Quarter 4 2025- Here's to Fears🎢🥂🥂HERE'S TO FEARS🥂
Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 1/20
HERE'S TO FEARS Group Thread
My HERE'S TO FEARS Tracking Post
🔎 1. Fear of the unknown
Read a book that involves secrets, or where someone ventures into a unknown place or territory.
📖 2. Gripped by fear
Read a book where fear controls someone's decisions, or where a character holds onto something or someone for dear life.
🧊 3. Paralyzed with fear
Read a book about a someone with a disability, or where a character faces a difficult decision.
⚡ 4. Struck with fear
Read a book involving a natural disaster, or where a character's choices affect the rest of the story.
🧠 5. Fear is the mind-killer (Dune)
Read a sci-fi or speculative fiction book, a book that involves any sort of training, or a book that involves murder.
🏚️ 6. Live in fear
Read a book where a character is threatened, or a book that features a house on the cover or in the title.
💪 7. No fear
Read a book with a character who shows no fear, or a book with a negative in the title.
🎭 8. Instill fear
Read a book where someone is controlling or being controlled, or a book with a weapon on the cover or in the title.
🙏 9. Fear and trembling
Read a book where someone is not in control of their actions, or a book where someone is scared.
🗡️ 10. Strike fear into the heart
Read a book where a character is feared by others, or with a body part on the cover or in the title.
⛪ 11. Put the fear of God into someone
Read a book about religion or spirituality or lack thereof, or read a book that features a religious leader (priest, rabbi, preacher, etc.).
🎖️ 12. There’s nothing to fear but fear itself
Read a book where a character overcomes an obstacle, or a book with a repeated word in the title.
👁️ 13. Fear rears its ugly head
Read a book where something or someone resurfaces after a time, or a book with an adjective in the title.
🥶 14. Frozen with fear
Read a book set in a cold place, set in winter, or with wintry elements on the cover or in the title (snow, ice, frost, etc.).
⚖️ 15. A healthy dose of fear
Read a book about medicine or healthcare, a character that works in those fields, or a book that celebrates life.
📺 16. Fearmongering
Read a dystopian book, a book involving politics, or a book about influencing others.
✅ 17. Fear for one’s life
Read a survival story, a thriller, or a book that involves a death.
💀Listen for the Lie 10/4/2025
🌒 18. Fear casts a long shadow
Read a horror book, a book set at night or in a dark place, or a book that involves trauma.
🏃 19. Driven by fear
Read a book involving any mode of transportation, or where emotions influence a character's decision.
🛑 20. Out of fear
Read a book where a character makes a morally gray choice because they were afraid, or read a book with fear or similar words (e.g. scared, terror, panic, etc.) in the title.
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📆🧸Monthly Challenges: January - Let's Get Cozy🧸📆🧸LET'S GET COZY 🧸
Duration: January 1, 2025 - January 31, 2025
🥳Completed: 8/8🥳
LET'S GET COZY Group Thread
My LET'S GET COZY Tracking Post
✔️1. Cozy Books: These sub-genres embody a sense of warmth, comfort and relaxation.
Read a book from the Cozy Mystery, Cozy Fantasy, or Cozy Horror bookshelf.
The House in the Cerulean Sea
✔️2. Cozy Arrangement: A secret or informal agreement, often implying a sense of mutual benefit.
Read a book involving a secret arrangement, or with the word "secret" in the title.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✔️3. Tea Cozy: A knit or cloth covering for a teapot used to keep the water inside warm.
Read a book with a tea cup or tea pot on the cover, or where characters serve or consume tea.
The Secret, Book & Scone Society
✔️4. Cozy Fireplace: A crackling fire provides warmth and comfort, and is associated with relaxation and intimacy.
Read a book with fire on the cover or in the title, or a self-help book.
Little Fires Everywhere
✔️5. Cozy Up: To snuggle up to someone, implying physical comfort and closeness.
Read a book where people are physically close to one another, including, but not limited to, a romance.
Part of Your World
✔️6. Cozy Winter Scene: A depiction of a serene winter environment, often featuring snow-covered landscapes.
