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January - New Year, Same You
🧸 New Year, Same You - Monthly Challenge 🧸Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 🧸 New Year, Same You Challenge 🧸!
I am excited to be leading it and hope you will all find many well-loved stories to begin your new reading year with! If you discover any new favorites (or re-discover old ones) I would love to know!
📚 To sign up, please post a comment below and include the number of books you plan to read for this challenge! 📚
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
~ Jorge Luis Borges
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Updating your progress:
When updating your progress, please include your sign-up message number plus the current progress using this format:
Update to Message # xx: books read/ books pledged
If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don’t delete your original sign-up post. Just update and let me know. Thanks! :)
If at any point you have questions, please feel free to ask!
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As you update your challenge, I will update your corresponding challenge tier.
🪑 Settling down: 0-1 books
📵 Disconnecting from distractions: 2-3 books
🚪 Escaping: 4-6 books
🌈 Bliss: 7-9+ books
✨ Additional Bonus: Challenge Completed!
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Participants :
Amy - 3/6 - 📵
Angel - 10/10 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
Ashly - 0/2 - 🪑
Beth - 0/10 - 🪑
Blakie - 3/3 - 📵✨ - Completed!
Brianna Raquel - 10/10 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
Bubbles - 0/5 - 🪑 -
Caraina - 5/5 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
Carlota - 0/6 - 🪑
Carrie - 0/3 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
Catrina - 12/6 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
Chrissie - 6/3 - 🚪✨- Completed!
Ciara - 8/8 - 🌈 ✨ - Completed!
Daphne - 5/3 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
Emma - 0/1 - 🪑
Eva - 0/3 - 🪑
Frankie - 15/15 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
H - 0/? - 🪑
Hannah - 2/2 - 📵✨ - Completed!
James - 0/4 - 🪑
Janine - 5/5 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
JennH - 11/10 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
Justicia - 2/3 - 📵
Kristina - 17/10 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
Kylie - 0/3 - 🪑
Lina - 4/3 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
MaryAnn - 0/1 - 🪑
Meg - 3/3 - 📵 ✨ - Completed!
Min - 3/3 - 📵✨ - Completed!
Patricia - 2/3 - 📵
Rachael - 9/5 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
Rachel - 0/5 - 🪑
reggikko - 5/4 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
Renee - 4/4 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
Sarah - 10/10 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
Shari - 5/5 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
Susan - 2/3 - 📵
Suzanne - 0/10 - 🪑
TerryJane - 8/7 - 🌈✨ - Completed!
Vanessa - 4/3 - 🚪✨ - Completed!
Whitney 3/3 - 📵✨ - Completed!
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General Stats
41 Readers Signed Up
📚 181 / 209 books read (86.6 %) 📚
Completed: 25
🪑 Settling down - 0-1 books: 12
📵 Disconnecting from distractions - 2-3 books: 9
🚪 Escaping - 4-6 books: 10
🌈 Bliss - 7-9+ books: 10
Updated up to Message#102
Happy Reading to all of you!
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🧸 New Year, Same You - Monthly Challenge 🧸Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
🧸 Progress: 4/3 🧸 - COMPLETED!
As we step into a new year, take this chance to reconnect with yourself by focusing on what you love most. Revisit your favorite authors, genres, or comfort reads—the ones that remind you why you fell in love with reading in the first place. Let familiar words and well-loved stories ground you as you begin a new chapter.
Tracking my books read for this challenge in my corner
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Hello! Please sign me up for 3 books. I'll be indulging in my guilty pleasure - monster romances!
Monster Research Facility by Skyla Gray
1. The Nightmare's Kiss [Completed 7/1/26]
2. The Revenant's Heart [Completed 13/1/26]
3. The Imaginary Friend's Obsession [Completed 29/1/26]
Completed 3/3 :)
New Year, Same YouI'll sign up for 10 books, all mysteries. 'Cause that's how I roll. 🕵🏻♀️
1. Alex Cross #14
2. Kay Scarpetta #15
3. One of Us Is Lying #3
More TBD
Please sign me up for 6 books. I'll be revisiting my favourite genre: fantasy.COMPLETED: 9/6
1. The Atlas Complex finished 4 January, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. Babel finished 8 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. Januaries finished 11 January, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
4. Unraveller finished 15 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
5. The Assassin's Blade finished 21 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
6. Throne of Glass finished 22 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
7. Crown of Midnight finished 24 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
8. Heir of Fire finished 27 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
9. Queen of Shadows finished 31 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
🧸 New Year, Same You - Monthly Challenge 🧸Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
10/10
Favorite Authors - 5/5
1. Sweet Heat🪻
2. Just Another Missing Person🪻
3. I'm Not Done with You Yet🪻
4. Lovetown, USA🪻
5. A Shore Thing🪻
Mystery/Thriller - 5/5
1. Parents Weekend🪻
2. Everyone Is Lying to You🪻
3. Everybody is a Liar🪻
4. Secret Identity🪻
5. Her One Regret🪻
New Year, Same YouDuration: January 1-31, 2026
Progress: 3/3 FINISHED!
