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5.2 Trashlands
✔5.3 Snow
✔5.5 Till Murder Do Us Part
5.6 Murder on the Red River
5.7 You Can Trust Me
✔5.8 Christmas Revenge
5.9 The Psychopath Next Door
5.10 Kitty in the Underworld
10.1 Dark Roads
✔10.2 Beartown
✔10.3 The Christmas Joy Ride
10.4 Anatomy of an Alibi
10.5 The Bitter End Birding Society
10.6 Catch Your Death
✔10.7 25 Days
10.8 The First Time I Saw Him
10.9 Still Alice
✔10.10 Deadly Decorations
✔15.1 The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
✔Shiver
✔15.2 Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping On a Dead Man
✔A Grim Reaper's Guide to Cheating Death
✔15.3 The 11th Hour Motel
✔15.4Missing in Flight
15.5A Box Full of Darkness
✔15.6 Automatic Noodle
✔15.7 The Stranger at No. 6
15.8 The New Year's Party
15.9 What She Saw
15.10 The Unquiet Bones
✔20.1 Wild Dark Shore
✔20.2 The Christmas Guest
✔20.3 Murder in Christmas River
✔20.4 The Murder Before Christmas
✔20.5 The Gallagher Place
20.6 Making Friends Can Be Murder
20.7 When I Kill You
✔20.8 The Wild Card: A Novel
✔20.9 Moon of the Crusted Snow
20.10 The Briar Club
25.1 The Last Anniversary
The Fifth Letter
✔25.2 Eggnog, Extortion, & Evergreens
✔Mint to Be
25.3 Friends and Liars
✔Starry Night
✔25.4 A Timeless Christmas
✔The Current
✔25.5 Nowhere to Hide
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
✔25.6 12 Ways to Kill Your Family at Christmas
✔An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
✔25.7 Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon
✔Fire Mountain
✔25.8 Do Not Disturb
Tell Me What You Did
✔25.9 All Systems Red
✔Cruel Candy
25.10 Cold
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
✔30.1 A Quiet Retreat
Haven't Killed in Years
30.2 Prowl
Operation Kringle
30.3 How to Slay at Christmas
Miss Marley
✔30.4 One Snowy Day
✔I’ll Be Alone For Christmas
30.5 Things We Never Say
Like It Never Was
30.6 Dead of Winter
A Christmas To Die For
30.7 The Night Before Christmas
Silent Creek
✔Winter Challenge5.1 Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
5.2 Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
✔5.3 The Impossible Fortune
5.4 Ice Cold Malice
5.5 A Grave Robbery
5.6 The Mighty Red
✔5.7 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
5.8 The Hundred Loves of Juliet
5.9 Under the Stars
5.10
10.1 The Torso
10.2 The Graham Effect
10.3 Number the Stars
10.4 A Sinister Revenge
10.5 Good Girl Complex
10.6 Among the Ruins
10.7 The Names
10.8 More or Less Maddy
10.9 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
✔10.10 One Big Happy Family
15.1
✔1. Deception on His Mind
✔2. A Christmas in the Alps
15.2
✔1. The Three Lives of Cate Kay
✔2. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
✔15.3 2. The Children's Blizzard
15.4
✔1. The Windsor Knot
✔2. Blue Lightning
15.5 The Orchid House
15.6 The Kamogawa Food Detectives
✔15.7 107 Days
15.8 The Language of Secrets
✔15.9 Sleigh Bells Ring
15.10 On a Quiet Street
✔20.1 4. Old Scores
20.2 2. In a Dark, Dark Wood
20.3 1. Death in a Darkening Mist
✔20.4 3. Glory Be
✔20.5 2. Trick of the Eye
20.6 A. Lovely One: A Memoir
20.7 1. A Certain Appeal
20.8 1. Red Clocks
20.9 4. Austen at Sea
✔20.10 The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
25.1
✔Full Bloom
✔What Happened to the Bennetts
25.2
✔3. How to Solve Your Own Murder
✔4. A Five-Letter Word for Love
25.3
✔2. The Summer Pact
✔3. The Mistletoe Mystery
25.4
✔A. The Doorman
✔B. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
25.5
1. The Crescent Moon Tearoom
2. The Scapegoat
25.6
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
4. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
25.7
1. Can You Keep a Secret?
3. Murder Most English
25.8
2A. Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors
2B. The Cottingley Secret
25.9
1-1. Dragonflight
1-2. One Two Three
25.10
1. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
2. Buckeye
30.1
3. Stella Peabody's Wild Librarian Bakery and Bookstore: A Novel-in-Stories
✔4. The Air Raid Book Club
30.2
✔2. Dead Water
4. Black Diamond
30.3
✔2A. Christmastime Cowboy
✔5. Elizabeth of East Hampton
30.4
✔A California Christmas
✔Big Lies in a Small Town
30.5
✔1. The Star and the Shamrock
✔2. The Connellys of County Down
30.6
✔1. Weather Girl
✔5. Caution: Death at Work
30.7
✔1. Blood Is Blood
✔3. Knitty Gritty Murder
My Winter Reading Challenge Plan:5.1 The Therapist - B.A. Paris = AnTaRcTIc
5.2 Maya of the In-between - Sita Bennett = CLIMATE CHANGE
5.3
- Marissa Farrar = WOLF5.4 Cold Blooded Killer - Alex Pine = COLD
5.5 Murder in the Meadow - Faith Martin = Number 7 in the series
5.6 The Break - Katherena Vermette = MPG Indigenous
5.7 The Night Watcher - Tariq Ashkanani = chrisTmas cArol
5.8 The Seven: Eve Wren, Book 1 - Robyn Delvey= EVE
5.9
- Kate Storey = T M L5.10 The Book Club Killer - Ross Greenwood
10.1 The Ice Princess - Camilla Läckberg = SWEDEN
10.2 The Deal - Elle Kennedy = HOCKEY
10.3 Arctic Blood - James Raven = 181 pages
10.4 Enemies with Benefits - Roxie Noir = old New yeaR
10.5
