The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Summer 2025 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.

✅5.1 A Happy Marriage
✅5.2 Home Front
✅5.3 Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
✅5.4 So Happy Together
✅5.5 The Ex
✅5.6 Those Empty Eyes
✅5.7 The Road to Tender Hearts
✅5.8 What Kind of Paradise
✅5.9 If Two Are Dead
✅5.10 The Hidden

✅10.1 The Lake Escape
✅10.2 Sandwich
✅10.3 Reckless Girls
✅10.4 Retreat
✅10.5 When Women Were Dragons
✅10.6 One of Us Is Dead
✅10.7 Sounds Like Love
✅10.8 California Golden
✅10.9 Station Eternity
✅10.10 Edge of Defiance

✅15.1 Hello Beautiful
✅Whispers of the Lake
✅15.2 The House Beyond the Dunes
✅Murder Takes a Vacation
✅15.3 The House of Now and Then
✅15.4 Great Big Beautiful Life
✅15.5 Welcome to Murder Week
✅15.6 Deadly Animals
✅15.7 Atmosphere
✅15.8 The Missing
✅15.9 Valleys, Vehicles & Victims
✅15.10 Such Quiet Girls

✅20.1 First Wife's Shadow
✅20.2 Plays Well with Others
✅20.3 The Namaste Club
✅20.4 Fragile Designs
✅20.5 Murder Runs in the Family
✅20.6 Forget Me Not
✅20.7 How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
✅20.8 One of Us Is Dead
✅20.9 Have You Seen This Girl
✅20.10 You Killed Me First

✅25.1 Over My Dead Body
✅Three Mothers
✅25.2 Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds
✅Our Last Wild Days
✅25.3 Strange Houses
✅Unsinkable: A Novel
✅25.4 He Started It
✅Five Nights
✅25.5 A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage
✅Smile for the Cameras

✅30.1 Shady Hollow
✅Definitely Better Now
✅30.2 Pretty Girls
✅Against the Darkness
✅30.3 Edge of Survival
✅When We Were Lost
✅30.4 Dead of Night
✅Coram House
✅30.5 Pictures of You
✅An Inquiry Into Love and Death
✅30.6 Sunsets, Sabbatical & Scandal
✅The Maid's Secret
✅30.7 The Quiet Tenant
✅Saltwater
✅ 30.8 Seven Dirty Secrets
✅Finders Keepers
✅30.9 In the Deep
✅Kitty Steals the Show
✅30.10 After We Were Stolen
✅With a Vengeance

✅50.1 Julie Chan Is Dead
✅Tents, Trails & Turmoil
✅Nine Pines

5.1 Happy Place
5.2 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
5.3 Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
5.4 The Pilo Family Circus
5.5 Such Sharp Teeth
5.6 The Girls Are All So Nice Here
5.7 The Road to Tender Hearts
5.8 Check & Mate
5.9 Dead of Winter
5.10 Ghost Station

10.1 The Lake of Lost Girls
10.2 Every Heart a Doorway
10.3 Wildfire
10.4 My Vampire Plus-One
10.5 Just the Nicest Couple
10.6 Such a Quiet Place
10.7 Space Opera
10.8 Daisy Jones & The Six
10.9 Dead Silence
10.10 Wither

15.1 Book Lovers and Holly Horror: The Longest Night
15.2 Gideon Green in Black and White and I Killed Zoe Spanos
15.3 Stolen and The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco
15.4 No One Will Know and Funny Story
15.5 Fever
15.6 Deadly Animals
15.7 The Deep
15.8 From Below
15.9 Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries
15.10 Bless Your Heart

20
20.1 The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
20.2 The Last One at the Wedding
20.3 Only If You're Lucky
20.4 Ghost Mother
20.5 This Will Be Funny Someday
20.6 How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
20.7 How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
20.8 We Live Here Now
20.9 It's Only a Game
20.10 You Killed Me First

25
25.1 Beauty Queens and Sleep Like Death
25.2 Grime and Punishment and Brother
25.3 Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Book Thief
25.4 Alice Isn't Dead and Never Been Shipped
25.5 The One and The Teacher

30
30.1 The River Has Roots and Voice of the Ocean
30.2 The September House and The Haunted Forest Tour
30.3 Ashen Winter and Sunrise
30.4 The Winter People and With a Vengeance
30.5 The Invisible Man and Casket Case
30.6 Sever and Kill Joy
30.7 Salt to the Sea and The Call
30.8 Six of Sorrow and Murder Between Friends
30.9 Beautiful Ugly and Edge of Darkness
30.10 Rules for Vanishing and Killer Instinct

50

Summer Reading Plan

5.1 - The Nature of Fragile Things
5.2 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Guns of August
5.3 - Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
5.4 - Walking to Aldebaran
5.5 - The Scapegoat
5.6 - Helliconia Summer✔ 2431
5.7 - How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
5.8 - The Crossing
5.9 - Dune Messiah
5.10

10.1 - Alien Clay✔ 1710
10.2 - The Duke and I #3
10.3 - The Midnight Library
10.4 - American Royals
10.5 - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
10.6 - Trust
10.7 - Daisy Jones & The Six
10.8 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
10.9 - Helliconia Spring✔ 2001
10.10 - A Canticle for Leibowitz

15.1 - 1: Catching Fire
2:On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani
15.2 - 1: The Great Passage
2: The War of the End of the World
15.3 - 1-1: What Alice Forgot
1-2: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
15.4 - 1-1: The God of the Woods
1-2: The Glass Hotel
15.5 - Killers of the Flower Moon
15.6 - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?✔ 862
15.7 - Age of Death✔ 863
15.8 - Circle of Bones
15.9 - Not Happy Campers
15.10 - The Day of the Triffids

20.1 - 2: Once There Were Wolves
20.2 - 2: The Let Them Theory
20.3 - 4: The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England✔ 493
20.4 - 5: Gods of Jade and Shadow
20.5 - 4: Moonflower Murders✔ 494
20.6 - 1: Service Model
20.7 - 3: The Gods Themselves✔ 1711
20.8 - 1: Bee Speaker✔ 864
20.9 - 3: Age of Legend✔ 495
20.10

25.1 - 1: Bel Canto Trapped
3: I Who Have Never Known Men
25.2 - 1: Lock In
4: The Bear and the Nightingale Winter
25.3 - 2: Life After Life
3: 4:50 from Paddington
25.4 - B: Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
C: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
25.5 - July 1: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
August 1: Stoner

30.1 - 1: The River Has Roots✔
3: Tilt (debut)✔ 1156
30.2 - 3: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
4: Year One
30.3: The Leper of Saint Giles & The Martian
30.4 - 1: The Children's Blizzard
5:
30.5 - 2: Native Tongue
4: Naked in Death (Futuristic)
30.6 - A: Age of Empyre✔
B: Faithful Place✔ 1275
30.7 - 2: Foucault’s Pendulum
30.8 - 1: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
2: Fourth of July Creek
30.9
30.10

