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Challenges: Year Long Main 2025
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Anna M ABC
Janice wrote: "Enjoy the challenge Anna."Thank you <3
Female Authors - first of last name counts📍A- Ruth Adam, A Woman's Place: 1910-1975
📍B Barbara Bower, Miss Ranskill Comes Home
📍C - Cecily Hamilton, William: An Englishman
📍D - Caroline Darian, I'll Never Call Him Dad Again
📍E -Elisabeth Sanxay Holding , The Blank Wall
📍 F - F.M. Mayor, The Rector's Daughter
📍G Anna Gmeyner, Manja
📍H - Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
📍I - Catherine Isaac, Messy, Wonderful Us
📍J- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
📍 K - Kerry Katona, Whole Again
📍L - Lucy Spraggan, Process: Finding my way through
📍M Lara Marlowe, How Good It Is I have No Fear of Dying
📍N Barbara Noble, The House Opposite
📍O - Ursula Orange, Tom Tiddler's Ground
📍P Penelope Mortimer, Saturday Lunch with the Brownings and Other Stories
📍Q -Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
📍 R - Richmal Crompton, Family Roundabout
📍S - Stella Gibbons, The Woods in Winter
📍T Teffi, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
📍U - Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife
📍V Verily Anderson , Spam Tomorrow
📍W Dorothy Whipple, Every Good Deed and Other Stories
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📍Y - Yehudis Fletcher, Chutzpah: A memoir of faith, sexuality and daring to stay
📍Z - Zora Neale Hurston ,Their Eyes Were Watching God
Badge 1, Book 1Task B Books about books
Šajā romānā visi mirst (Everybody Dies In This Novel)
Ebook, 192 pages
Read a book with a theme of Books about books
The main character is aware that he is a character in a book. The story is filled with references to famous authors and books, from Sherlock Holmes to Georgian fairy tales.
Badge 1, Book 2Task F Fantasy
The Brides of Rollrock Island
Ebook, 306
Read a book with a theme Fantasy
An island where men live with their selkie wives and sons.
Badge 1, Book 3Task C Childhood
Puika, kurš redzēja tumsā (The boy who saw in the dark)
Ebook, 176
Read a book with a theme childhood
The story is about a boy's life growing up with blind parents from age 6 to 15.
Badge 1, Book 4Task D Dogs
Latviešu rakstnieku suņu stāsti (Dog stories by Latvian writers)
Ebook, 225
Read a book with a theme dogs
A collection of dog themed short stories
Janice wrote: "Good progress Anna"Thanks. These kinds of challenges make it so much easier to pick what to read next. So thank you for creating them. <3
Badge 1, Book 5Task L Love
Radical Love
Paperback, 288
It's a story about a reverend falling in love with one of his congregants.
Anna wrote: "Janice wrote: "Good progress Anna"Thanks. These kinds of challenges make it so much easier to pick what to read next. So thank you for creating them. <3"
I tend to use them in the same way. I just finished a book and will check out what I need for the challenge to determine what to read next.
Badge 1, Book 6Task H History
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Kindle, 1050
Read a book with a theme history
A non fiction account of targeted assassinations some successful, some not spanning decades.
Badge 1, Book 7Task W Women
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
Audiobook, 9:42
Read a book with a theme women
11 essays about feminism
Badge 1, Task 8Task G Ghosts
The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories
Ebook, 183
Read a book with a theme ghosts
4 ghost stories
Badge 1, Task 9Task T True crime
Until I Kill You
Ebook, 329
Read a book with a theme true crime
A woman's memoir of surviving a murder attempt.
Badge 1, Task 10Task M Mythology
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
Ebook, 309
Read a book with a theme mythology
Essays about Greek gods
Badge 1, Task 11Task S Survival
Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me
Hardcover, 277
Read a book with a theme survival
A memoir of surviving the First and Second Chechen Wars, followed by life under an authoritarian regime.
