Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

A spot to track your reading for the read-a-thon! Whether you're doing the team challenge, the individual challenge, both or neither, feel free to track your progress here!

Fall 25 Read-a-Thon: Individual Challenge
September 6 to 14, 2025

Each prompt can only be used once for the raffle. You can double up for your own joy but you have to have 4 different prompts to be counted. Books need to be at least 100 pages long, except for graphic novels which need to be at least 200 pages. For audiobooks, the printed version of the book will be used to check length. Picture books or other books that are majority illustrations can’t be counted. The book must be read during the read-a-thon: September 6 - 14. Books started before Sept 6 must have at least 100 pages left. Since the read-a-thon goes until whenever you go to bed on Sept 14, and that is definitionally different for everyone, entries can be submitted through Sept 15. The raffle draw will occur on Sept 16.

Raffle submission

⬜College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
The Library at Hellebore
(The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted, academy for monsters)
⬜Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
The Butcher of the Forest
✅Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Orbital
(currently 117,112 ratings)
⬜Get Married: A book with more than one author
Uzumaki by Junji Ito, English translation by Yuji Oniki
⬜Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Foreclosure Gothic
✅Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
But Not Too Bold
(view spoiler)["The Capricious House, or Casa Caprichosa, as Torroella i Fajó named it, became a regional landmark, partially hidden by the large field of poppies that surrounded it. It was near many villages, and everyone knew that the person who lived there was as wealthy as she was solitary, but they were partially wrong in their assessments. The owner was not a person. And she was not solitary—she was hiding." (hide spoiler)]
🔻Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
The Woman in the Library
✅Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
(151 pages)
✅Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
The River Has Roots
✅Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
(view spoiler)[(birth, adoption x2, relocation to a new country x3, marriage) (hide spoiler)]
⬜Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
Insectopolis: A Natural History
⬜LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
Lucky Day

Well, that's my next week's reading sorted LOL.

5/4

The Prompts

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author - The Big Cat Nap
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed - Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change - Finding Grace
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

Readathon September 6-14 2025
We are taking a stroll around the Game of Life board for this Individual Challenge! And it comes with a prize: an entry to win the ability to create a prompt for the 2026 ATY Challenge.*

Completed
✅Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah, 9/7/25 - Midlife crisis or LIFE tile
✅Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 9/9/25 - wealthy character
✅Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha by Dorothy Gilman - 9/10/25 - borrowed
✅Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - 9/12/25 -
✅Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister - 9/14/25



The Prompts

A.College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
B.Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
C.Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
The Little Prince
D. Get Married: A book with more than one author
✅E. Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover -
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
✅F. Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character -
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✅G. Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha by Dorothy Gilman
H. Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
✅I. Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
✅J. Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change -
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
🔅K. Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
🔆L. LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
✔️Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah

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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
History of the Rain by Niall Williams - 12 - new to me author

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To be eligible for the raffle entry, you need to complete 4 of the prompts. You can do more for your own personal happiness, but you will only get 1 entry. When you're ready to submit your entry, go over to the Completion Thread (here). For rules and FAQs, see the next posts.

*For the winner of the raffle, as always, the prompt choice is subject to the mods' approval. For example, the prompt can’t be the same or extremely similar to one already voted in and it must not be something that’s impossible for some readers to complete. If the winner is unresponsive to the message sent from the mods, there will be a redraw.

RAFFLE RULES

1. You can only use one prompt per book, no double dipping.
2. Each prompt can only be used once for the raffle. You can double up for your own joy but you have to have 4 different prompts to be counted.
3. You need a minimum of 4 completed prompts to earn an entry.
4. Only one entry per person.
5. Books need to be at least 100 pages long, except for graphic novels which need to be at least 200 pages. For audiobooks, the printed version of the book will be used to check length.
6. Picture books or other books that are majority illustrations can’t be counted.
7. The book must be read during the read-a-thon: September 6 - 14. Books started before Sept 6 must have at least 100 pages left.

