Play Book Tag discussion

If you are interested in being eligible for the raffle and/or receiving participation points for your Play Harder reading, please indicate below how many lists you have completed (if you are done with the challenge - - there's still time).

I will be spot checking at random to make sure the reporting is accurate, but it will be very helpful for me to have everything in one place.

I will be awarding the participation points in early January as well as having the drawing.

Just a reminder that no matter how many lists you completed, the maximum number of lottery entries you will receive is 4. But you will get participation points (20) for each and every completed list!

I finished 1 list

I made it through 6 lists. Such fun! Thanks for the game.

I finished ONE list.

LINK to my completion report

I finished 2 lists

I finished 3 lists and I am 9/12 on the fourth. I do see that there are many who published their lists when requesting another, but I never did that. For Spot Checking, all four lists are on Amy's Challenges 2025 where you will see four Play Harder Lists and 20 Compass Trips.

I finished 3 lists and am about 8/12 on my fourth and last so I think I will finish with time to spare in December. This was my first challenge, since I joined this year and it was fun to work the prompts around my TBR

I finished 3 and am working on a 4th, at about 5.5/12. Should easily finish it in December. You can spot check at Theresa's official PH tracking

I finished 3 lists and only need 2 more books on the 4th, which I will definitely get.

I finished 3 lists.

You can find my completion report here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I finished 1 list.

I actually read all the books needed to complete my second list in March but it was a tough time and I never managed the reviews. Hoping for a better 2026.

I finished one list. I don't think I'm going to finish the 7 books needed to finish lsit two in December.

By the end of this year, I will have completed 14 lists. I'm on #14 now and will definitely finish it.

I completed my one list: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Finished 5
Will have 6

I have completed 20 lists and a total of 243 books.

Link to Olivermagnus' Play Harder Tracking

As I end up saying every year, PBT has the best challenges every year, as well as the best moderators, who give up so much personal time to run the challenges.

Olivermagnus wrote: "
As I end up saying every year, PBT has the best challenges every year, as well as the best mode..."

Awww, thank you for these kind words!! So appreciated. 20 lists is mind blowing!!! It's so much fun when members embrace the challenges.

I finished 2, I expect to finish my 3rd before the end of December - just a few prompts to go.

Completed list #3 on 12/8/25

I am very pleased that I was able to take some books that have been on my TBR mountain way too long because of this challenge.

I finished 2 lists

Link to my tracking page:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I finished 2 lists. I really enjoyed this challenge. I read some books out of my comfort zone and got a lot off of my TBR shelf.

Link to my tracking page--https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Finished my 4th list: I have entered them all in the Shelving thread already -

1. A book where a featured character has a pet that isn't a cat or a dog - Hollow Kingdom (crow)- 11/10
2. A book where the author's name includes a middle initial - The Infidel Stain- M.J. Carter 10/28
3. The book's title contains the word Sun or Moon (plural or compound words allowed) - The Sunset Sovereign: A Dragon's Memoir - 11/6
X4. A book set in a world capital (any country's capital city) -The House of Eve (Washington DC) - 10/4
5. The title or subtitle contains the word "New" - New Girl in Little Cove - 12/14
6. Read a book with an ordinal number in the title (e.g., First, Second, Third, Fourth, etc.) - The Second Chance Year 12/14
7. A book you would recommend to your grandmother (or someone of her generation) - Behind Every Good Man - 10/6
8. A book with a main character is a journalist or journalistic photographer - fiction or non-fiction. Swapped for A nonfiction book related to your work or job - The Importance of Emma Goldman - 12/2
9. Read a book that starts with the last letter of the last book you read - Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet - read after American Daughters - 11/15
X10. A book with less than 3,000 ratings on Goodreads - Autumn Means Marriage... and Murder -9/30
x11. An author's second published book - The Likeness - 10/9
x12. A book with a geometric shape in title - Four Squares - 10/2

On my last book for list four....

I completed 2 lists.

Here is the link to my tracking page:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I just finished my 3rd and final list for the year.

This has been a really fun game!!

I completed 14 lists (thought I had posted this but maybe put it in the wrong place).

Done - Amy has completed Four Lists! Really enjoyed the challenge, thank you!

I finished 15 lists. I really enjoyed this challenge, so than you for all of the hard work you put into making it so much fun, Anita.

This is the link to my tracking page: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Just made it through 1 list.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

glad to have something to focus my reading

Completed list 4, final for 2025. Happy Holidays, everyone.

1. Read a book where a character is on a quest
✅ John Myers Myers - Silverlock ; review
2. Read a light book
✅ Nicholson Baker - Traveling Sprinkler ; review
3. Read a book by an author who's written more than 15 books
✅ Iris Murdoch - The Nice and the Good ; review
4. A book featuring first contact
✅ Adrian Tchaikovsky - Alien Clay ; review
5. A book set in a vineyard or area known for its vineyards
✅ Cesare Pavese - The House on the Hill ; review
6. Read a book set in another country
✅ Teru Miyamoto – Kinshu: Autumn Brocade ; review
7. A book set primarily in a state or province bordering The Great Lakes
✅ J Ryan Stradal – Kitchens of the Great Midwest ; review
8. A book published in the year you joined PBT
✅ Thomas Pynchon – Shadow Ticket ; review
9. A book that fits hip, hippy or hipster
✅ Richard Brautigan – Sombrero Fallout ; review
10. A book with a bird on the cover.
✅ Tom Robbins – Still Life with Woodpecker ; review
11. Read a book that could fit solarpunk, cyberpunk or steampunk.
✅ Nick Harkaway – Titanium Noir ; review
12. Read a book about a U.S. President
✅ Caleb Carr - The Alienist ; review

Link to my activity tracking page: Algernon's 2025

I finished 2 lists

Link to my tracking page:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Finished my 4th list today! Therfore I have completed 4 lists.

However due to both GR posting issues and connectivity issues - both internet and mobile connection keep being interrupted as I try liading my review and updating tracking. That will all have to wait until I get home this weekend. I am traveling tomorrow.

Here is 4th and final list, some tracking missing:

Fourth List

🏁1. Read a story set on one of the Sugar Islands in the Caribbean pre-1920 - such as Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, more. Set in Jamaica - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - Review - Monthly tag - recommended 43x
🏁2. Read a book about a hometown or home state athlete SWAP Read a book that is a travel essay or memoir. Silk Route Adventure: On Horseback in the Heart of Asia by Claire Burges Watson - Review - no tag match
🏁3. Read a book about women's rights or women's suffrage - The Mistress of Bhatia House by Sujata Massey - women's rights especially over their bodies, medical care and childbirth, in 1920s India - Review - no tag match
🏁4. A book about peace, love, or understanding - Poison Oracle by Peter Dickinson - cultural and lingual understanding - Review - no tag match
🏁5. A book written by an author or artist of The Lost Generation - This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Review - Monthly tag 12x
🏁6. Read a book either published in or set in the Victorian period - Murder by Lamplight by Patrice McDonough - set in London, November 1866 - Review - no tag match
🏁7. Read a book with stripes on the cover - - Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau - Review - no monthly tag
🏁8. Read a book that matches the monthly tag from last year. For example, in January, reading a book tagged Historical Mystery. China Trade by S.J. Rozan - December 2024 was mystery-suspense tagged 13x - Review - no monthly tag.
🏁9. A retelling of myth, fable, fairy tale, folklore, or legend - The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty - arabian nights, sinbad, pirates, more - Review - no monthly tag match
🏁10. A book set primarily in a house, apartment, or other residence - Towards Zero by Agatha Christie - Gull Cottage, a British seaside 'cottage' really a mansions - Review - tag match british literature 31x
🏁11. A book about a lost city or civilization (real or fiction) - In Search of King Solomon's Mines by Tahir Shah - No monthly tag match.
🏁12. A book featuring an academic, scientific, or athletic rivalry - Braking Points by Tammy Kaehler - athletic - car racing and definitely a rivalry or three - Review - no monthly tag

Here is link to my tracking