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1 Diamond Coin for completing Level 9 of the Decades Challenge in Lite Version 1 Diamond Coin for completing Level 5 or higher of the Decades Challenge in Full Version 2 Diamond Coins for completing the Millennium Level (Level 8) of the Decades Challenge
Decades LiteLevel L-10 = 55 books.
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2025
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Decades Challenge - Lite Version, Post 1L10 - 2016 - 2020
Completed August 14
✅ 2016 - 6
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✅ 2017 - 7
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✅ 2018 - 8
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✅ 2019 - 9
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✅ 2020 - 10
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Decades Challenge - Lite Version, Post 2L10 - 2021 - 2025
✅ 2021
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✅ 2022 - 2
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✅ 2023 - 3
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✅ 2024 - 4
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✅ 2025 - 5
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TITLE: Decades Challenge 2025 LiteDATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
LEVEL: L-4
COMPLETED: 9/20
2016
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❌2017
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✅2018
1. The Bones Beneath My Skin, T.J. Klune
❌2019
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❌2020
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✅2021
1. The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
❌2022
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❌2023
1. The Kingdom of Sweets, Erika Johansen
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✅2024
1. The Wolf's Eye, Luanne G. Smith
2. Bride, Ali Hazelwood
3. We Used to Live Here, Marcus Kliewer
4. The Astrology House, Carinn Jade
❌2025
1. The Favorites, Layne Fargo
2. Liquid: A Love Story, Mariam Rahmani
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I'm joining at level 1:10 books
🩷2016: The Wangs vs. the World Jade Chang 6 Jun
🩷2017: A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf Emily Midorikawa 22 Nov
🩷2018: Milkman Anna Burns 8 Feb
🩷2019: A Match Made for Thanksgiving Jackie Lau 25 Jan
🩷2020: In Five Years Rebecca Serle 16 Feb
🩷2021: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy Jamie Ford 16 May
🩷2022: Horse Geraldine Brooks 22 Feb
🩷2023: America Fantastica Tim O'Brien 8 Mar
🩷2024: The Whisper Sister Jennifer S. Brown 6 Jan
🩷2025: Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor 10 Jun
Decades LiteLevel L-10 = 55 books.
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2025
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I used to do the original decade challenge, but I never succeeded at it. I'm going to attempt the lite version this year.43/55 books read
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Decades Challenge 2025 LiteCOMPLETED
Level L-5 = 25 books.
Read one (1) book for 2016 to 2020, then the corresponding ending number for 2021 to 2025.
2016
1. The Widow 2025/05/04
2017.
1. Red Sister 01/26/25
2018.
1. Sometimes I Lie 1/30/25
2019.
1. Our Share of Night 2025/01/30
2020.
1. Home Before Dark 01/31/25
2021.
1. The Last Thing He Told Me 01/18/25
2022.
1. Nettle & Bone 01/10/25
2. The House Across the Lake 01/24/25
2023.
1. Done and Dusted 01/22/25
2. The Seven Year Slip 02/08/25
3. Fourth Wing 02/22/25
2024.
1. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
2. Middle of the Night by Riley Sager 01/16/25
3. All the Colors of the Dark 02/11/25
4. The Midnight Feast 03/04/25
2025
1. Onyx Storm 2025/03/28
2. Not Quite Dead Yet 08/07/25
3. Great Big Beautiful Life 07/29/25
4. Atmosphere 07/16/25
5. Grave Empire 07/10/25
I'm going to give this lite version a try - I do a challenge elsewhere very similar to the full/original version, so rather than be duplicative, I'll go for this lite version.
Decades Challenge 2025 Lite
January - December 2025
My Decades Lite Challenge 2025 (msg 14)
Level ❱❱ L-10
Books Read ❱❱ 55
☑️2016 ❱❱ 6 of 6
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☑️2017 ❱❱ 7 of 7
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☑️2018 ❱❱ 8 of 8
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☑️2019 ❱❱ 9 of 9
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☑️2020 ❱❱ 10 of 10
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☑️2021 ❱❱ 1 of 1
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☑️2022 ❱❱ 2 of 2
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☑️2023 ❱❱ 3 of 3
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☑️2024 ❱❱ 4 of 4
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☑️2025 ❱❱ 5 of 5
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It's my first time doing this challenge. Going for level 5 but when I count it comes up to 20 books. Did I miscalculate somewhere?
Decades Challenge 2025: Lite version #16
Level L-10 = 55 books. I’m not going to make this year’s challenge
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2025
Completed: 37/55
2025✳️
✔️1 Good Dirt 5/20
✔️2 The Rules of Fortune 1/20
✔️3 Not Quite by the Book 2/22
✔️4 If Tomorrow Never Comes 3/25
✔️5 Three Mothers 4/23
2024✳️
✔️1 When We Chased the Light 3/18
✔️2 The Housemaid Is Watching 3/31
✔️3 The Women 1/29
✔️4 The Housemaid's Wedding 1/12
2023✳️
✔️1. The Soulmate 2/7
✔️2. See It End 3/5
✔️3. The Lost Bookshop
2022✳️
✔️1 The Diamond Eye 3/13
✔️2 What Can't Be Seen 2/21
2021✳️
✔️1 The Last Line 1/10
2020
✔️1 Finding Forever
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2019
✔️1 Girls of Glass 2/5
✔️2 Black Rock Bay 4/1
✔️3 What the Wind Knows 6/11
✔️4 A Bittersweet Surprise 6/8
✔️5 Relative Fortunes 7/8
✔️6 The Hunting Party 8/22
✔️7 Daisy Jones & The Six 9/8
✔️8 Newport Harbor House 11/18
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2018
✔️1 Pretty Girls Dancing 3/23
✔️2 The Ragged Edge of Night 2/17
✔️3 Still Me 7/7
✔️4 The Perfect Couple 7/19
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✔️1. The Strawberry Hearts Diner 2/13
✔️2. The Rules of Magic 10/14
✔️3 We Were the Lucky Ones 12/13
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2016 ✳️
✔️1 Heartless 1/7
✔️2 Holding Up the Universe 8/15
✔️3 A Court of Mist and Fury 5/6
✔️4 The Mapmaker's Apprentice 10/23
✔️5 Paris for One and Other Stories10/29
✔️6 Sting 11/12
Completed!Decades Lite
Level L-10 = 55 books.
