The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

TEAM MINT CAR

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Team Members:
❅ Captain Gem
❅ Co-Captain Gwen Landis
❅ Nicole
❅ RachelG.
❅ MelanieJoy
❅ Louise
❅ Klare
❅ Andrea



🍃🚘 Team Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...


💹 Teams Current Points
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Reserved

SPREADSHEETS

PLANNING - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

OFFICIAL (please dont request access to edit this one, for captains only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

RANKINGS -

SHELVES

❅ Captain Gem - Uno2026
❅ Co-Captain Gwen Landis
❅ Nicole
❅ RachelG.
❅ MelanieJoy
❅ Louise
❅ Klare -2026 game uno
❅ Andrea

◈ Your finished books need to be on your Uno shelf AND marked as "read" for them to count. We will send out reminders if you forget.

RULES

This is a 3 month team challenge starting 1 February 2026

◈ At the end of the challenge 30 April 2026 the team with the most points wins!

◈ At the start of each month each team is given a minimum 14 hands of 7 "UNO" cards

◈ The idea is to "play" each hand for points. It is up to the team how many "hands" they can get through in the month, but they must play one hand completely before being able to get points for the next

◈ The team can choose to skip an entire hand to get to the next one, but they are not given a replacement hand. (You can only skip one hand in a month)

◈ For book titles starting with an article (A/An/The), the article can be ignored or used. So The Hiding Place, for example, could be used as title starting with T or H

◈ Re-reads are ok provided it has been more than 6 months since last read

◈Word Count Verification: https://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx
Books must be more than 100 pages in length
(Children's books, Graphic Novels, Manga, Cook Books, Plays and Poetry cannot be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com or more than 3 hours of audio using a reputable website (e.g. audible, overdrive)

◈For coloured cards, the cover needs to be 50% or more of the colour. If in doubt, ask your captains as we can check it and/or take to the captains group for another opinion. The mods generally want us to use common sense for this one, no TinEye required.

◈ Note: it is up to the teams how they divide up the cards to read across the team players. Just remember, you can only get points if a hand is completed, and in order.
So, if you complete all of hand 1, some of hand 2, and all of hand 3, you will only get points for hand 1 and the books read of hand 2.

0-Z | 1-O | 2-T | 3-H | 4-F | 5-I | 6-S | 7-V | 8-E | 9-N | skip-K or P Letters - Name of book (OK to discard articles), FN or LN of Author, or characters (NN - nicknames OK, no titles), Location (needs to be obvious)

REV=read a book that a teammate has read
Wild=duplicate a card in that hand
Wild Draw 4=duplicate any color card
Draw 2=use the same book for two cards in a hand
Color=book cover has specified color and book meets specified number criteria.


COUNTDOWN
Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count.

The challenge starts on February 1, 2026 at 9am UTC time. To see when this starts, use this https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

TEAM BOOK RECS

Hi everyone and welcome to UNO 2026 (and reigning champs may I add :D)

I'm Gem and I'm your captain. I live in the UK and am an avid reader of a variety of genres but my favourites are thrillers, mysteries and horror.
This will be my 7th UNO and its by far the best challenge! I notice all of you have played before so you'll probably remember how it works, but if not let us know :)

So please introduce yourselves; what's your favourite genres? What's the books you recommend to absolutely everyone? And do you have any Red, Blue, Yellow or Green covers you're hoping to get to in this challenge?

I've started a post in message 6 where we can share any books you recommend fellow players to read, doesnt have to be a colour cover, but it may help.

And I really like a spreadsheet so here's a link to my coloured covers I could use for the challenge: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

we have the following coloured cards we need to keep in the forefront of our brains when scouring shelves:

0 Green
0 Blue
5 Blue
6 Blue
8 Blue
1 Red
1 Yellow
5 Yellow
and then 6 x WD4s

Feel free to start adding the books youre planning to read straight onto the planning spreadsheet. If you dont like using spreadsheets than a completeion post here works great, and between the caps we can move to the tracking sheet.

Hi all!

I am Rachel and live near Seattle in the U.S. My favorite genres are cozy mystery and fantasy. This is my second year playing uno. i have been looking forward to getting a chance to play again. I have been saving books with colored covers just for the challenge and shelve them as I see them to easily bring up.

My uno shelf: uno2026

Hi everyone I’m Klare, Gem’s sister and I also live in England.
This is my fifth time playing UNO and it’s always been a really good challenge.
I will read any genre but currently I am really into crime, thrillers and horror.

Hello! I'm MelanieJoy and live in California in the US. My favorite genres are fantasy and mystery/thriller but I'll read plenty of other genres. My least favorite right now is horror. I've played UNO several times since I think 2018 but not every year. Gem and Klare I know I was on a challenge with you recently-ish, maybe UNO 2024? Can't remember exactly but congrats on winning last year!
I'm looking forward to this!
One of my favorite parts is exchanging book recs so keep those coming!

