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Individual Competitive Challenge
December 2025

This is a relatively simple challenge. You will just read books from your TBR. The competitive aspect comes from the fact that you are competing against other members. Each book will be worth points. See the chart below for the point value. There will be badges for the top 3 highest scorers. I will award them at the end of the month. Make sure you update your scores. I will give you an extra day to update your scores. Now go work on those TBRs!

Sample tracking post
Total Points: 4 pts

1. Fortune's Fool | 12/3/25 | 3 pts
2. Give and Hazard All | 12/4/25 | 1pt
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Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System


Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.

Theme Bonus
Theme: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Listopia Bonus
📕1 bonus point if your book is on the listopia list below (list provided by Listopia Madness September 3rd place winner: )
Holiday Horror Books

December Badges:

1st place:


2nd place:


3rd place:

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Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System
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Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.

Theme Bonus
Theme: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Listopia Bonus
📕1 bonus point if your book is on the listopia list below (list provided by Listopia Madness September 3rd place winner: )
Holiday Horror Books

Total Points:

1. Voyager | 1059pgs | 12/5 | Bonus: Winter Animals - Wolf “that is not a dog. It’s a wolf. It’s a bloody big wolf, and I think you ought to get away from it before it takes a bite out of your arse.” | 12 points total
2. You Can Run | 352 pgs |12/8 | Bonus: Winter Animals - Deer "Huck eyed a couple of deer on the side of the road, ready to slow down if one decided to jump across the road." | 5 points total
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Total Points: 17

TBR Busters: December 2025
Duration: December 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025

Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System


Theme Bonus
Theme: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Listopia Bonus
📕1 bonus point if your book is on the listopia list below (list provided by Listopia Madness September 3rd place winner: )
Holiday Horror Books

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✨🎄 TBR Busters: December 2025 🎄✨
Theme: Winter Animals
Total Points: 18

1. Eyes of Devious Burgundy - 127 pages | 1 Dec | 1 pt
2. Tempted by Deception - 348 pages | 4 Dec | 3 pt
3. Dead as a Doornail - 295 pages | 5 Dec | 1 pt
4. Krampus Kruk: Age Gap Dark Romance Christmas Novella - 129 pages | 6 Dec | 1 pt
5. Losing Neverland - 296 pages | 7 Dec | 1pt
6. Definitely Dead - 324 pages | 13 Dec | 3pts
7. The Place Where They Buried Your Heart - 320 pages | 14 Dec | 3pts
8. Crimson Abyss - 254 pages | 14 Dec | 1pt
9. Frost: A Monstrous Christmas Novella - 127 pages | 15 Dec | 1pt
10. Sweet Venom - 466 pages | 17 Dec | 3pts

Theme Bonus
Theme: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Listopia Bonus
📕1 bonus point if your book is on the Listopia list below (list provided by Listopia Madness September 3rd place winner: )
Holiday Horror Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...


Total Points: 1

✅1. Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon - | Dec 01 | 1 pt
✅2. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year - | Dec 03 | 3 pts
🌀3. Good Spirits - | | 3 pts

Points: 21

Hemlock & Silver
Graham BONUS
The Wallflower's Wassail Punch
Till Death Do Us Torte
Rogue Protocol
Baked to Death
Exiles
West With Giraffes
Murder on the Christmas Express
Chess Story
A Breaking of Realms BONUS

TBR Busters: December 2025

Individual Competitive Challenge
December 2025

(view spoiler)[Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System


Theme Bonus
Theme: Winter Animals
🦌Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Listopia Bonus
📕1 bonus point if your book is on the listopia list below (list provided by Listopia Madness September 3rd place winner: )
Holiday Horror Books

Legend:
🎯 - book planned, not started
🌀 - in progress
✅- done
(hide spoiler)]