The Prompts

Books I’ve finished will get a ✅

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
✅ Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 295 pages, start page 17
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
✅ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 290 pages, start p 169
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
✅ Code Name Verity
452 pages
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Braving the Wilderness 197 pages
✅ Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Other Birds
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
✅ The Woman in Me 288 pgs
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
The Day the Falls Stood Still 307 pages


Completed: 4/4

Saving my spot here to come back to - hoping this read-a-thon gets me reading!

The Game of Life!
✅ - finished 🟦- Currently reading
4/4 finished 9/10/25

The Prompts

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting

Career: A book with a job or profession in the title

Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby [212,676]

Get Married: A book with more than one author

Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
✅Dominicana - Angie Cruz


Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
✅All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews

Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
✅The Price of Salt - Claire Morgan (pseud. for Patricia Highsmith)

Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
✅Universality - Natasha Brown [152p]

Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
✅The Lonely Hearts Book Club - Lucy Gilmore [starting at p. 214]

Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
✅Memorial Days - Geraldine Brooks [death of a spouse]

Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
🟦Woman, Life, Freedom - Marjane Satrapi

LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
✅The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Deesha Philyaw

DAILY TRACKING:
Saturday, 9/6: 138 pages + 4 audio hours
Sunday, 9/7: 54 pages + 7.7 audio hours
Monday, 9/8: 81 pages + 4 audio hours
Tuesday, 9/9: 58 pages + 7 audio hours
Wednesday, 9/10: 94 pages + 4.9 audio hours
Thursday, 9/11: 100 pages + 2.1 audio hours
Friday, 9/12: 112 pages + 3.3 audio hours
Saturday, 9/13: 145 pages + 5.2 audio hours
Sunday, 9/14: 60 pages + 5.1 audio hours

Total Pages Read: 842 pages
Total Audio Hours: 43.3 audio hours

COMPLETED - Individual and Team Challenges:


Team Challenge Prompts
Childhood
A book with a bright colored cover
A book with a child as a major character
A book whose title includes the letter A, B, and C
A book related to a fairy tale, myth or legend
A book featuring a game or sport
A book by a debut author
A book with a main page genre of Child or Children
A book by an author who was once a child (*wink wink*)

Adolescence
A coming of age book
✅Dominicana - Angie Cruz
A romance
A book featuring a group of friends
A book where someone leaves home
✅The Price of Salt - Claire Morgan (pseud. for Patricia Highsmith)
A book with scenes in a school or college
A book with a pink cover
A book by an author whose initials are found in HIGH SCHOOL
A book with a rebellion

Adulthood
A book set in a workplace
A book where someone gets married
A book where money is a concern
A book with a house on the cover
A book where a child is born
A book with a green cover
A book by an author who has written 5+ books
A book featuring a dinner party

Middle Age
A book where someone changes jobs
✅The Lonely Hearts Book Club - Lucy Gilmore
A book that includes family problems
✅Memorial Days - Geraldine Brooks
A book featuring a professional (doctor, lawyer, scientist, etc.)
✅Universality - Natasha Brown
A book where a relationship ends
A book where a character achieves success
✅The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
A book where a character travels
A book whose title starts with a letter in ADULT
A book with an orange or red cover

Older Age
A book featuring a character over 65 years old
A book where someone deals with a death
A book you have been wanting to read for a long time
✅All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews
A classic
✅The Birds - Aristophanes
A book with a gray or white cover
The most recent book an author has published
The first book a prolific author (10+ books) had published

September 6, 2025 - September 14, 2025

4/4




✅Career: A book with a job or profession in the title The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis
✅Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads The Hours by Michael Cunningham
✅Taxes Due: A book you borrowed The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
✅Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

Andrea's Fall Individual Read-a-thon

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads- Say You'll Remember Me
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover- Abuela, Don't Forget Me
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character- A Game of Noctis
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed- Klara and the Sun
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count- The Wedding
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author- The South
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change- What Will People Think?
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book- Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE- Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

🍂 Roxana's Fall Individual Readathon 🍂
September 6 - 14, 2025

7/4

✔️ College: a book that takes place in an educational setting: A Deadly Education
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
✔️ Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads: If We Were Villains
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
✔️ Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character: Daisy Miller, a Comedy in Three Acts
✔️ Taxes Due: A book you borrowed: Hickory Dickory Dock
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
✔️ Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change: The Graceview Patient
✔️ Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book: Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
✔️ LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE: Flawless Girls

🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂

Plans/TBR

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting: A Deadly Education
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title: The Writers' Retreat
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads: If We Were Villains
Get Married: A book with more than one author: These Dreaming Spires: A Dark Academia Anthology
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover: Ink Ribbon Red
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character: The Belles
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed: Intermezzo
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count: Sunbirth
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author: Daedalus Is Dead or The Belles
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change: House of Beth
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book: Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Puzzles and Games of the Broadway Legend
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE: Flawless Girls

The Prompts

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
The Examiner finished 9/9/25

Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading finished 6/9/25

Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
James finished 8/9/25

Get Married: A book with more than one author

Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover

Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character


Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer finished 10/9/25

Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count

Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews finished 14/9/25

Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
The vaster wilds finished 7/9/25


Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book

LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

We are taking a stroll around the Game of Life board for this Individual Challenge!

The Prompts: FINISHED 5

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character

√Taxes Due: A book you borrowed (library)
The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter

√Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Shaman by Noah Gordon

√Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel by Rhonda McKnight

√Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
The Guncle by Steven Rowley

√Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery

LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

This is my first read-a-thon! So ready to focus and make up for the time I lost reading Moby Dick. I have 3 books in process but they're just started. I'm a slow reader but I'm also very goal orientated, so let's see how this goes !

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 9 hr 53 min COMPLETED
Get Married: A book with more than one author Three Apples Fell From the Sky by Narine Abgaryan, translated by Lisa Hayden)--120 pages left. COMPLETED
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover Kooky Spooky Love COMPLETED
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed Kiss Curse 8 hours COMPLETED
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author The Heavens 272 pp COMPLETED
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change The Names 9.4 hours COMPLETED
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 Audio- 8 hours left -- COMPLETED
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

JennH's Tracking Post


The Prompts

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Key Player by Kelly Yang 9/14/25

Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
The Medical Examiner by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 9/11/25

Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Tokyo Ghoul, Tome 1 by Sui Ishida 9/8/25

Get Married: A book with more than one author
The 24th Hour by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 9/10/25

Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Shot Through the Book by Eva Gates 9/11/25


Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo 9/6/25

Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire 9/9/25

Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 9/8/25 - 352 pages

Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Nimona by N.D. Stevenson 9/8/25

Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Chemistry by Weike Wang 9/7/25

Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell 9/12/25

LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano 9/8/25

CURRENTLY READING:


DAILY TRACKING:
Saturday, 9/6: 142 pages + 5 audio hours
Sunday, 9/7: 154 pages + 6.5 audio hours
Monday, 9/8: 739 pages + 8.5 audio hours
Tuesday, 9/9: 149 pages + 9.75 audio hours
Wednesday, 9/10: 183 pages + 7 audio hours
Thursday, 9/11: 189 pages + 4.25 audio hours
Friday, 9/12: 60 pages + 3.75 audio hours
Saturday, 9/13: 168 pages + 5.5 audio hours
Sunday, 9/14: 901 pages + 6.25 audio hours
Total Pages Read: 2,685 pages
Total Audio Hours: 56.5 audio hours

COMPLETED:

Jess' Tracking Post
I am gonna put both Individual and Group Books here.

TBR


CURRENTLY READING:


INDIVIDUAL
The Prompts

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Picture Day

Career: A book with a job or profession in the title

Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
The Great Believers

Get Married: A book with more than one author

Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover

Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character

Taxes Due: A book you borrowed

Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Drafted: An Illustrated Memoir of a Veteran’s Service During the War in Vietnam

Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Raiders of the Lost Heart

Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Murder by Cheesecake (wedding)

Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
Sticky Notes: Memorable Lessons from Ordinary Moments

LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

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GROUP
Childhood
A book with a bright colored cover
Sticky Notes: Memorable Lessons from Ordinary Moments
A book by an author who used to be a child
Drafted: An Illustrated Memoir of a Veteran’s Service During the War in Vietnam

Adulthood
A book set in a workplace
Sheets

Middle Age
A book with an orange or red cover
Picture Day

Older Age
A book featuring a character over 65yo
Murder by Cheesecake
A book where someone deals with death
The Great Believers


