The Lost Challenges discussion

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

Example:
Because you enjoyed The Memory of You:
I could choose - You'll Think of Me or Driftwood Lane
Because you're reading A Vineyard Blessing
I could choose - Glistening Sunsets or Finding Christmas
Because you shelved The Vineyard Bride
I could choose - Seabreeze Shores or Summer of Us
Trending with Goodreads members
I could choose - Icebreaker or Things We Hide From the Light

Let us know which area you chose a book from. You may catch up, if you get behind. BUT you may not read ahead!

The months:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December


Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.

*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge

(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)

Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over.

Amber
Angel **Book Junkie**

Caraina
CassieCruel
Chrissie
Christina (AKA Babbling)

Denise

Ferenc
Frankie

Genevieve

Jessica
JoAnne
Jonnie
Julesy

Karen ♐
Kendra
Kimberly
Kimberly - Msg 41

Lali & Michelle
LaurLa

Mary-Megan
Melissa
Melissa A
Michele
Moondance

Olivermagnus

Shan ~A~
Sharon
Shash
Sheila
Susan A

Tammie

Vanessa

Wanda

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Read: 10/12

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
January
Because you're reading Bone Deep
Cross Her Heart Melinda Leigh 1/9/25

February
Because you enjoyed See Her Die
Dead in Her Tracks Kendra Elliot 2/6/25

March
Because you're reading Smooth Sailing
Bourbon & Lies Victoria Wilder 3/15/25

April
Because you enjoyed Dare to Kiss You
Fixer-Upper Linda Seed 4/10/25

May
Because you're reading Raven Falls
Beautifully Broken Pieces Catherine Cowles 5/6/25

June
Because you shelved The Day He Asked Again
Cowboy's Secret Baby Clara Pines 6/12/25

July
Because you're reading Love's Bloom
When Stars Fall at Midnight Tess Thompson 7/7/25

August
Because you shelved Let Me Be the One
The Outsider Maisey Yates 8/6/25

September
Because you're reading Honey Bee Library
Fall into Temptation Lucy Score 9/14/25

October
Because you enjoyed Gulfside Girls
The Summer We Met Hope Holloway 10/12/25

November
December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025


Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
January Because you enjoyed Contracted Cowboy
The Christmas Inn by Pamela M. Kelley 5/12/2025

February Because you enjoyed Feel the Bern: A Bernie Sanders Mystery
Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire 9/7/2025

March Because you enjoyed Knots and Crosses
The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney

April Because you enjoyed Survival of the Fritters
Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley 9/27/2025

May Because you shelved Penne Dreadful
Murder Uncorked by Maddie Day

June Because you enjoyed Strings Attached
10 Ways to Accidentally Fall in Love by Emmy Sanders 6/14/2025

July Because you shelved Clear Water
Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban

August Because you shelved Conduct Unbecoming
Let It Snow by Heidi Cullinan

September Because you enjoyed Hudson River Homicides
The Paternity Puzzle by Aimee Nicole Walker 9/11/2025

October Because you're reading Six Feet Deep Dish
Cherry Pies & Deadly Lies by Darci Hannah

November Because you shelved Rotten to the Core
Fatal Fudge Swirl by Meri Allen

December Trending with Goodreads members
If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025


Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
🔍January - Because you shelved... The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel, I chose to read Mismatched: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Emma by Anne Camlin on Mar. 1

🔍February - Because you're reading... Age 16 by Rosena Fung, I chose to read Halfway to Somewhere by José Pimienta on Feb. 10

March - Because you shelved... Save Our Forest! by Nora Dåsnes AND also
Because you shelved... Match Point! by Maddie Gallegos AND also
Because you enjoyed... Nat a Chance by Maria Scrivan,
I chose to read Brownstone by Samuel Teer on Apr. 12 because of all these recommendations

April - Because you're reading... Spirit Week by Ira Marcks, I chose to read Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dåsnes on May 6

May - Because you shelved... Button Pusher by Tyler Page, I chose to read Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison—and How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton on June 24

June - Because you enjoyed... Chickenpox by Remy Lai, I chose to read Tall Water: A Graphic Novel by S.J. Sindu on July 13

July- Because you enjoyed... How to Talk to Your Succulent by Zoe Persico, I chose to read I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner on July 27

August - Because you shelved... I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011: The Graphic Novel by Lauren Tarshis, I chose to read Duel by Jessixa Bagley on Oct. 1

September - Because you shelved... Camp Frenemies by Liz Montague, I chose to read How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger on Oct. 5

October - Because you're reading... Cassi and the House of Memories by Dean Stuart, I chose to read Extra Large by Tyler Page on Nov. 9

November - Because you enjoyed... Extra Large by Tyler Page, I chose to read School Dance by Sarah Sax on Dec. 4

December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

Example:
Because you enjoyed The Memory of You:
I could choose - You'll Think of Me or Driftwood Lane
Because you're reading A Vineyard Blessing
I could choose - Glistening Sunsets or Finding Christmas
Because you shelved The Vineyard Bride
I could choose - Seabreeze Shores or Summer of Us
Trending with Goodreads members
I could choose - Icebreaker or Things We Hide From the Light

Let us know which area you chose a book from. You may catch up, if you get behind. BUT you may not read ahead!

The months:

☑️ January (2)

Trending with Goodreads Members . . . Here One Moment Liane Moriarty 01/05/25

Because You Enjoyed Autumn by Ali Smith . . . You Might Enjoy . . . The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden 01/18/25

☑️ February (3)

Because You Enjoyed The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wooden . . . You Might Enjoy . . . Held Anne Michaels 02/06/25

Trending with Goodreads Members . . Intermezzo Sally Rooney 02/06/25

Trending with Goodreads Members . . . Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome 3) Sarah Adams 02/16/25

☑️ March (1)

Trending with Goodreads Members . . . Keeper of Enchanted Rooms Charlie N. Holmberg 03/02/26

☑️ April (3)

Because You Shelved . . . The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji . . . You Might Enjoy . . . Fundamentally Nussaibah Younis 04/01/25

Trending with Goodreads Members . . .
Say You'll Remember Me Abby Jimenez 04/04/25

Most Read This Week . . . Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall 04/13/25

☑️ May (2)

Most Read This Week . . . Deep End Ali Hazelwood 05/02/25

Trending with Goodreads Members . . . Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry 05/07/25

☑️ June (4)

New Releases This Month . . . What Happens in Amsterdam Rachel Lynn Solomon 06/05/25

Trending with Goodreads members . . . A Family Matter Claire Lynch 06/09/25

Trending with Goodreads Members . . . Don't Let Him In Lisa Jewell 06/23/25

Trending with Goodreads Members . . . Sounds Like Love Ashley Poston 06/25/25

☑️ July (2)

Most Read This Week. . . The Housemaid Freida McFadden 07/06/25

Trending with Goodreads Members . . . The Crash Freida McFadden 07/12/25

☑️ August (2)

Most Read this Week . . . The Tenant Freida McFadden 08/07/25

Trending with Goodreads Members . . . A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna 08/11/25

☑️ September (2)

X Trending with Goodreads Members . . . The Pumpkin Spice Café (The Dream Harbor 1) Laurie Gilmore 09/13/25

X New Releases This Year . . . Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection John Green 09/27/25

☑️ October (1)

X Trending with Goodreads Members . . . To the Moon and Back Eliana Ramage 10/02/25

☑️ November (2)

X Most Read this Week . . . Hot for Slayer Ali Hazelwood 11/11/25

X Trending with Goodreads Members . . . Hidden Pictures Jason Rekulak 11/14/25

December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

Let us know which area you chose a book from. You may catch up, if you get behind. BUT you may not read ahead!

Completed: 7/12

The months:
January: The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden 2/1/25 (Trending with Goodreads members)
February: Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda 3/16/25 (Because you’re reading Missing White Woman)
March: The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart 3/22/25 (Because you enjoyed If the Creek Don't Rise)
April: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris 4/4/25 (Because you enjoyed Undead and Unfinished)
May: The Perfect Divorce - Jeneva Rose 5/21/25 (Trending with Goodreads members)
June: Red Clay - Charles B. Fancher 7/17/25 (Because you enjoyed Diamond Doris: A Daring Memoir of Audacious Capers, Defiance of Society's Norms, and Glamorous Legacy)
July
August
September: One Perfect Couple - Ruth Ware 9/30/25 (Because you enjoyed Darling Girls)
October
November
December

Wasn't quite successful so trying again.

Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
January - because you're reading Der Prozess
Der Fall by Albert Camus ✓ 25/01/13
February - trending with goodreads members
Die Mitternachtsbibliothek by Matt Haig ✓ 25/02/17
March - because you enjoyed Racheopfer
Die Chemie des Todes by Simon Beckett ✓ 25/03/29
April - because you enjoyed Crimson Spell 01
Ennead 1 by Mojito ✓ 25/05/18
May - because you're reading Call Me by Your Name
Circe by Madeline Miller ✓ 25/07/12
June - because you shelved Licht zwischen den Bäumen
Achtzehnter Stock by Sara Gmuer ✓ 25/08/03
July - because you shelved Dorian
Orlando. Eine Biographie by Virginia Woolf ✓ 25/08/16
August - trending with goodreads members
Wedding People by Alison Espach ✓ 25/08/30
September - trending with goodreads members
Der Donnerstagsmordclub oder Ein Teufel stirbt immer zuletzt by Richard Osman ✓ 25/09/09
October - because you shelved The Nightmare Before Kissmas
Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews
or: trending with goodreads members
Der Palast im Himmel by Diana Wynne Jones
or Illuminati by Dan Brown
November
December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Read: 0/12

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...



Let us know which area you chose a book from. You may catch up, if you get behind. BUT you may not read ahead!

The months:
✔️January: because I enjoyed A Doll's House:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare 24 Jan
✔️February: because I read How To Read a Book:
In Five Years Rebecca Serle 16 Feb
✔️March: Because I enjoyed A Midsummer Nights dream:
Walden, or Life in the Woods and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 22 Mar
✔️April: Because I read The fellowship of Puzzlemakers:
How to Age Disgracefully Clare Pooley 29 Mar
✔️May: Because I enjoyed The Wedding People:
The Frozen River 15 Jun
✔️June: Trending with GR members:
The Berry Pickers Amanda Peters 25 Jun
✔️July: Because I shelved The Ministry of Time.....
James Percival Everett 16 Jul
✔️August: Trending on Goodreads:
Three Days in June Anne Tyler 30 Aug
✔️September: Because I'm reading Three days In June.....
Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid 13 Sep
✔️October: Because I read The Full Moon Coffee Shop....
Before We Forget Kindness Toshikazu Kawaguchi 26 Oct
November
December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

11/12



January: Trending with Goodreads members
🎲 James by Percival Everett 1/4/25

February: Because you enjoyed The Lost Story
🎲 The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong 2/9/25

March: Trending with Goodreads members
🎲 Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage 3/8/25

April: Trending with Goodreads members
🎲 Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez 4/1/25

May: Trending with Goodreads Members
🎲 Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 5/22/25

June: Trending with Goodreads Members
🎲 Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood 6/1/25

July: Trending with Goodreads Members
🎲 The Wedding People by Alison Espach 7/25/25

August: Trending with Goodreads Members
🎲 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna 8/26/25

September: Trending with Goodreads Members
🎲 The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 9/29/25

October: Trending with Goodreads Members
🎲 The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore 10/6/25

November: Because I shelved Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
🎲 Invisible Isabel by Sally J. Pla 11/22/25

December

In!!

Jan - Dec ‘25

The months:
January - Relic Hunter - bc I read Tattered Huntress
February - Fiendish Delights - bc I enjoyed Fair Market Value
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Chrissie wrote: "Wasn't quite successful so trying again.

Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to ..."

I always try to get 2 or 3 books in case I don't like some! :)

Welcome all!

use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

January
Trending with Goodreads members...The Wedding People
The Wedding People, Alison Espach | 1/28

February
Trending with Goodreads members...Onyx Storm
Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros | 2/4

March
Trending with Goodreads members...The Ministry of Time
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley | 4/21

April
Because you shelved The Five People You Meet in Heaven...Heaven is for Real
Heaven is for Real, Todd Burpo | 4/5

May
Trending with Goodreads members...PS: I Hate You
PS: I Hate You, Lauren Connolly | 5/19

June
Trending with Goodreads members...Great Big Beautiful Life
Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry | 6/6

July
Trending with Goodreads members...The Briar Club
The Briar Club, Kate Quinn | 7/31

August
Trending with Goodreads members...The Seven Year Slip
The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston | 8/8

September
Trending with Goodreads members...The Favorites
The Favorites, Layne Fargo | 10/4

October
Because you enjoyed The Lover's Secret
The Invitation, Jodi Ellen Malpas | 12/2

November
Trending with Goodreads members...The Intruder
The Intruder, Freida McFadden | 11/3

December...Because you shelved The Seven Rings > Framed In Death...I'll read the next in the series for me
Connections in Death, J.D. Robb | 12/

Welcome Tammie!

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

January
Because you enjoyed... The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin 13 December 2024★★★★
The Women by Kristin Hannah

February
Trending with Goodreads members
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros


March
April
May
June
July August
September
October
November
December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

11/12 Completed

The months:
January: Because you're reading Her Lonely Bones
Her Silent Bones-Pamela Fagan Hutchins 1/03/25

February: Because you enjoyed Wildest Dreams
Fearless Enough-Kelly Elliott 2/22/25

March: Because you enjoyed No Going Back
Another Girl Lost-Mary Burton 3/03/25

April: Because you enjoyed Another Girl Lost
Close Your Eyes-Teresa Driscoll 4/07/25

May: Trending with Goodreads members
Wild Side-Elsie Silver 5/02/25

June: Because you shelved The Rocky Road to Ruin
Up to No Gouda-Linda Reilly 6/14/25

July: Because you shelved Then You Happened
The Best of All-Karla Sorensen 7/20/25

August: Because you enjoyed The Beach House on Amelia Island
Last Summer at the Beach House: Feel Good Beachy Women's Fiction-Maggie Miller 8/06/25

September: Trending with Goodreads members
We Are All Guilty Here-Karin Slaughter 9/13/25

October: Trending with Goodreads members
Wild Card-Elsie Silver 10/10/25

November: Because you enjoyed Wild Card
Cash-Jessica Peterson 11/11/25

December: Trending with Goodreads members
Regretting You-Colleen Hoover

Welcome Christina and Frankie!

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Read: 5/12

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
January - because you enjoyed...Far from Bliss - Heart of the Wolf Cherise Sinclair - 12/3/25
February - because you shelved...Tame the Heart - Crossroads Devney Perry - 6/7/25
March - because you enjoyed...Sully's Fantasy - The Butcher Penelope Sky
April - because you shelved...Her Marine Daddy - Feral Renee Rose - 9/26/25
May - Trending with Goodreads Members...The Perfect Marriage Jeneva Rose
June - because you enjoyed...Take Me - Love Like Poison Charmaine Pauls
July - because you enjoyed...The Takeover - Broken Sadie Kincaid
August - because you enjoyed...Jasper Vale - The Bribe Devney Perry - 9/14/25
September - because you enjoyed...Miles Ever After - The Right Move Liz Tomforde
October - because you shelved...Prequel - Q L. Wilder - 11/7/25
November - because you enjoyed...10 Men - Second Chances with my Billionaire Bosses: A Military Reverse Harem Romance Summer Haze
December - because you enjoyed...The Bully - Quarter Miles Devney Perry