50.1

Summer Challenge 2025 - Tasks completed: 44/52 - Points earned: 800

(Readerboard - 2500 - 770)

⭐️5.1 Aspen's Song ✔️#135
⭐️5.2 Assignment in Brittany ✔️#263
5.3 Jambusters: The Women's Institute at War 1939-1945
⭐️15.4 Davo ✔️#941
⭐️5.5 The Suit ✔️#1423
⭐️5.6 The Omega's True Alpha ✔️#2157
⭐️5.7 And Manny Makes Seven ✔️#1035
⭐️5.8 Prize ✔️#201
⭐️5.9 A Deer for Dion ✔️#2163
⭐️5.10 Archer ✔️#784

⭐️10.1 Walk Me Through the Darkness ✔️#1175
10.2 A New York Christmas
10.3 The Old Man and the Sea
⭐️10.4 A Second Chance ✔️#2151
⭐️10.5 The Double Comfort Safari Club ✔️#1759
⭐️10.6 The Team ✔️#2077
⭐️10.7 Balanced and Tied ✔️#1066
10.8 The High Commissioner
10.9 One Giant Leap
10.10 MPG Post-Apocalyptic

15.1 (1) The Charm Offensive (2) Master Stroke Warriors of Sage 7
⭐️15.2 (1) His Alpha Prince ✔️(2) Blackbird Knitting in a Bunny's Lair ✔️#687
⭐️15.3 (1) Safe in His Arms ✔️(2) The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love ✔️#5
⭐️15.4. Down and Dirty ✔️#1354
⭐️15.5 Riding Shotgun ✔️#855
⭐️15.6 Mountain Lion and Bobcat ✔️#181
⭐️15.7 The Fall of Rogue Gerrard ✔️(#1761) #1856
⭐️15.8 Beyond the Sea ✔️#783
⭐️15.9 Once Upon a Hike ✔️#2171
15.10 MPG Horror

⭐️20.1 Falls Chance Ranch Stand Alone Stories, Volume 1 ✔️#292
20.2 Sharpe's Fury
⭐️20.3 Pieces of Me ✔️#2132
⭐️20.4 Always You ✔️#162
⭐️20.5 Red River ✔️#413
⭐️20.6 Lost Wolf ✔️#154
20.7 Coming of Age
⭐️20.8 The Allure of Ruins ✔️#1029
⭐️20.9 Cry Wolf ✔️#345
20.10 Group read

⭐️25.1 (1) The Alpha Grizzly's Mate ✔️(2) Wanted: Doting Daddy ✔️#31
⭐️25.2 (1) Omega's Teacher ✔️# (2) The Geek Who Saved Christmas ✔️#1101
⭐️25.3 (1) A Hospital Summer: The heartbreaking story of a World War II nurse ✔️ (2) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ✔️#59
⭐️25.4 (1) On Silent Paws ✔️ (2) Forgotten Paradise ✔️#981
⭐️25.5 (1) Texas Wedding ✔️ (2) My Friend the Professor ✔️#542

⭐️30.1 (1) River's Edge ✔️ (2) Mating the Omega ✔️#84
⭐️30.2 (1) Grandeur and Growls ✔️ (2) If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going ✔️#959
⭐️30.3 (1) The Way to Dusty Death ✔️ (2) A Conspiracy of Wolves ✔️#1643
⭐️30.4 (1) His Christmas Crush ✔️ (2) Would You Hold It Against Me ✔️#458
⭐️30.5 (1) The Meriwell Legacy ✔️ (2) Mr. Justice Raffles ✔️#1855
⭐️30.6 (1) Devil and the Deep Blue Fish ✔️ (2) Not the Enemy ✔️#455
⭐️30.7 (1) Off and On Again ✔️ (2) The Safety Net ✔️#2528
30.8 (1) Harkaway's Sixth Column (2) August Heat
⭐️30.9 (1) Target London: Under Attack from the V-Weapons During WWII ✔️ (2) Pieces of You ✔️#2121
⭐️30.10 (1) Marriage Rules ✔️ (2) Fair Isn't Life ✔️#2215

⭐️50.1 (1) School of Fish ✔️ (2) Weddings, Christmas, and Such: Holiday Stories from Granby ✔️ (3) State of Retribution✔️#1498

10.2 Forrest Gump
10.3 Book Lovers
10.5
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15.1 More or Less?(mess. 2207. p. 45)

For this task organize your TBR by number of ratings.
Book 1: Read the book with the most ratings on your TBR
Where the Crawdads Sing 3,420,305 ratings
and
Book 2: Read the book with the least ratings on your TBR
The Intimate thoughts of John Baxter, Bookseller 11 ratings

Required State the ratings of each book

15.2 Here or There?

Rapture in Death for Death Valley

The Oligarch's Daughter

15.3- Quantity or Size?

True History of the Kelly Gang

15.4 Beauty in Words

Use the website https://www.readpoetry.com/poems-that...

Choose an option.
Required: State the option

Option 1: Two Book Task

Book 1: Read a book whose title (subtitles are excluded) contains a 4 or more letter word from one of the poems on the website.
Words must be stand alone and match exact.
Required State the word The White Queen word white
and
Book 2: Read a book with an author that shares either a name or initials with one of the poets on this website.
Middle initials may be ignored. If multiple authors, only one needs to fit the criteria.
Required State the author of the poem
Mudbound
Option 2: One Book Task
Read a single book that satisfies both criteria for option 1

15.5 Land of Dragons

Read a book with a single author with all initials found in Komodo OR Dragon OR Lizard.
Required: State which word used.

Dragon: Career of Evil

15.6 Animals, Animals, Animals!

Read a book with one of these words in the title/subtitle. Animal, Wildebeest, Zebra, Gazelle, Hyena, Lion, or Cheetah. Possessives and plurals accepted. No other variations.

Ice Station Zebra

15.7 Bright and Beautiful (mess. 1109, p. 23)

Read a book that is at least 50% blue OR 50% green OR 50% Red according to Tineye.
Required: Post the cover

The Midnight Library is 82.6% blue

15.8 Shipwrecked and Stranded

Read a book where a shipwreck or someone who stranded in the ocean or on an island is evident to the story.
Required: If the required element is not evident from the Goodreads main page provide a reference.
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

15.9 Let's Go Camping

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

15.10 I'm Not Scared

Read a book with MPG Horror- Stand alone or embedded
Fairy Tale

**20.1 Most Improved (mess. 2377, p. 48)

20.2 Rookie at the Top: Coffeegirl's Task - Favorite things about Books (mess. 1838, p. 37)

Option 2 - Celebrate

-Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title/subtitle spelled from the phrase BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS. Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the phrase.
Required: State the word.