Read a featuring a snowy image on the cover, or set in a cold place.
Icebreaker
✔️7. Cozy Cabin: A rustic and intimate space, often featuring natural materials and warm lighting.
Read a book set at a cabin or lodge in the wilderness, or with natural materials (pine cones, feathers, etc.) in the cover art.
The Spellshop
✔️8. Cozy Evening: A enjoyable evening spent in a comfortable setting, often featuring activities like reading or chatting.
Read a book where one or more people enjoy leisure time at home with books, games, movies, etc., or a book with leisure activity items on the cover.
Finders Keepers
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📆🫖Monthly Challenges: January - Cozy Escapes🫖📆🫖COZY ESCAPES🫖
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2025
🥳Completed: 9/6 🥳
COZY ESCAPES Group Thread
My COZY ESCAPES Tracking Post
I will choose a book from each one of these cozy shelves.
✔️1. Cozy Romance list
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Part of Your World---b.
Icebreaker✔️2. Cozy Fantasy list
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The House in the Cerulean Sea---b.
The Spellshop✔️3.Cozy Magical list
---a.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue✔️4. Cozy Horror list
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The Only One Left✔️5. Cozy Mystery list
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The Secret, Book & Scone Society---b.
We Solve Murders✔️6.Cozy Chick list
---a.
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📆🚀Monthly Challenges: February - Time Warp🚀📆🚀TIME WARP🚀
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2025
🥳Completed: 9/9🥳
This challenge is based on the song and dance from the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show. Follow the lyrics and prompts below; or, if you prefer, travel through time doing your own 'time warp' by reading books from different centuries or decades.
TIME WARP Group Thread
My TIME WARP Tracking Post
✔️1. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a book that involves aging, madness, or control.
A Court of Wings and Ruin 2/2/2025
✔️2. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a book with a black cover, dark subject matter, or involving addiction.
The Four Winds 2/8/2025
✔️3. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a book featuring sports or dance, or with a body part on its cover.
Inheritance 2/21/25
✔️4. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a romance or erotica book, or a book that changes your perspective.
Happy Place 2/5/2025
✔️5. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a fantasy, a book featuring a dream, or with a visually impaired author or character.
One Hundred Years of Solitude 2/11/2025
✔️6. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a science fiction or spy book, or one with an introverted main character.
This Is How You Lose the Time War 2/14/25
✔️7. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a time travel book, one with an unpredictable character, or including an abduction.
The Return of Ellie Black 2/4/25
✔️8. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a horror book, or one that includes animals, a villain, or the devil.
It 2/19/25
✔️9. See lyrics (view spoiler)
-Read a book that contains the letters T-I-M-E-W-A-R-P in the title and/or author's name.
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Ackerman
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers 2/13/25
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📆🕗Monthly Challenges: February - Racing Through Time🕗📆🕗RACING THROUGH TIME🕗
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2025
🥳COMPLETED: 3/3🥳
Step into the past, present, and future with this challenge all about time. This open challenge invites you to find books with "time" or related words/expressions in the title or books featuring any kind of timepiece on the cover. After all, “Every second tells a story.”
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✔️1. One Hundred Years of Solitude 2/11/2025
✔️2. This Is How You Lose the Time War 2/14/25
✔️3. A Stitch in Time 2/24/25
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📆🧺Monthly Challenges: March - Reading Picnic🧺📆🧺READING PICNIC🧺
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2025
🥳COMPLETED: 4/3 🥳
Pack your basket and blanket—it’s time for a Reading Picnic! This challenge invites you to explore books featuring food in the title or on the cover that represent delicious treats you’d bring to a picnic. Whether it’s a cozy mystery with cupcakes or a novel about wine and cheese, let’s feast on literary delights together. A picnic isn’t complete without a book!
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✔️1. HONEY
Mad Honey 3/2/25
✔️2. CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder 3/18/25
✔️3. CRAWDADS
Where the Crawdads Sing 3/16/25
✔️4. FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 3/27/25
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📆🍴Monthly Challenges: March - Gastronomical Reads🍴📆🍴GASTRONOMICAL READS🍴
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2025
🥳Completed: 10/10🥳
Choose books which suit your particular tastes as you make your way through this buffet of food-related prompts. Pick a few choice morsels or dish up an entire feast by reading them all. It's up to you!