I’ll read at least three books for this challenge. They’ll be books by some of my longtime favorite authors.
Edit: Disconnecting from distractions!
FINISHED 1/29 1. Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
FINISHED 1/30 2. Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
FINISHED 1/31 3. The Cat Who Smelled a Rat by Lilian Jackson Braun
NEW YEAR, SAME YOUJanuary 1 - January 31, 2026
Progress: 17/10
Sign me up for 10 books!
✅ 1. All of Us Murderers by K.J. Charles
✅ 2. Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
✅ 3. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
✅ 4. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
✅ 5. Witch King by Martha Wells
✅ 6. Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
✅ 7. Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
✅ 8. Check, Please!: Year One by Ngozi Ukazu
✅ 9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
✅ 10. Check, Please!: Year Two by Ngozi Ukazu
✅ 11. Check, Please!: Year Three by Ngozi Ukazu
✅ 12. Lore Olympus: Volume Two by Rachel Smythe
✅ 13. Lore Olympus: Volume Three by Rachel Smythe
✅ 14. Swordcrossed by Freya Marske
✅ 15. Lore Olympus: Volume Four by Rachel Smythe
✅ 16. Lore Olympus: Volume Five by Rachel Smythe
✅ 17. A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Finished: 2026/01/30Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2026
Revisit your favorite authors, genres, or comfort reads—the ones that remind you why you fell in love with reading in the first place.
Progress: 6/3
Revisiting my favs:
From the Red Fog 3 (manga, horror, victorian setting)
Sag's mit den Händen, Band 1 (manga, boys love)
Red Hood (manga, yaoi, related to Badass which was a favorite)
City Lights Birthday: Gefühlvoller Boys-Love-Einzelband aus dem Omegaverse, in dem Beta und Omega ihr Schicksal selbst in die Hand nehmen (manga, yaoi, abo dynamics)
Die vierte Macht: Oscar Wilde & Mycroft Holmes, Sonderermittler der Krone 22 (fav series)
Fruits Basket Pearls 04 (fav series, my first manga love)
other:
New Year, Same You - Monthly Challenge 🧸Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
15/15 Completed. Finish
Mystery/Thriller
01.Shadow's Doom-Mary Stone 1/21/26
02.Winter's Stalker-Mary Stone 1/12/26
03.Closer Than You Know-Debra Webb 1/25/26
04.Her Final Words-Alex Sigmore 1/14/26
05.The New Girl-A.J. Rivers 1/22/26
06,The Girl in Town-Elle Gray 1/01/26
07.True Crime-Elle Gray 1/04/26
08.The Girl and the Hidden Truth-A.J. Rivers 1/16/26
Authors
09.Laura Pavlov-In a Heartbeat 1/16/26
10.Rebecca Yarros-A Little Too Close 1/14/26
11.Lani Lynn Vale-Look at Her and Die 1/09/26
12.D.K. Hood-Watch Over Me 1/01/26
13,Mia Sheridan=The Fix 1/23/26
14.Jessica Gadziala-Kylo 1/08/26
15.Marie Force-State of Preservation 1/02/26
NEW YEAR, SAME YOUProgress: 2/3
Favorite Author:
Re-read from a long time ago:
I'll sign up for 3!Progress: 3/3
A Favorite Author:
1. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Completed 1/8/26)
Re-Reading: (the series that made me fall in love with romance novels, no pun intended)
1. Causing Havoc by Lori Foster (Completed 1/7/26)
2. Simon Says by Lori Foster (Completed 1/21/26)
I’m good to be signed up for 6 I’ll be reading fantasy, romance and romantasy :)
🧸 New Year, Same You - Monthly Challenge 🧸Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
GOAL: 3 books
Favorite Genre - Thriller
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney 1/1/26
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman 1/11/26
Stranger Danger by Maren Stoffels 1/17/26
The Guest List by Lucy Foley 1/22/26
Please sign me up for 10.NEW YEAR, SAME YOU
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2026
11/10
Favorite Authors
Favorite Genres - Mystery
- Margaritas, Marzipan, and Murder by Harper Lin 1/5/26
- Ransom Road by Anya Mora 1/7/26
- The Housemaid by Freida McFadden 1/12/26
- Guilty Wives by James Patterson & David Ellis 1/15/26
- Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley 1/17/26
- Where Is Bianca? Lib/E by Ellery Queen 1/19/26
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara 1/22/26
- Rain Dogs: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel by Adrian McKinty 1/22/26
- The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton 1/28/26
- Dead and Breakfast by Kate Kingsbury 1/29/26
Comfort Reads
- Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony 1/15/26
🎉 NEW YEAR, SAME YOU - Monthly ChallengeDuration: January 1 - January 31, 2026
Progress: 8/7
I plan to read seven mystery and historical genre books this month. They're my favorites!