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2025
55/55 completed
2025 COMPLETE!
1: The Honey Pot Plot by Jennifer Crusie - 5/6/25
2: Roverpowered 3: Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist by Drew Hayes - 7/6/25
3: The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews - 8/14/25
4: If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia - 12/18/25
5: Tempests & Tea Leaves by Rachel Morgan - 12/31/25
2024 COMPLETE!
1: The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck by Kylie Scott - 4/20/25
2: Roverpowered: Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist by Drew Hayes - 5/30/25
3: Desserts & Dragons by Bo Hoffman - 7/27/25
4: Not Till We Are Lost by Dennis E Taylor - 10/30/25
2023 COMPLETE!
1: Born to Be Badger by Shelly Laurenston - 2/12/25
2: Stalking Around the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Frost - 12/11/25
3: Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Vicky Delany - 12/23/25
2022 COMPLETE!
1: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson - 6/20/25
2: Castle Deadly, Castle Deep by Veronica Bond - 9/8/25
2021 COMPLETE!
1: Getting Real by Emma Chase - 3/10/25
2020 COMPLETE!
1: The Bookworm's Guide to Faking It by Emma Hart - 1/26/25
2: Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter - 6/5/25
3: The Wizard's Butler by Nathan Lowell - 1/30/25
4: Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews - 2/6/25
5: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall - 6/11/25
6: Well Played by Jen DeLuca - 7/19/25
7: Fate Actually by Elizabeth Hunter - 9/22/25
8: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman - 11/22/25
9: Sprinkles and Sea Serpents by Danielle Garrett - 11/25/25
10: The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose - 12/22/25
2019 COMPLETE!
1: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - 1/9/25
2: Well Met by Jen DeLuca - 2/19/25
3: Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews - 2/6/25
4: Delta-v by Daniel Suarez - 2/26/28
5: Myth Academy by AK Thorne - 3/2/25
6: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston - 6/9/25
7: The Risk by Elle Kennedy - 7/12/25
8: A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau - 11/19/25
9: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 12/2/25
2018 COMPLETE!
1: Fowl Play by R.J. Blain - 12/21/25
2: Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews - 2/3/25
3: Whatever for Hire by RJ Blain - 8/10/25
4: Don't Close Your Eyes by Christie Craig - 8/26/25
5: Last but Not Leashed by R.J. Blain - 9/18/25
6: Box of Frogs by Helen Harper - 10/1/25
7: No Kitten Around by R.J. Blain - 11/15/25
8: Fields' Guide to Assassins by Julie Mulhern - 12/8/25
2017 COMPLETE!
1: Hearth, Home, and Havoc by R.J. Blain - 1/13/25
2: Jeopardy in January by Camilla Chafer - 2/15/25
3: Slouch Witch by Helen Harper - 1/14/25
4: Star Witch by Helen Harper - 1/15/25
5: Spirit Witch by Helen Harper - 1/17/25
6: White Hot by Ilona Andrews - 2/2/25
7: Wildfire by Ilona Andrews - 2/3/25
2016 COMPLETE!
1: Bound by Kirsten Weiss - 3/5/25
2: Ground by Kirsten Weiss - 4/9/25
3: A Sticky Inheritance by Emily James - 7/14/25
4: Down by Kristen Weiss - 8/4/25
5: Baked to Death by Catherine Bruns - 8/7/25
6: Fall into Temptation by Lucy Score - 12/5/25
TITLE: Decades Challenge 2025 LiteDATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
LEVEL: L-4
COMPLETED:20/20 Completed!!
2016
1. The other Einstein (Marie Benedict)
2017
1. Carnivalesque (Neil Jordan)
2018
1. Everyone knows you go home (Natalia Sylvester)
2019
1.10 minutes and 38 seconds in this strange world (Elif Shafak)
2020
1.Après le monde (Antoinette Rychner)
2021
1.Ultramarins (Mariette Navarro)
2022
1. Mélasse de fantaisie (Francis Ouellet)
2. La petite Musique du futur (Katherina Poladjan)
2023
1.Rivière-aux-cartouches (Sébastien Bérubé)
2.Travailler moins ne suffit pas (Julie Posca)
3. La version qui n'intéresse personne (Emmanuelle Pierrot)
2024
1. Other maps (Rebecca Morris)
2.Wild Houses (Colin Barrett)
3. Terrasses (Laurent Gaudé)
4.Toronto Jamais bleue (Marie-Hélène Larochelle)
2025
1. 5 balles dans la tête - version théâtre (Roxanne Bouchard)
2. Julie Chan is dead (Liann Zhang)
3. Les vautours n'oublient jamais (Pedro Cesarino)
4. You are fatally invited (Ande Pliego)
5. La note de passage (Pascale Picard)
TITLE: Decades Challenge 2025 LiteDATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
LEVEL: L-4
COMPLETED: 20/20 Completed!
2016
1. Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner
2017
1. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
2018
1. Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
2019
1. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
2020
1. One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
2021
1. Love at First by Kate Clayborn
2022
1. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
2. Yesterworld by Rebecca Phelps
2023
1. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
2. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
3. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
2024
1. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
2. Quicksilver by Callie Hart
3. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
4. Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
2025
1. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
2. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
3. Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
4. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
5. Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
Decades Challenge 2025 LiteJanuary 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
I'm joining for the first time and going to start at level 1:
Completed: 7/10 books
2016:
2017:
Artemis
Turtles All the Way Down
2018:
Skyward
2019:
Daisy Jones & The Six
2020:
2021:
The Dating Plan
Elsa Bloodstone: Bequest: A Marvel Heroines Novel
Rogue: Untouched
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2023:
Nightbane
Collide
Can I Tell You Something?
Wildfire
The Rainfall Market
A Curse for True Love
Powerless
2024:
The Eternal Ones
Two Can Play
Reckless
Powerful
2025:
Onyx Storm
Deep End
Spiral
Hekate - The Witch
Mate
Bound
Revolve
Let's try Lite version. Maybe I'll actually manage to finish this one for a change.Level: L-10
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Decades Challenge 2025 LiteJanuary 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
I am going to start at level 1:
Completed: 0/10 books
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Decades LiteLevel L-10 = 55 books
55/55
2025
1. Oathbound🌱
2. Atmosphere🌱
3. This Book Will Bury Me🌱
4. A Sea of Unspoken Things🌱
5. Out of the Woods🌱
2024
1. The Last Creation🌱
2. Song of My Softening🌱
3. The Breakup Tour 🌱
4. The Partner Plot🌱
2023
1. The Last City🌱
2. This Cursed Light🌱
3. The Rom-Com Agenda🌱
2022
1. This Vicious Grace🌱
2. Yes & I Love You🌱
2021
1. The Last She🌱
2020
1. The Love Study🌱
2. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space🌱
3. The Betrayals🌱
4. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters🌱
5. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes🌱
6. Wrapped Up in You🌱
7. Friend Me🌱
8. Once Upon an Eid🌱
9. Ballad for Sophie🌱
10. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor🌱
2019
1. So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship🌱
2. Aurora Rising🌱
3. Roll with It🌱
4. Other Words for Home🌱
5. Free Lunch🌱
6. The Time of Our Lives🌱
7. Single All the Way🌱
8. A Cry in the Dark🌱
9. The Evidence Against You🌱
2018
1. Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating🌱
2. The House of Broken Angels🌱
3. The Adults🌱
4. The Wild Robot Escapes🌱
5. Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative🌱
6. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing🌱
7. The Friend🌱
8. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – The Complete Official Guide – Expanded Edition🌱
2017
1. Take the Lead🌱
2. Queens of Geek🌱
3. Us Against You🌱
4. Stay with Me🌱
5. The Accidental Honeymoon🌱
6. Stay with Me🌱
7. Call Back 🌱
2016
1. Beartown🌱
2. The Wild Robot🌱
3. Hidden Figures🌱
4. Return to Sender by Samantha Castoro🌱
5. It's Not You, It's Them🌱
6. Center Stage 🌱
1/1/25-31/1/2555/55
2016
1 Skies 31/7
2 Every Heart a Doorway 5/8
3 Podkin One-Ear 9/8
4 White Sand, Volume 1 13/8
5 Were- 19/9
6 Escape from Bythos 8/10
2017
1 Candy from a Vampire 11/9
2 Total Eclipse of the Hunt 12/9
3 Curses and Cupcakes 12/9
4 Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum 21/9
5 Soul Catcher 3/11
6 Tales from the Cafe 10/11
7 Escape 11/11
2018
1 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 1 15/2
2 Stolen 14/11
3 Hidden 15/11
4 Decked 16/11
5 Prophets of Waaagh! 1/12
6 Courting The Cat Whisperer 16/12
7 The Lion, The Witch, and the Secret Garden 17/12
8 Dark Arts and a Daiquiri 20/12
2019
1 Roger Tarkington and the Magic Calendar: Time Travel for Kids Ages 9-12 31/1
2 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 2 15/2
3 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 3 15/2
4 Alpha's Birthday Virgin 13/11
5 Epilogues 16/11
6 Rescued 16/11
7 Abduction 16/11
8 Conversion 17/11
9 Chained 17/11
2020
1 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 4 15/2
2 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 5 15/2
3 Prince of Cats 25/8
4 The Unready Queen 26/8
5 My Little Kelpie 6/9
6 Pork Pie Pandemonium 7/9
7 Bakewell Tart Bludgeoning 7/9
8 A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking 14/9
9 I'm in Love with the Villainess (Light Novel), Vol. 3 27/9
10 Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors 28/9
2021
1 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 6 15/2
2022
1 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 8 15/2
2 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 9 15/2
2023
1 The Naked Man Who Lives in My Kitchen : Three Years in the Life of a Romance Author 8/2
2 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 10 15/2
3 Lost in the Moment and Found 15/8
2024
1 The Witch's Christmas Catastrophe: A Nocturne Falls Novella 2/2
2 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 11 15/2
3 Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Manga) Vol. 12 15/2
4 The Dratsie Dilemma 7/5
2025
1 Whispers of the Past 16/8
2 Whispers from the Future 16/8
3 The Bookstore Keepers 19/8
4 The Bookstore Family 20/8
5 A Demon's Cocktail With Sambuca 6/9
Decades Lite - 1/1/25 - 12/31/25COMPLETED 1/11/26Level L-10 = 55 books. >160 pages
2025
1 - Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping On a Dead Man (Vera Wong, #2) - Jesse Q. Sutanto (5 stars) 6/13/25
2 - Last Train to Freedom – Deborah Smith (3 stars) 6/29/25 2025
3 - The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland – Michelle Young (3 stars) 8/22/25
4 - The Library of Lost Dollhouses – Elise Hooper (4 stars) 9/17/25
5 - Mercy Fletcher Meets Her Match (Scandalous Sisters, #1) – Aydra Richards (3 stars) 1/11/26
2024