DAILY TRACKING:
Saturday, 9/6: 189 pages + 4h20m - audio hours
Sunday, 9/7: 319 pages + 2h16m - audio hours
Monday, 9/8: 99 pages + 3h39m - audio hours
Tuesday, 9/9: 489 pages + 4h36m - audio hours
Wednesday, 9/10: 135 pages + 3h9m - audio hours
Thursday, 9/11: 20 pages + 3h4m - audio hours
Friday, 9/12: 64 pages + 4h47m - audio hours
Saturday, 9/13: 77 pages + 56m - audio hours
Sunday, 9/14: 160 pages + 1h52m - audio hours

Total Pages Read: 1552 pages
Total Audio Hours: 28h 41m - audio hours

COMPLETED:
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FINISHED
PAY DAY:
MIDLIFE CRISIS:
SPEEDING TICKET:
INVEST IN STOCK:
GET MARRIED:

INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE
College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

CURRENTLY READING



DAILY TRACKING:
Saturday, 9/6: The Thursday Murder Club 182p
Sunday, 9/7: The Thursday Murder Club 200p; Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America, 50p; The Young Colonists / A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars , 37p
Monday, 9/8: The Young Colonists / A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars, 213p
Tuesday, 9/9: Cahokia Jazz, 39p; Magic Rises Dramatized Adaptation , 2hr
Wednesday, 9/10: Cahokia Jazz, 200p
Thursday, 9/11: Cahokia Jazz, 216p
Friday, 9/12: Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, 132p
Saturday, 9/13: Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, 83p; Magic Rises Dramatized Adaptation , 3.5hr
Sunday, 9/14: Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, 185p; Magic Rises Dramatized Adaptation , 4.5hr

Total Pages Read: 1537p
Total Audio Hours: 10hr

TBR

Readathon tracking:

Individual Challenge:
☐College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
☐Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
☑ Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads - The Wild Robot by Peter Brown | ✭✭✭✭✭ on 9/6/25
☐Get Married: A book with more than one author
☐Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
☐Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
☐Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
☐Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
☐Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
☑ Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei | ✭✭✭✭✩ on 9/7/25
☑ Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green | ✭✭✭✩✩ on 9/12/25
☑ LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - Peril at End House by Agatha Christie | ✭✭✭✭✩ on 9/8/25

Completed: 4/4

DAILY TRACKING:
Saturday, 9/6: 277 pages (The Wild Robot), 3 pages (Peril at End House)
Sunday, 9/7: 204 pages (They Called Us Enemy), 75 pages (Peril at End House)
Monday, 9/8: 148 pages (Peril at End House)
Tuesday, 9/9: 149 pages (The Backyard Ghost)
Wednesday, 9/10: 15 pages (Everything Is Tuberculosis)
Thursday, 9/11: 179 pages (Everything Is Tuberculosis)
Friday, 9/12: 306 pages (The Amaranth Enchantment)
Saturday, 9/13: 60 pages (Lovely War)
Sunday, 9/14: 391 pages (Lovely War), 90 pages (The Scattered Bones)
TOTAL: 1897 pages and 7 books

Read:

Read a thon 6-14 Sep 2025

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
❓ Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
❓ Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
❓ LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting Never Saw Me Coming
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE


Saturday, 9/6: The Winter Garden 30 minutes
Never Saw Me Coming 17 pages

Sunday, 9/7: Nada

Monday, 9/8: See You When the Snow Falls 62 pages
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu 34 pages

Tuesday, 9/9: Never Saw Me Coming75 pages

Wednesday, 9/10: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu 33 pages
The Winter Garden 47 minutes

Thursday, 9/11: Never Saw Me Coming 153 pages FINISHED

Friday, 9/12:
Saturday, 9/13:
Sunday, 9/14:

Saturday, 9/6: 214pg
Sunday, 9/7: 146 + 102 = 248pg
Monday, 9/8: 146 + 262 = 408pg
Tuesday, 9/9: 208+44 = 252pg
Wednesday, 9/10: 42 + 235 = 277pg
Thursday, 9/11: 226pg
Friday, 9/12: 169pg
Saturday, 9/13: 70pg
Sunday, 9/14: 70pg