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Read: 8/12

√January
Because you're reading Iron Flame
Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli (4/2)


√February
I forgot to record what thread it was under
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg/ (7/16)


√March
Trending with Goodreads members:
Nobody’s Fool by Harlan Coben (4/27)


√April
Because you Shelved Insignificant Others
The Page Turner by Viola Shipman (5/28)


√May
Because you enjoyed Half a Soul
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton (6/4)


√June
Trending with Goodreads members:
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood (9/6)


√July
Trending with Goodreads members:
These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean (10/7)


August
Because you shelved These Summer Storms
The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison

September
Because you shelved The Good Boy
For the Record by Emma Lord

√October
Trending with Goodreads members:
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (11/30)


November
Because you shelved Writing Mr. Wrong
The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain by Hannah Brown

December
Trending with Goodreads members
Quicksilverby Callie Hart

Welcome Karen and Mary-Megan!

JoAnne wrote: "I always try to get 2 or 3 books in case I don't like some! :)"

Maybe I should try that (though I probably just read too much other stuff along the way ^^;)

Chrissie wrote: "JoAnne wrote: "I always try to get 2 or 3 books in case I don't like some! :)"

Maybe I should try that (though I probably just read too much other stuff along the way ^^;)"

Haha! :)

Explore 2025
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

10 of 12 Complete

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
🔹️January - Because you enjoyed The Wedding People
Funny Story - Emily Henry - 4 Stars - 1/12/25

🔹️February - Because you're reading Murder with Macaroni and Cheese
Murder with Collard Greens and Hot Sauce - A.L. Herbert - 3 Stars - 2/24/25

🔹️March - Trending with Goodreads members
Bonded in Death - J.D. Robb - 5 Stars - 3/2/25

🔹️April - Because you're reading I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley - 4 Stars - 4/9/25

🔹️May - Trending with Goodreads members
Kills Well with Others - Deanna Raybourn - 4 Stars - 5/27/25

🔹️June - Because you shelved The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith - 4 Stars - 7/6/25

🔹️July - Because you shelved Lone Wolf
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - 4 Stars - 7/22/25

🔹️August - Trending with Goodreads members
First-Time Caller - B.K. Borison - 3 Stars - 8/5/25

🔹️September - Because you're reading The Queen's Man
The Taming of the Queen - Philippa Gregory - 4 Stars - 9/23/25

🔹️October - Trending with Goodreads members
Framed in Death - J.D. Robb - 5 Stars - 10/24/25

🔹️November - Because you enjoyed Great Big Beautiful Life
Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall - 5 Stars - 11/16/25

December - Because you're reading

Welcome Lynda!

Explore 2025
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

10 of 12 Complete

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

JANUARY
Because you enjoyed... The Railway Detective’s Christmas Case by Edward Marston in Dec 24
Read: Murder on the Mauretania by Edward Marston 2/6/25

FBBRUARY
Because you shelved....A Novel Murder: A Mystery by E. C. Nevin (shelved March)
Read....Magpie by Elizabeth Day 4/10/25

MARCH
Because you enjoyed....Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (3/28/25)
Read: A Telegram from Le Touquet by John Bude 4/17/25

APRIL
Trending....One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
Read: 4/25/25

MAY
Because you're reading...The Islanders by S.V. Leonard
Read: The Cruise by Catherine Cooper 6/23/25

JUNE
Because you enjoyed....The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith
Read: The Sentence by Christina Dalcher 7/16/25

JULY
Because you're reading...Tour de Force by Christianna Brand
Read: Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives edited by Martin Edwards 8/5/25

AUGUST
Because you shelved....The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer: A Mystery by Ragnar Jónasson
Read: Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall 9/1/25

SEPTEMBER
Because you're reading....Death At The White Hart by Chris Chibnall
Read: A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss 9/15/25

OCTOBER
Because you're reading...The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C.L. Miller
Read: The Last Word by Elly Griffiths 12/1/25

November
December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

Let us know which area you chose a book from. You may catch up, if you get behind. BUT you may not read ahead!