- James Patterson = SUN10.6 Run For Your Life - C.M. Sutter = YOUR
10.7 When You Disappeared - John Marrs = NO L
10.8 The House of the Mosque - Kader Abdolah = FIRST PUBLISHED IN JANUARY
10.9 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot = PAGE 1
10.10 The Spiced Cocoa Café - Harper Graham = MPG HOLIDAY - MESSAGE 5 VERIFIED
15.1 BOOK 1: Falling Apart and Other Gifts from the Universe - Catherine Ryan Hyde = POLAR DESERT & What Happens in the Alps... - T.A. Williams = ALPS
15.2 BOOK 1: You Killed Me First - John Marrs = Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller NOMINEE & BOOK 2: Blast from the Past: DI Bob Willis, Book 2 - Damien Boyd = 6/1/2026
15.3 BOOK 1: Snowed in with the Billionaire - Lila Monroe = SNOWED IN & BOOK 2: Murder in the Mansion - Faith Martin = PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2008
15.4 BOOK 1
- Jack Jordan = https://labs.tineye.com/color/6fbbfd9... & BOOK 2
- Amy Corwin = Coca colA15.5 Hidden - Lucy Flood = LUCY
15.6
15.7 12 Ways to Kill Your Family at Christmas - Natasha Bache = 12
15.8 The Truth Never Spoken - Ambar Cordova = 4 WORDS
15.9
- Jessica Woodard = BELLS15.10 Quiet River - Natasha A. Salnikova = QUIET
20.1 Jar of Hearts - Jennifer Hillier = OPTION 4
20.2
- Stacy Green = OPTION 420.3
- Liz Eeles = OPTION 220.4 Corrupt - Penelope Douglas = OPTION 4 - Steamy Romance P1
20.5
- Robin Brande = OPTION 3 for CAT20.6 Life Is Short (No Pun Intended): Love, Laughter, and Learning to Enjoy Every Moment - Jennifer Arnold = OPTION 1 - MPG Memoir & MPG Autobiography
20.7
20.8
20.9 The Idaho Murders - James Patterson = OPTION 4
20.10 The Rose Code - Kate Quinn = GROUP READ
25.1
- Jesse Kellerman &
- Jonathan Kellerman25.2 A Throne of Shadows - Tessonja Odette = OPTION 3 - TOe pick & The Little Shop of Hidden Treasures - Holly Hepburn = OPTION 2 - LOOP - the Little shOP Of hidden treasures
25.4 The Preacher - Camilla Läckberg = OPTION 1 Sweden & The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese = OPTION 3 Page 2
25.5 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson P3 = OPTION 2 & The Serial Killer Next Door: Chilling true stories of the killers hidden among us - Emma Kenny = OPTION 1 - Double L & Double O & Double M & Double N
25.6 The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides = OPTION 3 & Dying Truth - Angela Marsons = OPTION 2 - ANGELA MARTIN
25.7
- Vicky Kaseorg = OPTION 2 & Black Heart - Anna-Lou Weatherley = OPTION 3 - Black Russian Terrier25.8 Good Spirits - B.K. Borison = OPTION 2B - MPG Fantasy & I Want It Now!: A Memoir of Life on the Set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Julie Dawn Cole = OPTION 1 - published in 2011
25.9
25.10 Hideaway - Penelope Douglas = OPTION 2 (542 pages) & Secrets at the Last House Before the Sea - Liz Eeles = OPTION 1 (365 pages)
30.1 The Storytellers - Sue Heath = OPTION 1 & The Lamplighter’s Bookshop - Sophie Austin = OPTION 3
30.2 The Midnight Hour - Eve Chase = OPTION 2 - arthur C, clarkE & Three Women Disappear: With bonus novel Come and Get Us - James Patterson = OPTION 4 - orbiT
30.3
30.4 Seven Days - Alex Lake = The 12 Days of Christmas by Straight No Chaser - DAYS & The Twelve Dates of Christmas - Jenny Bayliss = I Hate Christmas by Oscar the Grouch - CHRISTMAS
30.5
30.6 Silenced Girls - Roger Stelljes = OPTION 1 & Stone Cold Heart - Lisa Hughey = OPTION 3
30.7 A Summer Escape and Strawberry Cake at the Cosy Kettle - Liz Eeles = OPTION 1 - LittlE sweet boy & A Trusted Wife - Ella Swift = OPTION 2 - WIFE
30.8
30.9
30.10
50.1
Winter 2025 Reading Plan:Readerboard Name: ElaineL (check for verification)
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5 Point Tasks:
5.1- Tundra Types:
Read a book whose title has a word of at least 3 letters that can be made from one of the three types ALPINE or ARCTIC or ANTARCTIC
Required: State the word
Cross the Line (alpine - line)
Siren in the Rain (antarctic - rain)
5.2- Climate Change:
Read a book with an MPG of Climate Change or Environment (stand alone or embedded)
5.3 - Tundra Animals:
Read a book with one of these affected native animal on the cover: fox (red or arctic), polar bear, caribou (reindeer), wolf, geese, oxen, snowy owl, seal, walrus, narwhal
Required: Post the cover
5.4 - Ice Cold:
Read a book whose title (subtitles excluded) includes one of these words: snow, ice, icy, cold, cool, chill, freeze, freezing, frozen, frigid, arctic. Word must be stand alone and an exact match.
Snow White and the Seven Little Miners
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The Cold House
The Frozen People
Blood Beneath the Snow
Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
5.5 - Hurry Up, It's Freezing:
Read a book that is #6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 in a series.
Required: Series title and # must be listed on book's main page
Tied Over #6
Method Acting #7
Forbidden Puckboy #7
Murder at the Serpentine Bridge #6
5.6 Snowbound Voices:
Read a book by an Indigenous author or has MPG Indigenous
Required: If author's ethnicity is not obvious from author page, provide a reference.
