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October 2025 Stand Alone
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Single: Read 3-4 books
Read: 4
1. Hidden Nature Nora Roberts 10/2/25
2. The Better Sister Alafair Burke 10/15/25
3. Beach House Rules Kristy Woodson Harvey 10/20/25
4. Party of Liars Kelsey Cox 10/28/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Completed
I'm in for ... Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Haunting of Hill House - 10/1/25
2. Behind Closed Doors - 10/4/25
3. The Corrections - 10/6/25
4. Things You Won't Say - 10/8/25
5. The German Wife - 10/9/25
6. The Giver - 10/10/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 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
6/5-6 Completed. Finish
1.All the Sinners Bleed-S.A. Cosby 10/06/25
2.Under Locke-Mariana Zapata 10/13/25
3.I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter-Erika L. Sánchez 10/14/25
4.My Sister, the Serial Killer-Oyinkan Braithwaite 10/18/25
5.My Life in Shambles-Karina Halle 10/19/25
6.Batista Unleashed-Dave Bautista 10/20/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Read:
Stand AloneOctober 2025
5/5+
1. Uprooted by Andrea Wiseman 10/10/25
2. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 10/18/25
3. Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen 10/21/25
4. The Hub by Nicola May 10/30/25
5. The Measure by Nikki Erlick 10/31/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Duel by Jessixa Bagley - Oct. 1
2. Cassi and the House of Memories by Dean Stuart - Oct. 2
3. She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena - Oct. 4
4. My Trip with Drip: A Graphic Novel by Josephine Mark - Oct. 4
5. How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger - Oct. 5
6. Bake Sale by Sara Varon - Oct. 6
FINISHED! October Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: Oct 1, 2025 - Oct 31, 2025
(10/06/25)
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
6/5-6
1. The Phoenix Pencil Company Allison King 10/01/25
2. Ghosts Dolly Alderton 10/02/25
3. To the Moon and Back Eliana Ramage 10/02/25
4. Zara Hossain Is Here Sabina Khan 10/03/25
5. The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post Allison Pataki 10/05/25
6. Maid for Each Other Lynn Painter 10/06/25
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Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 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
1. The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson 3 October 2026 ★★★★★
2. A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher 12 October 2025 ★★★★★
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Finished
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
And They Were Roommates|Page Powars|15/10/25
How to Read a Poem: A practical guide which will open your eyes – and touch your heart|Malcom Hebron|29/10/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/5-6
1. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle 10/1/25
2. Black Cloud Rising - David Wright Faladé 10/2/25
3. Learning to Speak Southern - Lindsey Rogers Cook 10/2/25
4. A Simple Lie - Mary Bush 10/2/25
5. First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston 10/3/25
6. Grown - Tiffany D. Jackson 10/4/25
Solitary 5-61. Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl 9 Oct
2. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt 12 Oct
3. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton 12 Oct
4. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore Evan Friss 18 Oct
5. Mansfield Park Jane Austen 25 Oct
6. Knickerbocker's History of New York Washington Irving 25 Oct
Duration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Progress: 1/3
currently reading:
Stand Alone:
Verbrechen by Ferdinand von Schirach (25/10/16)
other:
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1. Peach Cobbler and Secrets: A Delicious Cozy Mystery by LILLIAN MATTHEWS 10/31/2025
October | Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
✳️Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Read:
1. The Measure by Nikki Erlick Read 10/4/25
2.The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler Read 10/4/25
3.Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind... by Louie Giglio. Read 10/6/25
4.The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom 10/6/25
5.Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone by Phaedra Patrick. Read 10/9/25
6. The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solo: Read 1-2 books
1) The Murders at Fleat House - Lucinda Riley 06/10/25
2) Desperation - Stephen King 13/10/25
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Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeOctober 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
6 of 5-6 Complete
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng - 4.5 Stars - 10/6/25
2. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - 4 Stars - 10/8/25
3. Great Big Beautiful Life - Emily Henry - 4 Stars - 10/11/25
4. Hello Stranger - Katherine Center - 4 Stars - 10/14/25
5. The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court - Michelle Moran - 4 Stars - 10/16/25
6. Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark T. Sullivan - 3 Stars - 10/22/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Beautiful Ugly | Alice Feeney | 10.01
2. Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season | Norman Partridge | 10.02
3. Sour Apples: A Novel for Those Who Hate to Read | Paul Jantzen | 10.03
4. None Left to Tell | Noelle W. Ihli | 10.04
5. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive | Stephanie Land | 10.05
6. Intercepts | T.J. Payne | 10.06
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Goal: 4/6
Single: Read 3-4 books
• Direct Descendant - Tanya Huff - 10/17/25
• Voice Like a Hyacinth - Mallory Pearson - 10/26/25
• Tom Lake - Ann Patchett - 10/29/25
• Blood on Her Tongue - Johanna van Veen - 10/31/25
October | Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Read:
1.The Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden - 10/01
2. The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Stories by Terry Pratchett - 10/06
3. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah - 10/09
4. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - 10/10
5. All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor by Donald Stratton - 10/24
6. Refugee by Alan Gratz - 10/28
7. Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin - 10/31
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Single: Read 3-4 Books
1. The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner 10.15.25
2. Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson 10.21.25
3. Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney 10.28.25
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Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Goal: 0/6
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Plan (Solitary):
All Philosophy
1. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
2. Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism: Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart by Radmila Moacanin
3. The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
4. This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
5. Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
6. Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions by Martha C. Nussbaum [This is the big one -- it will take all month!]
