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January
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (buddy)
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (buddy, Book Club)
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware (buddy)
February
March
April
May
June
Book List Part 2July
August
September
October
November
December
Popsugar
1. A book where gardening or a garden is central to the plot
2. A book that features a platonic friendship between a man and woman
3. A book you meant to read in 2025
4. A book that starts with the letter "Z"
5. A book about women astronauts
6. A book with an overweight main character whose story isn't about losing weight
7. A book about a granny hobby
8. A book about a sexless marriage
9. A book with a "type C" character
10. A book about a horse or with a horse on the cover
11. A book with a dad as the primary caregiver
12. A book with "pop" or "sugar" in the title
13. A book featuring a character with a hidden past
14. A book set in Michigan or written by an author from Michigan
15. A book about new beginnings
16. A book less than 260 pages
17. A book about your favorite event in the Winter Olympics
18. A love story that defies social boundaries
19. A book about teen angst
20. A book with a character who does Pilates or Lagree
21. A book about a bachelorette trip
22. A book about a book club
23. A book you were hoping would fit into a prompt but doesn't
24. A book about postpartum
25. A book that explores influencer culture
26. A book with a character who navigates infertility
27. A book with a character who has curly hair
28. A book about debt
29. A book that takes place during harvesting season
30. A travel ghost story
31. A book that makes you feel FOMO
32. A book with an underwater civilization
33. A book about college
34. A book with a trans or nonbinary protagonist
35. A book that makes you want to travel to Italy
36. A book about a mob (fiction or nonfiction)
37. A book about a pop star
38. A book with any type of fruit on the cover or in the title
39. A book with a character who runs a marathon
40. A book outside your comfort zone
41. A book in a different format than your usual: physical, audio, eBook
42. A book inspired by a real song, album, band, or artist
43. Two books written by real-life partners or spouses (1)
44. Two books written by real-life partners or spouses (2)
45. A book that features birding
46. A sapphic comic
47. A book told entirely through letters
48. A book with a shadow daddy
49. A book with a mention of your zodiac sign
50. A book about Afrofuturism
Prismatic Pages
Message 16
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January: Blue
February: Yellow
March: Gray
April: Green
May: Patterns (evenly colored or patterned covers)
Title word examples: shade, hue, ombre, stripe, dot
June: Pink
July: White
August: Orange
September: Purple
October: Black
November: Brown
December: Red
TBR Jar
Message 12
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Prompts
1. Sort your TBR by date added (the date you shelved it, not when the book was published). Read a book on the first page.
Carve the Mark
2. Sort your TBR by date added. Read a book on the last page.
3. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the first page.
Alchemised
4. Sort your TBR by number of pages. Read a book on the last page.
The Six Deaths of the Saint
5. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the first page.
Candide
6. Sort your TBR by publication date. Read a book on the last page.
7. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the first page.
The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
8. Sort your TBR by average rating. Read a book on the last page.
Wickedly Ever After: An Anthology of Retold Tales
9. Sort your TBR by number of ratings (the amount of people who have rated it, not the actual rating). Read a book on the first page.
Crime and Punishment
10. Sort your TBR by number of ratings. Read a book on the last page.
The Crossing
11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page.
1791: Mozart's Last Year
12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
Popsugar Z
13. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
Batman, Vol. 1: Failsafe
15. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the first page.
A Castle in Brooklyn
16. Randomize your TBR. Read a book on the last page.
Immortal Longings
Randomizer
1. Dreadful
2. The Last House Guest
3. Hide
4. Somewhere Beyond the Sea
5. The Measure
6. Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God
7. The Fishermen
8. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
9. Nevernight
10. Copland: Since 1943
11. The Three-Body Problem
12. With a Little Luck
13. Casper Tock and the Everdark Wings
14. Goodnight Beautiful
A-Z Awards
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A: Aurealis: Nevernight
B: British Fantasy Award: Voyage of the Damned
C:
D:
E:
F:
G: Goodreads Choice: Somewhere Beyond the Sea
H: Hugo: The Three-Body Problem
I: Ignotus Award: The Six Deaths of the Saint
J:
K:
L: Locus Award: Hammered
M:
N: NAACP Image: The Fishermen
O:
P: PEN: Snow Falling on Cedars
Q:
R:
S: Silver Falchion: The Next Mrs. Parrish
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U:
V:
W:
X:
Y:
Z: Szechenyi Prize (Hungary): Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Magical Mystery Tour
Message 8
Who: 0/7
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below fields.
1. Law (attorney, police, etc.)
2. Domestic (nanny, maid, etc.)
3. Performing Arts (theater, dance, etc.)
4. Religion (priest, rabbi, etc.)
5. Education (principal, teacher, etc.)
6. Visual Arts (painting, photography, etc.)
7. Finance (banking, accounting, etc.)
What: 0/7
What makes your case distinctive?
1. Gold in the cover art
2. A name in the title
3. A paranormal element
4. A tree or forest on the cover
5. A bird on the cover
6. Has a punny title
7. Written under a pseudonym
When: 0/7
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported (published)?
1. In autumn
2. In the daytime
3. In the 1900s
4. In the 2000s
5. Published in the decade you were born
6. During a business event
7. During a festival or holiday celebration
Where: 0/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
1. In or near a body of water
2. A school campus
3. In a forest
4. On the road
5. In a small town
6. On a train, plane, or boat
7. At a workplace
How: 0/7
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Why: 0/7
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. A favorite mystery author or series
2. A favorite mystery subgenre
3. On a Goodreads listopia (Which one?)
4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction (Which one?)
5. A challenged or banned crime book
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year)
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above
Bonus Cases: 0/8
After completing all 42 standard cases, you may become an Interpol Fugitive Investigator by solving a crime in each of the eight inhabited regions of the world.
1. Africa
2. Asia
3. Europe
4. Oceania
5. Caribbean
6. North America
7. Central America
8. South America
Serial ReaderActive
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✔️ Read 2026
Alex Carter by Alice Henderson
A Solitude of Wolverines
A Blizzard of Polar Bears
A Ghost of Caribou
The Vanishing Kind
Alex Stern by Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
Hell Bent
Dead Beat Sept 2026
Ambit's Run by L.M. Sagas
Cascade Failure
Gravity Lost
Angels of Elysium by Olivia Wildenstein
Feather
Celestial
Starlight
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Tales from the Café
Before Your Memory Fades
Before We Say Goodbye
Before We Forget Kindness
Before I Knew I Loved You 5/21/26
Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
From Blood and Ash
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
The Crown of Gilded Bones
The War of Two Queens
A Soul of Ash and Blood
The Primal of Blood and Bone
Cadfael by Ellis Peters
A Morbid Taste for Bones
One Corpse Too Many
Monk's Hood
Saint Peter's Fair
The Leper of Saint Giles
The Virgin in the Ice
The Sanctuary Sparrow
The Devil's Novice
Dead Man's Ransom
The Pilgrim of Hate
An Excellent Mystery
The Raven in the Foregate
The Rose Rent
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
The Confession of Brother Haluin
The Heretic's Apprentice
The Potter's Field
The Summer of the Danes
The Holy Thief
Brother Cadfael's Penance
Cal Hooper by Tana French
The Searcher
The Hunter
The Keeper 3/31/26
Crowns of Nyaxia by Carissa Broadbent
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
The Lion and the Deathless Dark
Fairendale by R.L. Toalson
The Secret
The Pursuit
The Crossing
The Dragons
The Aftermath
The Separation
The Boy Who Spun Gold
The Boy Who Robbed the Rich
Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
Forging Silver into Stars
Carving Shadows into Gold
Sparking Fire Out of Fate 1/27/26
Gethsemane Brown by Alexia Gordon
Murder in G Major
Death in D Minor
Killing in C Sharp
Fatality in F
Execution in E
Hawthorne & Horowitz by Anthony Horowitz
The Word is Murder
The Sentence is Death
A Line to Kill
The Twist of a Knife
Close to Death
A Deadly Episode 4/28/26
Hierarchy by James Islington
The Will of the Many
The Strength of the Few
Infinite Worlds by J.T. Wright
The Land of the Undying Lord
A Bond Broken
Moonlight Banishes Shadows
Brambles and Thorns
Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind
The Wise Man's Fear
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
The Narrow Road Between Desires
Gentleman Bastard by Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Red Seas Under Red Skies
The Republic of Thieves
The Thorn of Emberlain
Marrowbone Spells by Shannon Fay
Innate Magic
External Forces
Rabbits by Terry Miles
Rabbits
The Quiet Room
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Red Rising
Golden Son
Shadow of the Leviathan by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Tainted Cup
A Drop of Corruption
A Trade of Blood 6/9/26
Shelby Nichols by Colleen Helme
Carrots by Colleen Helme
Fast Money
Sisters of the Salt by Erin A. Craig
House of Salt and Sorrows
House of Roots and Ruin
Star Mother by Charlie N. Holmberg
Star Mother
Star Father
The Stonewater Kingdom by Rachel Gillig
The Knight and the Moth
The Knave and the Moon 9/1/26
Timeless by Gabrielle Meyer
When the Day Comes
In This Moment
For a Lifetime
Across the Ages
Every Hour Until Then
Through Each Tomorrow
Wayward Pines by Blake Crouch
Pines
Wayward
The Last Town
To Boldly GoPersonal Ongoing Challenge
Africa 13/54
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Asia: 15/51
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Europe: 29/45
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North America: 7/24
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Oceania: 9/15
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South America: 7/12
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US States 42/50
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2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Nevernight (other topics)The Three-Body Problem (other topics)
Voyage of the Damned (other topics)
The Six Deaths of the Saint (other topics)
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Jim Butcher (other topics)Rebecca Yarros (other topics)
Olivie Blake (other topics)
Serena Valentino (other topics)
Hank Green (other topics)
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