Green Bay Packers: Trials, Triumphs, and Tradition
Word is TRIALS

20.3 Review Raffle: Kelly L's Task - Celebrating Pride

Murder at Gulls Nest

20.4 Kai's Golden Oldies
First Grave on the Right

20.5 Bigger is Better: Kathy KS's Task - Light Up My World, Scarlett!

Choose one option and read one book for that option.
Required: State the option.

Option 1 - Read a book that contains red on the cover, according to Tineye. It doesn’t matter how much, just some. A guide to using Tineye can be found here.
Required: Post the cover.

20.6 It's a Fact: Kristen IA's Task - Let’s Go to the Park!

Option 1: Through the Years - Since my husband and I married in 2006, we have visited a national park or MLB ballpark in these years: 2008, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Read a book that was first published in one of these years.

The American Agent

20.8 Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task - 2025 Goals (mess. 2342, p. 47)

My task is based on my two personal reading goals for this year.
Required: State the option chosen

Option 1- Read more new releases and ARCs. For this task read any book first published in March 2025 or later.

Broken Country

30 points
30.1 JennRenee's Task: The Great Yellowstone

Since Yellowstone was the first national park, at least one of your books needs to be a debut book by the author.
Required: state which book is a debut book.

This is a two book task. Choose two options and read 1 book for each.
Required state the options

Option 1: Water Water and More Water

Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains one of these words. Plurals/Possessives accepted, no other variations
waterfall, lake, river, stream, pond, wetlands

Tom Lake

Option 2: Yellowstone National Park is renowned for its extensive hydrothermal features, including geysers, hot springs, and mudpots. Yellowstone boasts over 500 geysers, which account for more than half of the world's geysers. Some of the most well-known geysers include Old Faithful, Steamboat, and the Great Fountain Geyser.
Get hot and steamy and read a book with MPG Romance, may be standalone or embedded

The Book of Doors MPG Romance, debut novel

30.2 Katrisa's Task: Wrapped in Plastic

This is a 2 book task.
Choose two different options and read a book from each. No children’s (or related MPG) or graphic novels/comics allowed.
Required:State the options

Option 1 - “The Owls are not what they seem.”

Read a book with the letters OWL found intact AND imbedded in a word in the title/subtitle.
Where Coyotes Howl

Option 3 - The Black Lodge and White Lodge
Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list
Good Vs Evil
Required: state the page

Redwall, p. 2, MG children's


30.3 Susan A's Task: Exploring MPGs.

MPG Maritime Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
MPG Medieval The Last Kingdom

Choose 2 of the MPGs listed and read 1 book for each. The total number of pages read must exceed 500 pages. MPGS must match exactly.
Required: State the MPG.

30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: A Year of Travels

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

30.5 Delicious Dee 's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: HG Wells

Option 1 - The Invisible Man
Option 5 - To Die But Once

30.6 Kmaried's Task - Catching Up On Series (mess. 1155, p. 24)

This is a two-book task. Choose two different tasks and read 1 book for each task. Books must come from 2 different series.
Series must appear on the GR main book page. Whole numbers only.
Required State the options

Option A: Get caught up in a series. Read the current last book in a series of at least 3 books. This can be the last one published before the season started (June 1, 2025). One that is published in the current season is eligible, but not required since new books are sometimes hard to get in a timely fashion.

Option B: I have copied my series-next list onto another shelf for this task since the original will change throughout the season. Choose a book from my Series-SRCSummer shelf. Read that book or one in the same series.
Required: State the original book picked if reading another in the series shelf.
The Grey Wolf

Option C: Make progress on a series you have already started. Read a book that is #3 or above but not the last book in the series.
Winterkill

30.7 Cat's Task: Books of Europe

Police


30.8 MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games

This task is related to the months of the Summer challenge – June, July and August .

This is a two-book task. Choose two different options and read on book for each option.
No children's books allowed.
Each book must be a minimum of 250 pages.
Required: State the options.

Option 2
Read a book where the name of the Month (June, July OR August ) is found intact in the title
(subtitles excluded)- It does not have to carry the meaning of the month and can be part of a longer word

The Unmaking of June Farrow

Option 4
Read a book that is # 6,7 or 8 in a series. The number must be shown in greyscale next to or above the name in Goodreads.

Vengeance in Death

30. 9 Nick KY’s Task: Uluru – National Parks of Australia. (mess. 1978, p. 40)

This is a two book task. Choose two different options and read one book for each option.
REQUIRED:State the Options.

Opt. 1. Read a book with at least 3 U's in the title/subtitle.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Opt. 4. Read a book that takes place at least 50% in Australia or is by an author born in or currently living in Australia.
Required: If the setting or the author birth place is not evident from Goodreads, provide a reference.

The Road from Coorain

50.1 - Lisa MD: The Summer My Boys Got Married

This is a 3 book task:
1. Read one book for each of the 3 options.
2. One book must be published in 2025.
3. Total combined pages must equal 750 or greater.
4. No graphic novels or manga allowed.


Book 1: Greg’s June Wedding

Option B: The wedding took place at the end of a long pier, under a pavilion on the Choptank River. Read a book with a pier, pavilion or gazebo, or a natural body of water on the cover.
Required: Include the cover in your post.

The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club 321 pp. at most

Book 2: Eric’s August Wedding

Option B: Guests will be traveling to the wedding from: Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, California, North Carolina, New Jersey, Montana, and Germany.
Read a book set at least 50% in one or combination of the places listed above.
Required: If not obvious from the GR description, then provide a reference.

A Drink Before the War (link to audiobook - MMP has 277 pgs.) Set in Boston, MA

Book 3: Mother of the Grooms
Option B: Since I am the mother of two boys with not one, but two weddings over the summer, read a book whose title contains a plural word.

The Lonely Hearts Book Club (hide spoiler)]

Points: 330/975
Tasks: 16/56
Total Books Read: 21 / 74

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
✅5.5 Twelve
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
✅5.10 Ready or Not

10.1
✅10.2 #1130 (Lisa MD) or #733 (Kristen IA) - Same Time Next Summer
✅10.3 When in Rome
10.4
✅ 10.5 Just for the Summer
✅10.6 This Woven Kingdom
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

15.1 Book 1: 1984 Book 2: A Bollywood Romance
15.2 Book 1 (White): Little White Lies Book 2:
✅15.3 Option 2: I Hope This Doesn't Find You
15.4 Option 1: Same Time Next Summer
Book 2 - Holly Jackson- Not Quite Dead Yet
Option 2: Fits both criteria - The House Sitter by Elizabeth Drummond
Option 2: Four for the Road
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9 Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries
15.10 Julie Chan Is Dead: A Novel