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✔️🍳 1. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea or supper?
Read a book with any of the above meal terms in the title.
---Bed...and Breakfast 3/30/25
✔️🥫 2. Acquired taste
Read a book from an author, genre, or series that you didn’t initially like, but now enjoy.
---Eat, Pray, Love 3/31/25
✔️👨🍳 3. Enjoy your meal
Read a book about someone who is a great cook or adores cooking.
---Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder 3/18/25
✔️📋 4. Recipes
Read a fiction or nonfiction book which includes one or more recipes.
---Where the Crawdads Sing 3/16/25
✔️🔪 5. Tools of the trade
Read a book that involves securing food, like hunting, fishing, farming, etc.; or where someone uses a kitchen implement for nefarious purposes.
---It Happened One Summer 3/21/25
✔️🍯 6. Food & Mood
Read a book where food is used to try to cajole or persuade someone.
---Coraline 3/1/25
✔️🥺 7. Hunger
Read a book involving deprivation or famine.
---Demon Copperhead 3/28/25
or
---The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 3/13/25
✔️🍽️ 8. Setting
Read a book set in a restaurant, diner or other place where food is prepared and served.
---Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 3/27/25
✔️🥮 9. Celebrate
Read a book with a banquet, festival or similar celebration involving food.
---The Unhoneymooners 3/29/25
✔️🍕 10. Feast for the eyes
Read a book with a food or beverage on the cover or in the title.
---Mad Honey 3/2/25
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📆🛝Monthly Challenges: April - Child's Play🛝📆🛝CHILD'S PLAY🛝
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025
Progress: 10/10
Life is more fun if you play games.
~Roald Dahl
Take a trip down memory lane with us as we re-visit some favorite childhood playground games through the prompts below. Tag! You're it!
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✔️1. Red Rover - Read a book with a red cover, with alliteration in the title, or about someone changing sides or perspectives.
Iron Flame 4/8/25✔️2. Hide & Seek - Read a book where a character hides from a pursuer, about someone seeking something, or with a synonym for hide or seek in the title.
Sunrise on the Reaping 4/29/25✔️3. Freeze Tag - Read a book with a hand in the cover art, set in a cold environment, or involving a runner.
The Keeper of Hidden Books 4/7/25✔️4. Capture the Flag - Read a book set in a country other than yours, with a character who has been incarcerated, or set during a war.
Fairy Tale 4/12/25✔️5. Red Light, Green Light - Read a book with a light source on the cover, about a road trip or other journey, or with a red and green cover.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 4/19/25✔️6. Ring Around the Rosie - Read a book with a flower or circle on the cover, including illness or death, or with the letters R-I-N-G in the title.
The Perfect Marriage 4/28/25✔️7. Follow the Leader - Read the next book in a series, a book by a bestselling author, or friend's recommendation.
The Mirror 4/15/25✔️8. Double Dutch - Read a book with double, two, or twice in the title, two books with the same title, or a re-read.
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted 4/22/25✔️9. Simon Says - Read an epistolary book, a book with a name in the title, or one where communication plays a key role.
The Last Mrs. Parrish 4/11/25✔️10. Mother, May I? - Read a book about female relationships, written in first person, or with punctuation in the title.
When the World Fell Silent 4/30/25
📆♠️♦️Monthly Challenges: April - Book Scrabble ♠️♦️📆♠️♦️BOOK SCRABBLE!♠️♦️
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025
Completed: 11/12 12th book completed on 5/1/25
Love word games? Then this open challenge is for you! Your goal is to spell out one or more game-related words, such as RUMMY, SCRABBLE, or KNIGHT You may use the first letter of one main word from each book title (omitting a, an, the, etc.). The longer your word(s), the more challenging it becomes!