5.7 - Bah- Humbug:
Read a book with a single author's first and last initals found in Christmas Carol
5.8 - Seeing is Beli-EVE-ing:
Read a book where "eve" can be found in a title (subtitle excluded) word or author name.
5.9 - Ten...Nine...Read!:
Read a book with a 3+ word title, where the first leter of each word is in REVERSE alphabetical order. (Example: Murder in Hospital)
5.10 - Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal:
Read a book of your choice that follows SRC rules
10 Point Tasks:
10.1 - Cold Climate:
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these locations: Canada, Russia, Greenland, Alaska, Norway, Finland, Sweden
Required: Provide a reference if the setting is not obvious from the Goodreads main page
10.2 - Cold Sports:
Read a book where hockey is essential to the story.
Required: Provide a reference if the setting is not obvious from the Goodreads main page.
10.3 - Cold Days:
Read a short book that is between 100-200 pp long
10.4 - Old New Year:
Read a book where a single author's first and last initials can be found in OLD NEW YEAR
10.5 - Makar Sakrati:
Read a book with a sun on the cover (photo or drawing, but the whole disc of the sun must be visible and recognizable as such)
Required: Post the cover
10.6 - New Beginnings:
Read a book with a word containing 4+ letters that can be spelled from ORGANIZE YOUR HOME
Required: State the word
Noel or A'phabet Day No "L" Day:
Read a book that has NO "L" in the title AND author name (subtitles may be ignored)
10.8 - Ratification Day:
Read a book first published in January of any year.
10.9 - Get Healthy:
Read a book from the first 25 pages of Healthy Books
10.10 - Holiday Season:
Read a book with MPG Holiday (stand alone or embedded)
15 Point Tasks:
15.1 - Polar to Peak:
Two book task
Book 1: Read a book where all the letters of Polar Desert can be found in the title/subtitle/author name.
Book 2: Read a book that is set at least 50% in one of these mountain ranges that have alpine tundra or set in "snowy mountain location"
North American Cordillera mountains, Appalachian mountains, the Alps, Pyrenees mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, Karakoram mountain range, the Andes, the Eastern Rift mountains, the Snowy Mountains, and the Scandinavian Mountains.
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
15.2 - Frostbitten Farwells & Snow-Dazed Starts:
Two book task
Book 1: Read a book that has been nominated for the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards
Required: State the category
Book 2: Read a book that has all the numbers of 2026 present somewhere in the first published date (monday, day, year - any combo)
15.3 - Blizzard Mode Activated:
Required: State the option
Option 1: Two Books
Book 1: Read a book set during a blizzard or being "snowed in" is part of the plot of the story.
Required: If it is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference
Book 2: Read a book first published in December, January, or February of any year
OR
Option 2: Read a single book that satisfies both criteria for option 1
15.4 - Frosty & Fizzy:
Required: State the option
Option 1: Two Books
Book 1: Read a book with a cover that is 50% red and/or white according to Tineye
Required: Post the cover
Book 2: Read a book with a single author's first and last initials found in Coca Cola (letters may only be used as often as they appear)
Option 2: Read a single book that satisfies both criteria for option 1
15.5 - Candle in the Polar Night:
Read a book with a single author's name is Lucy
15.6 - Cut the Noodles:
Read a book with noodles in a serving dish, plate, or bowl on the cover.
Required: Post the cover
(verify if takeout container counts as a serving dish in Death by Dumpling)
15.7 - Ho Ho Holy Digits:
Read a book with at least one numeric digit in the title (1, 2, 3, etc.)
Holiday Budget Who?:
Read a book with exactly 4 words in the title.
15.9 - Merry Thanksgiving, I Guess:
Read a book with a word of at least three letters from the lyrics of Jingle Bells found in the title (Excluding The, And)
Required: State the word
Hushed Snow:
Read a book with the word Quiet intact in the title.
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So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018
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5.2 - The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
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5.6 - The Berry Pickers
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10.2 - Indian Horse
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10.9 - man's srch fr meaning(9), pathogenesis(11), gift of fear(17), meditations(24),
Sacks: musicophilia(12), awakenings(13), an anthropologist on mars(19), mind's eye(25)
10.10 -
15.1 -
>> Bk1:
>> Bk2:
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>> Bk1: the river has roots, the dream hotel, The Bewitching
>> Bk2:
15.3 - The Sanatorium
15.4 - And Then There Were None
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15.6 - The Kamogawa Food Detectives, Automatic Noodle
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20.10 - Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
Winter Reads 2025Total points: 135
5.1 What We Can Know
5.2 Bewilderment
5.3 Cade
5.4 Snow Kissed
5.5 When He Was Wicked
5.6 The Peacekeeper
5.7 The Library of Fates
5.8 The Everlasting
5.9 The Kamogawa Food Detectives
5.10
10.1 Pick a Color
10.2 Top Shelf
10.3 Silver in the Wood
10.4 The Holiday Hookup List
10.5 Seascraper
10.6 To Clutch a Razor
✅ 10.7 Madison Square Murders
10.8 The Midnight Arrow
10.9 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
10.10 A Ferry Merry Christmas
15.1 A Psalm for the Wild-Built & The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
15.2 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World & The Vampire in the Potting Shed
15.3 The Dead of Winter
15.4 Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks
15.5 Sea of Tranquility
15.6 Automatic Noodle
15.7 4000 Wochen: Das Leben ist zu kurz für Zeitmanagement
15.8 Three Days in June
15.9 All The Sinners Bleed
15.10 Such Quiet Girls
20.1 Julie Chan Is Dead
20.2 Laura's Safe Haven
20.3 Cursed Cocktails
✅ 20.4 Romancing the Werewolf
✅ 20.5 The Sunny Side
20.6 Stay with Me
✅ 20.7 Liar City
✅ 20.8 What Comes of Attending the Commoners Ball
✅ 20.9 Copper Script
20.10 Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
25.1
25.2 How to Slay at Christmas (option 2) & Thornhedge (option 3)
25.3 Ghosted at christmas (option 3) & To Sway A Soul (option 1)
25.4 Small Things Like These (option c) & The Bright Years
25.5 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Option 1]
