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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work! ~ A Year-Long Reading Challenge
Individual Challenge
January 1st - December 31st, 2025


Let's read books and complete tasks related to team and partner sports that are played and enjoyed around the world!


On the 1st and 15th of each month I will post a new team sport in the Playing Field Thread. You will have four tasks to choose from for each sport. You only need to complete one. Participate in as many or as few sports as you would like.


You will make your Completion Posts here IN YOUR OWN THREAD. Please use this format. {You are welcome to copy and paste the game tasks into your own thread if you would like.}


Completion Post
Team Sport:
Book:
Author:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:


If you have any questions, please post them in the Referee's Table Q & A Thread.


Challenge Rules:
📘 Standard Rules Apply
📘I will create an individual thread for you prior to the start date.
📘Your first team sport will be posted on January 1, 2025.
📘Books must be completed after the team sport has been posted.

Jan 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: American Football
Task: Read a book from a series with at least 7 primary works
Book: Gone Witch by Nova Nelson
Date: 01/01/25
How it fits: Has 13 primary works

Jan 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Soccer
Task: Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PITCH
Book: The Naughtiest Girl Again by Enid Blyton
Date: 15/01/25
How it fits: Title starts with T

Feb 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Basketball
Task: Read a book with two of these numbers in the page count - 1891
Book: A Rolling Scone by Nancy Warren
Date: 06/02/25
How it fits: 218 pages

Feb 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Baseball
Task: Read a book with double letters in the title
Book: Seduced by the Billionaire Sheikh by Cathleen Ross
Date: 17/02/25
How it fits: Double ‘L’ in title

March 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Softball
Task: Read a book with a female MC
Book: Death by Gondola: A Springtime Murder in Venice by Jennifer S. Alderson
Date: 04/03/25
How it fits: MC is female

March 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Volleyball
Task:Read a book with all the letters of NET in the title
Book: Blood, Sweat and Tiers by Nancy Warren
Date: 15/03/25
How it fits: blood, swEat aNd Tiers

April 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Rowing
Task: Read a book where the title starts with a letter in COXSWAIN
Book: Cakes and Pains by Nancy Warren
Date: 01/04/25
How it fits: Title starts with C

April 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Polo
Task: Read a book where the MC could be a member of "high society."
Book: Whisk and Reward by Nancy Warren
Date: 17/04/25
How it fits: The MC turns out to be the daughter of an Earl

May 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Water Polo
Task: Read a book set in Scotland
Book: Letters in Blue by Heather Reyburn
Date: 04/05/25
How it fits: Set on the Isle of Skye

May 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Cricket
Task: Read a book with at least 20 chapters
Book: A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons by J. Penner
Date: 20/05/25
How it fits: Has 27 chapters

June 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Wiffle Ball
Task: Read a book where the MC's first name starts with a letter in WIFFLE BALL
Book: Future Tense by Kristen Painter
Date: 04/06/25
How it fits: MC’s first name is Ellis

June 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Rugby
Task: Read a book set in England or Canada
Book: Luck of the Iris by Nancy Warren
Date: 17/06/25
How it fits: Set in an English village in the Cotswolds

July 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Beach Volleyball
Task: Read a book with a beach scene on the cover
Book: Just in Time by Rosalind James
Date: 01/07/25
How it fits: Beach scene on cover

July 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Handball
Task: Read a book set in Asia or South America
Book: Eva Reddy's Trip of a Lifetime by Fiona McKenzie Kekic
Date: 16/07/25
How it fits: Set in India (75%)

August 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Tennis
Task: Read a book where the MC is single
Book: My Midlife Magic Daze by Jennifer L. Hart
Date: 03/08/25
How it fits: Emma is single

August 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Pickleball
Task: Read a book published in 2021, 2022, or 2023
Book: Shifting and Shenanigans by Elizabeth Pantley
Date: 25/08/25
How it fits: Published July 15, 2022

September 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Ice Hockey
Task: Read a book where the title starts with a letter in MONTREAL
Book: Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper
Date: 03/09/25
How it fits: Title starts with E

September 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Field Hockey
Task: Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in CARBON FIBRE PUCK
Book: How Not to Kiss a Prince by Elizabeth A. Reeves
Date: 17/09/25
How it fits: Author initials are ER

October 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Curling
Task: Read a book with the word SWEEP or SWEEPING found in the text
Book: The Shadowed Throne by Kristen Painter
Date: 03/10/25
How it fits: Page 269 “…she’ll have her guards sweep the whole area…”

October 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Lacrosse
Task: Read a book with a male and a female on the cover
Book: Callie Mae and the Cowboy of the Eastern Woods: Cowboy Compass by Angela Castillo
Date: 16/10/25
How it fits: Man and woman on cover

November 1 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Luge
Task: Read a book with all the letters of LUGE found in the title
Book: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Date: 17/11/25
How it fits: the very secret society of irrEGULar witches

November 15 - Completion Post

Team Sport: Hurling
Task: Read a book you would describe as violent
Book: Angel Fire by Gerri Hill
Date: 18/11/25
How it fits: I would describe this as violent - a family (including middle school children) are executed in chapter 1, and there are more deaths and a few shootouts before the resolution