🎉 The Long Call
🎉 All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
🎉 The Stone Diaries
🎉 Snow Falling on Cedars
🎉 The Safekeep
🎉 The Miniaturist
🎉 The Murders in Great Diddling
🎉 Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
NEW YEAR, SAME YOUDuration: January 1, 2026 - January 31, 2026
Completed: 5/5
Favorite Genre: Mystery/Thriller
1. The Project - Courtney Summers 1/1/26
2. The 11:59 Bomber - Marshall Karp 1/2/26
3. Brambleberry Bay Murder Club - Addison Moore 1/6/26
4. Cream Puff Murder - Joanne Fluke 1/8/26
5. Sweet Little Lies - Caz Frear 1/9/26
🧸 New Year, Same You - Monthly Challenge 🧸Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
Completion 9/10
Favorite Genre: 5/5 Mystery/Thriller
1. The Girls in the Cabin | Caleb Stephens | 01.01
2. The Briars | Sarah Crouch | 01.02
3. Paper Cut | Rachel Taff | 01.02
4. The Grandmother | Jane E. James | 01.03
5. Her Daughter | Jen Craven | 01.03
Favorite Authors: 4/5
1. Kristin Hannah | The Women | Kristin Hannah | 01.01
2. Claire Douglas | The New Neighbors | Claire Douglas | 01.11
3. Kristin Hannah | Summer Island | Kristin Hannah | 01.14
4. Colleen Hoover | Woman Down | Colleen Hoover | 01.15
5. Mia Sheridan | The Fix | Mia Sheridan | 01.18
🧸 New Year, Same You - Monthly Challenge 🧸Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
Completed: 0/5
Favorite Genre:
Favorite Authors:
I plan to read 5 Inspirational Romance books.NEW YEAR, SAME YOU - Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2026
Progress: 5 / 5 - COMPLETED 1-28-26
Her Small-Town Cowboy - 1-5-26
Caring for Her Amish Family - 1-7-26
Texas Cold Case Threat - 1-18-26
The Major's Family Mission - 1-25-26
An Amish Holiday Courtship - 1-28-26
Sign me up for 10 books10/10 - COMPLETED
✅1) Royal (12/1/26)
✅2) Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Vol. 4: Sin Eaters (4/1/26)
✅3) Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor: Facing Fate Vol. 1: Breakfast at Tyranny's (13/1/26)
✅4) Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor: Time Trials Vol. 1: The Terror Beneath (13/1/26)
✅5) Around Lewisham & Deptford in Old Photographs (22/1/26)
✅6) RuPaul (Volume 61) (12/1/26)
✅7) The Terrible Tudors (18/1/26)
✅8) Vile Victorians (18/1/26)
✅9) A Century of Lewisham: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century (22/1/26)
✅10) New Kids on the Block: 40th Anniversary Celebration (7/1/26)
Put me down for 8 books. I'm going to focus on literary horror.
Hi! Sign me up for 4 books please!
2026 Reading Challenge🧸 New Year, Same You - Monthly Challenge 🧸
Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
Progress: 7 out of 10
As we step into a new year, take this chance to reconnect with yourself by focusing on what you love most. Revisit your favorite authors, genres, or comfort reads—the ones that remind you why you fell in love with reading in the first place. Let familiar words and well-loved stories ground you as you begin a new chapter.
Favorite Authors:
1. The Fall Risk by Abby Jimenez - ***** - 1/6/2026 - 81 Pages
2. A Few Pecans Short of a Pie by Molly Harper - ***** - 4/8/2026 - 104 Pages
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Favorite Genre: Romance
1. Spicy Little Curses by J.T. Geissinger - **** - 1/5/2026 - 90 Pages
2. Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon - **** - 1/15/2026 - 188 Pages
3. How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by Meghan Quinn - ***** - 1/17/2026 - 482 Pages
4. Snowed in for Christmas: A Holiday Romance by Molly Pine - * - 1/20/2026 - 172 Pages
5. Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal by Meghan Quinn - ***** - 1/26/2026 - 466 Pages
New Year, Same You January 2026 4/4: finished 1/14/26Historical Romance:
- 3.5 stars
- 4 starsMonster Romance:
- 4 stars
- 3 stars
NEW YEAR, SAME YOUDuration: January 1 - January 31, 2026
sign me up for five
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I will go for 6 books!Progress: 3/6
Mystery/Thriller:
1. The Twisted Women's Book Club
2. Behind a Locked Door
3. Wild Dark Shore
Going for 30 this year0 so far
Bought 11 lol
right okay I think I know what I am doing 🙈🙈🙈🤯🤯🤯
sign me up for 1 book because it is an absolute tomb I am going for Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Put me down for 4 of my favorite classics.The Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Outsiders
A Wrinkle in Time
Blākie: I am in for three thrillers 1/31. ‘Last Seen~TJ Ellison ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. The Woman in Suite 11~ Ruth Ware
3. Shutter Island~Dennis Lehane
Sign me up for 3!🧸 NEW YEAR, SAME YOU🧸
Duration: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026
🎉COMPLETED 5/3
NEW YEAR, SAME YOU Group Thread
My NEW YEAR, SAME YOU Tracking Post
I will read at least one book from 3 of my favorite authors. (edited to include 4 of my fav authors)
1. Stephen King
---a. Holly 1/7/26
2. Nora Roberts
---a. Stars of Fortune 1/10/26
---b. Bay of Sighs 1/31/26
3. Rebecca Yarros
---a. Full Measures 1/14/26
4. Julie Garwood
---a. The Secret 1/24/26
I'll read 3 books in January, and I'm doing mostly comics or non fiction. I already have romance in my life 1. Mafalda: femenino plural
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I think i will do 3 this month.5/3
Jane Austen Variants. Finding comfort and warmth in Dear Mr Darcy across the multiverse.
Pemberley Mr Darcy's Dragon was a delightful start to my reading this year. Already seeking out the first sequel.
Most ardently. Ayoung adult lgbtq telling of pride and prejudice.
Unequal Affections. What if Elizabeth had said yes to Mr Darcy's first proposal.
The Murder of Mr Wickham: a nice mystery featuring many ja e austen characters.
Manga Classics: pride and prejudice
New Year, Same YouJan 1-31, 2026
2/2 completed
1. Angel's Flight -Nalini Singh (23/1)
2. Angel's Blood -Nalini Singh (27/1)
I would like to sign up for this challenge please. I’m aiming for at least 6 - anything more is a bonus
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Updated up to this message! I hope you will all have fun snuggling in under a blanket and reading books you love - whatever that means for you personally.
@H - please let me know the number of books you mean to read for this challenge at some point - or is it 30? (in this month I mean)
General Stats
40 Readers Signed Up
📚 18 / 206 books read (8.7 %) 📚
Completed: 0
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... this allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cosy corner devouring one book after another. - Roald Dahl, Mathilda
2026 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
A Few Pecans Short of a Pie (other topics)Snowed in for Christmas: A Holiday Romance (other topics)
How My Neighbor Stole Christmas (other topics)
Spicy Little Curses (other topics)
Ice Planet Barbarians (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Molly Harper (other topics)Abby Jimenez (other topics)
Ruby Dixon (other topics)
Molly Pine (other topics)
J.T. Geissinger (other topics)
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Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2026
As we step into a new year, take this chance to reconnect with yourself by focusing on what you love most. Revisit your favorite authors, genres, or comfort reads—the ones that remind you why you fell in love with reading in the first place. Let familiar words and well-loved stories ground you as you begin a new chapter.
To join, post a message telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, take a moment to check out the
Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information on how our challenges are run.
Thank you Lina for agreeing to lead this challenge.