✅20.1 Option 2: The Heiress
✅20.2 Option 1: The Tainted Cup
✅20.3 Option 4:Funny Story
✅20.4 Option 5: Romance- Yours Truly
✅20.5 Option 4- Suspense, Thriller or Fantasy - What Lies Between Us
✅20.6 Option 1- The Baby Dragon Cafe (2025) / Drop Dead Sisters
20.7
20.8 Option 1: The Jasad Crown
20.9 Option 4: The Empire of Gold - Fantasy
20.10 The Adventures of Sally

✅25.1 Option 1: Cassandra in Reverse
Option 4: A Vow of Embers
✅25.2 Option 2: People We Meet on Vacation
Option 3: First-Time Caller
25.3 Option 3: The Catcher in the Rye - 1951
Option 2/4: Saving Private Ryan - WW2 movie & MPG
✅25.4 Book 1 - Option C- Pg 7 The Unhoneymooners
Book 2- Option A - The Pumpkin Spice Café
✅25.5 July - Option 1: Happy Place
August-Option 2: (WAFFLE) The Wedding People


✅30.1 Book 1: Option 2: Just for the Summer
Book 2 (Debut) :Option 3 :You've Reached Sam
30.2 Option 3: Onyx Storm/Assistant to the Villain/The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Option 2: Once Upon a Broken Heart
30.3 Genre - Survival/Post-Apocalyptic Tomorrow, When the War Began
Genre - Adventure The Brothers Hawthorne
30.4 Option 1: The Frozen River Option 3: & Then They Met- Riya Iyer
30.5 Option 2 - Stephanie Garber book

✅30.6 Option A: Bad Blood (509PGS)
Option B: Good Girl, Bad Blood
30.7
30.8 Option 1: The Seventh Girl , Option 3: Maya in Multicolor by Swati Teerdhala , Option 4: Her Last Mistake (#6)
30.9 Option 2: Just for the Summer
Option 4: This Time It's Real
✅30.10 Option 4: All In - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Option 2: Part of Your World


50.1

Book 1- Option B - Just for the Summer
Book 2 - Option B -
Book 3 - Option A - Assistant to the Villain OR option B - The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi OR Option A- The Jasad Crown

It's been so long since I wrote a reading plan but I thought it might be fun for the summer. I'm hoping to have a summer filled with pleasure reads so I'm trying to really make sure that I feel excited about the titles I put on this list.

5.1 The Man in the High Castle
5.2 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History / Code Name Verity / Salt to the Sea / Redeployment / The Quiet American / Slaughterhouse-Five / The Things They Carried
✅ 5.3 Feministfällan
✅ 5.4 Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
5.5 Mongrel
5.6 Summer
5.7 Cheaper by the Dozen / The Road to Tender Hearts
5.8 Kings of the Wyld
5.9 The Grass Is Singing (GRASS)
5.10

10.1 The Fifth Season
10.2 The Sword of Kaigen (post 804)
10.3 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe / The House in the Cerulean Sea / Keeping the Moon
10.4 Lolita / Where'd You Go, Bernadette
10.5 Never Let Me Go
10.6 Blood Over Bright Haven
10.7 Duel of Fire
10.8 Silent Spring
10.9 All Systems Red
10.10 Prince of Thorns

15.1 (1) To Kill a Mockingbird (2) Capitalist Restructuring, Globalization and the Third Way: Lessons from the Swedish Model
15.2 (1) The Black Prism (Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park) (2) The Other Valley (Theth National Park)
15.3 Option 2: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect / At the Foot of the Cherry Tree
15.4. (1) The Other Valley (2) Hiroshima (JH)
15.5 The Prodigal Mage (initials KM)
15.6 They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival
15.7 The Will of the Many (65.7%)
15.8 Lord of the Flies
15.9 Station Eleven
✅ 15.10 Starling House

20.1 Gideon the Ninth (ninth)
✅ 20.2 (2) Detaljerna (details)
✅ 20.3 (2) Iron Kissed
✅ 20.4 (1) A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (fortune)
20.5 (1) The Blade Itself
20.6 (1) An Unkindness of Magicians (2017)
20.7 (3) This Is How You Lose the Time War
20.8 (2) Brotherless Night (Women's prize for fiction)
20.9 (4) Malice (MPG Fantasy)
20.10 The Poisonwood Bible / The Adventures of Sally

25.1 (1) Doomsday Book (Trapped and stranded, page 1) (3) The Secret History (SECRET)
25.2 (3) Finansministern (AB) (4) Spinning Silver
25.3 (2) Vinden vet mitt namn (4) Sarah's Key / Slaughterhouse-Five
25.4 (1A) The Snow Child (2A) The Way of Shadows
25.5 (June.1) ✅ Deathless (July.1) Dreamstrider

30.1 (2) Five Broken Blades (3) ✅ The Ministry of Time
30.2 (2) The Art of Prophecy (3) The Graveyard Book / Neverwhere
30.3 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (MPG Adventure) The Death of Grass (MPG Post Apocalyptic)
30.4 (3) The Old Drift (1) Folk som sår i snö / How to Save a Life
30.5 (5) Sense and Sensibility (2) ✅ Major Love
30.6 (A) Amongst Our Weapons (C) False Value
30.7. (1) Glorious Exploits (2) De osynliga - Öststaternas bästa spioner
30.8 (2) The Unmaking of June Farrow (4) Lies, Damned Lies, and History
30.9 (1) Europe in Autumn
30.10 (3) John Dies at the End / My Brilliant Friend

50.1

Books to maybe fit into a task:
✅ Witch King
✅ I kroppen min: Vägsjäl (5.10, 10.7, 20.5, 30.7)
✅ One Hit Wonder (5.1, 5.10, 10.6, 15.4?, 20.6.1, 30.1.2)
✅ Major Love (5.5, 5.10, 20.6.1, 30.1.2, 30.5.2)
30.5 (4) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
✅ The Fall of Bradley Reed

Total points: 85
NF: 1
GO:
BB:

Reading Plan

10.4 A Light in the Darkness
10.7 My Fair Brady
10.9 Kestrel

15.1
✅ Book 1: Red, White & Royal Blue
Book 2

30.3
Book 1: Mad World
Book 2: Wild
30.6
✅ Option 1: Terribly Tristan
Option 2: Just a Bit Bossy
30.10
Option 1: Something Wicked
✅ Option 2: Breaking Cover