Starting at:
The Cult of Trump Page 20 of 336pg

Prompts:
College: A book that takes place in an educational setting - Flower Power Trip, James J Cudney - 10/09/25 (Set on a college campus.)
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title - Maid of Murder, Amanda Flower - 10/09/25 (Maid in the title.)
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed - Murder at Pope Investigations, Kathi Daley - 06/09/25 (kindle unlimited)
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - Raven Black, Ann Cleeves - 08/09/25 (I've seen the Vera and Shetland shows, but this was the first book I'd read by the author.)
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book - Cult of Trump
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire - 07/09/25

Books completed:
Murder at Pope Investigations 214pg
Lost in the Moment and Found 146pg
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known 146pg
Raven Black 262pg during the readathon
Flower Power Trip 250pg
Maid of Murder 235pg
A Bird in the Hand 226pg
A Mind To Murder 169pg during the readathon

Completed - 6

Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads - 357000 ratings
Maybe in Another Life, Taylor Jenkins Reid | 9/11

Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character - Sir Thomas
Dearest Mary Jane, Betty Neels | 9/9

Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Obsession, Debra Webb | 9/13

Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Badlands, C.J. Box | 9/8

Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change - move, new position
Hidden Nature, Nora Roberts | 9/6

LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
Leverage in Death, J.D. Robb | 9/7

✓College: a book that takes place in an educational setting -- Bunny
✓Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads -- Farenheit 451
✓ Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover -- Black Rabbit Hall
✓Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author -- Hospital


Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

Kendra's Tracking Post

TBR


Didn't Finish


Daily Tracking
Saturday: 384 pages total.
Rainy Day Friends - 384 pages read.
Sunday: 563 pages total.
The Lemon Sisters - 453 pages read.
Cascade Failure - 110 pages read.
Monday: 318 pages total.
Goblins in the Castle - 224 pages read.
Cascade Failure - 94 pages read.
Tuesday: 303 pages total.
Artificial Condition Dramatized Adaptation - 2.75 hours listened to (158 pages read).
Cascade Failure - 36 pages read.
Almost Just Friends - 109 pages read.
Wednesday: 534 pages total.
Almost Just Friends - 275 pages read.
Once Smitten, Twice Shy - 123 pages read.
Thursday: 267 pages total.
Once Smitten, Twice Shy - 261 pages read.
Chosen by a Horse - 6 pages read.
Friday: 417 pages total.
Cascade Failure - 167 pages read.
Chosen by a Horse - 250 pages read.
Saturday: 334 pages total.
Something Like Home - 256 pages read.
Last Chance to Save the World - 55 pages read.
Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop - 23 pages read.
Sunday: 318 pages total.
Last Chance to Save the World - 121 pages read.
Akia: The Other Side - 85 pages read.
Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop - 112 pages read.

3 302 pages total.

Finished


Individual Challenge
⬜College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
⬜Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
⬜Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
⬜Get Married: A book with more than one author
⬜Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
✅Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis - Sept. 14th
✅Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Artificial Condition Dramatized Adaptation by Martha Wells - Sept. 9th
✅Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango - Sept. 13th
✅Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas - Sept. 12th
✅Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis - Sept. 6th
✅Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards - Sept. 12th
✅LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
The Lemon Sisters by Jill Shalvis - Sept. 7th

Dixie's Individual Fall Read-a-Thon 9/13/25 4/4 + 4 more
The Prompts COMPLETED!