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Welcome Sheila and Vanessa!

Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
January
February
Trending with Goodreads members Funny Story by Emily Henry 2/6/25
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Welcome Melissa!

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Goal: 11/12

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.

Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

✔ January
Blue Sisters - Coco Mellors - 01/31/25 - Trending with Goodreads Members

✔ February
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis - Because you enjoyed Blue Sisters (No idea what algorithm GR is using, but so be it.)

✔ March
The Paradise Problem - Christina Lauren - 03/08/25 – Trending with Goodreads members

✔ April
How to Solve Your Own Murder - Kristen Perrin - 04/07/25 – Trending with Goodreads members

✔ May
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - 05/25/25 – Trending with Goodreads members

✔ June
The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong - 06/14/25 – Trending with Goodreads members

✔ July
Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 07/23/25 – Trending with Goodreads members

✔ August
The Wedding People - Alison Espach - 08/22/25 – Trending with Goodreads Members

✔ September
The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood - 09/16/25 – Trending with Goodreads Members

✔ October
Uncharmed - Lucy Jane Wood - 10/09/25 – Trending with Goodreads Members

✔ November
Bride - Ali Hazelwood - 11/21/25 – Trending with Goodreads Members

December

Welcome Ferenc!

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Goal: 0/12

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.

Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

January
Because you enjoyed : The Last Coyote Jan 7 ★★★★
Nowhere To Run by CJ Box Jan 10 ★★★
**Didn't use the Explore feature in December

February
Trending with Goodreads members...
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell Feb 1 ★★★★★


March
Because you enjoyed...The Rush Feb 21 ★★★★
Wake by Shelley Burr March 4 ★★★★

April
Trending with Goodreads members...
You Killed Me First by John Marrs Apr 16 ★★★★


May
Trending with Goodreads members... Wild and Wrangled - series replacement
Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage May 1 ★★★★


June
Because you shelved...The Family Upstairs
The Teacher by Freida McFadden June 8 ★★★★

July
Because you shelved...Scrublands
Hell to Pay by Garry Disher July 3 ★★★★

August
Trending - Never Lie by Freida McFadden Aug 1 ★★★★

September
You shelved Stubborn Puckboy, I read The Scrum-Half by Charlie Novak Sept 4 ★★★

October
You read Faking It With The Grumpy Single Dad,
Love Rekindled at Evergreen Inn Oct 9 ★★★

November
Trending: The Intruder by Freida McFadden Nov 4 ★★★★

December

Welcome Susan!

**Hopefully I'll do better updating this year**

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

January
Trending with Goodreads members...

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

February
Trending with Goodreads members...

The Charlie Method by Elle Kennedy

March
Because you shelved...The Girlfriend Zone

Rally by Devney Perry

Welcome Shan ~A~!

Explore 2025

January 1, 2025-December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:

January
Because you Enjoyed Another Man's Moccasins

-C.J. Box

February
Because your are reading Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead


March-Trending with Goodreads Members

April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Welcome Wanda!

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore.

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Goal: 0/12

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.

Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Welcome Kimberly and Jonnie!

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025


Goal: 0/12

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.

Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

January
🕮Trending with Goodreads members...
🕮The Frozen River ★★★★★ 31 January

February
🕮Trending with Goodreads members...
🕮Is She Really Going Out with Him?★★★★ 7 March

March
🕮Trending with Goodreads members...
🕮The Book of Azrael ★★★ 25 March

April
🕮Because you're reading...The Seven Year Slip
🕮The Last Letter ★★★ 30 April

May
🕮Trending with Goodreads members...
🕮I See You've Called in Dead ★★★★ 25 May

June
🕮Trending with Goodreads members...
🕮The Knight and the Moth★★★★ 13 June

July
🕮Because you enjoyed...Twelfth Knight
🕮The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal★★★★26 July

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Explore 2025
Duration: Jan. 1st, 2025 - Dec. 31st, 2025