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✅ 5.1 Fish Stick Fridays
✅ 5.2 Lawrence of Arabia
✅ 5.3 A Room of One’s Own
✅ 5.4 I've Been Careless with a Delicate Thing
✅ 5.5 Under the Madagascar Moon
✅ 5.6 When Haru Was Here
✅ 5.7 Until September
✅ 5.8 The Hunt
✅ 5.9 Dead Reckoning
✅ 5.10 Unwritten Law
✅ 10.1 The Quiet House
✅ 10.2 Dust Child
✅ 10.3 The Berry Pickers
✅ 10.5 Violeta
✅ 10.6 Ghostly Awakening
✅ 10.8 Peter Cabot Gets Lost
✅ 10.10 Bind Me in Steel
✅ 15.2
Book 1: Jasper Jones
Book 2: Zephyr and the Western Wolf
✅ 15.3 The Parable of the Mustard Seed
✅ 15.4
Love Me Again
Zeitoun
✅ 15.5 Racing for the Sun
✅ 15.6 The Lion and the Crow
✅ 15.7 Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
✅ 15.8 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
✅ 15.9 The Falcon and the Foe
✅15.10 Better the Devil You Know
✅ 20.1 Endangered Species
✅ 20.2 St. Nacho's
✅ 20.3 Nor Iron Bars a Cage
✅ 20.4 Band Sinister
✅ 20.5 Fight the Tide
✅ 20.6 Clueless Puckboy
✅ 20.7 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
✅ 20.8 The Vampire's Werewolf Bodyguard
✅ 20.9 Bury What We Cannot Take
✅ 20.10 You Killed Me First
✅ 25.1
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
✅ 25.2
Book 1: Jamaica Inn
Nook 2: Bolt-Hole
✅ 25.3
Book 1: The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand
Book 2: Journey into Fear
✅ 25.4
book 1 Three Dark Crowns
book 2 Jackaby
✅ 25.5
Limited Edition Husband
Unspoken Vow
✅ 30.1
Whit
All Boys Aren’t Blue
✅ 30.2
Option 2: The Wind Will Guide Us
Option 3: Reading Between the Lines
✅ 30.4
Option 1:Off the Beaten Path
Option 3: Get It Together
✅ 30.5
Option 2: Hijacked
Option 3: All Quiet on the Western Front
✅ 30.7
Book 1: The Orphanage Ukraine
Book 2: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
✅ 30.8
Option 1: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Option 3: The Stray Cats of Homs
✅ 30.9
Option 2: Junk
Option 4: Not Until Noah
✅ 50
Book 1: Silent Is the Heart
Book 2: Written in the Stars
Book 3: The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
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5.1 Tooth and Claw
5.2 Day
5.3 I'm Afraid of Men (page exception)
5.4 Silver in the Wood
✔5.5 One Man's Trash
5.6 10 Days in a Madhouse
5.7 Cheaper by the Dozen
5.8 Two Hearts Alone
✔5.9 Dark Nest
5.10

10.1 The Lake
✔10.2 The Weary Blues (mess 118)
10.3 Crying in H Mart or The Bluest Eye
10.4 Heist Society
✔10.5 Thornhedge
10.6 Time Is a Mother
10.7 Nothing but Blue Sky
10.8 Slouching Towards Bethlehem
10.9 Fugitive Telemetry
10.10 The Annual Migration of Clouds

15.1 City of Ashes and Heart of A Stranger
15.2 The White Bone and The Andromeda Strain
15.3 I Hope This Doesn't Find You
✔15.4 Down to the dirt
15.5 I, Robot
15.6 Animals
✔15.7 Sapphire Blue
15/8 The Island of Dr. Moreau
15.9 Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries
✔15.10 Carmilla

20.1 Peaches and Honey
20.2 Full Speed to a Crash Landing
20.3 Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at Happy Hour
✔20.4 Whirl Away by Russell Wangersky
✔20.5 The Past Is Red
20.6 Where Angels Fear to Tread or Hunger
20.7 Thornhedge
✔20.8 Shuggie Bain
20.9 Night Moves
20.10 Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language or The Adventures of Sally

✔25.1The Impossible Lives of Greta WellsandShine your Icy Crown
25.2 Baba Dunja's Last Love and Migrations
25,3 Sweet Bean Paste and The Wind Is Not a River
25.4 Homestead and We Need New Names
25.5 Anger Bang and Earthlings

30.1 My Side of the River and Without a Trace
30.2 Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak and Pines
✔30.3 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex and The Bear
✔30.4 Snowblind and Where She Has Gone
✔30.5 The War of the Worlds and Twisted Twenty-Six
30.6 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle and Key Lime Pie Murder
30.7 The Museum of Innocence
30.8 The Dry Grass of August andAway
30.9 Junky and The Women in Black
30.10 Night Moves and What Feasts at Night


50.1

✔Reading plan

Points tally: 95

5.1 - The Road to Roswell
✔5.2 - Painted Trillium: A novel of the Civil War - repost 984
✔5.3 - She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth - Message 985
5.4 - The Other Alexander by Andrew Levkoff
5.5 - Lucy Undying
✔5.6 - Everything is Illuminated (Everything) - message 671
5.7 -
5.8 - Emma & Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury by Rachel Billington
5.9 - Green Frog: Stories
✔5.10 - Mrs Caliban - 6/22/23 message 618

10.1 - Eat the Ones You Love
10.2 - Daisy Darker (message 45)
10.3 - That Summer Feeling (page 2)
✔10.4 - Atmosphere - 6/25/25 message 672
10.5 - The Chilbury Ladies' Choir (page 1)
10.6 - The Temps (May 29, 2022)
10.7 - The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
10.8 - The General of the Dead Army (1963)
10.9 - We Have Always Been Here
10.10 - The Brief History of the Dead

15.1 - Book 1 The True Memoirs of Little K
Book 2 Absolution by Murder (A Sister Fidelma Mystery) (Mystery of Ancient Ireland) by Tremayne, Peter (1997) Mass Market Paperback
15.2 - Book 1 How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction (Mammoth Cave Natl Park)
Book 2 Big Swiss (Swiss Natl Park - Switzerland)
15.3 - Book 1 The Green Mill Murder (Melbourne)
Book 2 - Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
15.4 - Book 1 The House of Velvet and Glass (Velvet)
✔Book 2 The Paris Express Emma Donoghue (Emily Dickinson) - 7/13/25
15.5 - Jawbone Mónica Ojeda (Komodo)
15.6 - The Lion Women of Tehran (Lion)
15.7 - Sour Cherry (cover)
15.8 - Isola
15.9 - Station Eleven (cover)
15.10 - Bad Fruit

20.1 - Option 2 - The Fetishist
20.2 - Option 1 - On Black Sisters Street Chika Unigwe
✔20.3 - Option 4 youthjuice (United States) - 6/8/25, message 142
✔20.4 - Option 5- JANE AUSTEN Blob: A Love Story - 8/9/25
✔20.5 - Option 1 The Tavernier Stones: A Novel (cover) - 7/5/25 Message 877
20.6 - Option 3 - Eruption (set in Wyoming)
20.7 - Option 3 - The Windup Girl
20.8 - Option 2 The God of Small Things (Booker Prize)
20.9 - Option 2 - Dangerous Women (cover)

25.1 - Option 1 The Anchoress (Trapped or Stranded, pg 5)
Option 3 - Notes from a Regicide (notes)
25.2 - Option 3 Equal of the Sun Anita Amirrezvani
Option 4 - Eileen - Winter Books, page 2
25.3 - Option 2 - Fires in the Dark
Option 3 The Bridge on the Drina (pub. 1945)
25.4 - Book 1, Option A Alaskan Fire
Book 2, Option B In the Time of the Butterflies (Dominican Republic)
25.5 - July Option 2 - The Hounding (cover)
August Option 2 - Norma Sofi Oksanen (smores)
25.6 -
25.7 -
25.8 -
25.9 -

30.1 - Option 1 - The River Wife
Option 3 - Maeve Fly (cover, debut)
30.2 - Option 1 - Widowland
Option 5:
✔30.3 - Book 1 - Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II - MPG Survival - 6/9/25
Book 2 - Zone One (MPG Post Apocalyptic) - 6/21/25 message 488
30.4 - Option 1 - The Winter People (cover)
Option 3 - Bloodborn Nathan Long
30.5 - Option 2 - Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
Option 3 The Purple Cloud M.P. Shiel (published in 1901) - 6/3/25
30.6 - Option A - The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs #18)
Option C - The Moor (#4 in series)
30.7 - Option 1 Book 1 The Creation of Eve (Italy and Spain)
Book 2 - House of Day, House of Night Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)
30.8 - Option 1 - The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter
Option 4 - Blood and Circuses (Phryne Fisher, #6)
30.9 - Option 1 Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
Option 4 Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody - (Australian author)
30.10 - Option 1 Buried Deep and Other Stories (buried)
Option 3 The Blood Doctor (Barbara Vine aka Ruth Rendell)

MARTY

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Total points:

Summer Books

75 points
1 GO ticket

5.1 Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
✅ 5.2 Iris
5.3 No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
✅ 5.4 Half a Soul
✅ 5.5 Rogue
5.6 Three Days in June
5.7
✅ 5.8 The River Has Roots
✅ 5.9 The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy
5.10

10.1 This Is How You Lose the Time War
10.2 Even Though I Knew the End - msg #26
10.3 The Enchanted April - p 5
10.4
10.5 Thornhedge - p 3
✅ 10.6 The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
10.7
10.8
10.9 All Systems Red
10.10

✅ 20.3 Pride and Prejudice
✅ 20.4 The Art of Vanishing

KRISTA KY SUMMER CHALLENGE PLANS

5.1 The Return of Ellie Black√
5.2
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5.6
5.7
5.8 Happiness for Beginners√
5.9
5.10 Problematic Summer Romance√

10.1 The Nightingale√
10.2
10.3 Yours Truly√
10.4
10.5
10.6 Mad Honey√
10.7 Margo's Got Money Troubles√
10.8
10.9
10.10

15.1 People We Meet on Vacation√ & Atmosphere√
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5 Disappoint Me√
15.6
15.7 Something Wilder√
15.8 Isola√
15.9
15.10 Ward D√

20.1 Option 2 The Book Eaters√
20.2 Option 1 The Bodyguard√
20.3 Option 4 Every Summer After√
20.4 Option 5 Slow Dance√ (ROMANCE)
20.5 Option 3 James √
20.6 Option 1 The Four Winds √
20.9 Option 1 Dear Edward√ & Option 2 Beach Road √

25.1
25.2
25.5 July Option 1 Great Big Beautiful Life√ & Aug Option 2 The Only One Left√

30.1 Option 1 Long Bright River√ & option 2 The Bright Side of Disaster√
30.2
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30.8 Option 2 & 3 A Million Junes √ & Sam √
30.9
30.10 Option 2 & 4 Part of Your World √ & The Unsinkable Greta James √

50.1
1A One Golden Summer (published 2025)√
2B The Things We Leave Unfinished√
3B The Inheritance Games√

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Meg K’s summer 2025 reading plan

5.1: Victory Day - Bomb Island by Stephen Hundley
5.2: Civil War - Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg by James A. Hessler and Wayne E. Motts
5.3: Women’s Rights
5.4: World Environment - Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace
5.5: Summer Solstice - On the Road by Jack Kerouac
5.6: Summer Song
5.7: Summer Vacations
5.8: Name Game - The Group by Mary McCarthy
5.9: Sand Time - Stand Still Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg
5.10: Picnic Time - The Cat Who Smelled a Rat by Lilian Jackson Braun

(to be expanded and updated!)

5.1 Set in Maine; New Mexico: Alaska; Hawaii; Washington; American Samoa; California;
5.2 MPG War, Civil War, or Military Fiction
5.3 Non-Fic w/ MPG genre of women, gender, or feminism.
5.4 Auth.ΑΩ .init in WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
5.5 Title 1st letters in SUMMER SOLSTICE
5.6 Title 4+ltr word from "Hot Fun In The Summertime" lyrics
5.7 Bk.cvr= 1+adult and 2+ children
5.8 Auth first name initial from REDSYCAMORE
5.9 Title 4+ltr word from GREAT SAND DUNES
5.10 Read a book Of your choice that fits SRC Rules

10.1 Read a book whose titlehas a word of 4 or letters made from the phrase"Walking On Sunshine"
The Evening News The House We Grew Up In OR Shattered Lies
10.2 Read a book that was claimed in the Summer 2024 Challenge Completed Task thread
Whale Fall Post 427
10.3 Read a book from https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Three Days in June Page 21
10.4 Uncommon CriminalsRead a book with a person wearing sunglasses on the cover.
10.5 Read a book from https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Lunch Ladies
10.6 Read a book first published either in July of any year or any month for the year 2022.
In the Seeing Hands of Others 2022 OR Message Deleted July
10.7 Read a book where the MC is a performance artist or performing arts is central to the story.
First Position
10.8 Read a book set in, first published or about the 1960's
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
10.9 Read a book MPG Space, stand alone or embedded
Rogue Protocol MPG Locked
10.10 Read a book with MPG Post-Apocalyptic
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife MPG Locked

15.1
a Read the book with the most ratings on your TBR
Rich People Problems
b Read the book with the least ratings on your TBR
The Last Weekend:

15.2
a Using the North American parks, read a book whose title contains a word from the name one of the parks.
Death Rocks DEATH Valley
b Using the Europe Map read a book whose title contains all the letters of the complete name of one parks.
Aftertaste TATRA National Park Poland

15.3 ONE book Option
Read a book set at least 75% in Australia AND 6+ words excluding subtitles OR 12+ more words including the subtitle
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

15.4 ONE book Option
4+ Letter word from one of the Poems and Matching Author name from one of the Poets
When We Chased the Light

15.5 Read a book with a single author with all initials found in Komodo, Dragon OR Lizard
Mere
15.6 Read a book with one of these words in the title/subtitle. Animal, Wildebeest, Zebra, Gazelle, Hyena, Lion, or Cheetah. Possessives and plurals accepted.
Call Me Zebra
15.7 Read a book that is at least 50% blue OR 50% green OR 50% Red
The Gatsby Gambit https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
15.8 Read a book where a shipwreck or someone who stranded in the ocean or on an island is evident to the story.
The Missing
15.9 Read a book with a camper, tent, or RV on the cover.
Tents, Trails & Turmoil
15.10 Read a book with MPG Horror
Tender Is the Flesh

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20.10 Group read The Adventures of Sally


25.1
a Word in Title of 4+ letters in CREEPERS HAVE NO RESPECT
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
b 2 of the numbers 0,1,3,5, in page count **Remember new rules **
The Silence In Between 341 pages PB

25.2
a Person Wearing shorts OR swimsuit on cover
The Wedding Proposal by Sue Moorcroft
b Read a book where , the author initials are AA, AB, AO, BA, BB, BO, OA, OB, or OO. Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted Ben Okri

30.1
a Read a book with MPG Romance, may be standalone or embedded
The Candid Life of Meena Dave
b Read a book with a cover featuring at least 5 different colors according to Tineye. Red, blue, purple/violet, green, yellow, orange, pink, brown, gray
Lancashire Hotpot Peril https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

30.2
a Read a book with one or more conifer trees or a sword on the cover
Day of the Caesars
b Read a book with a word of at least four letters from the poem in the title WORLDS
The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective

30.3 500 pages
a MPG Adventure Invictus
b MPG Post Apocalyptic A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
BOTH MPG's Locked"

30.4
a Snow on cover Murder at Melrose Court
b Author Initials in NIAGARA FALLS Einstein’s Dreams

30.5 501 pages
a Read a book by a single author where ALL the authors initials can be found in H.G. Wells.
The Queen of the Valley
b Read a book that is set at least 75% in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) or in New Jersey, USA.
The Right Attitude to Rain OR The Wasp Trap

30.6
a Read the current last book in a series of at least 3 books.
Belsay
b Make progress on a series you have already started. Read a book that is #3 or above but not the last book in the series.
Dundee Cake Deception

30.7
a Read a book that is set (at least 70%) in one or more countries in Europe, BUT NOT the UK
My Friends
b Author is European BUT NOT from UK
When the Cranes Fly South

30.8 each book 250 pages
a Author Initials in JUNE
Private Lives
b Six Seven or Eight in Title
b The Six Murders of Daphne St Clair

30.9
a At least 3 x U's in title The Lighthouse Daughters of Puffin Island
b Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title/subtitle/author’s name from the phrase ULURU KATA TJUTA NICK KY.
Someone in the Attic = ATTIC

30.10
a. Read a book with a word in the title matches that in the title of a "Prey Book
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected OR
One Dark Night
c. Read a book written by an author using a pseudonym
Sacred Sins

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50.1

The Sword of Kaigen
The Sunbearer Trials
Sunrise on the Reaping

𝓜𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓀𝒶


⌛ Initiated / pending
✅ Completed / claimed
♦️ Priority


5.1 x
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (432 p.)

5.2 x
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (592 p.) 📚

5.3 x
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (416 p.) ❗

5.4 x
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (357 p.)

5.5 x
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas (440 p.)

5.6 x
When Haru Was Here by Dustin Thao (304 p.)

5.7 x
The Guncle by Steven Rowley (326 p.)

5.8 x
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein (336 p.) ❗

5.9
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (845 p.) 📚📚

5.10
(OPEN)


10.1 -
The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power by Katherine Morgan Schafler (325 p.) ❗

10.2 -
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (329 p.)

10.3 -
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez (? p)

10.4 -
Funny Story by Emily Henry (400 p.)

10.5 -
Isola by Allegra Goodman (? p)

10.6 -
The Ever King by L.J. Andrews (408 p.)

10.7 -
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (309 p.)

10.8 -
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (275 p.)

10.9 -
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley (469 p.)

10.10 -
American Rapture by C.J. Leede (370 p.)


15.1 -
Book 1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (323 p.)
Book 2. How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution by David McNeill (280 p.) ❗

15.2 -
Book 1: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (416 p.)
Book 2: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (327 p.) 🌟

15.3 -
Book 1: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (487 p.)
Book 2: How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis (151 p.) ❗

15.4 - ***1-BOOK OPTION***
Book 1: Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (112 p.)

15.5 -
Confessions by Kanae Minato (240 p.)

15.6 - Animals, Animals, Animals!
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (341 p.) ❗

15.7 -
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (415 p.)

15.8 -
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (460 p.)

15.9 -
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (333 p.)

15.10 - I'm Not Scared.



✅ 20.1 - Most Improved – Erica H’s Task: Organized Procrastinator.
✓ Option 2. Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake (288 p.) (6/20/2025)

✅ 20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Coffeegirl's Task - Favorite things about Books.
✓ Option 2. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May (241 p.) ❗ (6/25/2025)

✅ 20.3 - Review Raffle - Kelly L's Task - Celebrating Pride.
✓ Option 4. The Summer That Shaped Us by Lori Wilde (343 p.) (6/1/2025)

✅ 20.4 – Golden Oldies: Kai's Task - London Adventure.
✓ Option 5. Bloodguard by Cecy Robson (535 p.) 📚 (6/1/2025)

✅ 20.5 - Bigger is Better: Kathy KS's Task - Light Up My World, Scarlett!
✓ Option 4. Overlord, Vol. 1: The Undead King by Kugane Maruyama (262 p.) (6/17/2025)

✅ 20.6 - It's A Fact - Kristen IA's Task - Let’s Go to the Park!
✓ Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (352 p.) (8/3/2025)

♦️ 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Karen Michele's Task - I Wonder.
Option 2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (359 p.) 🌟

✅ 20.8 - NICKELS & DIMES: MEGSCL's Task - 2025 Goals.
✓ Option 1. Fearless by Lauren Roberts (608 p.) 📚 (6/1/2025)

✅ 20.9 - Moderators Pet: Trishhartuk's Task - Crater Lake.
✓ Option 4. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (376 p.) (6/30/2025)

20.10 - Group Reads.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver


25.1 Ash's Task: Boss Level.
Option 1. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (544 p.) 📚
Option 2. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (545 p.) 📚

25.2 Robin P's Task: Enjoying Summer - Not!

Option 4. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (390 p.)

25.3 Shemac's task: Celebrating the end of WW2.
Option 1. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (724 p.) 📚
Option 2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (440 p.)