Total Points: 92 pts

Books: (view spoiler)[
✅1. The Mistletoe Game | 12/1 | 1pt
✅2. Don't Look Now | 12/1 | 3 pts
✅3. What She Saw | 12/2 | 3 pts
✅4. The Fourth Protocol | 12/3 | 3 pts
✅5. Silent Knight | 12/3 | 1 pt
✅6. The Ghostwriter | 12/3 | 3 pts
✅7. Do No Harm | 12/4 | 5 pts
✅8. A Christmas Carol | 12/4 | 1pt + 📕 (1pt)
✅9. Snowblind | 12/4 | 1pt + 📕 (1pt)
✅10. The Family Game | 12/5 | 3 pts
✅11. The Firework Exploded | 12/5 | 1 pt - a few months late!! LOL
✅12. The Stolen Girls | 12/6 | 3 pts
✅13. Mortal Fear | 12/7 | 5 pts
✅14. Ginger Snapping All the Way | 12/7 | 1 pt
✅15. Caught Up | 12/9 | 3 pts
✅16. Devil's Own | 12/9 | 3 pts
✅17. How to Hack a Hellhound | 12/9 | 1 pt
✅18. A Jingle Bell Mingle | 12/10 | 3 pts
✅19. Prodigal Son | 12/11 | 3 pts
✅20. The Girl in the Tower | 12/11 | 3 pts + 🦌 (2 pts)
✅21. Dark Horse | 12/12 | 3 pts
✅22. Under Your Scars | 12/13 | 3 pts
✅23. The Broken Ones | 12/13 | 1 pt
✅24. Rain Will Come | 12/14 | 3 pts
✅25. My Favorite Holidate | 12/14 | 3 pts
✅26. Eye of the Needle | 12/14 | 3 pts
✅27. Killer Transaction | 12/15 | 1 pt
✅28. Priced to Kill | 12/15 | 1 pt
✅29. Matterhorn | 12/16 | 3 pts
✅30. Poison Wood | 12/16 | 3 pts
✅31. Hidden in Memories | 12/17 | 3 pts + 🦌 (2 pts)
✅32. Good Spirits | 12/17 | 3 pts
✅33. The Gods of Chaos and Chance | 12/17 | 3 pts
✅34. Hidden in Snow | 12/18 | 3 pts

🌀Hidden in Shadows | | 3 pts
🌀Sleepless Nights and Hockey Fights | | 3 pts

To keep myself sane, and not lose track - books completed, but were not on my TBR:
✅A Christmas Ghost Story - 12/2
✅The Tarot Reader - 12/5
✅Kissed by the Krampus - 12/7
✅Horrorstör - 12/8
✅The Matzah Ball - 12/8
✅The One and Only Ivan - 12/8
✅Love Letters to a Serial Killer - 12/12
✅Her First Mistake - 12/15
(hide spoiler)]

TBR Busters: December 2025
Duration: December 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025

Theme: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

📕1 bonus point if your book is on the listopia list below (list provided by Listopia Madness September 3rd place winner: )
Holiday Horror Books

Total Points: 58

1. A Christmas Carol, 184pgs, 12/1/25, 1pt + 2 Winter Animal (Bear), "a pig, or a cat, or a bear" +📕1 bonus point #3
2. Marley, 288pgs, 12/2/25, 1pt
3. The Hunting Party, 349pgs, 12/3/25, 3pts
4. The Stranger, 123pgs, 12/4/25, 1pt
5. The Mad Wife, 352pgs, 12/6/25, 3pts
6. The Nightmare Before Kissmas 357pgs, 12/7/25, 3pts + 2 Winter Animal Bonus, “…scenes of Santas and reindeer”
7. The Frozen River, 448pgs, 12/9/25, 3pts + 2 Winter Animal Bonus, "...silver fox in these woods"
8. Broken Harbor, 450pgs, 12/10/25, 3pts, + 2 Winter Animal Bonus, "That's a fox or something...
9. Lust & Wonder, 304pgs, 12/11/25, 3pts
10. Close to Death, 432pgs, 12/12/25, 3pts + 2 Winter Animal Bonus, "birds hadn't begun their infernal dawn chorus..."
11. Imperial Bedrooms, 169pgs, 12/12/25, 1pt + 2 Winter Animal Bonus "she called me a Fox"
12. The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom, 320pgs, 12/14/25, 3pts
13. Ignite Me, 416pgs, 12/14/25, 3pts
14. The Snow Child, 386pgs, 12/15/25, 3pts + 2 Winter Animal Bonus, "She hunts with a red fox at her side"
15. Predator, 406pgs, 12/16/25, 3pts
16. The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays, 224pgs, 12/16/25, 1pt
17. Forget Me Not, 325pgs, 12/17/25, 3pts + 2 Winter Animal Bonus, "...fox I saw by the marsh"