1 - Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books – Kirsten Miller (4 stars) 1/13/25
2 - James – Percival Everett (5 stars) 6/14/25
3 - The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers – Samuel Burr (4 stars) 7/28/25
4 - The Mighty Red – Louise Erdrich (4 stars) 9/11/25
2023
1 - Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) – Waubgeshig Rice (4 stars) 1/16/25
2 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store – James McBride (5 stars) 2/13/25
3 - Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom – Ilyon Woo (4 stars) 4/9/25
2022
1 - Girl in Ice – Erica Ferencik (4 stars) 1/14/25
2 - Explosive Christmas Showdown – Darlene L. Turner (3 stars) 2/23/25
2021
1 - The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray (5 stars) 1/9/25
2020
1 - The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams (4 stars) 3/13/25
2 - Beach Read – Emily Henry (3 stars) 4/25/25
3 - Kiss of Snow (Psy-Changeling, #10) – Nalini Singh (5 stars) 5/20/25
4 - Under A Namibian Sky (Desert Love, #1) – Angelina Kalahari (3 stars) 5/29/25
5 - A Simple Wedding (Heart’s Landing, #1) – Leigh Duncan (3 stars) 6/5/25
6 - Mousse and Murder (Alaskan Diner Mysteries, #1) – Elizabeth Logan ( 3 stars) 9/23/25
7 - Christmas at the Island Hotel (Mure, #5) – Jenny Colgan (4 stars) 10/5/25
8 - The Maltese Parrot (Patricia Fisher Cruise Ship Mysteries, #9) – Steve Higgs (3 stars) 12/29/25
9 - No Place Like Home (Patricia Fisher Cruise Ship Mysteries, #10) – Steve Higgs (3 stars) 12/30/25
10 - Primordial Earth: Book 1 - Baileigh Higgins (2 stars) 1/3/26
2019
1 - Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi (4 stars) 1/18/25
2 - Unbuttoning Miss Matilda – Lucy Ashford (4 stars) 2/3/25
3 - Matched and Mated (Interstellar Brides Program #16) – Grace Goodwin (3 stars) 3/19/25
4 - The Rise of Magicks (Chronicles of The One, #3) – Nora Roberts (2 stars) 4/5/25
5 - The Work of Art (Somerset Stories, #1) – Mimi Matthews (5 stars) 7/3/25
6 - The Unhoneymooners (The Unhoneymooners, #1) – Christina Lauren (3 stars) 8/15/25
7 - The Lager Queen of Minnesota – J. Ryan Stradal (3 stars) 9/8/25
8 - The Island of Sea Women – Lisa See (5 stars) 10/10/25
9 - Mission for the Maharajah (Patricia Fisher Cruise Ship Mysteries, #7) – Steve Higgs (3 stars) 12/26/25
2018
1 - Kiss of the Royal – Lindsey Duga (4 stars) 3/7/25
2 - Space Deputy (Interstellar Sheriff, #1) – Jenny Schwartz (4 stars) 6/28/25
3 - Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries, #4) – Martha Wells (4 stars) 7/8/25
4 - The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted – Robert Hillman (5 stars) 7/12/25
5 - The Ghost Ship (Space Drifters, #3) – Paul Regnier (4 stars) 8/19/25
6 - Christmas on the Island (Mure, #3) – Jenny Colgan (4 stars) 10/4/25
7 - My Favorite Half-Night Stand – Christina Lauren (3 stars) 11/9/25
8 - The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers – Terri-Lynne DeFino (3 stars) 11/16/25
2017
1 - Orion (Star Guardians, #1) – Ruby Lionsdrake (3 stars) 1/29/25
2 - Fireworks in Paradise (TJ Jensen Mystery #8) - Kathi Daley (3 stars) 2/2/25
3 - Someone to Wed (Wescott, #3) – Mary Balogh (5 stars) 2/24/25
4 - Stolen by an Alien (Stolen by an Alien, #1) – Amanda Milo (3 stars) 3/11/25
5 - Draekon Mate (Dragons in Exile – Lee Savino (2 stars) 3/17/25
6 - Lightning Dragon (Bride Hunt, #4) – Charlene Hartnady (3 stars) 4/4/25
7 - I Close My Eyes (Closed, #1) – Regina Puckett (3 stars) 8/19/25 2017 England [182]
2016
1 - Royal Dragon (The Bride Hunt, #1) – Charlene Hartnady (2 stars) 2/4/23
2 - Mated to the Warriors (Interstellar Brides Program, #2) – Grace Goodwin (3 stars) 3/15/25
3 - One True Loves – Taylor Jenkins Reid (3 stars) 3/19/25
4 - Happily Ever Ninja (Knitting in the City, #5) – Penny Reid (5 stars) 5/14/25
5 - Notorious – Susan Andersen (3 stars) 6/18/25 2016 [322]
6 - Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2) – Lisa Kleypas (4 stars) 6/24/25
Decades Challenge LiteLevel L-1 = 10 books 🥳
Level L-2 = 17 books 🥳
Level L-3 = 19 books 🥳
Level L-4 = 20 books 🥳
Level L-5 = 20 books 🥳
Level L-6 = 29 books
Progress: 28/29
✅ 2016: Chasing Truth by Julie Cross (26/1)
✅ 2017: Beginner's Luck by Kate Clayborn (6/3)
✅ 2018:: Love Me Louder by Christina Lee (20/2)
✅ 2019: The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda (6/1)
✅ 2020:
1. White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton (3/2)
2. Lief meisje, kwaad bloed by Holly Jackson (29/3)
3. Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (4/5)
4. In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren (31/5)
5. De kracht van het ritueel: hoe je van een gewone, alledaagse gebeurtenis een onvergetelijke ervaring maakt by Casper ter Kuile (6/10)
6. De bibliotheek van geheime dromen by Michiko Aoyama (7/11)
7. Een glimp van jou by Holly Miller (19/11)
8. Een soort vonk by Elle McNicoll (21/11)
9. All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle (17/12)
10.