√College: a book that takes place in an educational setting Tales from a Village School
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
√Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads Cannery Row {150,801 ratings}
Get Married: A book with more than one author
√Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
√Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character 4-H filly (Mr. Kelham)
√Taxes Due: A book you borrowed Miss Iceland
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
√Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author Land of Love and Ruins
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
√Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World
√LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE Ellen Tebbits

Sheyanne C.'s Individual Fall 2025 Read-A-Thon

1. College: a book that takes place in an educational setting

2. Career: A book with a job or profession in the title

✅3. Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Read 9-1-25 - 9-7-25)

4. Get Married: A book with more than one author

✅5. Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Stay Close by Harlan Coben (Read 9-4-25 - 9-7-25)

✅6. Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Read 9-12-25 - 9-14-25)

✅7. Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
A Tap on the Window by Linwood Barclay (Read 9-10-25 - 9-14-25)

8. Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count

✅9. Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli (Read 9-7-25 - 9-10-25)

✅10. Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston (Read 9-8-25 - 9-9-25)

✅11. Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen (Read 9-12-25 - 9-12-25)

12. LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

7/12

Game of life prompts


✅Career: A book with a job or profession in the title - The Housekeeper and the Professor - (translated Asian novel)

✅Get Married: A book with more than one author - The Honeymoon Crashers by Christina Lauren

✅Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

✅Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change - He Gets That From Me by Jacqueline Friedland (#26 common noun in authors name)

✅LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra (#5 Weird title)

*For the winner of the raffle, as always, the prompt choice is subject to the mods' approval. For example, the prompt can’t be the same or extremely similar to one already voted in and it must not be something that’s impossible for some readers to complete. If the winner is unresponsive to the message sent from the mods, there will be a redraw.

The Prompts

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
✔︎Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover: The Bingo Palace
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
✔︎Taxes Due: A book you borrowed: Tell Me Everything
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
✔︎Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change: Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
✔︎LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

6 September: 110 pp
7 September: 256 pp
8 September: 193 pp
9 September: 179 pp
10 September: 172 pp
11 September: 221 pp
12 September: 100 pp
13 September: 22 pp
14 September:

Currently Reading:
Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

MY PROGRESS POST


STARTING POINT
- Fuego - at 40%
- Un dueto oscuro - on pag. 42
- The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 3 - on chap 242

CURRENTLY READING:
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READING TRACKER:
- September 06: 10 hours + 15 pag.
- September 07: 276 (graphic novel) + 130 pages
- September 08: 158 pages + 4 hours
- September 09: 178 pages + 3 hours 23 min
- September 10: 472 (manga) + 4 hours 43 min + 88 pages
- September 11: 72 pages + 4 hours 12 min
- September 12: 20 pages + 4 hours
- September 13: 173 pages
- September 14: 4 hour 24 min

TOTAL PAGE COUNT: 834 pages (novel) + 748 (graphic novel/manga)
TOTAL AUDIO HOURS: 34,70 hours
TOTAL BOOK COUNT: 8

BOOKS FINISHED:



INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE

■ College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Babel: Una historia arcana - 700 pages - 09/11
■ Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
El príncipe y la modista - 276 pages - 09/07
■ Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Lugar equivocado, momento equivocado - 403 pages - 09/13
□ Get Married: A book with more than one author
□ Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
■ Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
La Princesa de Kapurthala - 200 pages - 09/14
■ Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Maximum Berserk 2 - 472 pages - 09/10
□ Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
□ Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
■ Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Fuego - (started on 40%) 816 pages - 09/06
■ Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
La mujer que sabe volar - 3hrs 24 min - 09/14
□ LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

Prompts

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character - Dominion
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed - When Among Crows
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - Nothing Ever Happens Here

The Prompts
4/4

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover - Mayhem Mansion, Melanie Jackson
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character - The Muscovy Chain, John Pilkington
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - The Homesman, Glendon Swarthout
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - The Leper of Saint Giles, Ellis Peters

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed - Player Piano
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - The Inmate by Freida McFadden

Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect - 3:25 of 8:27
The Covenant of Water - starts at p17

Judy’s readathon
September 6-14

✅No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson 4 stars, September 8, 2025

The Prompts

College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
✴️Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book - No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris, 4 stars
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE

Deborah R

Taxes Due: A book you borrowed Infinite Archive
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count Enchanted Greenhouse
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book Consider This
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE Elvis in Vegas

Individual Readathon
Sep 6 - Sep 14

1. Taxes Due: A book you borrowed: from granddaughter: Woof by Spencer Quinn

2. Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author: Olga Berrocal Essex: Delia's Way

3. Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change: from Argentine barrio high school student to women's professional soccer league in USA: Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez

4. LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE: L for Lay: A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh