2026 Reading Challenge discussion

2025 Challenges

Yearly:
TBR Jar -- Message #46 Completed 12/31/25
Let's Turn Pages -- Message #25 Original Goal Completed 9/18/25
Serial Reader -- Message #16 Original Goal Completed 11/5/25
A-Z: Women Authors -- Message #16 Completed 11/7/25
I Spy -- Message #525 Completed 12/26/25

Quarterly:
January to March -- Sad Songs -- Message #12 Completed 3/28/25
April to June -- A Pop of Joy -- Message #6 Completed 6/26/25
July to September -- Recreational Anger -- Message #4 Completed 9/25/25
October to December -- Here's to Fears -- Message #4 Completed 12/31/25

Monthly:
January -- Let's Get Cozy -- Message #16 Completed 1/27/25
February -- Time Warp -- Message #7 Completed 2/26/25
March -- Gastronomical Reads -- Message #4 Completed 3/28/25
April -- Child's Play -- Message #7 Completed 4/26/25
May -- Mothers & Others -- Message #8 Completed 5/28/25
June -- Sisterhood of the Traveling Books -- Message #7 Completed 6/26/25
July -- How Are You Getting There? -- Message #5 Completed 7/27/25
August -- Van Gogh for It! -- Message #8 Completed 8/26/25
September -- Down the Rabbit Hole -- Message #6 Completed 9/25/25
October -- Very Superstitious -- Message #6 Completed 10/29/25
October -- From Page to Halloween Parade -- Message #5 Completed 10/29/25
November -- Curious Companions -- Message #7 Completed 11/29/25
December -- White Wonderland -- Message #7 Completed 12/26/25

Readathons:
February 21-March 2 -- Team Prose Pros - Book Awards Completed
July 18-July 27 -- Team Bookworms Exploring - Through The Decades Completed

Personal Challenges:
Whitney's 2025 Book Challenge: 52 Books! Completed 9/4/25
A to Z: Titles Completed 12/12/25

Personal Challenge -- A to Z: Titles

Progress: 26/26

✔️A: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Completed 3/2/25)
✔️B: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (Completed 4/5/25)
✔️C: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Completed 1/19/25)
✔️D: The Dry by Jane Harper (Completed 2/27/25)
✔️E: Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (Completed 8/21/25)
✔️F: From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper (Completed 8/4/25)
✔️G: Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (Completed 7/27/25)
✔️H: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (Completed 2/5/25)
✔️I: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (Completed 4/26/25)
✔️J: Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren (Completed 3/6/25)
✔️K: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Completed 7/24/25)
✔️L: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (Completed 2/18/25)
✔️M: Majesty by Katharine McGee (Completed 1/27/25)
✔️N: A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare (Completed 8/26/25)
✔️O: Once Upon a Winter's Eve by Tessa Dare (Completed 12/4/25)
✔️P: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Completed 7/21/25)
✔️Q: The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens (Completed 9/4/25)
✔️R: Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory (Completed 3/10/25)
✔️S: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Completed 2/11/25)
✔️T: These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere (Completed 4/10/25)
✔️U: An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole (Completed 1/8/25)
✔️V: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins (Completed 7/26/25)
✔️W: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (Completed 7/21/25)
✔️X: The XY by Virginia Bergin (Completed 12/12/25)
✔️Y: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez (Completed 4/19/25)
✔️Z: The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (Completed 11/29/25)

Word List:
Advent - One Night, Two Holidays
Bells - Fifty Shades Freed, pgxx, "...wedding bells are in the air." - x/x (Chapter 2)
Candy Cane - Daddy Christmas and Hanukkah Mama
Caroling - One Night, Two Holidays
Christmas Tree - Fifty Shades Freed, pgxx, "A Christmas tree?" - x/x (Epilogue)
Dedication - Hard Knocks
Dreidel - One Night, Two Holidays
Festival of Lights - One Night, Two Holidays
Fruitcake - One Night, Two Holidays
Garland - A Garland of Henna
Gingerbread - A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, pgxx, "...chocolate and gingerbread." - x/x (Chapter 28)
Holly - The XY, pgxx, "Nathan, born in December, so...holly." - x/x (Chapter 19)
Menorah - One Night, Two Holidays
Mistletoe - Daddy Christmas and Hanukkah Mama
Ornaments - Fifty Shades Freed, pgxx, "'...ornaments for the tree.'" - x/x (Epilogue)
Peppermint - One Night, Two Holidays
Poinsettia - The Gift of the Poinsettia/El Regalo de La Flor de Nochebuena
Tinsel - One Night, Two Holidays
Tradition - The XY, pgxx, "...swan that's been caught...and roasted. Our tradition." - x/x (Chapter 21)
Unity - Oni's Tears: A Steamfunk Adventure
Yule log - A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, pgxx, "The winter markets and carousels and Yule logs kept Posy busy,..." - x/x (Chapter 28)