October Stand Alone Duration: Oct. 1st, 2025 - Oct. 31st, 2025
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
5/6
1. Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell by Gabe Henry - Oct. 9th
2. Babe by Dick King-Smith - Oct. 14th
3. The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher - Oct. 24th
4. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams - Oct. 26th
5. Tall Water by S.J. Sindu - Oct. 28th
Solo: Read 1-2 booksSingle: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
2.
FINISHED! Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Duel by Jessixa Bagley - Oct. 1
2. Cassi and the House of Memories by Dean Stuart - Oct. 2
3. She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena - Oct. 4
4. My Trip with Drip: A Graphic Novel by Josephine Mark - Oct. 4
5. How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger - Oct. 5
6. Bake Sale by Sara Varon - Oct. 6
Completed Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Beautiful Ugly | Alice Feeney | 10.01
2. Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season | Norman Partridge | 10.02
3. Sour Apples: A Novel for Those Who Hate to Read | Paul Jantzen | 10.03
4. None Left to Tell | Noelle W. Ihli | 10.04
5. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive | Stephanie Land | 10.05
6. Intercepts | T.J. Payne | 10.06
COMPLETED 10.09.25Stand Alone Monthly Challenge: 6/5+
Duration: October 1, 2025 - October 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. The Academy | Elin Hilderbrand | 10.03.25
🐦⬛ 2. The People We Keep | Allison Larkin | 10.03.25
🐦⬛ 3. Midnight at the Blackbird Café | Heather Webber | 10.07.25
🐦⬛ 4. Hello Beautiful | Ann Napolitano | 10.08.25
🐦⬛ 5. The Girls Who Grew Big | Leila Mottley | 10.08.25
🐦⬛ 6. This Spells Love | Kate Robb | 10.09.25
CompletedStand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
I'm in for ... Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Haunting of Hill House - 10/1/25
2. Behind Closed Doors - 10/4/25
3. The Corrections - 10/6/25
4. Things You Won't Say - 10/8/25
5. The German Wife - 10/9/25
6. The Giver - 10/10/25
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Although The Giver is not a Stand Alone.
COMPLETION POSTOctober | Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
✳️Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Read:
1. The Measure by Nikki Erlick Read 10/4/25
2.The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler Read 10/4/25
3.Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind... by Louie Giglio. Read 10/6/25
4.The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom 10/6/25
5.Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone by Phaedra Patrick. Read 10/9/25
6. The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict Read 10/11/25
~~~ Complete ~~~Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
6 of 5-6 Complete
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng - 4.5 Stars - 10/6/25
2. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - 4 Stars - 10/8/25
3. Great Big Beautiful Life - Emily Henry - 4 Stars - 10/11/25
4. Hello Stranger - Katherine Center - 4 Stars - 10/14/25
5. The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court - Michelle Moran - 4 Stars - 10/16/25
6. Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark T. Sullivan - 3 Stars - 10/22/25
FINISHEDStand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Completed: 6/5-6
1. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle 10/1/25
2. Black Cloud Rising - David Wright Faladé 10/2/25
3. Learning to Speak Southern - Lindsey Rogers Cook 10/2/25
4. A Simple Lie - Mary Bush 10/2/25
5. First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston 10/3/25
6. Grown - Tiffany D. Jackson 10/4/25
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 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
6/5-6 Completed. Finish
1.All the Sinners Bleed-S.A. Cosby 10/06/25
2.Under Locke-Mariana Zapata 10/13/25
3.I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter-Erika L. Sánchez 10/14/25
4.My Sister, the Serial Killer-Oyinkan Braithwaite 10/18/25
5.My Life in Shambles-Karina Halle 10/19/25
6.Batista Unleashed-Dave Bautista 10/20/25
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FINISHED! October Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: Oct 1, 2025 - Oct 31, 2025
(10/06/25)
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
6/5-6
1. The Phoenix Pencil Company Allison King 10/01/25
2. Ghosts Dolly Alderton 10/02/25
3. To the Moon and Back Eliana Ramage 10/02/25
4. Zara Hossain Is Here Sabina Khan 10/03/25
5. The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post Allison Pataki 10/05/25
6. Maid for Each Other Lynn Painter 10/06/25
Stand Alone Monthly Challenge - FinishedDuration: October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Solo: Read 1-2 books
1) The Murders at Fleat House - Lucinda Riley 06/10/25
2) Desperation - Stephen King 13/10/25
COMPLETED:Solitary 5-6
1. Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl 9 Oct
2. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt 12 Oct
3. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton 12 Oct
4. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore Evan Friss 18 Oct
5. Mansfield Park Jane Austen 25 Oct
6. Knickerbocker's History of New York Washington Irving 25 Oct
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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: October 1, 2025 - October 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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