10/12

The months:
January: Because you enjoyed Perfect World, Vol. 1
🔹The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl, Vol. 1 by Miyuki Tonogaya - Jan. 4th
February: Because you enjoyed Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
🔹Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood by Ed Zwick - Feb. 6th
March: Because you enjoyed Over the Woodward Wall
🔹What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher - Mar. 21st
April: Because you enjoyed The Healing Season of Pottery
🔹The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen by Yuta Takahashi - May 1st
May: Trending on Goodreads
🔹Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood - June 13th
June: Because you enjoyed DallerGut Dream Department Store
🔹The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa - July 5th
July: Because you enjoyed We'll Prescribe You a Cat
🔹The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang - Aug. 31st
August: Because you enjoyed Full Speed to a Crash Landing
🔹Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas - Sept. 12th
September: Because you shelved Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store
🔹Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop by Kenji Ueda - Sept. 16th
October: Because you enjoyed Three Shattered Souls
🔹The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent - Oct. 20th
November: Because you enjoyed
December: Because you enjoyed



Because you enjoyed The Full Moon Coffee Shop ▶️The Bookshop Woman
Because you enjoyed DallerGut Dream Department Store ▶️ The Ghost Cat
Because you enjoyed The World's Wildest Cons: Incredible True Tales of Hustles, Frauds and Swindles ▶️ The Mysterious Benedict Society
Because you enjoyed Persuasion ▶️ Villette
Because you enjoyed Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City ▶️ The Lilac People
Because you enjoyed Silver and Lead ▶️ What Stalks the Deep
Because you shelved Queen Demon ▶️ The City in Glass
Because you shelved Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy ▶️ How to Find a Nameless Fae
Because you shelved Through Gates of Garnet and Gold ▶️ Hemlock & Silver
Trending on Goodreads ▶️ Atmosphere
Trending on Goodreads ▶️ Project Hail Mary
Trending on Goodreads ▶️ Mate
Trending on Goodreads ▶️ The Things Gods Break

Explore 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Read: 0/12

Object: Read one book each month throughout the year. Before the end of each month, you use the Browse feature here on Goodreads. When you click on it, go down to Explore. There will be a few sections to choose a book from.
Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

The months:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Explore 2025
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Because you enjoyed...
Because you're reading...
Because you shelved...
Trending with Goodreads members...

January

February
Because you enjoyed By Blood Oath Bound...
To Steal the Sun by Melanie Cellier (2/9/25)

Welcome Jessica, Kendra, Cheryl and Shash!

Explore 2025
January - December 2025

My Explore Challenge (msg 49)

Books Read ❱❱ 5 of 12

☑️January
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ Great Big Beautiful Life ❱❱ 06.18 ★★★★

February options
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ The Charlie Method or Deep End

☑️March options
🔺from Because you shelved ❱❱ The Hexed ❱❱ 11.26 ★★★★

☑️April
🔺from Because you shelved ❱❱ Bonded in Death ❱❱ 05.12 ★★★★

☑️May
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ Other People’s Summers ❱❱ 06.21 ★★★★

June options
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ Problematic Summer Romance
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ Sounds Like Love

July options
🔺from Because you enjoyed ❱❱ Morning Glory Milking Farm
🔺from Because you shelved ❱❱ Cruel Winter with You or Alternate Endings or Caribbean Crush
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ Deep End or Sounds Like Love

☑️August options
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ Accomplice to the Villain ❱❱ 10.31 ★★★★

September options
🔺from Because you shelved ❱❱ Better Than Friends
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ Mate

October options
🔺from Because you enjoyed ❱❱ Night Broken
🔺from Because you enjoyed ❱❱ To Kill a Badger
🔺from Because you shelved ❱❱ The Vampire's Fake Fiancée

November options
🔺from Because you enjoyed ❱❱ A Royal Mile
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

December options
🔺from Trending with Goodreads members ❱❱ If It Makes You Happy

Welcome LaurLa!