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WHIST
✔️1.- W: When the World Fell Silent 4/30/25
✔️2. - H: Hot Pursuit 4/23/25
✔️3. - I: Iron Flame 4/8/25
✔️4.- S: Sunrise on the Reaping 4/29/25
✔️5.- T: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4/17/25
SPYFALL
✔️6.- S: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 4/19/25
✔️7.- P: The Perfect Marriage 4/28/25
✅8.- Y: Yours Truly 5/1/25
✔️9.- F: Fairy Tale 4/13/25
✔️10.- A: The Awakening 4/3/25
✔️11.- L: The Last Mrs. Parrish 4/11/25
✔️12.- L: The Last Letter 4/25/25
📆🎁Monthly Challenges: May - The Sweetest Gift🎁 📆🎁THE SWEETEST GIFT 🎁
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2025
FAILED: 4/8
This month, we honor mothers and their unwavering love through a challenge inspired by the heartfelt song "The Sweetest Gift." Originally written in 1942 and later recorded by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris in the 1970s, this song tells the touching story of a mother visiting her son in prison, offering him the only thing she could—a smile full of unconditional love.
Lyrics:(view spoiler)
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❌❌❌1. Read a book about an incarcerated mother, or about an errant child of any age who brings heartbreak.
✔️2. Read a book about a mother with an imprisoned child, or about a mother who works in law enforcement.
High Noon 5/11/25✔️3. Read a book involving any aspect of parole, or involving pardon from guilt.
The Broker 5/10/25❌❌❌4. Read a book with "silver" in the title, or with something silver on the cover.
✔️5. Read a book where a gift is central to the story, or with a wrapped gift on the cover.
The Matchmaker's Gift 5/5/25✔️6. Read a book with any form of "smile" in the title, or with a smiling woman on the cover.
Great Big Beautiful Life 5/3/25❌❌❌7. Read a book with a mother and child on the cover, or with "mother" or a synonym for mother in the title.
❌❌❌8. Read a book exploring memories of a mother, or about the loss of a mother.
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📆👩🍼Monthly Challenges: May - Mothers and Others 👩🍼📆👩🍼MOTHERS AND OTHERS 👩🍼
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2025
Progress: 7/12
Most Mother's Day celebrations around the world occur in May, so we are focusing on these special women and others. In this open challenge, we honor all mothers, mums, and mamas -- biological, foster, and adoptive -- as well as step-mothers, aunts, and grandmothers who often serve in a mother-like role. Whether your own mother is living or not, whether you yourself are a mother or not, Mother's Day is the perfect time to remember the women in our lives who give life and love.
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There are two ways to complete this challenge.
Find Mother's Day gifts in the cover art of your May reads.
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✔️1. Flowers and Jewelry - The Matchmaker's Gift
5/5/25✔️2. Book - Farenheit 451
5/31/25❌❌❌3.
Write a note or poem for your mother using book titles. Extra words are acceptable where needed.
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❌❌❌⏹️2.
✔️3.
✔️4.
5/10/25✔️5.
5/11/25❌❌❌⏹️6.
❌❌❌⏹️7.
✔️8.
5/3/25❌❌❌⏹️9.
By Any Other Name, you'd still be the same,
but you're better than Three Mothers' fame!
The Becoming of you is a sight to behold,
The Broker of laughs, and stories retold.
At High Noon, you're shining so bright,
True Colors blazing, full of delight.
Like an Onyx Storm, fierce and strong,
You've created a Great Big Beautiful Life,
A A Sky Full of Love: A Novel-no end in sight!
By: Chat GPT at my request
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📆🪢Monthly Challenges: June - The Ties That Bind 🪢📆🪢THE TIES THAT BIND - SISTERHOOD🪢
Duration: June 1 - June 30, 2025
Completed: 5/3
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Celebrate the bonds of sisterhood this June—whether by blood, by choice, or by circumstance. From supportive siblings to soul sisters, this challenge honors the unique relationships between women who stand by one another through life’s joys and challenges.
✔️1. Read a book featuring biological sisters or siblings as main characters.
Little Women✔️2. Read a book about the loss of a sister or sibling.
Society of Lies❌3. Read a book where a sister plays a major role in the plot (protecting, betraying, inspiring, etc).
✔️4. Read a book with "sister," "sis," or a synonym in the title.
Between Sisters✔️5. Read a book by an author who has a sister or has publicly spoken about a sisterly bond.
The God of the Woods❌6. Read a book about rivalry, jealousy, or competition between sisters or close friends.
✔️7. Read a book set in a sorority, convent, or other all-female communal space.
The Briar Club❌8. Read a book that involves sisterhood across generations (e.g. great-aunt, grandmother, etc).
❌9. Read a book that celebrates unity, support, and empowerment among women.
❌10. Read a book where a sisterly bond must overcome distance, time, or conflict.
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📆👖Monthly Challenges: June - Sisterhood of the Traveling Books 👖📆👖SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING BOOKS👖
Duration: June 1 - June 30, 2025
Completed: 4/3
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For the theme of Sisterhood, this open challenge is inspired by the young adult novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and will allow readers to travel through the pages of books that are related to each other. Let's put on our traveling pants and book a trip!
🔹 Begin your trip by reading a book that involves sisters or sisterhood (biological, adoptive, sorority, etc.).
🔹 Visit its Goodreads page and choose your next read from one of its Genres, or from the Readers Also Enjoyed area.
🔹 Continue toward your goal using one of the travel styles below, repeating until you reach your destination.
Road Trip Style: Each book is selected from the prior book's page in a linear or cross-country fashion.
Starting Book:
👖1.
Between Sisters ➡️readers also enjoyed⤵️➡️2.
The Wedding People ➡️readers also enjoyed⤵️➡️➡️3.
The God of the Woods➡️readers also enjoyed⤵️➡️➡️➡️4.
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📆🏴☠️Monthly Challenges: July - Treasure Island🏴☠️📆🏴☠️TREASURE ISLAND🏴☠️
Duration: July 1 - July 31, 2025
Completed: 5/10 Goal: 5/10
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Embark on a literary adventure across the seven seas and hidden isles! In this challenge you might read books that feature treasure hunts, pirate tales, island getaways, or stories of mythical riches. Discover hidden treasures within the pages of your favorite books and chart your course to reading glory!
⏹️1. Spanish Doubloons: Read a book with gold or silver in the title or on the cover.
⏹️2. Pirate’s Booty: Read a book with a jewel in the title or on the cover.
✔️3. X Marks the Spot: Read a book with an island on the cover.
Beautiful Ugly⏹️4. Seafarer’s Delight: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover.
✔️5. Exotic Getaway: Read a book set on an island.
Winter in Paradise✔️6. Survival Story: Read a book about characters stranded on an island.
Wild Dark Shore⏹️7. Treasure Map: Read a book that features a map inside or on the cover.
✔️8. Island of Lost Things: Read a book where characters uncover hidden secrets.
Shelterwood⏹️9. Mythical Isles: Read a book featuring mythical islands or a magical realism book set on an island.
✔️10. Treasured Past: Read a historical fiction book set on an island.
The Light Between Oceans
📆🧳Monthly Challenges: July - How Are You Getting There?🧳📆🧳HOW ARE YOU GETTING THERE?🧳
Duration: July 1 - July 31, 2025
Completed: 6/5
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Planes, trains, boats, and beyond—this month, we’re traveling in style! Inspired by Goodreads' “ Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” summer reading guide, this open-ended challenge invites you to explore books where how you get there is just as important as where you’re going. You are not limited to the books in the Goodreads list—let it serve as inspiration, not a restriction. Any book featuring travel, a journey, or a notable mode of transportation counts. Whether the story unfolds on the open sea, across scenic railways, or through the skies, let the way characters move shape your reading adventure.
All aboard the July reading adventure—your ticket is your TBR!
How did we get there?
✔️1. Plane - Winter in Paradise
✔️2. Ferry - Beautiful Ugly
✔️3. Washed up on shore - Wild Dark Shore
✔️4. Time Travel - The Time Traveler's Wife
✔️5. Walk - Shelterwood
✔️6. Boat - The Light Between Oceans
📆🌻Monthly Challenges: August - Van Gogh For It!🌻📆🌻VAN GOGH FOR IT!🌻
Duration: August 1 - August 31, 2025
🎉Completed: 7/5
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For this month's theme of Sunflowers, gorgeously illustrated above in one of Vincent Van Gogh's iconic paintings, we will explore literature through the lens of the artist's life and work. He is known for his vivid colors, creativity, and connection to the beauty of nature, despite his lifelong mental health struggles. Join us in celebrating art and literature through this inspiring challenge!
⏹️1. Sunflower: Read a book with sunflowers or other flowers on the cover, a book about gardening or botany, or with a character who is a gardener, botanist, etc.
✅2. Ear: Read a book addressing a mental or physical differences, with a disabled character, or with a title word such as ear, sound, silence, listen, etc.
The Silent Patient✅3. France: Read a translated French classic, a book set in France, or one with French culture words in the title like bread, wine, bakery, Paris, etc.
The Paris Apartment✅4. Yellow: Read a book with a yellow cover, with art tools in the cover art, or about character who is a visual artist.
The Soulmate Equation⏹️5. Netherlands: Read a book by a Dutch author, one set in Netherlands, or with iconic Dutch elements on the cover like canals, tulips, windmills, cheese, etc.
✅6. Countryside: Read a book set in the countryside, featuring characters connected to the land or agriculture, or reflecting themes of simplicity, tranquility, coziness, or connection to nature.
A Painted House✅7. Starry Night: Read a book with a dark cover, with celestial motifs in the cover art, or from the dark academia, fantasy or mystery genres.
The Perfect Divorce✅8. Isolation: Read a book about a solitary individual, with a title word like lonely, solitude, alone, one, etc., or a book that explores spirituality or creativity.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower⭕9. Museum: Read a book based in an art gallery, museum or art school, with a painting in the cover art, or with a museum-related word in the title like masterpiece, picture, artifact, curator, etc.
✅10. V-I-N-C-E-N-T-V-A-N-G-O-G-H: Read a book that has 5 or more letters from the artist's name in the title, with a name in the title, or one written by an author named Vincent, Vince, Vinnie, etc.
Here One Moment (H,e,o,n,t)
📆☀️Monthly Challenges: August - Here Comes the Sun☀️📆☀️HERE COMES THE SUN ☀️
Duration: August 1 - August 31, 2025
🎉Completed: 5/3
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This August let’s bloom where we’re planted. This challenge invites you to explore books that feel like sunshine, encourage growth, or simply make you happy. Whether it’s a story that warms your soul, a character who grows against all odds, or a plot that just makes you smile—if it feels like summer and sunshine, it belongs here. Want to judge a book by its happy cover? Read any book featuring a yellow cover, sunflower, or yellow flowers—those count too!🌻
Yellow Covers
✅1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✅2. The Soulmate Equation
✅3. Canary Girls
✅4. The Paris Apartment
✅5. Julie Chan Is Dead
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📆♠️🐰Monthly Challenges: September - Down The Rabbitt Hole🐰♠️📆♠️🐰DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE🐰♠️
Duration: September 1 - September 30, 2025
🥳Completed: 10/10
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September is for chasing whimsy, wonder, and a little bit of nonsense. In this challenge, you’ll tumble into strange lands with curious characters and stories that defy the ordinary. Whether you’re sipping tea with mad friends or questioning what’s real, there’s a prompt here to spark your imagination.
"We're all mad here," so let your TBR reflect that!
🐇 A book that starts a series or sends you on a journey - All the Colors of the Dark
🌹 A book with red on the cover or in the title - Veil of Night
🫖A book where characters gather, dine, or drink - Just for the Summer
🔍 A book that’s a mystery or made you say “what is going on?!” - My Sister, the Serial Killer
🐛 A book with a wise, strange, or philosophical character - The Grapes of Wrath
🪞A book with a mirror, reflection, or doppelgänger theme - The Outsider
👑 A book featuring royalty, powerful leaders, or fierce femmes - The Choice
🎩 A book you chose for no logical reason at all - Home Is Where the Bodies Are
📖A book that’s fantasy, surreal, or speculative fiction - Onyx Storm
⏱️ A book that’s been on your TBR for far too long - Breaking the Rules
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📆🪄Monthly Challenges: September - Whimsical You🪄📆🪄WHIMSICAL YOU🪄
Duration: September 1 - September 30, 2025
🥳Completed: 3/3
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Have you ever imagined your life as a story — filled with magic, charm, and just a dash of delightful chaos? This open reading challenge invites you to create a whimsical book character inspired by yourself, and let your unique traits guide your reading journey. Celebrate the quirky, the melancholy, and the joyful parts of you. Whimsy-fy your life!
Your Quest
1. Imagine yourself as the protagonist of a whimsical tale.
2. Select the genre of your story.
3. Choose 1-10 descriptive words that capture the essence of your character or story.
4. Read related books.
My Story
1. Character: An emotional and creative but logical woman that is strategic and analytical in both her career and personal life, and loves lists but finds herself in the middle of chaos
2. Genre: romantic suspense
3. Description: high stakes, tension, bad timing, secrets, undeniable chemistry, danger
4. Potential book choices:
✅ Dangerous Games
✅Some Kind of Hero
✅Veil of Night
📆👻Monthly Challenges: October - From Page To Halloween Parade👻📆👻FROM PAGE TO HALLOWEEN PARADE👻
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2025
Progress: 6/6 6
Get ready for a bookish costume parade!
This open-ended challenge invites you to choose your reads based on one simple question: Could you turn that book cover into a Halloween costume? Use your imagination to create costumes inspired by what you see on the cover—whether it’s a character, creature, vibe, or visual element.
You don’t need to actually dress up—just picture how the cover art could walk down a Halloween parade runway.
Books can count if the title, cover, or theme sparks a costume idea. Make it spooky, silly, or stylish—it’s up to you!
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Costumes
✔️1. Black Cat🐈⬛ (a token of luck or a witch's familiar): If It Bleeds
✔️2. Siren🧜♀️ (a mythical sea creature/woman): The Sirens
✔️3. Outlaw 💰 (dime novel bank robber): The Outlaw Noble Salt
✔️4. Skeleton 💀 (remains of dead body): If We Were Villains
✔️5. Horse🐴( fun animal that most kids love): Horse
✔️6. Witch🧹 (a woman with supernatural powers)The Bane Witch
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📆🐈⬛Monthly Challenges: October - Very Superstitious🐈⬛📆🐈⬛VERY SUPERSTITIOUS🐈⬛
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2025
🎉Completed: 11/11
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
~ Judith Viorst
Superstitions are beliefs that certain actions or events can bring good or bad luck, even if there is no scientific proof behind them. They can be found in different cultures around the world, and often come from old stories or traditions. This prompt-based reading challenge invites you to explore some superstitions. You may take on the debunked bonus if you read the first ten.
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✔️1. (Un)Lucky Numbers: Read a book with 3, 4, 7, 8, or 13 in its title or series number. Each of these numbers is considered lucky in one culture while unlucky in another.
The Girl in Cabin 13✔️2. Don't Walk Under a Ladder: Read a book in which someone purposefully walks, hikes, or climbs.
One by One ✔️3. Find a Four-Leaf Clover: Read a book set in Ireland or a book with a green cover.
What the Wind Knows✔️4. Find a Horseshoe: Read a book that includes horses, or a book with a door on the cover.
Horse✔️5. Have a Lucky Wedding: Read a book featuring something old, something new, something borrowed, or something blue.
The Berry Pickers✔️6. Don't Break the Mirror: Read a book where a mirror is used as a plot device, or with something broken on the cover.
Fool Me Once✔️7. Knock on Wood: Read a book with a tree on the cover, or a book including a carpenter or builder.
We All Live Here✔️8. Don't Let a Black Cat Cross Your Path: Read a book with a cat on the cover, or involving witchcraft.
If It Bleeds✔️9. Lucky Penny: Read a book about making money, or with a unit of currency in the title.
Money To Burn✔️10. Don't Spill the Salt: Read a book featuring a cook, or with the letters S-A-L-T in the title.
The Outlaw Noble Salt✔️BONUS: Don't Swim After You Eat: After reading all 10 regular prompts, read a book about swimming or one that is set on the water.
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