Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Sign up here to join the 2026 Team Reading Challenge!

Please comment if you want to join Year 9 of the competition!

Format your comment with the following:

Name:
Year 8 Team:
Year 8 Individual Points:
Favourite read of 2025:

If you participated in any previous years of the competition, feel free also to mention your points from those years if you think it will help us get a better idea of the average number of points you will have. You can also note if you expect to read more or less than the previous year.

OR if you are new to the competition:

Name:
2025 number of books read:
2025 number of buddy reads read with the group:
Favorite read of 2025:

Please be aware you need at least 100 comments in the group to sign up for the challenge. This is to ensure that you won't suddenly disappear from the challenge. If you are not at 100 comments yet, you can always join the challenge late.

If you start spam commenting in order to make it to 100 comments, this will be taken into consideration, and we will hold out on adding you to the competition.

Please only put the sign-up comment in the thread. We want to avoid clutter so it is easy to compile a list. Any chatter comments will be deleted without notice. If you have any questions or suggestions about the competition, please visit the Year 9 rules thread here.

As always, a friendly reminder:

This competition is just for fun! It's a way to track books and motivate us to read. There's no pressure to read as many books or get as many points as the year before. Providing points from prior years just gives me ( / Jenna, if she's around) an idea of how to sort the teams. :)

Name:
Year 8 Team: Horns of Hammerad
Year 8 Individual Points: 4,034
Favourite read of 2025: Oh god, too many... I really liked The Everlasting & Hemlock & Silver in Fantasy... Clown in a Cornfield series in horror... Full Murderhobo and He Who Fights with Monsters in the LitRPG genre... A Rip Through Time series in mysteries... Only Bad Options series and The Light Brigade in Sci-Fi... and I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton... I've read nearly 750 books this year, so far...

Old Year Points:

(2024) Year 7 Points: 2601.4
(2023) Year 6 Points: 2321.4
(2022) Year 5 Points: 1293.4
(2021) Year 4 Points: 1219.9
(2020) Year 3 Points: 2293.0
(2019) Year 2 Points: 1970.3
(2018) Year 1 Points: 2003.8

Expecting to read around 4000+ points again next year, minimum... unless work listening rules change...

Name: Narilka
Year 8 Team: Horns of Hammerand
Year 8 Individual Points: 387.2
Favourite reads of 2025 (so far): This Inevitable Ruin, Hogfather and the Mother of Learning series

Name: Saar the Book Owl
Year 8 Team: Silver Swords
Year 8 Individual Points: 181
Favourite read of 2025: too many, I can't choose...Of course the Gobbelino - series and Dungeon Crawler Carl - series, but also Horse and A Monster Calls

Name: Tammie
Year 8 Team: Lawless Rogues
Year 8 Individual Points: 536.4
Favourite read of 2025: A River Enchanted

Name: RachelG
Year 8 Team: Lawless Rogues
Year 8 Individual Points: 2,591.3
Favourite read of 2025: Tusks, Tails and Teacakes, Demon World Boba Shop series, Isekai Farming

Name: Monika
Year 8 Team: Horns of Hammerad
Year 8 Individual Points: 1025.3
Favourite read of 2025: The Bewitching, Six wild crowns, Before we say Goodbye, Wiedzmin Szpony i Kly, Still Alice.