2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

RACING THROUGH TIME
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2025

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.”

Examples
The Night Circus
The Bone Clocks
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World


To join, post a message telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, take a moment to check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information on how our challenges are run.


Thank you, Carmen, for inspiring this challenge. Thank you Lina for agreeing to lead this challenge

✨🕗 Racing Through Time 🕗✨

Welcome everyone and happy reading!




How to participate:

1. To join the challenge, post a comment below with your goal.

You can choose to read as many books as you wish. If you don't know how many books you want to read yet, you can decide and update later. In such case, to make it easier, I will automatically write down 1 book as the initial goal, which can be changed later.

2. Note down your message number and use it for updates.

As you finish reading a book, edit your original message and post a new comment to update, including your original message number. For challenge updates and statistics, I will be looking at the update comments, not the original messages.

* Example of an update message: Update to message #1: 5/8
5 being the books read so far, 8 being the goal.

3. Update if you do not wish to be a part of the challenge anymore.

If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don’t delete your original sign-up post. You can just edit it instead and add a new comment with the original message number so that I would see it sooner. You can also message me privately. Thanks! 😊

Example:
* Original post edit: Opting out of the challenge.
* New comment: Update to message #1: Opting out of the challenge.

4. You can choose the books you'll read in advance or add them as you go.

5. You may join late if the challenge hasn't ended yet, and may count any relevant books completed during the challenge dates.



🕗 I will post updates every few days. That will include: 🕗
* Updating the statistics in the message #3 (the one below).
* Posting an update comment.

🕑🕑🕑Participants:🕑🕑🕑

Afrodita (# 21) - 3/3 Completed!
Beth (# 8) - 4/4 Completed!
Bex's Bookshelves (# 20) - 1/4
Caraina (# 9) - 5/5 Completed!
Carri Carey (# 11) - 8/8 Completed!
Carrie (# 4) - 3/3 Completed!
Catsalive (# 24) - 2/2 Completed!
Ciara (# 18) - 3/5
Cindy III (# 27) - 0/3
Deanie (# 17) - 0/5
Jemma (# 5) - 0/3
Jenn (# 30) - 3/10
Jill (# 23) - 1/3
Jordan (# 31) - 1/1 Completed!
Kalyn (# 22) - 0/2
Kristina (# 16) - 5/5 Completed!
LinaVer (# 7) - 3/2 Completed!
Rachael (# 6) - 3/3 Completed!
Sarah (# 40) - 0/6
SarahKat (# 14) - 5/5 Completed!
Sheila (# 41) - 5/5 Completed!
Susan (# 12) - 0/3
Susan (# 13) - 3/3 Completed!
Tanu (# 10) - 1/1 Completed!
TerryJane (# 15) - 12/12 Completed!
Vish (# 26) - 0/2

Happy reading!🎉

✨ General stats: ✨

Number of participants: 26
Books Read: 71
Book Goal: 108
Goal progress: 65.74%
Participants who completed the challenge: 15

This challenge is now officially closed and I will not be updating it anymore. It was an honor and a pleasure, thanks everyone! See you in the future challenges. :)

Sign me up please - but only going for 3 on this one!

🕗RACING THROUGH TIME🕗
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2025
🎉COMPLETED: 3/3🎉


✔️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

I’ll sign up for 3 books for this months challenge, I’ve got a few books in mind so it could be more but I’ve got a lot on this month so don’t want to commit to too much!

Looking forward to it!🫶🏻

Please sign me up for three books for now. Got a few possibilities to choose from

COMPLETED: 3/3

1. Once Upon A Time finished 12 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. Time Of My Life finished 17 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Children of Time finished 24 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I'll try to read 4 books again. ➡️ Editing the goal: 2 books

Progress: 3/2 - completed 🎉🎉🎉

(view spoiler)[Book options/ plans:

• A Winter's Tale
• 1Q84
✔️• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• The Seven Year Slip
• ❓ In Search of Lost Time
• ❓ Summer Reading
• ❓ Last Night at Chateau Marmont
• ❓ And Then There Were None
• ❓ When the Moon Was Ours
• ❓ One Last Night
✔️• The Remains of the Day
✔️• My So-Called Bollywood Life

(hide spoiler)]

link to where I track all my challenges

February - Racing Through Time

Signing up for 4. Final result: 4/4

1. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
4. Stones Against the Mirror: Friendship in the time of the South African Struggle by Hugh Lewin

RACING THROUGH TIME
Duration: February 1, 2025 - February 28, 2025

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.”

Completed: 5/5

1. BOSS: An Urban Fiction Love Story - Jade Jones 2/10/25
2. Countdown to Valentine's Day - Dianna Houx 2/16/25
3. The 24th Hour - James Patterson 2/18/25
4. Twenty Years Later - Charlie Donlea 2/23/25
5. A Week at the Shore - Barbara Delinsky 2/27/25

Sign me up for 3, please!

