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Read: 3
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Summer That Changed Everything Brenda Novak 7/3/25
2. American Sky Carolyn Dasher 7/5/25
3. These Summer Storms Sarah MacLean 7/9/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo - July 1
2. 49 Days by Agnes Lee - July 2
3. Carousel Summer by Kathleen Gros - July 3
4. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Harold Schechter - July 4
5. Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel by Jules Bakes - July 12
6. The League of Littles: A Graphic Novel by Casey Lyall - July 13
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
5/5-6 Completed. Finish
1.She Was Mine First-M. Robinson 7/11/25
2.If You Stayed-Brittainy C. Cherry 7/16/25
3.Seven Days in June-Tia Williams 7/19/25
4.Meet Me at the Lake-Carley Fortune 7/20/25
5.Then You Happened-K. Bromberg 7/24/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Single: Read 3-4 books
1. The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict 5 July 2025 ★★★★★
2. The Companion Project by Chelsea Curto ★★ 30 July 2025
3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ★★★★ 31 July 2025
ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1: The Rent Collector Camron Wright 1 Jul
2: A Passage to India E.M. Forster 15 Jul
3: James Percival Everett 16 Jul
4: How Proust Can Change Your Life Alain de Botton 22 Jul
5: Hitch-22: A Memoir Christopher Hitchens 24 Jul
6. The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset Maugham 25 Jul
July | Stand AloneSolo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1) The It Girl - Ruth Ware 14/07/25
2) Emma - Jane Austen 31/07/25
FINISHED! July Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
(Finished 7/06/25)
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
5/5+
1. Fun for the Whole Family Jennifer E. Smith 07/01/25
2. Indian Killer Sherman Alexie 07/03/25
3. Shockaholic Carrie Fisher 07/04/25
4. Indira Gandhi The Story Of A Leader Shahana Dasgupta 07/05/25
5. Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel 07/06/25
6. Happy Wife Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores 07/08/25
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Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
1. Abscond by Abraham Verghese 7/10/2025
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeJuly 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - 4 Stars - 7/2/25
2. Blue Smoke - Nora Roberts - 4 Stars - 7/2/25
3. The Absence of Mercy - John Burley - 4 Stars - 7/5/25
4. The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer - 4 Stars - 7/10/25
5. The Poppy Fields - Nikki Erlick - 5 Stars - 7/11/25
6. Summer of '69 - Elin Hilderbrand - 4 Stars - 7/15/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Circe|Madeline Miller|05/07/25
How To Rob a Bank|Tom Mitchell|13/07/25
July Stand Alone Duration: July 1st, 2025 - July 31st, 2025
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
10/6
1. It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei - July 7th
2. Edge of Reality: Journeys Through the Rabbit Hole of Reality Television by Jacques Peretti - July 10th
3. Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions by Tomson Highway - July 12th
4. We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida - July 14th
5. The World's Wildest Cons: Incredible True Tales of Hustles, Frauds and Swindles by Duncan McKenzie - July 16th
6. Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight: The Highs and Lows of the Twilight Saga by Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher - July 17th
7. The Favorites by Layne Fargo - July 18th
8. Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time: True Stories from a Career in Hollywood by Barry Sonnenfeld - July 24th
9. Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television—and America—Forever by Alan Siegel - July 27th
10. Freedom House by KB Brookins - July 28th
Finished: 2025/07/27Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Progress: 6/3
Stand Alone:
Todesmarsch by Richard Bachman (25/07/05)
Alle Farben grau by Martin Schäuble (25/07/06)
Circe by Madeline Miller (25/07/12)
Das Haus über dem Fjord by Kristin Valla (25/07/15)
Unschärfen der Liebe by Angelika Overath (25/07/24)
Die Probe by Katie Kitamura (25/07/27)
other:
FINISHEDStand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi by Michela Murgia 02/07/2025
2. Cate, io by Matteo Cellini 04/07/2025
3. Un amore di zitella by Andrea Vitali 05/07/2025
4. The ghost bride by Yangsze Choo 06/07/2025
5.Il gatto rosso dell'abbazia: Viaggio nelle leggende dei Colli Euganei by Laura Pisanello 09/07/2025
6. Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran 13/07/2025
Completed!!Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
I'm in for Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Progress: 5/5+
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 7/15/25
Pygmalion & Other Plays George Bernard Shaw 7/17/25
The Book Thief Markus Zusak 7/20/25
Batyr Nursen: fengslet, torturert, kastet ut av tre land Stig Magne Heitmann 7/22/25
The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux 7/27/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. One in Four | Lucinda Berry | 07.01
2. A Crop Farmer's Daughter | Ioni Goldstein | 07.04
3. Between Us | Mhairi McFarlane | 07.05
4. Appetite for Innocence | Lucinda Berry | 07.06
5. What Lies in the Woods | Kate Alice Marshall | 07.11
6. The Girl Who Was Taken | Charlie Donlea | 07.11
Stand Alone July 2025
6/6
1. Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukess 7/1/25
2. Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan 7/5/25
3. Accidentally Amy by Lynn Painter 7/10/25
4. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall 7/12/25
5. The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal 7/13/25
6. Almost American Girl by Robin Ha 7/16/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
COMPLETED!
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1.) The Personal Assistant by Kimberly Belle 7/5/2025
2.) All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore 7/9/2025
3.) One Night at the Lake by Bethany Chase 7/11/2025
4.) The Examiner by Janice Hallet 7/12/2025
5.) Graceland by Nancy Cochiere 715/2025
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeJuly 1- 31, 2025
Single: Read 3-4 books
1. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping | Sangu Mandanna - Jul 18
2. Songbird | Jaymin Eve - Jul 22
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt - Jul 30
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solo: Read 1-2 booksSingle: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. A Woman of Love: Ruth: Using Our Gift for Intimacy by Dee Brestin
2. Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
3. The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson
4. The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey by Roger Highfield
5. The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester
6. Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda
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Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Goal: 7/6
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
• Miss Iceland - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - 07/05/25
• Where There Was Fire - John Manuel Arias - 09/06/25
• Don't Let the Forest In - C.G. Drews - 07/13/25
• The Five-Star Weekend - Elin Hilderbrand - 07/21/25
• Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 07/23/25
• Ali and Nino - Kurban Said - 07/26/25
• Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth - John McManus - 07/28/25
July | Stand AloneRead:
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Hope of Heaven: How the Promise of Eternity Changes Everything by Sheila Walsh Read 7/3/25
2. Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes Read 7/9/25
3.The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green Read 9/10/25
4.Life's Golden Ticket: A Story About Second Chances by Brendon Burchard Read 7/11/25
5.Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Read 7/14/25
6. The Memory of Love by Linda Olsson Read 7/17/25
I'm going to try this again. As soon as I skip a month, that'll be the one time I read all the stand alones!July | Stand Alone
Read:
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner by Susan Wels - 7/6
2. All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers - 7/12
3. RatBurger by David Walliams - 7/12
4. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston - 7/17
5. In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren - 7/21
6. What Have We Done by Alex Finlay - 7/23
Goal - Solitary: Read - 4/6Completed 6/6
1. An Impossible Return, Caroline Laurent | 7/2
2. Sleepless in Dubai, Sajni Patel | 7/5
3. From Under the Truck: A Memoir, Josh Brolin | 7/10
4. The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate | 7/11
5. A Family Affair, Robyn Carr | 7/13
6. If Tomorrow Never Comes, Allison Ashley | 7/15
July Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - COMPLETED================================
Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Level: Single
3/3
✔ 1. One by One by Freida McFadden 7/21/25 2★
✔ 2. The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold 7/28/25
✔ 3. How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie 07/13/25
July 2025 Stand AloneDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
READ 5/6
1. Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter 7/4/25
2. How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales: and Other Stories by Kate Bernheimer 7/6/25
3. Open Throat by Henry Hoke 7/26/25
4. Model Home by Rivers Solomon 7/28/25
5. Dead Lake by Darcy Coates 7/30/25
COMPLETED 07.08.25Stand Alone Monthly Challenge: 6/6
Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
✅1. Fractured | Catherine McKenzie | 07.03.25
✅2. Run for the Hills | Kevin Wilson | 07.04.25
✅3. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler | 07.05.25
✅4. Fall Back Down When I Die | Joe Wilkins | 07.06.25
✅5. The Museum of Failures | Thrity Umrigar | 07.08.25
✅6. The Summer of Yes | Courtney Walsh | 07.08.25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/6
1. Sadie - Courtney Summers 7/4/25
2. The Beach House - Jane Green 7/5/25
3. The Paris Express - Emma Donoghue 7/7/25
4. Three Days in June - Anne Tyler 7/7/25
5. James - Percival Everett 7/8/25
6. The Rescue - Nicholas Sparks 7/8/25
FINISHED! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo - July 1
2. 49 Days by Agnes Lee - July 2
3. Carousel Summer by Kathleen Gros - July 3
4. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Harold Schechter - July 4
5. Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel by Jules Bakes - July 12
6. The League of Littles: A Graphic Novel by Casey Lyall - July 13
FINISHEDStand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/6
1. Sadie - Courtney Summers 7/4/25
2. The Beach House - Jane Green 7/5/25
3. The Paris Express - Emma Donoghue 7/7/25
4. Three Days in June - Anne Tyler 7/7/25
5. James - Percival Everett 7/8/25
6. The Rescue - Nicholas Sparks 7/8/25
Completed 07.14.2025Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. One in Four | Lucinda Berry | 07.01
2. A Crop Farmer's Daughter | Ioni Goldstein | 07.04
3. Between Us | Mhairi McFarlane | 07.05
4. Appetite for Innocence | Lucinda Berry | 07.06
5. What Lies in the Woods | Kate Alice Marshall | 07.11
6. The Girl Who Was Taken | Charlie Donlea | 07.11
FINISHED! July Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
(Finished 7/06/25)
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
5/5+
1. Fun for the Whole Family Jennifer E. Smith 07/01/25
2. Indian Killer Sherman Alexie 07/03/25
3. Shockaholic Carrie Fisher 07/04/25
4. Indira Gandhi The Story Of A Leader Shahana Dasgupta 07/05/25
5. Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel 07/06/25
6. Happy Wife Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores 07/08/25
Thanks JoAnne!Completed 6/6
1. An Impossible Return, Caroline Laurent | 7/2
2. Sleepless in Dubai, Sajni Patel | 7/5
3. From Under the Truck: A Memoir, Josh Brolin | 7/10
4. The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate | 7/11
5. A Family Affair, Robyn Carr | 7/13
6. If Tomorrow Never Comes, Allison Ashley | 7/15
COMPLETION POSTJuly | Stand Alone
Read:
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
✅Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Hope of Heaven: How the Promise of Eternity Changes Everything by Sheila Walsh Read 7/3/25
2. Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes Read 7/9/25
3.The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green Read 9/10/25
4.Life's Golden Ticket: A Story About Second Chances by Brendon Burchard Read 7/11/25
5.Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Read 7/14/25
6. The Memory of Love by Linda Olsson Read 7/17/25
FINISHEDStand Alone
July 2025
6/6
1. Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukess 7/1/25
2. Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan 7/5/25
3. Accidentally Amy by Lynn Painter 7/10/25
4. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall 7/12/25
5. The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal 7/13/25
6. Almost American Girl by Robin Ha 7/16/25
~~~ Complete ~~~Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
6 of 5/6 Complete
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - 4 Stars - 7/2/25
2. Blue Smoke - Nora Roberts - 4 Stars - 7/3/25
3. The Absence of Mercy - John Burley - 4 Stars - 7/5/25
4. The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer - 4 Stars - 7/10/25
5. The Poppy Fields - Nikki Erlick - 5 Stars - 7/11/25
6. Summer of '69 - Elin Hilderbrand - 4 Stars - 7/15/25
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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
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