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THIRD QUARTERLY CHALLENGE: Rage on the Page
Message #11 - Progress: 12/12
Read books with shades of red or words of anger
FOURTH QUARTERLY CHALLENGE:
Message #26 - Progress 8/12
Read books with fears and phobias on the cover, in the title, or as a theme.
January
GROUP READ:
✅ The Spellshop - Read 1/2/25
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Cozy Escapes
PROGRESS: 10/10
✅ 1. Blubber - Read 1/14/25
✅ 2. Bridge of Souls - Read 1/6/25
✅ 3. Bridge to Terabithia - Read 1/12/25
✅ 4. The Explorer - Read 1/12/25
✅ 5. Melissa - Read 1/13/25
✅ 6. Pony - Read 1/2/25
✅ 7. Restart - Read 1/8/25
✅ 8. The School for Good and Evil - Read 1/11/25
✅ 9. Superfudge - Read 1/15/25
✅ 10. Tunnel of Bones - Read 1/5/25
February
GROUP READ:
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Racing Through Time
✅ American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century - Read 2/7/25
✅ And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - Read 2/3/25
✅ Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Read 2/26/25
✅ The Five-Star Weekend - Read 2/12/25
✅ The Grace Year - Read 2/18/25
✅ The Midnight Feast - Read 2/24/25
✅ Midnight Is the Darkest Hour - Read 2/6/25
✅ One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel - Read 2/18/25
March
✅ GROUP READ - The Midnight Feast - Read 2/24/25
✅ TBR TWINS - The Boyfriend - Read 3/11/25
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Reading Picnic - Progress: 5/5
✅ All the Bad Apples
🎧 The Berry Pickers
🎧 The Candy House
🎧 Family Meal
✅ I'm More Dateable than a Plate of Refried Beans: And Other Romantic Observations - Read 3/13/25
✅ Land of Milk and Honey - Read 3/17/25
👁️💲 Murder Can Frost Your Doughnut
🎧 Pineapple Street
✅ A Sweet Sting of Salt - Read 3/10/25
✅ When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie - Read 3/19/25
✅ The Glass Castle - Read 3/22/25
✅ This Book Is Full of Spiders - Read 3/15/25
April
✅ GROUP READ - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Read 4/19/23
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Book Scrabble Progress: Completed!
✅ The Starless Sea - Read 4/8/25
✅ Constance - Read 4/25/25
✅ The Running Grave - Read 4/15/25
✅ All the Light We Cannot See - Read 4/16/25
✅ Britt-Marie Was Here - Read 4/11/25
✅ The Butcher Game - Read 4/19/25
✅ LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal - Read 4/28/25
✅ Enola Holmes: Mycroft's Dangerous Game - Read 4/20/25
May✅ GROUP READ - Little Fires Everywhere - Read 11/14/19
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Mothers & Others Progress: 3/5
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The Briar Club - Read 5/16/25✅
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Read 5/5/25✅
The Husband's Secret - Read 5/8/25✅
The Measure - Read 5/11/25✅
Someone Else’s Life - Read 5/15/25
June✅ GROUP READ - Little Women - Read 6/5/25
TBR Twins - Young Mungo
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - Sisterhood of the Traveling Books - Progress 7/8
✅ Book about sisters --> Little Women --> Historical Fiction - Read 6/5/25
✅ Historical Fiction --> This Tender Land --> Fiction - Read 6/11/25
✅ Fiction --> The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes --> Graphic Novel - Read 6/9/25
Graphic Novel --> The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House --> Fantasy
✅ Fantasy --> A Court of Mist and Fury --> Young Adult - Read 6/1/25
✅ Young Adult --> Last Act: The Stage Is Set For Murder --> Horror - Read 6/15/25
✅ Horror --> The Patient --> Mystery - Read 6/23/25
✅ Mystery --> Gray Wolf Mountain - Read 6/16/25
July✅ GROUP READ - Great Big Beautiful Life - Read 7/11/25
MONTHLY CHALLENGE - How are You Getting There?
Message #9 - Progress - 10/10
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Beautiful Ugly - Read 7/22/25✅
Falling - Read 7/17/25✅
Great Big Beautiful Life - Read 7/11/25✅
Here One Moment - Read 7/5/25✅
Jackal - Read 7/15/25✅
The Last One at the Wedding - Read 7/9/25✅
Unsouled - Read 7/17/25✅
The Unsinkable Greta James - Read 7/25/25✅
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Read 7/26/25✅
The Stardust Grail - Read 7/29/25
August✅ GROUP READ: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Read 8/1/25
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Van Gogh For It
Progress: 10/10
✅ 1.
With Love from the Inside - Read 8/3/25✅ 2.
Listen for the Lie - Read 8/18/25✅ 3.
The Paris Novel - Read 8/6/25✅ 4.
The Reading List - Read 8/10/25✅ 5.
The Girl Who Got Revenge - Read 8/30/25✅ 6.
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story - Read 8/13/25✅ 7.
The Island - Read 8/3/25✅ 8.
The Island of Dr. Moreau - Read 8/20/25✅ 9.
The Museum of Extraordinary Things - Read 8/14/25✅ 10.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Read 8/24/25
September✅ GROUP READ: The House in the Cerulean Sea - Read 3/10/21
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Down the Rabbit Hole
Progress: 10/10
✅ Shadeslinger - Read 9/22/25
✅ The Nickel Boys - Read 9/15/25
✅ Wicked Appetite - Read 9/6/25
✅ The Chain - Read 9/4/25
✅ Becoming - Read 9/13/25
✅ The Prestige - Read 9/19/25
✅ The Collective - Read 9/23/25
✅ Burn Baby Burn - Read 9/22/25
✅ The Witch's Daughter - Read 9/9/25
✅ When Breath Becomes Air - Read 9/13/25
✅ The Berry Pickers - Read 9/7/25
✅ A Child Called "It" - Read 9/24/25
OctoberGROUP READ: Weyward - Read 11/15/24
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Very Superstitious Progress: 11/11
✅ 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. A Court of Wings and Ruin - Read 10/21/25✅ 2.
Don't Walk Under a Ladder: Read a book in which someone purposefully walks, hikes, or climbs. The End of the World Running Club - Read 10/17/25✅ 3.
Find a Four-Leaf Clover: Read a book set in Ireland or a book with a green cover. Broken Harbor - Read 10/3/25✅ 4.
Find a Horseshoe: Read a book that includes horses, or a book with a door on the cover. The Book of Doors - Read 10/7/25✅ 5.
Have a Lucky Wedding: Read a book featuring something old, something new, something borrowed, or something blue. The Girl in the Sand - Read 10/15/25✅ 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. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House - Read 10/25/25✅ 7.
Knock on Wood: Read a book with a tree on the cover, or a book including a carpenter or builder. Gray After Dark - Read 10/11/25✅ 8.
Don't Let a Black Cat Cross Your Path: Read a book with a cat on the cover, or involving witchcraft. Mary Poppins - Read 10/4/25✅ 9.
Lucky Penny: Read a book about making money, or with a unit of currency in the title. The Quarter Storm - Read 10/3/25✅ 10.
Don't Spill the Salt: Read a book featuring a cook, or with the letters S-A-L-T in the title. The Island - Read 10/9/25✅ 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. The Night Swim - Read 10/22/25
November GROUP READ: The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Read 10/6/21
TBR TWINS: The Loyal Wife
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Fur, Fins & Feathers
Progress: 8/8
✅ T - The Truth About Melody Browne - Read 11/2/25
✅ H - Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon - 11/7/25
✅ O - The Opposite of Everything - Read 11/109/25
✅ R - The Road - Read 11/14/25
✅ B - Between, Georgia - Read 11/20/25
✅ E - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Read 11/16/25
✅ A - Agents of Change - Read 11/18/25
✅ R - The Return of Ellie Black - Read 11/5/25
DecemberGROUP READ: The Frozen River
MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Shades of White Progress: 0/10
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
Hombrecito
We Used to Live Here
Still Life
The Diamond Eye
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
We All Live Here
👁️ City of Gold
🎧 The Considerate Killer
🎧 The Holdout
👁️ The Secret in Their Eyes
🎧 Vanishing Waters
🎧 Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
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Vanishing Waters (other topics)
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THEMES
Quarterly Themes
1st Quarter: Sadness
2nd Quarter: Joy
3rd Quarter: Anger
4th Quarter: Fear
Monthly Themes
January: Cozy
February: Time
March: Food
April: Games
May: Mother
June: Sisterhood
July: Island
August: Sunflower
September: Whimsy
October: Superstition
November: Pets
December: White