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Hey yoooooooo. Yes I know I have WAY too many categories, and I won't come close to finishing this, but boy are lists SO much fun to make! =)

I am saving a bunch of slots because I am still finalizing my lists, but I look forward to feedback and for people to cheer me on while I attempt this ridiculousness haha

My Challenges for the 2026 Individual:

-"Sorry I Missed You!"
-Books w houses/cabins on cover
-Old as F- Books Added to GR in 2015
-Middle Grade
-Funny Sounding Titles
-Cozy Mysteries/Fantasys
-Sav's Recs
-Nonfiction/Memoirs
-States (started in 2023)
-Possibly 1-2 more??

Also Challenges I will be participating (in separate threads within this group)

-Series
-Tomes

Happy Reading All!!

"Sorry I Missed You!"
Books from authors I love that I haven't gotten to reading yet

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CURRENTLY READING

1. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
2. Can't Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan
3. Under Her Care by Lucinda Berry
4. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
5. The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
6. The Marriage Act by John Marrs
7. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
8. An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
9. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
10. His & Hers by Alice Feeney
11. Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
12. The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
13. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
14. The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
15. After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Cover Challenge- Books with houses or cabins on the cover

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CURRENTLY READING

1. The Beach Hut by Leah Pitt
2. Dark Hollows by Steve Frech
3. Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
4. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
5. The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
6. Love and Lattes at Pumpkin Hollow by Victoria Walters
7. What She Saw by Mary Burton
8. The Italian Daughter by Soraya M. Lane
9. The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
10.

"Old as F***"
Books I added to my Goodreads TBR from 2015

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CURRENTLY READING

1. Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah
2. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
3. Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
4. We Are All Made of Stars by Rowan Coleman
5. Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
6. Those Girls by Chevy Stevens
7. The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
8. I Was Here by Gayle Forman
9. Native Son by Richard Wright
10.

Middle Grade Novels
Just because we are adults doesn't mean we can't enjoy and learn from books meant for a younger audience!

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CURRENTLY READING

1. Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
2. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
3. Root Magic by Eden Royce
4. Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
5. Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
6. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
7. Coyote Lost and Found by Dan Gemeinhart
8. The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead
9. The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
10. The Midnight Children
11. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
12. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
13. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
14. Summerlost by Ally Condie
15. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Funny Titles
Books whose titled made me laugh or do a double take

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CURRENTLY READING

1. How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson
2. You'd Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace
3. Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes
4. How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent
5. A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley
6. None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa
7. Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
8. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
9. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
10. Dating After the End of the World by Jeneva Rose

Blanket Books
aka Cozy Mystery/Fantasy

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CURRENTLY READING

1. The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
2. The Cinnamon Bun Book Store by Laurie Gilmore
3. Secrets in the Stacks by Lynn Cahoon
4. The Baby Dragon Café by Aamna Qureshi
5. Secrets, Spells & Murder by Janni Nell
6. Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates by Kathy Aarons
7. The Ghost and the Dead Deb by Alice Kimberly
8. Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlay
9. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
10. On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle

Sav's Recs!
More books from my favorite bookworm influencer

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CURRENTLY READING

1. Keeping 13 by Chloe Walsh
2. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
3. Passion Project by London Sperry
4. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
5. Out of the Woods by Hannah Bonam-Young
6. Heartless by Elsie Silver
7. In the Weeds by B.K. Borison
8. All the Missing Pieces by Catherine Cowles
9. You, Again by Kate Goldbeck
10. Just My Type by Falon Ballard
11. Collide by Bal Khabra
12. Wild Love by Elsie Silver
13. Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
14. Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
15. Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan

Memoirs/Nonfiction
Always my largest category for good reason- SO many amazing stories I want to read and learn about

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CURRENTLY READING

1. Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
2. Compassion in the Court: Life-Changing Stories from America's Nicest Judge
3. The House from Hell: The True Story of Gertrude Baniszewski One of America’s Most Notorious Torture Mom
4. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
5. Are You Mad at Me?
6. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
7. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
8. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
9. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
10. 107 Days
11. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
12. Men Who Hate Women
13. Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
14. The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys
15. The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
16. by Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
17. The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
18. Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
19. Mother Mary Comes to Me
20. That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
21. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
22. Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
23. Sociopath
24. The Last Hart Beating: From the Dungeon to WWE
25. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
26. Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
27. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
28. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist
29. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
30. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
31. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
32. The Bell Witch: An American Haunting
33. The Year of Magical Thinking
34. The Fire Next Time
35. Parkland: Birth of a Movement
36. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
37. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
38. A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
39. Born Survivors
40. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

States Challenge

(started in 2023)- I chose 1 book for each state (plus Puerto Rico & Washington DC) where the story takes place! I will keep this list open until all states are complete.

18/52 Completed

CURRENTLY READING

Alabama Midnight at the Blackbird Café
Alaska The Simple Wild COMPLETED 5/24/25- 4 STARS
Arizona 24 Hours in Nowhere
Arkansas A Painted House
California Parable of the Sower COMPLETED 3/20/24- 4 STARS
Colorado All Rhodes Lead Here COMPLETED 4/19/24- 3 STARS
Connecticut All Your Perfects COMPLETED 2/12/24- 4.5 STARS
Delaware Sunburn COMPLETED 9/38/25- 3.5 STARS
Florida The Nickel Boys COMPLETED 2/20/24- 3.5 STARS
Georgia When Stars Rain Down
Hawaii Summer Bird Blue
Idaho Walk Two Moons
Illinois The Revolution of Birdie Randolph COMPLETED 7/30/25-3.5 STARS
Indiana All Good People Here COMPLETED 1/13/25- 3 STARS
Iowa Little Mercies
Kansas Kill Creek
Kentucky Prodigal Summer
Louisiana Out of the Easy
Maine Olive Kitteridge
Maryland Mary Jane
Massachusetts The Huntress
Michigan Amelia Unabridged COMPLETED 5/5/24- 5 STARS
Minnesota The Lager Queen of Minnesota COMPLETED 10/19/25- 3 STARS
Mississippi The Girls in the Stilt House
Missouri The Weight of Blood
Montana The Flood Girls
Nebraska The Lincoln Highway
Nevada Made in the U.S.A. COMPLETED 5/23/24- 4.5 STARS
New Hampshire The Lake Season
New Jersey Gone for Good
New Mexico Summer of Fear COMPLETED 6/5/25- 3 STARS
New York The Price of Salt
North Carolina The Moonshiner's Daughter
North Dakota The Round House COMPLETED 11/19/25- 3 STARS
Ohio The Female of the Species
Oklahoma The Long and Faraway Gone
Oregon Geek Love
Pennsylvania The House of Eve
Puerto Rico Olga Dies Dreaming
Rhode Island The Survivors Club COMPLETED 8/12/25-3.5 STARS
South Carolina The House on Tradd Street
South Dakota Winter Counts
Tennessee If You Find Me COMPLETED 3/8/24- 3.5 STARS
Texas Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Utah Autoboyography
Vermont The Drowning Kind
Virginia Bearskin COMPLETED 1/6/25- 3 STARS
Washington Simply Irresistible
Washington DC The Pelican Brief
West Virginia Intercepts COMPLETED 10/31/25 STARS
Wisconsin Homeland Elegies
Wyoming You Shouldn't Have Come Here COMPLETED 8/1/24- 2.5 STARS

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As I go through your list, I'm amazed at how many authors I've never even tried before. I've enjoyed 10 - 15ish I believe, but you've got such variety. One book, Walk Two Moons I read to my two girls when I was going through a divorce and as I got to the end, it just broke me up.. Such a great story. Anyway, I got sidetracked. Enjoy all of your selections, Alissa.