2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge

message 1: by Martha☀ (last edited Dec 18, 2025 02:07PM) (new)

Dec 10, 2025 02:09PM

2026 Goals

1. 104+ books
2. 48% non-fiction (49+)
3. Review every book read
4. Read 80+ from TBR
5. Focus on reading books I own

Personal Challenges
✍️Find my reviews here...

Reading Challenges Group
⏰TBR Jar
⏳Clear the Shelf

ATY Challenges
🗓️Around the Year in 52 Fiction Books
🤥Around the Year in 52 Non-Fiction Books

BT Challenges
🧹Dusty Dozen
🎰Genre Challenge
📙Cover Bingo

📚 ⏰️ ✅️ ❌️ ⭐️ 🔲

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message 2: by Martha☀ (new)

Dec 10, 2025 03:25PM

2025 Bookshelf
XX/104

JANUARY [X]

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message 3: by Martha☀ (last edited Dec 10, 2025 04:03PM) (new)

Dec 10, 2025 03:28PM

⏰TBR Jar Books⏰
message #24
XX/80

fiction
46 of these 54

Air
The All of It
All Our Yesterdays
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me: A Novel
Barbara Isn't Dying Yet
Beautyland
The Bee Sting
The Bird Hotel
Bread Alone
Cahokia Jazz
Cape Fever
The Compound
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
The Eighth Detective
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Extinctions
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
(view spoiler)

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message 4: by Martha☀ (last edited Dec 10, 2025 04:16PM) (new)

Dec 10, 2025 03:29PM

🧹BT Dusty Dozen Challenge🧹
Random number will be drawn each month. Read corresponding book.
message #24

1. Beautyland
2. Look Closer
3. Memorial Days
4. Interesting Facts about Space
5. Extinctions
6. Reasons to Stay Alive
7. The Shoebox Bible
8. There is no Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells
9. Pachinko
10. Bread Alone
11. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
12. S.

3 swap books...

1. When God Was a Rabbit
2. Idaho
3. The Bird Hotel

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message 5: by Martha☀ (last edited Dec 11, 2025 07:19AM) (new)

Dec 10, 2025 03:31PM

Around the Year in 52 Books
📚Fiction Challenge📚
message #2
X/42

⬜=selected ✔️= to be narrowed ❔=no idea yet ✅️=read

❔1. genre starting with A, T, or Y ~ (adventure/athlete or tech/time travel)
❔2. primarily red, green or blue cover ~
❔3. prompt suggestion that did not make the list ~
❔4. new-to-you author ~
❔5. added because of something read in 2025 ~

❔6. related to blood, sweat, or tears ~
⬜7. a character who appears in more than one book (James Bond) ~ Forever and a Day
⬜8. set in Africa, Asia, or Australia (Africa) ~ The Illegal
⬜9. title with number, ordinal, or iterative numeral ~ The Eighth Detective
❔10. award winner ~

❔11. history or historical fiction ~
⬜12. cover text that is NOT black or white ~ The Bee Sting
⬜13. author's second book ~ My Name Is Yip
⬜14. related to Van Gogh (starry night) ~ This Is How It Always Is
⬜15. wanted to read for a long time ~ S.

✔️16. Clue character occupation ~ The Housemaid or The Mystery Guest
⬜17. wellness or beauty industry setting ~ Beautyland
⬜18. location in the title ~ Idaho
⬜19. related to yesterday ~ All Our Yesterdays
⬜20. related to today ~ Shine, Pamela! Shine!

⬜21. related to tomorrow ~ So Long, See You Tomorrow
⬜22. Korean author ~ Pachinko
⬜23. road trip or long journey ~ Indians on Vacation
⬜24. frothy or gothy (gothic??) ~ Cape Fever
⬜25. 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list ~ The Secret History

⬜26. Z in the title or author ~ Cahokia Jazz
❔27. nonfiction book ~
⬜28. related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution ~ Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
⬜29. vacation ~ Murder Takes a Vacation
✔️30. most recently published book: Frontlist Book ~ Marble Hall Murders OR Air

✔️31. same author's backlist: Backlist Book ~ Moonflower Murders OR A History of Loneliness
⬜32. novella <250 pg ~ The All of It
⬜33. Indigenous character or author N. Scott Momaday ~ House Made of Dawn
⬜34. window on cover ~ A House Without Windows
⬜35. action within library, museum, school, or public building (church??) ~ The Stranger Diaries

⬜36. primary character is a woman 40+ ~ Barbara Isn't Dying Yet
⬜37. science topic ~ Interesting Facts about Space
⬜38. part of a series (#3 in The Elements series) ~ Fire
⬜39. connected to Agatha Christie (collection of AC books) ~ The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
⬜40. punctuation in title ~ Vera, or Faith

✔️41. mystery or true crime ~ Finlay Donovan Is Killing It OR Look Closer OR The Quality of Silence
⬜42. set in isolated location (space + planet) ~ Project Hail Mary
⬜43. involving survival ~ The Compound
✔️44. symbol of death on cover ~ I See You've Called in Dead OR An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (skulls) OR The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (skeleton)
⬜45. connected to "Bohemian Rhapsody" ("I just killed a man") ~ Darkly Dreaming Dexter

⬜46. not a novel (novella) ~ Sh*tshow
✔️47. "this", "that", "these", or "those" in title ~ All That Is Mine I Carry With Me: A Novel OR This Is Happiness OR These Silent Woods
✔️48. something edible in title ~ Bread Alone OR The Priory of the Orange Tree
⬜49. choose second book for your favorite prompt (50. bird) ~ The Bird Hotel
⬜50. bird on its cover ~ Extinctions

❔51. published in 2026 ~
✔️52. related to Santa's reindeers' names ~ Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son OR The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

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message 6: by Martha☀ (last edited Dec 11, 2025 07:15AM) (new)

Dec 10, 2025 03:33PM