Badge 1, Task 12Task N Nature
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
Kindle, 192
Read a book with a theme nature
A collection of fairly tales featuring plants
Badge 1, Task 13Task P Pirates
Saltblood
Ebook, 368
A story based on the life of real pirate Mary Read
Badge 1, Task 14Task V Villainy
Vicious
Paperback, 364
Read a book with a theme villainy
Main characters are anti heroes/ villains
Badge 1, Task 15Task R Religion
Ramayana
Paperback, 437*
Read a book with a theme religion
The Ramayana is a sacred tale in Hinduism
*GR doesn't have my edition
Congrats on earning Badge 1. :_)
Janice wrote: "Congrats on earning Badge 1. :_)"Thanks 🥳
Badge 2, Task 1Task J
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Hardcover, 760
Read a book where the author's initial is J
J.K. Rowling
Badge 2, Task 2Task D
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight
Hardcover, 217
Read a book where the author's initial is D
Caroline Darian
That sounds like a heavy read.
Janice wrote: "That sounds like a heavy read."It is but worth it. She doesn't hold back.
Badge 2, Task 3Task Y
Chutzpah: A memoir of faith, sexuality and daring to stay
Hardcover, 280
Read a book where the author's initial is Y
Yehudis Fletcher
Badge 2, Task 4Task K
Whole Again: Love, Life And Me
Audiobook: 7:38
Read a book where the author's initial is K
Kerry Katona
Badge 2, Task 5Task R
Family Roundabout
Paperback, 384
Read a book where the author's initial is R
Richmal Crompton
Badge 2, Task 6Task F
The Rector's Daughter
Paperback, 368
Read a book where the author's initial F
F.M. Mayor
Badge 2, Task 8Task C
William: An Englishman
Paperback, 248
Read a book where the author's initial is C
Cicely Hamilton
Badge 2, Task 9Task Q
The Whalebone Theatre
Paperback, 560
Read a book where the author's initial is Q
Joanna Quinn
Badge 2, Task 10Task S
The Woods in Winter
Ebook, 226
Read a book where the author's initial is S
Stella Gibbons
Badge 2, Task 11Task H
The Expendable Man
Paperback, 339
Read a book where the author's initial is H
Dorothy B. Hughes
Badge 2, Task 12Task L
Process
Audiobook, 9:20
Read a book where the author's initial is L
Lucy Spraggan
Badge 2, Task 13Task Z
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ebook, 230
Read a book where the author's initial is Z
Zora Neale Hurston
Badge 2, Task 14 Task A
A Woman's Place: 1910-1975
Paperback, 339
Read a book where the author's initial is A
Ruth Adam
Badge 2, Task 15Task O
Tom Tiddler's Ground
Ebook, 235
Read a book where the author's initial is O
Ursula Orange
Badge 2, Task 16Task I
Messy, Wonderful Us
Hardcover, 400
Read a book where the author's initial is I
Catherine Isaac
Badge 2, Task 17Task E
The Blank Wall
Paperback, 230
Read a book where the author's initial is E
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Badge 2, Task 18Task P
Sunday lunch with the Brownings and Other Stories
Paperback, 288
Read a book where the author's initial is P
Penelope Mortimer
Badge 2, Task 19Task W
Every Good Deed and Other Stories
Paperback, 264
Read a book where the author's initial is W
Dorothy Whipple
Badge 2, Task 20Task B
Miss Ranskill Comes Home
Paperback, 336
Read a book where the author's initial is B
Barbara Bower
Badge 2, Task 21Task M
How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko's Fight for Ukraine
Paperback, 292
Read a book where the author's initial is M
Lara Marlowe
Badge 2, Task 22Task V
Spam Tomorrow
Paperback, 238
Read a book where the author's initial is V
Verily Anderson
Badge 2, Task 23Task T
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Ebook, 320
Read a book where the author's initial is T
Teffi
Badge 2, Task 24Task N
The House Opposite
Ebook, 311
Read a book where the author's initial is N
Barbara Noble
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Badge One will be based on Themes.
📍B - Books about books
📚Šajā romānā visi mirst
📍C - Childhood
🧖♂️Puika, kurš redzēja tumsā
📍D - Dogs
🐶Latviešu rakstnieku suņu stāsti
📍F - Fantasy
🧜♀️The Brides of Rollrock Island
📍G - Ghosts
👻The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories
📍H - History
🇮🇱Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
📍L - Love
💔Radical Love
📍M - Mythology
🦚Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
📍N - Nature
☘Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
📍P - Pirates
🏴☠️Saltblood
📍R - Religion
🔥The Ramayana
📍S - Survival
🐺Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me
📍T - True Crime
🩰Until I Kill You
📍V - Villainy
🦹♂️Vicious
📍W - Women
🧝♀️Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights