2026 Reading Challenge discussion

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BOOK SCRABBLE!
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025

Love word games? Then this open challenge is for you! Your goal is to spell out one or more game-related words, such as RUMMY, SCRABBLE, or KNIGHT You may use the first letter of one main word from each book title (omitting a, an, the, etc.). The longer your word(s), the more challenging it becomes!

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.

Example:

R - Red Queen
U - The Bourne Ultimatum
M - The Mummy
M - Don’t Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal
Y - Me Before You

Thanks to Sophia for coming up with this creative challenge and agreeing to lead!

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Welcome to Book Scrabble!
Thanks for joining in on this fun monthly reading challenge! Let's pull out our TBR stacks and get to spelling!

How to Participate:

🔤Post a comment in the thread to let me know you'd like to sign up and how many books you would to read for this monthly challenge. You can change your reading goal at any time throughout the challenge! Take note of the message # attached to your sign-up comment, as you'll need this later.

🔤As you finish your books, you can edit your original sign-up comment to keep track of your progress. You will also need to post a new comment in the thread notating that you have updated your progress and include the message # of your original sign-up comment. Here's how that could look:

.....Update to message #x: 1/5 completed!

🔤If you wish to drop out of the challenge, please do not delete your original sign-up comment or any update comments! Just add a new comment to let me know :)

🔤Once you've completed your challenge goal, be sure to still include the message number on your sign-up comment so we can properly celebrate! 🥳

Let me know if you have any questions, and have a great time reading and spelling!

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📖Apprentice Scrabbler: 1-4 books
📖Intermediary Scrabbler: 5-8 books
📖Expert Scrabbler: 9-12 books
📖Master Scrabbler: 13+ books

🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲Participants:🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲

(#4) Sophia - 4/4 - 📖Apprentice Scrabbler!
(#5) Susan - 5/5 - 📖Intermediary Scrabbler!
(#6) Rachael - 4/4 - 📖Apprentice Scrabbler!
(#7) Beth - 25/25 - 📖Master Scrabbler!
(#8) Laurie - 4/4 - 📖Apprentice Scrabbler!
(#9) Alyssa - 5/11
(#10) Debra Diggs - 7/7 - 📖Intermediary Scrabbler!
(#11) Frankie - 13/13 - 📖Master Scrabbler!
(#12) Brianna Raquel - 20/20 - 📖Master Scrabbler!
(#14) SarahKat - 8/8 - 📖Intermediary Scrabbler!
(#15) Kirstina - 9/9 - 📖Expert Scrabbler!
(#16) GailW - 0/5
(#17) D.L. - 3/6
(#18) Mary - 4/34
(#19) Carri Carey - 8/8 - 📖Intermediary Scrabbler!
(#20) Ana - 0/4
(#21) TerryJane - 25/10 - 📖Master Scrabbler!
(#22) JennH - 0/12
(#23) Caraina - 6/6 - 📖Intermediary Scrabbler!
(#24) Dhruti - 0/4
(#25) Carrie - 12/12 - 📖Expert Scrabbler!
(#26) Blu's World - 4/4 - 📖Apprentice Scrabbler!
(#27) Rachel - 1/8
(#28) Eleanore - 1/3
(#30) Sarah - 0/5
(#31) Catsalive - 8/8 - 📖Intermediary Scrabbler!
(#33) Cheri - 4/4 - 📖Apprentice Scrabbler!
(#34) Vanessa - 4/9
(#36) Shannon - 6/10
(#37) Julie - 2/6
(#38) Sydney - 0/8
(#39) Susan - 0/13
(#43) Amy - 3/8
(#44) Laura - 1/9
(#45) Jenn - 0/35
(#59) Jana - 5/8
(#63) Abby - 0/9
(#69) Linda - 4/4 - 📖Apprentice Scrabbler!
(#76) Sarah - 0/14

Books Pledged: 376
Books Read: 205
Challenges Completed: 18

Updated through message: 111

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Thanks for joining in on this fun monthly challenge! My goal for this month is 4.

Progress: 4/4 completed!

P: Piranesi (4/8/25)
L: The Locked Door (4/4/25)
A: All Quiet on the Western Front (4/25/25)
Y: You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (4/16/25)

Please sign me up for 5.

Progress: 5/5

C - Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 - Lisa Unger Completed 4/24/25
H - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride Completed 4/15/25
E - Emma of 83rd Street - Audrey Bellezza Completed 4/18/25
S - Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins - Completed 4/3/25
S - Sweet Water - Christina Baker Kline - Completed 4/25/25

Please sign me up for 4 books. I'm playing (spelling out) Ludo.

COMPLETED: 4/4

✔️ L - Legends & Lattes
✔️ U - Under Different Stars
✔️ D - Daughters of the Night Sky
✔️ O - The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy

Book Scrabble

Goal: 25
Progress: 25/25

✅ Pinochle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinochle
(view spoiler)[P - Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross, #5) by James Patterson
I - Into the Abyss (Violet Darger, #5.5) by L.T. Vargus
N - None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
O - On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu
C - The Girl Who Can Cook by Mike Wehner
H - How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin
L - My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
E - Euphoria by Lily King (hide spoiler)]

✅ Darts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darts
(view spoiler)[D - Wouldn't It Be Deadly (Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery, #1) by D.E. Ireland
A - Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler
R - Return of the Indian, The (The Indian in the Cupboard, #2) by Lynne Reid Banks
T - Thin Man, The by Dashiell Hammett
S - Sun Walks Down, The by Fiona McFarlane (hide spoiler)]

✅ Baseball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball
(view spoiler)[B - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
A - Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
S - Before the Clock Strikes (Kyle Simmons Thriller, #1) by E.G. Michaels
E - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
B - Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
A - All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay
L - Less (Arthur Less, #1) by Andrew Sean Greer
L - Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming (hide spoiler)]

✅ Bait https://www.meta.com/experiences/bait...
(view spoiler)[B - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A - Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #1) by Mark Twain
I - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
T - Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (hide spoiler)]

4/4 Done!

✔️ C - Cold Light of Day
✔️ L - The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
✔️ U - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
✔️ E - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Sign Me Up for 11 books. Completed 0/11
K- Killers of the Flower Moon
N- Now You See Us
I- Immortalists
G- The Marriage Game
H- The Heaven & Earth Grocery store
T- The Wedding People

R- Rebel
U- Unfinished
M- Mika in Real Life
M- Midnight is the Darkness Hour
Y- Yellowface

Book Scrabble

7/7
Completed

Marbles

✔ M - The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum
✔ A - Andorra by Devon C. Ford
✔ R - The Room by Jonas Karlsson
✔ B - When a Child Is Born by Jodi Taylor
✔ L - Live and Let Diet by Morgana Best
✔ E - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
✔ S - Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock

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BOOK SCRABBLE!
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025

13/13 Completed. Finish

SCRABBLE
01.S Shadow's Ritual-Mary Stone 4/04/25
02.C Chase Our Forever-Kat Singleton 4/10/25
03.R Rain After Fire-Amber Kelly 4/18/25
04.A Along Came Charlie-S.L. Scott 4/15/25
05.B Beautiful Exile-Catherine Cowles 4/13/25
06.B The Boyfriend-Freida McFadden 4/23/25
07.L Last Night-Luanne Rice 4/10/25
08.E Easy Magic-Kristen Proby 4/19/25

CHESS
09.C Close Your Eyes-Teresa Driscoll 4/07/25
10.H Heartbreak Warfare-Heather M. Orgeron 4/05/25
11.E Eighth Grave After Dark-Darynda Jones 4/12/25
12.S Someone You Deserve-Harlow James 4/12/25
13.S Stay With Me-Brooke Montgomery 4/11/25

BOOK SCRABBLE!
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025

20/20

M: My Flawless Life
A: A Novel Christmas
N: Noodle & Bao: A Graphic Novel
C: The Chandler Legacies
A: A Month of Sundays
L: The Lies She Told
A: Again

S: Stars in Your Eyes
L: The Love Study
A: Amor Actually
P: The Perfect Divorce
S: Shades of Truth

R: Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success
U: Uncovering Her Cravings
M: The Meet Cute Method
M: More Than Maybe
I: I Loved You in Another Life
K: Keeper of Secrets
U: Unrealistic Expectations
B: Buried in Secrets

I'm replacing Yellowface with You May Now Kill the Bride.

8/8

🔴R: Rabbits
🔴E: Euphoria
🔴D: Dead Silence

🔴R: The Frozen River
🔴O: On Fragile Waves
🔴V: The Other Valley
🔴E: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
🔴R: Sunrise on the Reaping

BOOK SCRABBLE!
April 01, 2025 - April 30, 2025
Progress: 9/9

Sign me up for 9!

✅ D: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
✅ A: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
✅ R: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
✅ T: Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
✅ S: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

✅ C: Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
✅ U: Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
✅ P: Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
✅ S: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Please add me in for 5

BOOK SCRABBLE!
Progress: 🔹1/5

🔺S: Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
🔹O: Once Upon an Eid by S.K. Ali
🔺R: Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz
R: Reluctant Matador
Y: Yellow Sofa

COMPLETED: 3/6

✅ W: The Whisperer by Diane Hoh (4/16/25)
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✅ D: The Deadly Dance by M.C. Beaton (4/29/25)
✅ L: The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark (4/27/25)
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BOOK SCRABBLE!
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025

U- under the pope's windows
N
✅O: Once Upon a Goth Dog Solstice R.L. Merrill 04/10

✅C: Coercive Power: A King & Midnight K-9 Mystery D.L. Keur 04/11
✅H:Hoppy Egg Hunting: A Four-legged Cupid Story Jaime Samms04/02
E
C-California Bust (Rip Lane, #3)
✅K: Kill Shot Vince Flynn 04/02
✅E: The Empty Chair Jeffery Deaver 04/21
R
✅S: Stop at Nothing 04/01

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I- If Two Are Dead Rick Mofina
N
R
U
✅M- Missouri Loves Company W.J. Costello 04/11
M- Murder in Shades of Fire and Ash
Y

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✅O- Once Upon a Goth Dog Solstice R.L. Merrill 04/10
✅C- The Coffin DancerJeffery Deaver 04/20
H-hard fall
L- the low road
E

Y
✅A: American Assassin 04/01
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Please sign me up for 8!

✅ S - The Starless Sea - Read 4/8/25
✅ C - Constance - Read 4/25/25
✅ R - The Running Grave - Read 4/15/25
✅ A - All the Light We Cannot See - Read 4/16/25
✅ B - Britt-Marie Was Here - Read 4/11/25
✅ B - The Butcher Game - Read 4/19/25
✅ L - LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal - Read 4/29/25
✅ E - Enola Holmes: Mycroft's Dangerous Game - Read 4/20/25

Sign me up for 4, thanks!

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🟫 BOOK SCRABBLE! - Monthly Challenge
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025
Progress: 25/10 -- COMPLETE

🟫 Q - The Stolen Queen
🟫 U - Untamed
🟫 B - The Business Trip
🟫 I - Immortal
🟫 C - Broken Country

🟫 S - Dream State
🟫 I - All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
🟫 M - The Tell: A Memoir
🟫 O - Trust No One
🟫 N - The Note

🟫 C - Head Cases
🟫 L - Your Mom's Gonna Love Me
🟫 U - Beautiful Ugly
🟫 E - The Book Eaters

🟫 C - Cross My Heart
🟫 H - The Dream Hotel
🟫 E - Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
🟫 S - Black Woods Blue Sky
🟫 S - Something in the Walls

🟫 B - When the Bones Sing
🟫 L - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
🟫 O - Trust No One
🟫 T - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
🟫 T - Throwback
🟫 Y - Yellowface

I'm picking my favorite board game, Scattegories. So I'm going for 12.

4/12

BOOK SCRABBLE!
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025

S - Secretly, Secretly; But Unable to Hide It by Yi Zhu 4/5/25
C
A - Alex Cross Must Die by James Patterson 4/24/25
T
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R - The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon 4/15/25
I
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S - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik 4/10/25

BOOK SCRABBLE!
Duration: April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025

*You may use the first letter of one main word from each book title (omitting a, an, the, etc.)

Completed: 6/6

Boggle
B: Bloody Mary - J.A. Konrath 4/17/25
O: Original Sinner - Kait Ballenger 4/8/25
G: Gap Creek - Robert Morgan 4/1/25
G: Gulf Breeze - Gerri Hill 4/29/25
L: Lord of Misrule - Rachel Caine 4/16/25
E: The Engineer's Wife - Tracey Enerson Wood 4/27/25

BOOK SCRABBLE!
Duration: April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025

I'm in for 4 Books

L - Love Me Whole | Nicky James | 04/07 | 4.5 ⭐️
U - The Unlikely Pair
D - Dating the Defensive Back
O - One Plus One

Please sign me up for 12 books.

♠️♦️BOOK SCRABBLE!♠️♦️
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025
Completed: 11/12 and 12th book completed 5/1/25

WHIST
✔️1.- W: When the World Fell Silent 4/30/25
✔️2. - H: Hot Pursuit 4/23/25
✔️3. - I: Iron Flame 4/8/25
✔️4.- S: Sunrise on the Reaping 4/29/25
✔️5.- T: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4/17/25

SPYFALL
✔️6.- S: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 4/19/25
✔️7.- P: The Perfect Marriage 4/28/25
✅8.- Y: Yours Truly 5/1/25
✔️9.- F: Fairy Tale 4/13/25
✔️10.- A: The Awakening 4/3/25
✔️11.- L: The Last Mrs. Parrish 4/11/25
✔️12.- L: The Last Letter 4/25/25

Please sign me up for 4 books this month!

R: Roses of May

I:

S:

K: The Keeper of Happy Endings

Completed: 0/4

Please sign me up for 8

1/8

S Sunrise on the Reaping By Suzanne Collins
C The Coven By Harper L. Woods
R Rock Paper Scissors By Alice Feeney
A Acts of Violet By Margarita Montimore
B The Berry Pickers ByAmanda Peters 4/21 5 star
BThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes By Suzanne Collins
L Long Live Evil By Sarah Rees Brennan
E Everything We Didn't Say By Nicole Baart

Three books, please, I'm new here ...

P - Poverty, by America
I - Immortal Longings
T - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

0/3

Welcome all and thanks so much for joining in!!! Excited to see how everyone's month goes!

Updated to here

Please put me down for 5 books:

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BOOK SCRABBLE!
April 1 - April 30, 2025
8/8

Use the first letter of one main word from each book title (omitting a, an, the, etc.).

R- Ritual in Death by J.D. Robb 6/4 3.5★
I- Missing in Death by J.D. Robb 7/4 3★
S- The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews 1/4 2.5★
K- Knave's Gambit by Margaret Summerville 11/4 2★

L- Lady Farrington's Folly by Nina Porter 16/4 2★
I- The Irish Rogue by Emma Jensen 20/4 3★
F- Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb 4/4 4★
E- A Pressing Engagement by Anne Barbour 10/4 3★

Update of message #26:

R: Roses of May

I: I Fell in Love With Hope

S: Starting Over With You

K: The Keeper of Happy Endings

Completed: 0/4

I’m in for 4 Books!

Book Scrabble
Duration: April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025

L - First Lie Wins - April 7 ✔️
I - In The Likely Event - April 11 ✔️
F - Fairy Tale - April 21 ✔️
E - Educated - April 30 ✔️

4/4

New here, but excited to join! Sign me up for 7 books please.

📕📙📚Book Scrabble📚📘📗
Duration: April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025

Progress: 2/9

L- Don’t Let Me Fall
A -
B -
Y - The Devil You Know
R -
I -
N -
T -
H -

*I originally said 7, but please sign me up for 9*

Book Scrabble
Duration: April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025
6/10
Sign me up for 10 books.

P Priest
I It's Your Love: Rebel & Holly
C Coyote
T Twisted Prey
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A Amaze
R Ruger
Y

♠️♦️BOOK SCRABBLE!♠️♦️
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2025
Progress: 1/6

Sign me up for 6 books!

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E - The Exchange - John Grisham
A - All The Ugly and Wonderful Things - Bryn Greenwood
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Sign me up please. I would like 13+ books.

0/13

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Update to message #37: 1/6 completed!

Update on my Progress: 4/9

L - Don’t Let Me Fall
A - The Prince & The Apocalypse
B -
Y - The Devil You Know
R -
I -
N -
T -
H - Heir, Apparently

Update to message #5
Progress: 1/5

Sign me up for 8!
3/8

P: Persuasion
O: The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day
K:
E:
R: The Murder Rule

U:
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O:

Sign me up for 9!

1/9

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C - The Complete Guide to Tarot and Astrology: Everything You Need to Know to Harness the Wisdom of the Cards and the Stars
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J - Just for the Summer by Abbey Jimenez - 05/04-19/04
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I would like to sign up for 35. I will read books spelling out the games Clue, Pit, Rummy, Hearts, Uno, Racko, and Mousetrap.
Thanks 🙂

Update to message 4: 1/4

Welcome to Sarah, Catsalive, Cheri, Vanessa, Shannon, Julie, Sydney, Susan, Amy, Laura and Jenn! Thanks for joining in!

Updated to here.

Vanessa wrote: "Update on my Progress: 4/9

L - Don’t Let Me Fall
A - The Prince & The Apocalypse
B -
Y - The Devil You Know
R -
I -
N -
T -
H - Heir, Apparently"

Thanks for your update comment Vanessa and great reading! Your sign up comment is message #34 - please include that number on your next update comment! Thank you

Update to Message #21: : 8/11 completed

Updated message 6: 1/4

Updated message 43-- 3/8