25.4 Bookworm526's task: Our National Parks.
Option 1B. The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson (223 p.)
Option 2A. Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty (352 p.) ❗

25.5 Fly's Task - Celebrating Summertime.
July 1. I Want Out: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Peace Through Divorce by William C. Gentry (185 p.) ❗
August 2. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas (583 p.) 📚


30.1 JennRenee's Task: The Great Yellowstone. **One book must be debut**
Option 2. Come Away with Me by Karma Brown (368 p.) (debut)
Option 3. Threats by Amelia Gray (278 p.)

30.2 Katrisa's Task: Wrapped in Plastic.
Option 2. Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent (520 p.) 📚
Option 3. Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang (430 p.) (p. 19)

30.3 Susan A's Task: Exploring MPGs.
Book 1. Ice by Anna Kavan (158 p.)
Book 2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (374 p.) **check rules regarding teen**

30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: A Year of Travels.
Option 3. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (320 p.)
Option 4. When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal by Brianna Wiest (235 p.)

30.5 Delicious Dee 's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: HG Wells.
Option 3. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide by Robert Louis Stevenson (124 p.)
Option 4. Dune by Frank Herbert (704 p.) 📚

30.6 Kmaried's Task - Catching Up On Series.
Option B. Still Life by Louise Penny (293 p.)
Option C. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (719 p.) 📚

30.7 Cat's Task: Books of Europe. ***1-BOOK OPTION***
Option 2. The Odyssey by Homer (541 p.) 📚🌟

30.8 MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games.
Option 2. The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young (320 p.)
Option 3. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (468 p.)

30.9 Nick KY’s Task: Uluru – National Parks of Australia.
Option 1. The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home by Peg Dawson (294 p.) ❗
Option 2. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter (352 p.) ❗

30.10 Amy FL’s task: Return of a Favorite.
Option 1. A Song of Shadow and Starlight by Morgan Gauthier (334 p.)
Option 2. The Current by Tim Johnston (408 p.)


50.1 -



❝𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝❞




✓ Goal: 160/150 points
◺ Pages Read... This Season: 3,005 || SRC All Time: 92,663
◺ Books Read... This Season: 8 || SRC All Time: 232

🌟 Golden Oldies: 0 || SRC All Time: 21
📚 Big Book: 2 || SRC All Time: 73
❗It's a Fact: 1 || SRC All Time: 10


❝𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬❞

➵ Most points earned in one season: 335 (Spring 2023)
➵ Most pages read in one season: 9,796 (Summer 2023)
➵ Most books read in one season: 20 (Summer 2023)

Jayne's Reading Plan

5.1 When the Bough Breaks
5.2 Corvus
✅ 5.3 Trans/Rad/Fem
5.4 Magician's Gambit
5.5 Middlesex
5.6 When Red Is Black
5.7 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
5.8 A Perfect Spy
5.9 Gardens of the Moon
5.10

10.1 The Return of the King
10.2 The Bullet That Missed
10.3 Wuthering Heights
10.4 Chimera
10.5 Never Let Me Go
10.6 Dead Iron
10.7 Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
10.8 The Master and Margarita
✅ 10.9 Red Mars
10.10 Feed

15.1 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The New Climate Activism: NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance
15.2 The Valley of Fear
Assassin's Apprentice
15.3 The Dry
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
15.4 On the Road
The Bourne Identity
15.5 Magic to the Bone
15.6 The Lions of Al-Rassan
15.7 Boiling a Frog
15.8 The Island of Doctor Moreau
15.9 Station Eleven
15.10 The Night Watch

20.1 Perdido Street Station
20.2 The Alienist
20.3 Horns
20.4 Alias Grace
20.5 Just After Sunset
20.6 Guilty Pleasures
20.7 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
20.8 Gone Girl
20.9 A Scanner Darkly
20.10 Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

25.1 Battle Royale
The Black Echo
25.2 Daughter of the Blood
Jane Eyre
25.3 Spiral
The Day of the Triffids
25.4 The Wasp Factory
The Blade Itself
25.5 Cryptonomicon
Hell House

30.1 Dark Rivers of the Heart
Succubus Blues
30.2 Club Shadowlands
Instruments of Darkness
30.3 The Two Towers
The Last Man
30.4 Tales of the City
Devil May Care
30.5 The War of the Worlds
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
30.6 Grave Witch
Be My Enemy
30.7 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
30.8 Temeraire
The Sea Watch
30.9 The Vesuvius Club
The Bat
30.10 Invisible Monsters
Spider's Bite

✔Summer Challenge


✔5.1 Colored Television
✔5.2 The Secrets of Flight
✔5.3 What We Carry: A Memoir
✔5.4 The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
✔5.5 The Summer Swap
✔5.6 The Summer Country
✔5.7 The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
✔5.8 The Marriage Sabbatical
✔5.9 The Great Escape
✔5.10 Bluff

✔10.1 Society of Lies
✔10.2 Hell Bay
✔10.3 Summer Reading
✔10.4 Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
✔10.5 The Briar Club
✔10.6 Part of Your World
✔10.7 The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
✔10.8 The Gabriel Hounds
10.9 The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
10.10 —

15.1
1. The Housemaid
2. Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon: Hesitate No Longer
15.2
✔1. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
✔2. Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes
15.3
✔1. Gravity Is the Thing
✔2. Rules at the School by the Sea
✔15.4 Great Big Beautiful Life
✔15.5 Killers of a Certain Age
✔15.6 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
✔15.7 Marble Hall Murders
15.8 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
✔15.9 Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries
15.10 —

✔20.1 2. Second Chance Girl
✔20.2 2. Slow Dance
✔20.3 4. The God of the Woods
✔20.4 5. Delicious!
✔20.5 1. A Murderous Relation
✔20.6 1. The Bright Years
✔20.7 2B. Solito
✔20.8 1. Broken Country
✔20.9 3. My Friends
✔20.10 The Adventures of Sally

25.1
✔3. In the Presence of the Enemy
✔4. Atmosphere
25.2
✔3. Swept Away
✔4. Winter Solstice
25.3
✔2. A Peculiar Combination
✔3. The Moving Finger
25.4
✔1A. Enjoy the View
✔2A. The Age of Light
25.5
✔1. Ready or Not
✔2. The Trust

30.1
✔2. How to End a Love Story
✔3. A Novel Love Story
30.2
1. Where Coyotes Howl
2. The December Market
30.3
✔State of Wonder
✔Saint Peter's Fair
30.4
✔3. The Little Village of Book Lovers
✔5. The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star
30.5
✔2. Murder Takes a Vacation
✔5. Knit One, Die Two
30.6
✔B. A Dangerous Collaboration
✔C. One Good Thing
30.7
1. The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
2.
30.8
✔1. The Seven Year Slip
✔4. Anatomy of Evil
30.9
✔2. The Trespasser
✔4. The Mother's Promise
30.10
✔2. Just for the Summer
✔4. The Cinderella Deal

50.1
✔1A. Midnight in Soap Lake
✔2B. Silent Knit, Deadly Knit
✔3A. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir