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I suggest you plan carefully when choosing your first book.

Read one book. When finished, choose another book that shares a feature - the setting, a genre, a character’s occupation. Finish this book, choose a feature from it…
How many books can you link?

For example:
1 The thirty nine steps - includes train journey
> on a train
2 Murder on the orient express - author Agatha Christie
> same author
3 Murder at the vicarage - village/small town location
> similar location
4 Anne of Green Gables

If you complete a chain, you may want to try a new chain to beat your previous score.

Question: I often read books outside of our time range or religious books like Daily Devotionals which probably won't fit here. I understand there is a sequence of events to the reading, but would I need to start a new chain if I read something outside the parameters? Couldn't I just not mention that book and keep going with the chain?


Here are books I had already planned for next year. It's likely I would read short stories in between though. At my reading speed that might take me through March:

British Author St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton (1923)
British Author - Gothic The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart (1962) 400 pages
Gothic - Historical Fiction A Cry of Angels by Jeff Fields (1974) 392 pages
Historical Fiction - set in Cornwall Jeremy Poldark (Poldark #3) by Winston Graham (1950)
Set in Cornwall - Romance Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (1941)
Romance - Young Adult Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery (1925)
Young Adult - Fantasy (or Science fiction) Dandelion Wine (1957)

Fantasy or Science Fiction - so many choices!

Lynn, I think that many of us read more than one book at a time to cover various challenges in different groups. Choose the books you want to read & just add the relevant ones to your chain. Take a break when you want, then continue - whatever works for you.

I’m very impressed by the chain you have listed.

Tr1sha wrote: "Lynn, I think that many of us read more than one book at a time to cover various challenges in different groups. Choose the books you want to read & just add the relevant ones to your chain. Take a..."

LOL Let's see if I actually read them! About half of those books were supposed to have been read in 2025 according to the original plans.

Lynn wrote: "Tr1sha wrote: "Lynn, I think that many of us read more than one book at a time to cover various challenges in different groups. Choose the books you want to read & just add the relevant ones to you..."

Plans? Yes, I’m over-optimistic when planning books. I’ve already signed up for too many challenges in 2026. There are so many books I want to read!

Book 1: The House in Lordship Lane by A.E.W. Mason
Mystery-British Author-French detective

Book 1.The Ohio River Trilogy by Zane Grey
Betty ZanebyZane Grey
✔7/1/26★ ★ ★ ★

Shared Feature:
Like Zane Gray,Laura Ingalls Wilder has based her story on her own family history.

Little Town on the Prairie: Little House, Book 7
⭐✔7/1/26★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Shared Feature:
This book is another in the same "Little House" series.

These Happy Golden YearsbyLaura Ingalls Wilder
⭐✔8/1/26★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Shared Feature :