✅ 25.8 Betrothed to the Emperor (Option 2b) & A Song over Miskwaa Rapids
30.1 Must Love Moss and Moonshine (option 6) + ?
5.1 The Cat Who Saved Books or Touch Not the Cat or :Lemon Tart5.2 Climate Change For Beginners or :The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration or :Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
5.3 Julie or The Little Foxes or The Quick Red Fox or The Black Wolf or Outfoxed
5.4 The Cold Dish or Ice Cold or The Ice Limit
5.5 Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling or The Importance of Being Seven or Rotten to the Core
5.6 Wandering Stars or The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven or The Antelope Wife
5.7 Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life or Two Little Girls in Blue or The World According to Bertie
5.8 The House of Eve or Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution or Every Heart a Doorway
5.9 The Phoenix Pencil Company
5.10 ❓
10.1 First Love
10.2 Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts or Beartownor Firekeeper’s Daughter
10.3 Roverpowered: Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist or The Buddha in the Attic or Uncle Vanya
10.4 The Unmaking of June Farrow
10.5 Solar or Sunshine on Scotland Street
10.6 The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
10.7 Buckeye or The Secret Daughter or 2 Sisters Detective Agency
10.8 My Name Is Lucy Barton] or The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill or Spare
10.9 A Changed Mind: Go Beyond Self Awareness, Rewire Your Brain & Reengineer Your Reality or Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams or
10.10 Mr. Dickens and His Carol or The Christmas Thief
15.1 Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet and Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
15.2 ❓and Dear Debbie or The Astral Libraryor My Husband's Wife
15.3 The Long Winter or Ice Cold
15.4Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed
15.5 Ducks, Newburyport or The Midnight Feast or Magpie Lane
15.6 The Woman Who Wouldn't Die
15.7 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation or Child 44 or 44 Scotland Street or 2 Sisters Murder Investigations
15.8 Quiet in Her Bones or Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood Touch Not the Cat or A Place Called Freedom
15.9 Dashing Through the Snow or Dashing Through the Snow or Laughing All The Way: The Christmas Letters or Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
15.10 A Quiet Life in the Country or And Quiet Flows the Don or Quiet in Her Bones
20.10 The Briar Club or The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus or Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
25.1 Two Little Girls in Blue &Iced or I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. & When You Are Engulfed in Flames, The Green Man & Dead Babies
25.2 opt 1 Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey into the Secret World of Figure Skating, Opt 2 The Swimming Pool , Opt 3 Middlebridge Mysteries or A Quiet Life in the Country, Opt 4 Treasure Witch, or NightwoodOpt 5 The Paris Apartment
25.3 opt 1The Berry Pickers, Opt 2 The Midnight Feast or The Paris Apartment or The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin, Opt 3 The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus or The Charm Bracelet or The Gift
25.4 opt 1 The Black Dahlia, opt 2 The Flowers of Evil and Other Works, opt 3 Sing, Unburied, Sing, opt 4 Sybil, or the Two Nations or The Blithedale Romance
25.5 opt 1 A Redbird Christmas or Twelve Drummers Drumming, opt 2 The Scapegoat or The City & the City
26.6 opt 1 The Secret Daughter, opt 2
30.1 opt 1 The Cat Who Saved Booksor The Uncommon Reader or Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading, Opt 2 The Littlest Library, Opt 3 The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore or The Last Bookshop in London or The Haunted Bookshop, Opt 4 The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes
30.2 opt 2 The Seven Dials Mystery, Opt 3 :Dead Babies, Opt 4 Before Us
30.3 opt 2 The Cold Dish, opt 5 Six-Gun Snow White
30.4 The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Christmas Bells, A Redbird Christmas
30.5 Book 1 Say Her Name Book 2 Don't Let Me Go
30.6 opt 1 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, opt 2 Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota or The Black Prince or Beyond Black, opt 3
30.7 opt 1 The Unraveling of Julia, opt 2 -a book from my 3.4 list or My Husband's Wife opt 3 The Red Thread
Reading Plan 66 books left📗 5.1 Sometimes the Best Presents Can’t Be Wrapped
📗 5.2 Underland: A Deep Time Journey
5.3 Contested Crown
5.4 Cold Fusion
5.5 Matrimonial Merriment
5.6 The Boy from the Mish
5.7 Assassin Fish
📗 5.8 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5.9 Pack of Lies
5.10
10.1 Defying Logic
10.2 Hidden Scars
📗 10.3 Kept in the Dark
10.4 Reckless Behavior
10.5 Winter’s Orbit
10.6 Home for a Cowboy
10.7 The Muse's Undoing
10.8 Romantic Behavior
📗 10.9 Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
10.10 A Villain for Christmas
15.1
📗 Book 1 How to Elude a Vampire
Book 2: No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 or Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
15.2
Book 1: When the Tides Held the Moon
✅ Book 2: Emperor's Wrath
15.3
📗 book 1 Snowed In at Christmas Cottage
✅ book 2 The Influencer
15.4 The Mastermind
15.5 Virgin Flyer
15.6 The Kamogawa Food Detectives
15.7 Dead Serious Case #1: Miz Dusty Le Frey
15.8 All of Us Murderers
15.9 Wrong Way Home or The Way We Hate
15.10 Quiet Nights
20.1 Disrupted Engagement
📗 20.2 Wild
20.4 The Christmas Veto
📗 20.8 The Road Home
📗 20.10 The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
25.1
Book 1: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Book 2: Wuthering Heights
25.2
Option 2: Prince of Flowers
Option 3: Fatal Attendant
25.3
Option 1: The Great Alone
Option 2: That One Moment
25.4
They Both Die at the End
A Study in Scarlet
25.5
📗 Mr Warren's Profession
📗 Where the Crawdads Sing
25.6
How to Lure a Hunter
Marked by Fire
25.7
option 2 Kitten Claws and Puppy Breath
option 3Head Above Water
25.8
Option 1 Master Wolf
Option 3 Shadow Throne King
25.9 Fallocaust
30.1
Option The Black Sheep and The Rotten Apple
Option 6: Dead Wrong
30.2
Option 2: Next Man Up
✅ Option 4: Betrothed to the Emperor
30.3
Option 1: Ascendant King
Option 2A: Road to a Cowboy
30.4
Book 1: Like You Hate Me
Book 2: Don't Say You're Sorry
30.5
Book 1: How to Flirt with a Hellhound
Book 2: Down Low
30.6
Option 4 How to Save a Human
Option 5: A Hero in Hiding
30.7
Book 1: Pool of Dreams
Book 2: Don't You Dare
Completed
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Tasks completed: 17/0 Books read: 25/79 Points: 270Readerboard: up to #850: 230 points
+15 points: total 245 points
+15 points: total 260 points
+10 points: total 270 points
5.1
5.2
5.3
📚5.4 Snow Kisses for My Omega ✔️#498
📚5.5 The Brooding Alpha's Mate ✔️#847
5.6
📚5.7 The Stranger ✔️#200
5.8 Thedric
5.9
5.10
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
❓️10.6 Admiring His Omega ✔️#906
📚10.7 The Edge ✔️#42
10.8
10.9
📚10.10 In Case of Emergency ✔️#582
15.1 (1) (2)
15.2 (1) (2)
📚15.3 (1) Snowed in at Santa's Lodge: An M/M Mpreg Holiday Shifter Romance ✔️ (2) His First Family ✔️#53
15.4
📚15.5 The New Sister Theatre ✔️#573
15.6
📚15.7 Hot Mess 9 ✔️#845
❓️15.8 Temporary Santa's Knotty Workshop ✔️#860
❓️15.9 Jingle Bell Mate: An M/M Mpreg Holiday Shifter Romance ✔️#864
15.10 His Quiet Agent
20.1
20.2
20.3.
20.4 Giving Chase
20.5
20.6
20.7 Upside Down
📚20.8 Must Love Christmas ✔️#621
📚20.9 Once Upon a Christmas Song ✔️#231
20.10 Group Read The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
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25.1 (1) Under Orders (2)Refusal
📚25.2 (1) Training Season ✔️(2) Kissing Alex ✔️#553
25.3. (1) Marzipan Magic (2) Saving Nessie
📚25.4 (1) Outfoxed ✔️(2) Clover ✔️#278
25.5 (1) In the High Valley (2) A Fine Passion
25.6 (1) The Christmas Summons ✔️(2) Glen & Tyler's High Seas Hijinks
25.7 (1) Trusting Jack (2) You Don't Know Jack
25.8 (1) Imagines ✔️(2) Gloombringer
25.9 (1) Sci-fi, etc (2)
📚30.1 (1) The Demon and the Librarian ✔️(2) Found at the Bookstore ✔️#247
30.2 (1) The Flirty Vet (2) Turning Tides
📚30.3 (1) Alpha Bear Accountant ✔️(2) Broken In ✔️#65
30.4 (1) Christmas Prince (2) Merry Gentlemen ✔️
30.5 (1) Forever & Ever: A Collection of Stories (2) Lucky Break
30.6 (1) Dead Beside The Thames (2) Always Hope
30.7 (1) Dawnchaser (2) Dances Long Forgotten
50.1
Winter Reading Plan5.1 - Murder on Black Swan Lane
5.2 - Saltcrop
5.4 - The Virgin in the Ice
5.6 - Fevered Star
5.7 - Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
5.9 - The Lost Bookshop
10.1 - The Winter of the Witch
10.2 - Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
10.3 - The Sense of an Ending, Gathering Blue
10.5 - The Girl in the Tower
10.6 - When the Moon Hits Your Eye moon
10.7 - The Searcher
10.10 - Jacob T. Marley✔ 674
15.1 - 1: Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
2: Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
15.2 - 1: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales Romantasy
2: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
15.3 - 1: The Children's Blizzard and At Bertram's Hotel
15.4 - 2: Crooked House
15.5 - The Hunting Party
15.6 - Life, the Universe and Everything, The Kamogawa Food Detectives
15.7 - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
15.8 - Half a Lifelong Romance
15.9 - The Snow Queen, What Alice Forgot
15.10 - The Quiet American, The Quiet Earth
20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
5.1 Pine by Francine Toon = Alpine5.2 Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield = MPG - Environment
5.3
5.4 The Frozen River by Ariel Lawson (Frozen)
5.5 Archangel's Heart by Nalini Singh = #9 Guildhunter ✔️
5.6 The Mires by Tina Makereti = Indigenous - NZ Maori
5.7 A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan = initials in Christmas
5.8 Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse = EVE
5.9 The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins = reverse alpha T,S,F
5.10 Alchemised by Sen Lin Yu
10.1 My Friends by Fredrick Backman
10.2 Kiss and Don't Tell by Megan Quinn ✔️
10.3 Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson = 100 - 200pp
10.4 Delirious – Damien Wilkins = initials - olD neW year
10.5 ?
10.6 Hine and the Tohunga Portal or Tragedy at the Pike River Mine = HINE or MINE
10.7 Butter by Asako Yuzuki = No L
10.8 Scarred by Emily McIntire = January
10.10 = holiday
15.1 A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough (Polar Desert) and tbc
15.2 The Sirens by Emilia Hart = Goodreads nominee - fantasy) and The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane = published date contains 2026.
15.3 The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter ✔️ & At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley = published January
15.4 Pet by Catherine Chidgey = Coca Cola (and 50% red)
15.5 King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair = St. Clair ✔️
15.7 1985: A Novel by Dominic Hoey = all digits
15.8 Lest They Have Eyes by Bonivon Dyer = 4 words
15.9 Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan = Bright
15.10 The Quiet Earth by Craig Harrison = Quiet
20.1 If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio
20.2 Wild Dark Shore
20.3 The Merge by Grace Walker
20.4 Captive in the Dark by C.J. Roberts
20.5 Red City by Marie Lu
20.6 Did I Ever Tell You This? – Sam Neill
20.7
20.8 Bread and Roses by Sonja Davies
20.9 Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa N. Z. by Hazel Phillips
20.10
25.1 All Better Now by Neal Shusterman & Dry by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman
25.2 A Slip Of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett & To Cage A Wild Bird by Brooke Fast
25.3 Lest They Have Eyes & Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
25.4 The Road by Cormac McCarthy & Middlemarch by George Elliot
25.5 Queen Demon by Martha Wells & The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
25.6 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury & How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley
25.7 Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars (Luke Stone) Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
25.8 Queen of Myth & Monsters by Scarlett St Clair & The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (2020)
25.9 The Merge by Grace Walker AND The Parihaka Woman by Witi Ihimaera (2011) [or The Whale Rider (1987)]
30.1 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell & Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World|221335830] by Ruth Shaw
30.2 Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story by Christina Thompson and Option 3: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
30.3 Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse & Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak
30.4 Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen. 528pp
30.5 Child of Earth Sky (The Sisters Grimm, #3) & Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward ✔️
30.6 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix & Brimstone by Callie Hart
30.7 Mana by Tama Iti & The Last Living Cannibal by Airana Ngarewa
5.1 In Plain View5.2 Migrations
5.3 Memoirs of a Polar Bear
5.4 The Ice Queen
5.5 Fugitive Telemetry or Carrot Cake Murder
5.6 Cottagers and Indians
5.7 Aquamarine
5.8 For Every One
5.9 The Red Notebook
5.10
10.1 Hunger or Out Stealing Horses
10.2 All the Way
✔10.3 Kilkenny or A Truce That Is Not Peace
10.4 The Grass Is Singing
10.5 In the Unlikely Event or China Room
10.6 Hunger or Escape Room
10.7 The White Bone or A Truce That Is Not Peace
10.8 The Ice Storm
10.9 Year of No Sugar or The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
10.10 The Christmas Bookshop
15.1
15.2 Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom or The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
15.3 Trapped
15.4 The Big Four
15.5 Autobiography of a Face
15.6 Automatic Noodle
15.7 10:04
15.8 What Dreams May Come
15.9 Open Throat or The White Bone
15.10 From a Low and Quiet Sea
✔20.1 The Housemaid
20.2 The Home for Unwanted Girls
✔20.3 Carrot Cake Murder
20.4 The Book of Lost Names
20.5 Dead-End Memories: Stories
20.6 The Woman in Me
20.7 Girl, Serpent, Thorn
20.8 Little Fish
20,9 Gilead or Brave
20,10 The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
25.1 Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros and Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
25.2 Just One of the Boys and The Pilgrimage (alt Plum Spooky)
25.3 Without a Trace and Mom Still Likes You Best: The Unfinished Business Between Siblings
25.4 Brood and House of Sand and Fog
25.5 The Double and Once There Were Wolves
25.6 The Fight and The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
25,7 Virgin River and King Solomon's Mines
25.8 John Dies at the End and Guardian Angel
25.9 The Princess Bride and Hard Light
25.10 North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both and Huge
✔30.1 Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda and The Christmas Bookshop
30,2 Soucouyant and Murder is Binding
30.3 Red Winter or The Andromeda Strain and One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn
30.4 The Power of One
30.5 Down Among the Sticks and Bones and Beneath the Sugar Sky
𝓜𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓀𝒶⌛ Initiated / pending
✅ Completed / claimed
♦️ Priority
5.1 -
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm (180 p.) ❗
5.2 -
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (341 p.) ❗
5.3 -
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (433 p.)
5.4 -
Ice by Anna Kavan (158 p.)
5.5 -
Slayer of the Pirate Lord by Rebecca F. Kenney (353 p.)
5.6 -
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (307 p.)
5.7 -
Ever King
Of Blood and Fire
A Letter to the Luminous Deep
The Hunger Games
American Rapture
Anything by SJM
New Moon
God of the Woods
We Spread
Divine Rivals
Priory Orange Tree
Ember in the Ashes
Wired for Dating
Wired for Love
5.8 -
Ever King
Glow of the Everflame
The Seven Principles
The Open Curtain
5.9 -
Wired for Dating
Why We're Polarized
What Makes Love Last
The Sky on Fire
The Road of Bones
The Power or Babel
The Open Curtain
The Now Habit
The Mars House
The Hunger Games
5.10 -
(OPEN)
10.1 -
Still Life by Louise Penny (293 p.)
10.2 -
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (432 p.)
10.3 -
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (175 p.)
10.4 -
Ever King
All the Light
10.5 -
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (435 p.)
10.6 -
Hunger Games
One for My Enemy
10.7 -
It's Ok that you're not Ok
Wired for Dating
Ceremony
The Open Curtain
Eight Dates
Confessions
The Mountain is You
This Thing Between Us
We Spread
Smart but Scattered
The Gift of Fear
Come Away with Me
Storm Front
The Current
Ember in the Ashes
Dark Rise
The Fifth Season
The Road of Bones
Mistborn
The Poppy War
New Moon
Heir of Fire
Queen of Shadows
The Book Thief
Dune
Empire of Storms
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Covenant of Water
Priory of the orange tree
10.8 -
Art of Loving
Wired for Dating
Shogun
Daughter of No Worlds
Curse So Dark and Lonely
Language of Dragons
Nightingale
One for My Enemy
One Hundred Years
The Current
Masters of Death
Fight Right
The Power of Babel
The Gift of Fear
Why We're Polarized
Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
What Makes Love Last
Set boundaries, find peace
Smart but Scattered
Dowry of Blood
Seven Principles
When You're Ready
Open Curtain
Wired for Love
10.9 -
Check long pri -- left off
10.10 -
Check long pri
15.1 -
Book 1.
- Wired for Dating
- Wired for Love
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
- The Smart but Scattered Guide...
- Set Boundaries, Find Peace
- The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
- The Gift of Fear
- Think Like a Monk
- The Art of Holding Space
- A Letter to the Luminous Deep
- Mistborn
Book 2.
- God of the Woods (confirm that the setting is at least 50% in the Adirondack Mountains)
- Check back list
15.2 -
Book 1:
Alchemised
A Language of Dragons
The Raven Scholar
Check back list
Book 2:
ACOSF
Priory of the Orange Tree
All the Colors of the Dark
The Road of Bones
Come Away with Me
Yellowface
When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
Wired for Dating
15.3 - *** 1-BOOK OPTION ***
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (483 p.)
15.4 - *** 1-BOOK OPTION ***
check backlist for 1-book option
15.5 -
check backlist
15.6 -
check backlist
15.7 -
check backlist
15.8 -
From Blood and Ash
One for My Enemy
Daughter of No Worlds
Come Away with Me
Of Blood and Fire
Glow of the Everflame
The Gift of Fear
The Art of Loving
A Dowry of Blood
What Makes Love Last?
The Sky on Fire
The Power of Babel
This Thing Between Us
Think Like a Monk
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
The Covenant of Water
The Mountain is You
A Language of Dragons
The Road of Bones
15.9 -
The Open Curtain (open)
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Colors of the Dark
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
What Makes Love Last?
A Song of Shadow and Starlight
Come Away with Me
The Now Habit
It's OK that You're Not OK
When You're Ready, This is How You Heal
This Time You Save Yourself
This Thing Between Us
15.10 -
Check backlist
20.1 - Most Improved –
Option 1. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (720 p.) 📚
20.2 - Rookie at the Top -
Option 1B. Check long pri
Option 2. Check long pri
Option 3. Check long pri
Option 4. Check long pri
20.3 - Review Raffle -
Option 1. Brightly Shining by Ingvild H. Rishøi (192 p.)
20.4 – Golden Oldies -
Option 4. Check long pri
20.5 - Bigger is Better -
Option 4. The Hush by E.A. Mylonas (336 p.)
20.6 - It's A Fact -
Option 2. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (430 p.)
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter -
Option 1. Check long pri
Option 2. Check long pri
Option 3. Check long pri
20.8 - NICKELS & DIMES -
Option 1. check long pri
Option 2. check long pri
Option 3. check long pri
Option 4. check long pri
20.9 - Moderators Pet -
Option 4. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon (902 p.) 📚📚
20.10 - Group Reads -
The Rose Code
The Briar Club
25.1 -
Check long pri
25.2 -
Option 4. Check long pri
25.3 -
Option 1. Check long pri
Option 1. Check long pri
Option 2. Check long pri
25.4 -
Option A. Check long pri
25.5 -
Option 1. Check long pri
Option 2. Any from TOG series
25.6 -
Check long pri
25.7 -
Check long pri
25.8 -
Check long pri
Option 3.
Check long pri
25.9 - *** 1-BOOK OPTION ***
Check long pri
25.10 - *** 1-BOOK OPTION ***
Check long pri for 1-book
30.1 -
⌛ 30.2 -
Option 2. Quicksilver by Callie Hart (640 p.) 📚
Option 4. Brimstone by Callie Hart (672 p.) 📚
⌛ 30.3 -
Option 1. A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab (513 p.) 📚
Option 4. A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab (625 p.) 📚
30.4 - *** 1-BOOK OPTION ***
Check long pri
30.5 - *** 1-BOOK OPTION ***
Check long pri
30.6 -
Option 2. The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (416 p.)
Option 5. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas (420 p.)
30.7 -
50.1 -
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❝𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝❞
✓ Goal: 0/150 points
◺ Pages Read... This Season: 0 || SRC All Time: 96,647
◺ Books Read... This Season: 0 || SRC All Time: 241
🌟 Golden Oldies: 0 || SRC All Time: 22
📚 Big Book: 0 || SRC All Time: 76
❗It's a Fact: 0 || SRC All Time: 11
❝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)
Winter 2025 Reading Plan:Readerboard Name: Amanda E.
Updated through:
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5 Point Tasks:
5.1- Tundra Types:
Read a book whose title has a word of at least 3 letters that can be made from one of the three types ALPINE or ARCTIC or ANTARCTIC
Required: State the word
5.2- Climate Change:
Read a book with an MPG of Climate Change or Environment (stand alone or embedded)
5.3 - Tundra Animals:
Read a book with one of these affected native animal on the cover: fox (red or arctic), polar bear, caribou (reindeer), wolf, geese, oxen, snowy owl, seal, walrus, narwhal
Required: Post the cover
5.4 - Ice Cold:
Read a book whose title (subtitles excluded) includes one of these words: snow, ice, icy, cold, cool, chill, freeze, freezing, frozen, frigid, arctic. Word must be stand alone and an exact match.
5.5 - Hurry Up, It's Freezing:
Read a book that is #6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 in a series.
Required: Series title and # must be listed on book's main page
5.6 Snowbound Voices:
Read a book by an Indigenous author or has MPG Indigenous
Required: If author's ethnicity is not obvious from author page, provide a reference.
5.7 - Bah- Humbug:
Read a book with a single author's first and last initals found in Christmas Carol
5.8 - Seeing is Beli-EVE-ing:
Read a book where "eve" can be found in a title (subtitle excluded) word or author name.
5.9 - Ten...Nine...Read!:
Read a book with a 3+ word title, where the first leter of each word is in REVERSE alphabetical order. (Example: Murder in Hospital)
5.10 - Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal:
Read a book of your choice that follows SRC rules
10 Point Tasks:
10.1 - Cold Climate:
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these locations: Canada, Russia, Greenland, Alaska, Norway, Finland, Sweden
Required: Provide a reference if the setting is not obvious from the Goodreads main page
10.2 - Cold Sports:
Read a book where hockey is essential to the story.
Required: Provide a reference if the setting is not obvious from the Goodreads main page.
10.3 - Cold Days:
Read a short book that is between 100-200 pp long
10.4 - Old New Year:
Read a book where a single author's first and last initials can be found in OLD NEW YEAR
10.5 - Makar Sakrati:
Read a book with a sun on the cover (photo or drawing, but the whole disc of the sun must be visible and recognizable as such)
Required: Post the cover
10.6 - New Beginnings:
Read a book with a word containing 4+ letters that can be spelled from ORGANIZE YOUR HOME
Required: State the word
Noel or A'phabet Day No "L" Day:
Read a book that has NO "L" in the title AND author name (subtitles may be ignored)
10.8 - Ratification Day:
Read a book first published in January of any year.
10.9 - Get Healthy:
Read a book from the first 25 pages of Healthy Books
10.10 - Holiday Season:
Read a book with MPG Holiday (stand alone or embedded)
15 Point Tasks:
15.1 - Polar to Peak:
Two book task
Book 1: Read a book where all the letters of Polar Desert can be found in the title/subtitle/author name.
Book 2: Read a book that is set at least 50% in one of these mountain ranges that have alpine tundra or set in "snowy mountain location"
North American Cordillera mountains, Appalachian mountains, the Alps, Pyrenees mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, Karakoram mountain range, the Andes, the Eastern Rift mountains, the Snowy Mountains, and the Scandinavian Mountains.
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
15.2 - Frostbitten Farwells & Snow-Dazed Starts:
Two book task
Book 1: Read a book that has been nominated for the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards
Required: State the category
Book 2: Read a book that has all the numbers of 2026 present somewhere in the first published date (monday, day, year - any combo)
15.3 - Blizzard Mode Activated:
Required: State the option
Option 1: Two Books
Book 1: Read a book set during a blizzard or being "snowed in" is part of the plot of the story.
Required: If it is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference
Book 2: Read a book first published in December, January, or February of any year
OR
Option 2: Read a single book that satisfies both criteria for option 1
15.4 - Frosty & Fizzy:
Required: State the option
Option 1: Two Books
Book 1: Read a book with a cover that is 50% red and/or white according to Tineye
Required: Post the cover
Book 2: Read a book with a single author's first and last initials found in Coca Cola (letters may only be used as often as they appear)
Option 2: Read a single book that satisfies both criteria for option 1
15.5 - Candle in the Polar Night:
Read a book with a single author's name is Lucy
15.6 - Cut the Noodles:
Read a book with noodles in a serving dish, plate, or bowl on the cover.
Required: Post the cover
15.7 - Ho Ho Holy Digits:
Read a book with at least one numeric digit in the title (1, 2, 3, etc.)
Holiday Budget Who?:
Read a book with exactly 4 words in the title.
15.9 - Merry Thanksgiving, I Guess:
Read a book with a word of at least three letters from the lyrics of Jingle Bells found in the title (Excluding The, And)
Required: State the word
Hushed Snow:
Read a book with the word Quiet intact in the title.
20 Point Tasks:
5.4 Ice Cold - Cold Storage5.5 Hurry Up, It's Freezing- Fire and Fury
5.7 Bah-Humbug- The Solar War
5.8 Seeing is Beli-EVE-ing- Everything We Keep
5.9 Ten… Nine… Read!- The Life Below
5.10 Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal- A Tangled Mercy
10.3 Cold Days- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
10.4 Old New Year- Timebound
10.5 Makar Sankrati-
10.6 New Beginnings- The Blade Heir
10.7 Noel or A'phabet Day No "L" Day- Go
10.8 Ratification Day- Property
15.2 Frostbitten Farewells & Snow-Dazed Starts
1. One by One
2. Echoing Time: Book I of the Woohox Chronicles
15.7 Ho Ho Holy Digits- 12 Miles Below: A Progression Fantasy Epic
✔5.3 Tundra Animals- Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum✔5.4 Ice Cold-Cold Storage by David Koepp
✔5.5 Hurry Up, It's Freezing- Fire and Fury (Ruins of the Earth #6) by Christopher Hopper and J.N. Chaney
✔5.7 Bah-Humbug- The Solar War by A.G. Riddle
5.8 Seeing is Beli-EVE-ing- Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale
5.9 Ten… Nine… Read!- The Life Below by Alexandra Monir
5.10 Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal- A Tangled Mercy by Joy Jordan-Lake
10.3 Cold Days- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön
10.4 Old New Year- Timebound by Rysa Walker
10.5 Makar Sankrati- Death Ship by Joseph Badal
10.6 New Beginnings- The Blade Heir by daniel Adorno (Heir)
10.7 Noel or A'phabet Day No "L" Day- Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro
10.8 Ratification Day- Property by Valerie Martin
15.1 Polar to Peak
a. The Isaac Question: Templars and the Secret of the Old Testament bt david Brody
b. One by One by Ruth Ware
15.2 Frostbitten Farewells & Snow-Dazed Starts
a. Echoing Time by Michelle Stojic
b. The Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Audiobook)
✔15.7 Ho Ho Holy Digits- 12 Miles Below: A Progression Fantasy Epic by Mark Arrows
5.7 The Place Where They Buried Your Heart10.1 Bone White
10.2 Heated Rivalry
10.3 The Hellbound Heart
10.4 A Study in Drowning
10.6 The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
10.8 No One Can Know
10.9 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History[book:We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection|220341389]
10.10 The Holiday Hate-Off
15.1 A Deal with the Bossy Devil
The Bog Wife
15.8 Julia Song Is Undateable
20.1 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
20.2 All of Us Murderers
20.5 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
20.7 Cinder
20.9 The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
30.7 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Time to Shine
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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The Red Notebook (other topics)
Once There Were Wolves (other topics)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (other topics)
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Jenny Bayliss (other topics)Alex Lake (other topics)
Robyn Delvey (other topics)
Penelope Douglas (other topics)
B.K. Borison (other topics)
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