Books Read From TBR List(s): 13
Total Points: 50

TRACKING:
(1.) To Ravish a Rogue | 302 p. | 1 Dec | 3 pts | (3)
(2.) How to Marry a Marble Marquis | 216 p. | 2 Dec | 1 pts | (4)
(3.) Twist | 256 p. | 2 Dec | 1 pts | (5)
(X.) A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis | 297 p. | 12.3 | 0 pts - started prior to Dec.
(4.) Flights | 415 p. | 4 Dec | 3 pts | +2 🐑 "ewes give birth in the fields, in the winter, in the snow, and all the farmers do is arrange large vehicles to cart off the frozen lambs."(10)
(5.) A Christmas Carol | 112 p. | 4 Dec | 1 pt. | + 1 📕 #3 on Holiday Horror List | *+ 2 🐴 multiple references to carts and coaches imply the almost omnipresence of horses in outdoor scenes navigating snowy London Streets on Christmas in past, present and future. (14)
(6.) Through the Snow Globe | 306 p. | 6 Dec | 3 pts. (17)
(7.) Brimstone | 668 p. | 7 Dec. | 5 pts | + 2 🦊 Saeris has a pet [arctic?] fox named Onyx whom she found in the snow in an earlier book (24)
(8.) Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class | 303 p. | 8 Dec | 3 pt. | (27)
(9.) Anathema | 690 p. | 9 Dec | 5 pt. | + 2 🐦‍⬛ Maev finds the egg of Raivox buried in the snow (34)
(10.) The Greatest Game: The Montreal Canadiens, the Red Army, and the Night That Saved Hockey | 346 p. | 11 Dec | 3 pt. | + 2 (39)
(X.) The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball | 320 p. | 12 Dec | 0 pts - not on TBR.
(X.) Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid | 371 p. | 13 Dec | 0 pts - not on TBR.
(11.) Break Her Heart | 370 p. | 14 Dec | 3 pt. | + 2 🐎 horses escape barn fire and are forced to flee into the snow (44)
(X.) Game Changer by Rachel Reid | 400 p. | 15 Dec | 0 pts - not on TBR.
(12.)Born for Lace | 444 p. | 16 Dec | 3 pt. | (47)
(13.)Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America | 336 p. | 17 Dec | 3 pt. | (50)
(14.)Your Knife, My Heart | 304 p. | ? Dec | 3 pt. | +2 🐈‍⬛ team encounters a cougar stalking them in Alaska tundra (55)
(15.) My Blade, Your Back | 370 p. | ? Dec | 3 pt. | (58)
(16.) Leave Me Behind | 465 p. | ? Dec | 3 pt. | (61)


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(view spoiler)[Higher Priority [of multiple too long TBR Lists]:
(?.) Eldritch | 766 p. | ? Dec | 7 pt. | + 2 🐦‍⬛ (43)
(?.) Perfect : The Inside Story of Baseball's Sixteen Perfect Games | 292 p. | ? Dec | 1 pt. | + ? (?)
(?.) Wolf Hall | 614 p. | 12.? | 5 pts | + ? (?)

📚Kindle:📖
LT's Windy City Series

📚Library Loans:📖
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation | 336 p. | ? Nov | (?) (IN PROGRESS BUT WON'T COUNT STARTED BEFORE MONTH)
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Twist
The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York

📚For GR Groups:📖
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis | 540 p. | ? Nov | 0 pts | (?) (IN PROGRESS BUT WON'T COUNT STARTED BEFORE MONTH)
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
A Christmas Carol

📚Contemplated:📖
Is there no place on earth for me? Susan Sheehan
Or the Denial of Death
Don Quiote
ursula Le Guin
Garlic and saffies
Flagrant flowers with dignity
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (hide spoiler)]