My shelf: UNO 2026

It looks like we have quite a few reverses for Feb. so I will be searching to see what I can read.

Yay, glad to see you’ve both found us! And great to see familiar faces.
I am swamped with books right now, I’m hoping to finish 4 of my current reads, and two new ones before starting the challenge. I am a serial juggler so nothing new there but I feel especially stacked!

Hi all, currently on holiday in Iceland until Sunday

My shelf: Uno26

Gem: I have been looking at the planning ss and for the other possible cards section, what information do we put there? A characters name if that is what is applicable or just an X if the book works for that card?

Louise wrote: "Hi all, currently on holiday in Iceland until Sunday
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I have heard that Iceland is such a wonderful country to visit. I had a friend go a couple years ago. I hope you are enjoying it!

Hello teammm! Excited to be on this team with you all - I really like the band The Cure who we're named after, anyone else?

Gem - I specifically requested to be on your team if possible because you were such a great leader last time I played with you (I think 2 years ago?).

*mic tap* My name is Andrea and I'm from Canada (west coast). My favourite genres lately are contemporary romance, thriller and romantasy probably but I read a little of everything. I read a lot of middle grade novels too as I have a Book Club with Tweens at my library job.

I JUST finished the newest Karin Slaughter book and my goodness I loved it so much. I think it might be my first 5 star of the year.
I ALWAYS recommend The Flatshare for romance lovers - Beth O'Leary is my absolute favourite and I will always tell everyone to read that one especially.

I plan to do some scouring of my TBR (hopefully even my PHYSICAL tbr to find some coloured covers to knock off with this challenge). I might try and read Emily Henry's Book Lovers which could work for a blue card in Feb, as a starter though.

Can't wait to get started on this with you all!

My uno shelf

Hi!

I'm Nicole, I'm from England, I work as a bookseller and also have a part-time job. I'm unlikely to comment on Sundays or Mondays due to that job. I read at least 4 books for the book clubs, so I know a few I'll be reading. I read a lot of romance and fantasy (though rarely together), but read fairly eclectically.

Looking forward to playing with you all


Uno 2026

Hello all and welcome!

My apologies for the late introduction. I just returned from a trip and immediately got sick so I haven't been online in the past few days. I'm feeling better now and I'm ready to go!

I'm Gwen and I'll be Gem's co-captain. This is my 7th year playing Uno and I just love it! I don't read a ton because I work fulltime but it is one of my favorite pastimes.

I live in the Vermont, the cold northeastern part of the US. I read all kinds of different books but I love post-apocalyptic, fantasy, some sci-fi, travel memoirs, really just about anything. I'm not a huge fan of romance, especially if that is the main theme but I'd give a book a try if someone highly recommended it.

Looking forward to playing with everyone!

Meant to add the link to my Uno shelf: uno-game-2026

It looks like a lot of our team has played Uno before! Yay!

I just wanted to share a hot tip for those who may not know... there's an easy way to search for possible books for those Reverse cards. Here's how to compare books with another teammate:

Click on a teammate's name to access their profile (links in very first post of this thread)

On their profile page, click on "More" next to their picture at the top. Then click on "Compare Books"

You can easily see what they've read that you've also shelved. Of course this only works if you have a lot of books on your "Want to Read" shelf.

I love comparing books and I hope this tip is helpful.

BTW: you all should "Friend" each other if you haven't already!

I’m desperately trying to finish up a whole stack of books in the last week.
Also as a note, we go on holiday next Saturday (31st) so I won’t be contactable that day but I’ll be on my phone and the hotel wifi whilst away to start the challenge off. I just won’t be doing any early book completion moves to the main SS until I’m back.

Less than a week to go! Is there a book limit for this challenge that I need to keep in mind?

Not exactly, but you signed up for 25 a month. If some people under read their expected figure we may need some to over read etc. also we get more cards than the team read so there’s always scope for team mates to help out more than they signed up for. It’s never been a problem in all the years I’ve played, so wouldn’t worry :)

Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~ wrote: "Not exactly, but you signed up for 25 a month. If some people under read their expected figure we may need some to over read etc. also we get more cards than the team read so there’s always scope f..."

Thank you! I just wanted to be positive. I have a lot of books that I plan to read in February.

eeeeek about 4 hours to go!! Like Gem I have been madly trying to finish my last January reads. Pretty close on both the audio one and ebook one too.

Finished both of my books last night, I’m all ready to start the challenge 😀

1 hour 20 to go now to check what I’ll be reading this week