EDIT: Sign me up for 1, please!

Members Corner Thread

Sign me up for 8 please!

✅ 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

Message number 12.

Sign me up for atleast 3!

I'd like to signup for 3

Progress: 3/3



Finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Night We Lost Him, Here One Moment

Please sign me up for 5

5/5

⏳When the Day Comes
⏳The Blue Hour
⏳The Year of the Witching
⏳The Midnight Feast
⏳The First Day of Spring

⏰ RACING THROUGH TIME - Monthly Challenge
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2025
Progress: 12/12 -- COMPLETE

⏰ Wink Poppy Midnight
⏰ Midnight Rainbow
⏰ The Blue Hour
⏰ The Pull of the Stars - pocketwatch on cover
⏰ There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
⏰ Three Days in June
⏰ 10:04
⏰ The Twilight Wife
⏰ An Ocean of Minutes
⏰ Wrong Place Wrong Time
⏰ A Hero of Our Time
⏰ In the Night Room

RACING THROUGH TIME
February 1 - February 28, 2025
Progress: 5/5

Sign me up for 5 books!

✅ 1. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
✅ 2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
✅ 3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
✅ 4. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
✅ 5. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

RACING THROUGH TIME - Monthly Challenge
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2025
Progress: 0/5

Potential books:
Grimm: The Killing Time
Locked in Time
The Psychology of Time Travel
The Girls Weekend
In the Blue Hour
Voices In the Night
Burn the Night
Miss Knight and the Night in Lagos
The Night Bazaar: Venice

I will aim for five!

Updated through message #18

Welcome, everyone, so nice to see you all here. Also, great options for books, gave me some ideas and new additions to tbr as well. 😊

RACING THROUGH TIME

RACING THROUGH TIME
February 1 - February 28, 2025
Progress: 0/4

Me Please for 4

1. Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray Read: 08/02/24
2.
3.
4.

Sign me up for 3, thank you! :D

Sign me up for 2 please!

Progress: 0/2

1.
2.

I’m signing up for 3. 2/3
1. In Time
2. That Night in the Library

Aiming for 2.

RACING THROUGH TIME
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2025
2/2

1. When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins 5/2 5★
2. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 18/2 3.5★

All updated to msg #24

Welcome everyone! 🤩

Please sign me up for 2!

1. A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity

2. Timekeeper

I will sign up for 3.

RACING THROUGH TIME
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2025



The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Time Cat - Lloyd Alexander
A Time to Dance Padma Venkatraman
A Year Without Mom - Dasha Tolstikova

Updated to msg #27

Update to Message #15 : 5/12

I would like to sign up for 10
Thanks 🙂

I'll join for one book, A Winter's Tale, a story best told during a specific time of the year.

Updated through: Message #31
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Welcome to the challenge, Jenn and Jordan! Nice to have you here. 🙂

Jenn, A Winter's Tale sounds interesting, I've added it to my TBR as well.

Update to message #13

Update to message (# 20) 1/4

Updated message 6: 1/3

Update to message #31: 1/1 read

Update to Message 14:

5/5

⏳When the Day Comes
⏳The Blue Hour
⏳The Year of the Witching
⏳The Midnight Feast
⏳The First Day of Spring

Update to message #4:

progress 1/3

That book was hard to finish but good! Maybe I can make quicker progress now.

Updated through: message #38


Congratulations to Jordan and SarahKat for finishing the challenge! And to everyone for great progress 😊 well, everyone except me, hahaha, I'm in a bit of a reading slump. 😅

Sign me up for 6 books

6/6- COMPLETED

✅1) Tale as Old as Time: The Art and Making of Beauty and the Beast (Disney Editions Deluxe (13/2/25)
✅2) One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (28/2/25)
✅3) A Traveller in Time (25/2/25)
✅4) 10 Minutes till Bedtime (14/2/25)
✅5) Bigg Time: A Farcical Fable of Fleeting Fame (14/2/25)
✅6) Time Lottery (22/2/25)

Sheila from NC, we’re halfway through the month but I’ll try for five.

Updated to msg #41

Welcome, Sarah and Sheila, and happy reading! :)

Updated message 6: 2/3

Update to message #13 2/3

Update to Message #15: 12/12
Complete! Actually, I'm finishing the last two tomorrow after the readathon begins, but I'm updating today so that I'll have fewer distractions. 😉

Thank you for leading, LinaVer!

Update message #13 3/3 all done.

Updated to msg #46 :)

Congratulations to those who finished the challenge!

TerryJane wrote: "Update to
Message #15:
12/12
Complete! Actually, I'm finishing the last two tomorrow after the readathon begins, but I'm updating today so that I'll have fewer distractions. 😉

Thank you for le..."

Haha, that's smart, TerryJane! Good luck in the readathon!

Finished! Nightwatching 1/1

Updated message 6: 3/3. Challenge completed thanks