my spot

TBR Busters: December 2025

Theme Bonus
Theme: Winter Animals

1. Megalodon in Paradise by Hunter Shea - 12/1/25 - 244 Pages - 1 Point
2. Into the Fire by Jeaniene Frost - 12/3/25 - 340 Pages - 3 points
3. Kaijunaut by Doug Goodman - 12/4/25 - 154 Pages - 1 Point
4. Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde - 12/6/25 - 362 Pages - 3 Points
5. Real Murders by Charlaine Harris - 12/7/25 - 290 Pages - 1 Point
6. The Unremembered Girl by Eliza Maxwell - 12/10/25 - 334 Pages - 3 Points
7. Girl, Alone by Blake Pierce - 12/11/25 - 211 pages - 1 point
8. After the Rain: Virginia's Civil War Diary by Mary Pope Osborne - 12/11/25 - 112 Pages - 1 Point
9. A Time to Dance by Mary Pope Osborne - 12/12/25 - 112 Pages - 1 point
10. Very Superstitious: Myths, Legends and Tales of Superstition by Georgia McBride - 12/15/25 - 200 Pages - 1 Point
11. I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 by Lauren Tarshis - 12/15/25 - 12 Pages - 1 Point
13. Blood Fury by J.R. Ward - 12/18/25 - 411 pages - 3 Points


Total Points - 20

TBR NOV 30 0/2405 ( some books maybe on multiple lists goodread , libby , hoopla audible , kindle, physical ... not counting audible only )

DNF =
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theme : WINTER ANIMALS

TBR Busters: December 2025

Individual Competitive Challenge
December 2025

Point System
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Total Points:

Books:
1. The Doc's Christmas Miracle by S. A. Stolin - 194 pages - 1 point
2. You Must Remember This by Kat Rosenfield - 320 pages - 3 points
3. Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen - 288 pages - 1 point
4. Matching All the Way by Veronica Eden - 384 pages - 3 points
5. Run for Your Life, Callie Kingman by Alli Frank & Asha Youmans - 304 pages - 3 points
6. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb - 768 pages - 7 points
7. Burning State by Rob Sinclair - 384 pages - 3 points
8. Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda - 368 pages - 3 points
9. The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky - 320 pages - 3 points
10. Breaking the Billionaire's Rules by Annika Martin - 420 pages - 3 points
11. Christmas at the Little Bookshop by the Sea by Eliza J. Scott - 337 pages - 3 points
12. Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty - 378 pages - 3 points
13. A Merry Little Lie by Sarah Morgan - 304 pages - 3 points
14. The Ring by Danielle Steel - 482 pages - 3 points
15. Ten Christmases Without You by Jenny Hale - 285 pages - 1 point
16. After Ever Happy by Anna Todd - 512 pages - 5 points
17. Heartsong by S.E. Wendel - 448 pages - 3 points
18. How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by Meghan Quinn - 482 pages - 3 points
19. Trail Rides and Starry Eyes by Katrina Emmel - 288 pages - 1 point
20. Write Me for You by Tillie Cole - 331 pages - 3 points
21. Hope Blooms in Tuppenny Bridge by Sharon Booth - 287 pages - 1 point
22. The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 157 pages - 1 point
23. A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone - 432 pages - 3 points
24. The Baby Dragon Bakery by Aamna Qureshi - 329 pages - 3 points
25. The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Susan Wiggs - 256 pages - 1 point
26. The Haunting of Heliotrope Lane by Carolyn Keene - 176 pages - 1 point
27. 'Tis the Damn Season by Kimi Freeman - 326 pages - 3 points
28. A Ferry Merry Christmas by Debbie Macomber - 272 pages - 1 point
29. Christmas with the Knights by Hannah Langdon - 332 pages - 3 points
30. Famous Mistakes by Carolyn Keene - 176 pages - 1 point
31. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder - 243 pages - 1 point
32. A Very Irish Christmas by Debbie Johnson - 308 pages - 3 points
33. All I Want from Santa by Lisa Jackson -320 pages - 3 points
34. Crave by Tracey Wolff - 575 pages - 5 points
35. The Mistletoe Kisser by Lucy Score - 311 pages - 3 points
36. Yours for the Season by Kate Cochrane - 352 pages - 3 points
37. Spirit of the Season by Fern Michaels - 256 pages - 1 point
38. The Plight Before Christmas by Kate Stewart - 370 pages - 3 points
39. The Christmas Ring by Karen Kingsbury - 208 pages - 1 point
40. The Sleight Before Christmas by Kate Stewart - 240 pages - 1 point
41. Christmas at Glitter Peak Lodge by Kjersti Herland Johnsen - 400 pages - 3 points
42. The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer - 416 pages - 3 points


Total points: 106

TBR Busters: December 2025
Duration: December 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025

Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed


Theme Bonus
Theme: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.


Total Points:

1.Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross- 6.12.025 - 368 Pages - 3 Point
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My spot

Running total: 7 points

1. Dragon Chained - Kenley Davidson - 3/12 - 244 pages- 1 point
2. Blood and Buttercups - Shari L. Tapscott - 5/12 - 334 pages - 3 points
3. The Wolf Vs The Warlock - Lauretta Hignett - 7/12 - 314 pages- 3 points



Pages = Pts
100-300 = 1 pts
301 - 500 = 3 pts
501 - 700 = 5 pts
701 - 900 = 7 pts
901+ = 10 pts

In! 😁

Total points: 102


1. Christmas Eve at Cranberry Cross - 3 points + a white cat named Christmas + 2 points
2. Finding Jupiter - 3 points
3. Wind and Truth - 10 points
4. A Pelican at Blandings - 1 point
5. Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North - 1 point
6. Red Sister - 3 points + white bears & snow wolves + 2 points
7. The Wild Robot - 1 point
8. A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts - 3 points
9. Babylon’s Ashes - 5 points
10. The Far Pavilions - 10 points
11. Mania - 1 point
12. The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso - 7 points
13. The Malevolent Eight - 3 points
14. Inferno - 1 point
15. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones - 3 points
16. The Reader - 1 point
17. Sons and Lovers - 5 points
18. Home Before Night - 3 points
19. Somewhere Beyond the Sea - 3 points
20. Underland: A Deep Time Journey 3 points + "fox, wildcat and wolf" loc 647 + 2 points
21. A Closed and Common Orbit - 3 points
22. Clytemnestra - 3 points
23. A Summer Fling - 3 points
24. The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories - 1
25. The Shadows of London - 3 points + "inquisitive cows and startled foxes" + 2 points
26. Home - 3 points
27. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion - 3 points + deer on p147 + 2 points
28. Pride & Prejudice and Planets - 3 points

TBR Busters: December 2025
Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
Theme Bonus: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.
Listopia Bonus
📕1 bonus point if your book is on the listopia list below
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Pages = Pts
100-300 = 1 pts
301 - 500 = 3 pts
501 - 700 = 5 pts
701 - 900 = 7 pts
901+ = 10 pts

Total Points: 30

Books
1. Fighting the Pull ~ 12/01 ~ 376 pgs | 3 pts
2. Storm ~ 12/01 ~ 286 pgs. | avoiding deer causes crash | 1 +2= 3pts
3. The Marriage Game ~ 12/07 ~ 338 pgs | 3 pts.
4. Tis the Season for Revenge ~ 12/07 ~ 322 | 3 pts.
5. HOLDING ~ 12/10 ~ 242 pgs | 1 pt
6. A Very Merry Mistake 12/10 ~ 384 pgs | 3pts
7. Forbidden Puckboy 12/11 ~274 pgs | 1pt
8. Shiver 12/13 ~ 340 pgs | 3 pts

TBR Busters, December 2025

Challenge Rules
(view spoiler)[📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System


Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.

Theme Bonus
Theme: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Listopia Bonus
📕1 bonus point if your book is on the listopia list below (list provided by Listopia Madness September 3rd place winner: )
Holiday Horror Books (hide spoiler)]

Points
(view spoiler)[75 through book 21 (hide spoiler)]

Books
(view spoiler)[December 1
1. Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor 400 | wolf, sheep, and other animals are mentioned as part of decorations on brickwork | 2 + 3 = 5 pt
2. The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold by Cate Holahan 340 | 3 pt
December 2
3. League of Dragons (Temeraire, #9) by Naomi Novik 398 | the dragons eat wild goats and deer | 2 + 3 = 5 pt
4. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg 375 | 3 pt
December 3 - 0
December 4 - 0
December 5
5. Born in a Burial Gown (DI Avison Fluke, #1) by M.W. Craven 352 | p 113 "Foxes prowled, owls hunted and the occasional deer came to nibble on the tender shoots of young trees." | 2 + 3 = 5 pt
6. Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) by Larry McMurtry 1,082 | horses and cattle are practically characters in this book | 10 + 3 = 13 pt
7. The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Continued by Charlie Lovett 107 | 1 pt
8. Bah, Humbug! (Christmas Street, #1)) by Heather Horrocks 108 | 1 pt
9. Christmas at Gate 18 by Amy Matayo 101 | 1 pt
10. The Clue in the Patchwork Quilt (Judy Bolton Mysteries, #14) by Margaret Sutton 232 | 1 pt
December 6
11. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz 432 | 3 pts
12. Double Cross (Alex Cross, #13) by James Patterson 401 | 3 pts
December 7
13. Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14) by Patricia Cornwell 464 | 3 pts
December 8
14. Redshirts by John Scalzi 320 | 3 pts
December 9
15. Midnight Rainbow by Linda Howard 248 | 1 pt
December 10
16. The Women by Kristin Hannah 480 | 3 pts
December 11
17. One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2) by Karen M. McManus 377 | 3 pts
18. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) by Martha Wells 158 | 1 pt
December 12
19. Cold, Cold Bones (Temperance Brennan, #21) by Kathy Reichs 352 | 3 pts
20. Marley by Jon Clinch 304 | 3 pts
December 13
21. Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien 208 | A polar bear (named Polar Bear) is one of the main characters. | 1 pt + 2 = 3 pts (hide spoiler)]