✅ 2021:
1. De hoofdrol by Janice Hallett (22/1)
✅ 2022:
1. Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt (2/2)
2. A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow (10/5)
✅ 2023:
1. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (4/1)
2. The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett (28/1)
3. Leer me alles wat je weet by Hanna Bervoets (28/2)
✅ 2024:
1. Ace of Hearts by Abby Colsen (8/1)
2. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (17/3)
3. Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet by Samantha Allen (21/3)
4. Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore (1/4)
✅ 2025:
1. Waar ben je? by Anna van Praag (14/5)
2. Deep End by Ali Hazelwood (13/6)
3. Stop Me If You've Heard This One by Kristen Arnett (29/8)
4. The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor (24/10)
5. Love is a War Song by Danica Nava (10/11)
Decades LiteLevel L-10 = 55 books.
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2025
2025
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2024
1 First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston, 06/27/25
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2023
1. Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan09/29/25
2 Book Lovers by Emily Henry, 09/23/25
3 The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict,04/19/25
2022
1 Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh,11/16/25
2 Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann,02/28/25
2021
1 Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price, 08/28/25
2020
1Last House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer,07/31/25
2 Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater, 06/29/25
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
1 The Haunting of Ashburn Houseby Darcy Coates,10/23/25
2The Good Son byYou-Jeong Jeong,02/11/25
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Decades Challenge 2025 LiteDATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
LEVEL: L-4
COMPLETED:0/20
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I'm joining at level 1, but I might push it if things are going well:2016
1. The Woman in Cabin 10 - 12/31
2017
1. The Sun and Her Flowers - 10/19
2018
2019
1. Dead Witch on a Bridge - 1/5
2. Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd. - 1/24
3. Ninth House - 11/24
2020
1. Legendborn - 3/2
2. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - 9/20
2021
1. Any Way the Wind Blows - 6/29
(2.) Instructions for Dancing - 10/30
(3.) Later - 12/3
2022
1. Like Real People Do - 2/22
2. My Mechanical Romance - 5/7
2023
1. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada - 1/19
2. The World Below: The World Below Book One - 1/29
3. Like You've Nothing Left to Prove - 2/26
(4.) All Hail the Underdogs - 3/9
(5.) Starter Villain
(6.) Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
(7.) Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
(8.) A Study in Drowning - 10/10
(9.) Practice Makes Perfect - 12/15
2024
1. Swordcrossed - 1/11
2. The Ravenswood Witch - 1/12
3. Annie Bot - 1/18
4. The Darkest Waltz - 1/27
(5.) It Waits in the Forest - 2/14
(6.) You're the Problem, It's You - 4/29
(7.) The Witchstone - 9/12
(8.) The Heiress - 10/26
2025
1. The Summer War - 11/8
Charlie's Decades Challenge 2025 Lite
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2025
Goal: Diamond Coin
for completing Level 9 of the Decades Challenge in Lite Version Level L-9 = 50 books. Read one (1) book for 2016, then the corresponding ending number to 2025.
Status: 50/50
✅ 2016
1. Caraval, 02/18/2025
✅ 2017
1. The Rules of Magic, f. 12-Jan-2025
2. Turtles All the Way Down, f. 14-Jan-2025
3. Norse Mythology, 5/24/25
4. Lucas, 6/4/25
5. Van, 6/8/25
6. The Maverick's Bride-to-Order, 12/20/25
7. Royally Matched,
✅2018
1. The Governess Game, f. 21-Jan-2025
2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 01/27/2025
3. Cowboy's Redemption, 02/23/2025
4. Becoming, 3/14/2025
5. An Easy Death, 5/9/25
6. Elevation, 5/23/25
7. Home to Wind River, 7/12/25
8. The Weight of an Infinite Sky, 10/04/2025
✅2019
1. Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would You Go for Financial Freedom?, f. 18-jan-2025
2. Mulberry Mischief, f. 26-Jan-2025
3. The Library of the Unwritten, 02/12/2025
4. Operation Hero's Watch, 02/16/2025
5. Cavanaugh's Missing Person, 3/24/2025
6. The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist, 5/14/25
7. Soldier Protector, 5/16/25
8. Colton's Secret Bodyguard, 6/21/25
9. The Huntress, 7/5/25
✅2020
1. Untamed f. 2-Jan-2025
2. All Boys Aren’t Blue, f. 20-Jan-2025
3. The Loop, 6/5/25
4. Mexican Gothic, 7/26/25
5. Aran: Recipes and Stories from a Bakery in the Heart of Scotland, 9/6/25
6. The Suicide House, 11/4/25
7. Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts, 11/13/2025
8. The Bachelor, 12/25/2025
9. Spoiler Alert
10. American Dirt
✅ 2021
1. Light of the Jedi, 5/19/25
✅ 2022
1. Hidden Pictures, 2/21/2025
2. Legends & Lattes, 4/30/25
✅ 2023
1. None of This Is True, 4/8/2025
2. Hopeless, 4/9/2025
3. The Pumpkin Spice Café, 4/18/25
✅ 2024
1. The Women, 01/30/2025
2. The Cinnamon Bun Book Store, 5/27/25
3. The Christmas Tree Farm, 6/3/25
4. Beginner's Guide to Self Sufficiency Projects for the Home, 6/28/25
✅2025
1. Out of the Woods, 4/6/2025
2. Don't Let Him In, 8/23/25
3. The Strawberry Patch Pancake House, 8/27/25
4. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, 9/11/25
5. Isola, 9/15/25
DECADES CHALLENGE 2025 *LITE*Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Level: L-9 = 50 books.
*Read one (1) book for 2016, then the corresponding ending number to 2025*
Completed: 20/50
2016
1. The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
2017
1. Turtles All the Way Down
2. Sing, Unburied, Sing
3. The Heart’s Invisible Furies
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
✅5. Us Against You by Frederik Backman - f. 3/21/25
✅6. Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller- f. 2/6/25
7. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
2018
1. Unbroken Threads by Jennifer Klepper
2. There, There
3. Circe by Madeline Miller
4. The Overstory by Richard Powers
✅5. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh - f. 5/4/25
6. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
7. Everything I Know About Love
8. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
2019
✅1. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - f. 2/4/25
2. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
✅3. Know My Name by Chanel Miller - f. 3/24/25
✅4. Things You Save in a Fire - f. 4/13/25
5. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
6. This Is How You Lose the Time War
✅7. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim - f. 4/7/25
8. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
9. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
2020
✅1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - f. 1/29/25
✅2. Oona Out of Order - f. 2/2/25
3. The Dictionary of Lost Words -
4. Beach Read by Emily Henry
5. The Book of Lost Names
6. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
7. Punching the Air
8. Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
9. Long Bright River by Liz Moore
10. Piranesi
2021
✅1. The Book of Form and Emptiness - f. 2/11/25
2022
✅1. Foster - f. 1/31/25
✅2. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
2023
✅1. Yellowface - f. 1/5/25
✅2. Hello Beautiful - f. 1/13/25
✅3. North Woods by Daniel Mason- f. 2/21/25
2024
✅1. Beautyland - f. 1/7/25
✅2. All the Colors of the Dark - f. 1/3/25
✅3. Funny Story - f. 1/16/25
✅4. Blue Sisters - f. 2/1/25
2025
1. Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson - f. 3/—/25
✅ 2. More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova - f. 4/10/25
3. People of Means by Nancy Johnson
4. My Friends
5. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
2025 Decades Challenge LiteGoal: L5
Progress: 20/20
2025
✅ 1. Oathbound -- 5/28/25
✅ 2. Flirting Lessons -- 6/28/25
✅ 3. Ginger's Grizzlies: A Curvy Girl Paranormal Romance -- 7/12/25
✅ 4. Famous Last Words -- 7/15/25
✅ 5. Junie -- 8/23/25
2024
✅ 1. Human Resources: A Happy Holiday Short -- 2/19/25
✅ 2. The Message -- 2/28/25
✅ 3. The Blueprint -- 3/8/25
✅ 4. Immortal Dark -- 3/31/25
2023
✅ 1. Time's Undoing -- 2/10/25
✅ 2. Butter: Short Fiction -- 3/26/25
✅ 3. Androne -- 5/4/25
2022
✅ 1. The Scent of Burnt Flowers -- 2/12/25
✅ 2. The Sacrifice -- 3/11/25
2021
✅ 1. The Extinction Trials -- 2/2/25
2020
✅ 1. Cemetery Boys -- 4/7/25
2019
✅ 1. 8 Seconds to Love -- 4/29/25
2018
✅ 1. Beneath -- 6/10/25
2017
✅ 1. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane -- 2/18/25
2016
✅ 1. The Billionaire's Arranged Baby -- 6/8/25
Level L-9 = 51 books.Level 10 - 55 books
Read one (1) book for 2016, then the corresponding ending number to 2025.
✔️2016
1. Fellside - 27/01/25
2. The Sun Is Also a Star - 04/02/25
3. All the Pretty Horses - 07/03/25
4. Good Sugar Bad Sugar: Eat yourself free from sugar and carb addiction 19/04/25
5. Salt to the Sea - 27/06/25
5 subtle art of not giving a fuck
6 it Ends With Us
7 Hidden Figures
2017
1. Lincoln in the Bardo - 16/03/25
2. The Woman in Cabin 10 - 24/07/25
3. Cotton Crossing - 07/08/25
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2018
1. Justice For All - 01/07/25
2. The Fact of a Body - 06/08/25
3. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden 25/08/25
4 Artificial Condition - 03/12/25
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1. Grey Bees - 23/03/25
Lawn Boy - 05/05/25
✔️2019
1. The Island of Sea Women 10/02/25
2. Two Witches and a Whiskey 10/02/25
3. Burr - 03/05/25
4. Lawn Boy - 05/05/25
5. Sabrina & Corina - 22/05/25
6. The Orchard
7. Crossroad
8. The Night Tiger - 14/10
9. Demon Magic and a Martini - 23/11/25
2020
1. The Country of Others - 24/01/25
1. Grey Bees - 23/03/25
2 All Boys Aren’t Blue 26/04/25
The Sword of Kaigen
Paladin's Grace
The City We Became
Red sands
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2 All Boys Aren’t Blue
The Sword of Kaigen
Paladin's Grace
The City We Became
✔️2021
1. The Last Graduate - 03/02/25
3 cats cradle
All the Murmuring Bones
✔️2022
1. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - 20/05/25
2. One Dark Window09/06/25
✔️2023
1. Bitterthorn 27/01/25
2. The Golden Enclaves - 24/03/25
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop - 12/03/25
✔️2024
1. A Disappearance in Fiji - 12/01/25
2. When Among Crows - 19/02/25
3. Her Amber Chalice- 23/10/25
4. The Nightingale - 06/11/25
2025
1. Atmosphere 25/09/25
2. Automatic Noodle 08/10/25
3. The Possession of Alba Díaz 02/11/25
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Decades LiteLevel L-10 = 55 books
20/55
2025
1. Good Spirits
2024
1. The Life Impossible
2023
1. Mascot
2. You Make It Feel Like Christmas
3. Iceberg
2022
1. I Must Betray You
2. The House Across the Lake
2021
1. You'll Be the Death of Me
2020
1. We Are Not Free
2. Good Girl, Bad Blood
3. Dress Coded
4. History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote
2019
1. Spin
2. Allies
3. The Unteachables
2018
2017
1. Restart
2. Ban This Book
2016
1. Ghost
2. Falling Over Sideways
3. Salt to the Sea
Decades Lite 2025 -COMPLETEDLevel: L-5: 25 books
25/25
2025
✔ 1. Heartwood by Amity Gaige 04/27/25
✔ 2. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid 08/03/25 5★
✔ 3. Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn 08/10/25 4★
✔ 4. Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz 09/28/25 4.5★
✔ 5. Head Cases by John McMahon 10/10/25 4★
2024
✔ 1. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman 01/15/25 5★
✔ 2. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune 04/14/25 4.5★
✔ 3. The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley 5/11/25 3.5★
✔ 4. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky 06/24/25 4★
2023
✔ 1. Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick 02/21/25 3★
✔ 2. Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates 04/17/25 3.5★
✔ 3. Murder by Invitation Only by Colleen Cambridge 06/28/25 3.5★
2022
✔ 1. A Trace of Poison by Colleen Cambridge 5/20/25
✔ 2. Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg 7/18/25 4★
2021
✔ 1. Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge 3/15/25 3.5★
2020
✔ 1. They Never Learn by Layne Fargo 02/19/25 2.5★
2019
✔ 1. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid 02/05/25 3★
2018
✔ 1. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells 10/23/25 4★
2017
✔ 1. Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire 06/11/25
2016
✔ 1. Ghost by Jason Reynolds 08/22/25 3.5★
COMPLETED: Level 1: 10 booksI'm joining at level 1:
10 books
🩷2016: The Wangs vs. the World Jade Chang 6 Jun
🩷2017: A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf Emily Midorikawa 22 Nov
🩷2018: Milkman Anna Burns 8 Feb
🩷2019: A Match Made for Thanksgiving Jackie Lau 25 Jan
🩷2020: In Five Years Rebecca Serle 16 Feb
🩷2021: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy Jamie Ford 16 May
🩷2022: Horse Geraldine Brooks 22 Feb
🩷2023: America Fantastica Tim O'Brien 8 Mar
🩷2024: The Whisper Sister Jennifer S. Brown 6 Jan
🩷2025: Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor 10 Jun
Completed!Decades Lite
Level L-10 = 55 books.
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2025
55/55 completed
2025 COMPLETE!
1: The Honey Pot Plot by Jennifer Crusie - 5/6/25
2: Roverpowered 3: Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist by Drew Hayes - 7/6/25
3: The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews - 8/14/25
4: If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia - 12/18/25
5: Tempests & Tea Leaves by Rachel Morgan - 12/31/25
2024 COMPLETE!
1: The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck by Kylie Scott - 4/20/25
2: Roverpowered: Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist by Drew Hayes - 5/30/25
3: Desserts & Dragons by Bo Hoffman - 7/27/25
4: Not Till We Are Lost by Dennis E Taylor - 10/30/25
2023 COMPLETE!
1: Born to Be Badger by Shelly Laurenston - 2/12/25
2: Stalking Around the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Frost - 12/11/25
3: Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Vicky Delany - 12/23/25
2022 COMPLETE!
1: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson - 6/20/25
2: Castle Deadly, Castle Deep by Veronica Bond - 9/8/25
2021 COMPLETE!
1: Getting Real by Emma Chase - 3/10/25
2020 COMPLETE!
1: The Bookworm's Guide to Faking It by Emma Hart - 1/26/25
2: Psychic Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter - 6/5/25
3: The Wizard's Butler by Nathan Lowell - 1/30/25
4: Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews - 2/6/25
5: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall - 6/11/25
6: Well Played by Jen DeLuca - 7/19/25
7: Fate Actually by Elizabeth Hunter - 9/22/25
8: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman - 11/22/25
9: Sprinkles and Sea Serpents by Danielle Garrett - 11/25/25
10: The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose - 12/22/25
2019 COMPLETE!
1: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - 1/9/25
2: Well Met by Jen DeLuca - 2/19/25
3: Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews - 2/6/25
4: Delta-v by Daniel Suarez - 2/26/28
5: Myth Academy by AK Thorne - 3/2/25
6: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston - 6/9/25
7: The Risk by Elle Kennedy - 7/12/25
8: A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau - 11/19/25
9: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 12/2/25
2018 COMPLETE!
1: Fowl Play by R.J. Blain - 12/21/25
2: Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews - 2/3/25
3: Whatever for Hire by RJ Blain - 8/10/25
4: Don't Close Your Eyes by Christie Craig - 8/26/25
5: Last but Not Leashed by R.J. Blain - 9/18/25
6: Box of Frogs by Helen Harper - 10/1/25
7: No Kitten Around by R.J. Blain - 11/15/25
8: Fields' Guide to Assassins by Julie Mulhern - 12/8/25
2017 COMPLETE!
1: Hearth, Home, and Havoc by R.J. Blain - 1/13/25
2: Jeopardy in January by Camilla Chafer - 2/15/25
3: Slouch Witch by Helen Harper - 1/14/25
4: Star Witch by Helen Harper - 1/15/25
5: Spirit Witch by Helen Harper - 1/17/25
6: White Hot by Ilona Andrews - 2/2/25
7: Wildfire by Ilona Andrews - 2/3/25
2016 COMPLETE!
1: Bound by Kirsten Weiss - 3/5/25
2: Ground by Kirsten Weiss - 4/9/25
3: A Sticky Inheritance by Emily James - 7/14/25
4: Down by Kristen Weiss - 8/4/25
5: Baked to Death by Catherine Bruns - 8/7/25
6: Fall into Temptation by Lucy Score - 12/5/25
Finally getting around to updating yearly challenges! This one is done - thank you!Updated post: My Decades Lite Challenge 2025 (msg 14)
Level ❱❱ L-10
Books Read ❱❱ 55
Finally!Decades Lite - 1/1/25 - 12/31/25COMPLETED 1/11/26
Level L-10 = 55 books. >160 pages
2025
1 - Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping On a Dead Man (Vera Wong, #2) - Jesse Q. Sutanto (5 stars) 6/13/25
2 - Last Train to Freedom – Deborah Smith (3 stars) 6/29/25 2025
3 - The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland – Michelle Young (3 stars) 8/22/25
4 - The Library of Lost Dollhouses – Elise Hooper (4 stars) 9/17/25
5 - Mercy Fletcher Meets Her Match (Scandalous Sisters, #1) – Aydra Richards (3 stars) 1/11/26
2024
1 - Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books – Kirsten Miller (4 stars) 1/13/25
2 - James – Percival Everett (5 stars) 6/14/25
3 - The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers – Samuel Burr (4 stars) 7/28/25
4 - The Mighty Red – Louise Erdrich (4 stars) 9/11/25
2023
1 - Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) – Waubgeshig Rice (4 stars) 1/16/25
2 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store – James McBride (5 stars) 2/13/25
3 - Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom – Ilyon Woo (4 stars) 4/9/25
2022
1 - Girl in Ice – Erica Ferencik (4 stars) 1/14/25
2 - Explosive Christmas Showdown – Darlene L. Turner (3 stars) 2/23/25
2021
1 - The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray (5 stars) 1/9/25
2020
1 - The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams (4 stars) 3/13/25
2 - Beach Read – Emily Henry (3 stars) 4/25/25
3 - Kiss of Snow (Psy-Changeling, #10) – Nalini Singh (5 stars) 5/20/25
4 - Under A Namibian Sky (Desert Love, #1) – Angelina Kalahari (3 stars) 5/29/25
5 - A Simple Wedding (Heart’s Landing, #1) – Leigh Duncan (3 stars) 6/5/25
6 - Mousse and Murder (Alaskan Diner Mysteries, #1) – Elizabeth Logan ( 3 stars) 9/23/25
7 - Christmas at the Island Hotel (Mure, #5) – Jenny Colgan (4 stars) 10/5/25
8 - The Maltese Parrot (Patricia Fisher Cruise Ship Mysteries, #9) – Steve Higgs (3 stars) 12/29/25
9 - No Place Like Home (Patricia Fisher Cruise Ship Mysteries, #10) – Steve Higgs (3 stars) 12/30/25
10 - Primordial Earth: Book 1 - Baileigh Higgins (2 stars) 1/3/26
2019
1 - Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi (4 stars) 1/18/25
2 - Unbuttoning Miss Matilda – Lucy Ashford (4 stars) 2/3/25
3 - Matched and Mated (Interstellar Brides Program #16) – Grace Goodwin (3 stars) 3/19/25
4 - The Rise of Magicks (Chronicles of The One, #3) – Nora Roberts (2 stars) 4/5/25
5 - The Work of Art (Somerset Stories, #1) – Mimi Matthews (5 stars) 7/3/25
6 - The Unhoneymooners (The Unhoneymooners, #1) – Christina Lauren (3 stars) 8/15/25
7 - The Lager Queen of Minnesota – J. Ryan Stradal (3 stars) 9/8/25
8 - The Island of Sea Women – Lisa See (5 stars) 10/10/25
9 - Mission for the Maharajah (Patricia Fisher Cruise Ship Mysteries, #7) – Steve Higgs (3 stars) 12/26/25
2018
1 - Kiss of the Royal – Lindsey Duga (4 stars) 3/7/25
2 - Space Deputy (Interstellar Sheriff, #1) – Jenny Schwartz (4 stars) 6/28/25
3 - Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries, #4) – Martha Wells (4 stars) 7/8/25
4 - The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted – Robert Hillman (5 stars) 7/12/25
5 - The Ghost Ship (Space Drifters, #3) – Paul Regnier (4 stars) 8/19/25
6 - Christmas on the Island (Mure, #3) – Jenny Colgan (4 stars) 10/4/25
7 - My Favorite Half-Night Stand – Christina Lauren (3 stars) 11/9/25
8 - The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers – Terri-Lynne DeFino (3 stars) 11/16/25
2017
1 - Orion (Star Guardians, #1) – Ruby Lionsdrake (3 stars) 1/29/25
2 - Fireworks in Paradise (TJ Jensen Mystery #8) - Kathi Daley (3 stars) 2/2/25
3 - Someone to Wed (Wescott, #3) – Mary Balogh (5 stars) 2/24/25
4 - Stolen by an Alien (Stolen by an Alien, #1) – Amanda Milo (3 stars) 3/11/25
5 - Draekon Mate (Dragons in Exile – Lee Savino (2 stars) 3/17/25
6 - Lightning Dragon (Bride Hunt, #4) – Charlene Hartnady (3 stars) 4/4/25
7 - I Close My Eyes (Closed, #1) – Regina Puckett (3 stars) 8/19/25 2017 England [182]
2016
1 - Royal Dragon (The Bride Hunt, #1) – Charlene Hartnady (2 stars) 2/4/23
2 - Mated to the Warriors (Interstellar Brides Program, #2) – Grace Goodwin (3 stars) 3/15/25
3 - One True Loves – Taylor Jenkins Reid (3 stars) 3/19/25
4 - Happily Ever Ninja (Knitting in the City, #5) – Penny Reid (5 stars) 5/14/25
5 - Notorious – Susan Andersen (3 stars) 6/18/25 2016 [322]
6 - Marrying Winterborne (The Ravenels, #2) – Lisa Kleypas (4 stars) 6/24/25
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The number of books you have to read for each of the years is the number corresponding for that year and must be published within that year.
For example:
LEVELS
Level L-1 = 10 books.
Level L-2 = 15 books.
Level L-3 = 16 books.
Level L-4 = 16 books.
Level L-5 = 25 books.
Level L-6 = 33 books.
Level L-7 = 40 books.
Level L-8 = 46 books.
Level L-9 = 51 books.
Level L-10 = 55 books.
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2025