2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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📙 2 0 2 5 c h a l l e n g e s :

read good challenge

buzzword cover challenge

12 translated books in a year

savidge prompts

forensic fabruary readathon

audiobooks

the motel life | willy vlautin 💯
nives | lesa lockford 💯
the semi-detached house | elizabeth kletts
the outsiders |
gifted | cindy kay
fraud | anna massey 💯
ghost mountain | david holmes
the most | abigail reno
woodcutters | matthew lloyd davies 💯
kitchen | emily woozeller
first love | david troughton
night of the mannequins | gary tiedemann
hurricane girl | kirsten sieh
heartburn | meryl streep
the fates will find their way | scott shepherd 💯


the flying troutmans | amy rutherford 💯
portrait of an unknown lady | kyla garcia 💯
fresh water for flowers | sarah young 💯
madonna in a fur coat | robert fass
live fast | mozhan navabi 💯
the camomile lawn | carole boyd
lolly willowes | sarah nichols
thrush green | clare higgins
the lost estate | john hollingworth
now in november | carlotta brentan
the summer without men | hillary huber
where angels fear to tread | edward petherbridge

irish

excited to dive in, oct onward

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5 syllables
Where the heart should be
Where angels fear to tread
The cafe w no name
Learning to talk to plant
A view of the Harbour
The story of my teeth
May you have delicious meals
Madonna in a fur coat

All Capital letters
The boy next door
I am god
Worry
Birding
Asylum road
Eurotrash
Alone w you in the ether
Gentleman overboard
Hunchback
Hurricane girl
The unworthy
A simple Intervention
Liarmouth
The repeat room
Vivienne
Happy all the time
Mouthing
Christ on a bike
Paradais
The coin
The fake
The wrong lady meets lord right

i n. t h e. m i d d l e. o f.



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yellow & orange × shorty september

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fablen [dragonborn healer with mace of grim ranger guild]

#1 - 🅱️ attack red cabs first / metal object on cover
✅️ (192) 25 (136) 25+25 (181) 25+25 (136) 25+25+25 (192) 25 (392) (179) 25+25+25 (255) 25+25 25

#2. the mayor's manor
🅰 speak to mayor / set in small town
🅱 check bodies / free book
🅲 grill the incubus / deceptive cover
(208) 25+25 (320) 25+25 (224) ✅️ (174) 25+25 (259) 25+25 (304) (240) 25+25 (230) 25+25 (183) 25

#3. gathering clues
🅰 interview family / mystery element
(168) 25+25 (150)
🅱 search cottages / animal on cover
(304) 25 ✅️ (420) 25
🅲 ask a nymph / water on cover
(372)

#4. the experiment
🅰 help prepare spell / calligraphy on cover
🅱 dreamwalk(!) / night time on cover (indoors=ok)
✅️ (176) (320) 25+25
🅲 keep watch / buzzy book

#5. marching order
🅰 scout ahead / first book in series
✅️ (370) 25+25
🅱 stay w group / on tbr
🅲 reargaurd / most recently acquired

#6. search party
🅰 human trail / person on cover
🅱 familiar trail / tree on cover
🅲 cast detection spell / animal on cover

#7. night watch
🅰 watch shift / number in title
🅱 cast protection spell / comfort read

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### day one downtime activities

○ l o n g. r e s t ○
* spill the tea (*recurring*) - LGBT+ author (250 pts)

* well-balanced party (*recurring*) - BIPOC author (250 pts)
(184) 25
* meeting the mayor - book with a 40+ yrs mc (300 pts)


## day 2
Lunch w villagers - food on cover (100 pts)
Tending the wounded- medical setting (100 pts)
Identify loot - heard nothing about (250 pts)
25+25+25
Sleeping potion - bed on cover (300 pts)
(224)
Vigil - missing person (300 pts)
✅️ (273) 25 (232) 25

### Day Three
* Stealth Roll - book that you forgot you owned (100 pts)
* Arcane Recovery - book with a magic system (150 pts)
* Spying on the competition - another guildmaster fave(200 pts)
* Clawmarks in the bark - sharp object on cover (250 pts)
* Runic circle - drawings/sketches on cover (300 pts)
* Surrepticious glances - romance with an SFF element (300 pts)
* Sounds in the dark - read a book with the word "night" in the title (400 pts)

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