TBR Busters: December 2025

Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
Theme Bonus: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.
Listopia Bonus
📕1 bonus point if your book is on the listopia list below
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...


Pages = Pts
100-300 = 1 pts
301 - 500 = 3 pts
501 - 700 = 5 pts
701 - 900 = 7 pts
901+ = 10 pts

Total Points: 19

Books

Bright Winter Lights 128 pgs 12/1/25 1 pt
On a Night Like This 128 pgs 12/3/25 1 pt
Walking in a Witchy Wonderland 211 pgs 12/4/25 1 pt
Rejoice, Dammit 137 pg 12/7/25
His Boss's Little Christmas 161 pgs 12/5/25 1 pt
Once Upon a Second Chance 166 pgs 12/9/25 1 pt
The Paper Magician 222 pgs 12/9/25 1 pt
Defrosting Jack 205 pgs 12/11/25 1 pt
Christmas Kane 109 pgs 12/12/25 1 pt
The Bear and the Nightingale 370 pgs 12/12/25 3 pts
The Nightmare Before Kissmas 357 pgs 12/14 3 pts
Her First Mistake 347 pgs 12/17 3 pts
Silent Night 130 pgs 12/18/25 1 pg

Tbr Busters December 2025 = 19pts

1. Howl’s Moving Castle 329 pages 12/2/2025 - 3pts
2. B is for Burglar 320 pages 12/3/2025 - 3pts
3. Tempting Evil 371 pages 12/4/2025 - 3pts
4. Blackmail and Bibingka 270 pages 12/5/2025 - 1pt
5. The House in the Cerulean Sea 398 pages 12/8/2025 - 3pts
6. My Friends 448 pages 12/9/2025 - 3pts
7. Kitty's House of Horrors 304 pages 12/11/2025 - 3pts

TBR Busters: December 1-31, 2025

12/02 Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate[347]❤❤❤
12/05 The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires #1) by Lauren Asher[363]❤❤❤
12/08 Terms and Conditions (Dreamland Billionaires #2) by Lauren Asher[300]❤❤❤
12/11 A Dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden[432]❤❤❤
12/13 A Promise of Peridot by Kate Golden[464]❤❤❤
12/15 The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin[416]❤❤❤
12/18 Faebound by Saara El-Arifi[386]❤❤❤

In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros[540]❤❤❤❤❤

HOLDS
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown[384]❤❤❤
Things We Hide from the Light (Knockemout#2) by Lucy Score[755]❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Things We Left Behind (Knockemout#3) by Lucy Score[581]❤❤❤❤❤
Final Offer (Dreamland Billionaires #3) by Lauren Asher[583]❤❤❤❤❤
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis[425]❤❤❤

TBR Busters: December 1-31, 2025
Total points: 7

1. A Sociedade Supersecreta de Bruxas Rebeldes - 3 points
2. A Teia da Aranha - 1 point
3. Antes que o Café Esfrie - 1 point
4. O Retrato de Dorian Gray - 1 point
5. Sempre Vivemos no Castelo - 1 point

TBR Busters: December 2025

Theme: Winter Animals
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Total Points: 7

1. My Sister's Daughter - 112 pages - 1 point
2. Do Your Worst - 318 pages - 3 points
3. 13 Months Haunted - 384 pages - 3 points
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