2026 Reading Challenge discussion

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

This month, we are focusing on the rhythm of your bookshelf! Your goal is to establish a repeating sequence using any bookish element you choose. Whether you are alternating cover colors, cycling through specific genres, or creating an alphabetical loop, the challenge is to keep the pattern going all month long.

Pick your rhythm and see how long you can stay in sync!

To join, post a message telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, take a moment to check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information on how our challenges are run.

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Thanks to Whitney for coming up with the idea and agreeing to lead this challenge! Also, a big thank you to Angelinabvby for the lovely badges

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Welcome to the Mosaic Mindset Reading Challenge! From covers to colors to characters, it’s time to sequence the story of your shelves.

How To Participate:

To sign up, post a comment below with the number of books you plan to read.
It is okay if you are unsure of how many books you can or will read. Please just let me know an estimated goal. It can always be changed later.

After you finish a book, update your progress by creating a new post.
When updating your progress, please include your original sign-up message number, the numbers of books read, and your goal.
For example, "Update to message #1: 2/10 books read".

If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please do not delete your posts. Please create a new post letting me know your decision. Deleted posts affect the sign-up message numbers.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask.

Let’s turn your reading list into a pattern worth bookmarking.

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List of Participants:

Amanda (# 33) - 0/6
Amy (# 29) - 7/5 Completed!
angelinabvby ۶۟ৎ (# 9) - 0/5
Blu's World (# 26) - 6/6 Completed!
Brianna (# 27) - 0/5
✨ Brianna Raquel ✨ (# 12) - 5/5 Completed!
Caraina (# 13) - 6/6 Completed!
Carrie (# 41) - 9/6 Completed!
Chrissie (# 40) - 0/3
Ciara (# 19) - 12/12 Completed!
Debra Diggs (# 17) - 4/4 Completed!
Frankie (# 5) - 8/8 Completed!
JennH (# 6) - 6/6 Completed!
Jill (# 21) - 0/6
Karin (# 7) - 4/4 Completed!
Kristina (# 14) - 7/6 Completed!
Laurie (# 34) - 5/5 Completed!
LoDo (# 28) - 4/4 Completed!
Mandy (# 46) - 7/7 Completed!
Marielle (# 15) - 6/6 Completed!
Rachael (# 10) - 4/4 Completed!
Rachel (# 25) - 0/8
Rosaline (# 44) - 6/6 Completed!
Sarah (# 20) - 16/16 Completed!
Shari (# 22) - 6/6 Completed!
Susan (# 8) - 4/4 Completed!
Susanna (# 31) - 8/8 Completed!
Suzanne (# 55) - 2/6
TerryJane (# 23) - 16/10 Completed!
Teshia (# 16) - 0/5
Vanessa (# 49) - 0/4
Whitney (# 4) - 4/4 Completed!

STATS
Participants: 32
Books Read: 162
Book Goal: 196
Completed: 23

Updated on June 7, 2026 through Message #102.

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I'm in for 4 using blue and yellow covers.

Progress: 4/4

1. Back in a Spell by Lana Harper (Completed 5/6/26)
2. Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle (Completed 5/13/26)
3. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (Completed 5/20/26)
4. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center (Completed 5/27/26)

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

8/8 Completed. Finish

Titles that begin with C and D

1.Captivation Creek-Claire Kingsley 5/03/26
2.Dark & Deceitful-Bink Cummings 5/03/26
3.Crazy-Adriana Locke 5/05/26
4.Dead Woman Walking-Carolyn Arnold 5/06/26
5.Chasing the Sun-Lena Hendrix 5/07/26
6.Dead Man's List-Karen Rose 5/08/26
7.Colter-Jessica Gadziala 5/21/26
8.Don't Cry for Me-Sharon Sala 5/24/26

Please sign me up for 6.

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

6/6

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1 - Escape from Lucien by Kazu Kibuishi 5/12
2 - A Business Proposal, Vol. 7 by Haehwa 5/22/26
3 - The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai 5/27/26
4 - The BFG by Roald Dahl 5/29/26
5 - The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee 5/29/26
6 - Flying Lessons & Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh 5/31/26

I love this idea but have zero idea if I can make it work because I have banned myself from uber-planning my reading in an attempt to have a minimum of a 3.5 star average rating for this year.. Therefore, I'll start with a goal of 4 books

4/4
Alternating titles starting with G and C

🟩1. Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith by Gabrielle Douglas
🟦2. The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart by Michael R. Phillips
🟩3. Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
🟦4. The Competition by Katherine Collette

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

Progress: 4/4

Alternating Solid White then Flower Pattern

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5/5

Please sign me up for 4 books.
For my pattern, I'm going to alternate between flora and fauna on book covers.


COMPLETED: 4/4

1. Flora (Pear): Lips Touch: Three Times finished 11 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Fauna (Wolf): Wolf by Wolf finished 17 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. Flora (Roses): The Whispering Muse finished 21 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
4. Fauna (Dragon): A Language of Dragons finished 25 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review

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Welcome Frankie, Jenn, Karin, Susan, angelina, and Rachael. Glad to see familiar names!

Can't wait to see your sequences come to life! You have all been added to the participants list!

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MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

5/5

purple and pink covers

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1, 2026 – May 31, 2026

*Alternating between mystery and romance genres

Completed: 6/6

1. Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs 5/1/26 (Mystery)
2. Home Front - Kristin Hannah 5/2/26 (Romance)
3. Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven - Janet Evanovich 5/5/26 (Mystery)
4. A Rose in The Shadows - Angela White 5/6/26 (Romance)
5. Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs 5/10/26 (Mystery)
6. It's a Love Story - Annabel Monaghan 5/22/26 (Romance)

MOSAIC MINDSET
May 1, 2026 - May 31, 2026
Progress: 7/6

Sign me up for 6! I'll be doing a genre pattern between SFF and literary.

✅ 1. Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
✅ 2. The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
✅ 3. Platform Decay by Martha Wells
✅ 4. Erasure by Percival Everett
✅ 5. A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
✅ 6. Sula by Toni Morrison
✅ 7. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

This challenge looks great!

Sign me up for 6
I'll be doing a genre pattern between mystery and romance (and coincidentally also alternating between paper and digital :-))

Progress 6/6
✅2. Mystery: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (ereader, may pattern challenge)
✅1. Romance: Say You'll Remember Me (bookcase)
✅4. Mystery: The Double Comfort Safari Club (ereader, may pattern challenge)
✅3. Romance: The Night We Met (bookcase, bookclub)
✅6. Mystery: The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne (ereader, quarterly lapidary challenge)
✅5. Romance: Sad Girl Hours (bookcase, bookclub)

Sign me up for 5 books! I will have a mix of reading romance, suspense
I would like to use colors green and white

Sign me up for 4.

Alternating between sky animals and land animals, in title.

✔ 1. The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow
✔ 2. The Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone
✔ 3. The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
✔ 4. The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett

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Welcome Brianna Raquel, Caraina, Kristina, Marielle, Teshia, and Debra. Glad to have you all here. You all have been added to the participants list. Please let me know if you any questions!

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Put me down for 12.

My plan is to alternate between elements (air, fire, water, earth). Books will be selected based on cover, title, content, or general vibes. Fire might include themes of violence, water may involve island settings, earth may involve body horror, & air may involve aliens or space.

Sign me up for 16 books. Titles that begin with R and S.

16/16 - COMPLETED

✅1) Ruby In The Ruins (12/5/26)
✅2) Saban's Go Go Power Rangers: Back to School #1 (21/5/26)
✅3) Romancing Mister Bridgerton (28/5/26)
✅4) Some Lie and Some Die (27/5/26)
✅5) Ragtime (13/5/26)
✅6) Stripped Bare (6/5/26)
✅7) Rites of Passage (7/5/26)
✅8) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (7/5/26)
✅9) Repressed (26/5/26)
✅10) Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: The Road to the Supreme Court (25/5/26)
✅11) Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father (22/5/26)
✅12) Saga, Volume 2 (14/5/26)
✅13) Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History (8/5/26)
✅14) Serenity: Poems (18/5/26)
✅15) Roller Skates (15/5/26)
✅16) Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases (24/5/26)

Alternating between my initials,J and P. 6 books in total.

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I will join for 6. Going from First to Last

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

Progress: 6 / 6 - COMPLETED 5-27

- completed 5-12 - completed 5-10
- completed 5-19 - completed 5-17
- completed 5-25, - completed 5-27

✨ MOSAIC MINDSET - Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2026
Progress: 16/10




✨ Into the Blue
✨ Yesteryear
✨ Birds in Fall
✨ The Night Watchman
✨ Crime and Punishment
✨ Go
✨ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
✨ Forget Tomorrow
✨ The Wonderful O
✨ Across the Green Grass Fields
✨ There's Always Next Year
✨ Tales of the Celestial Kingdom
✨ Feathers
✨ Bless the Beasts and Children
✨ Words in Deep Blue
✨ Quartet in Autumn

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Welcome Ciara, Sarah, Jill, Shari, and TerryJane! Participants list has been updated! May 1st is upon us! I wish everyone luck and hope that everyone reaches their goals!

Happy Reading!

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MOSAIC MINDSET - Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2026

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1.Yesteryear By Caro Claire Burke
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Please sign me up for 6 books this month!

I'll be alternating between reading two different series.

Joining for 5.
Sequence: Alternating between male and female authors.

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

0/5

Please sign me up for 4! Might increase if I see the option 😊

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026
Pattern: Alternating different number of words in titles (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.)

Progress : 4/4 (COMPLETED)

1. Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke - 🕮 Finished: 11/5/26
2. Under Water - Tara Menon - 🕮 Finished: 2/5/26
3. The Bright Years - Sarah Damoff - 🕮 Finished: 2/5/26
4. Margo's Got Money Troubles - Rufi Thorpe- 🕮 Finished: 24/5/26

I will go for 5! Unsure of pattern yet!
7/5-- Challenge Complete; Alternating Asian and Latina Authors

1. Asian Author: Goodbye, Vitamin
2. Latina Author: Say You'll Remember Me
3. Asian Author: Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging
4. Latina Author: The Cemetery of Untold Stories
5. Asian Author: Rich Girl Summer
6. Latina Author: Twice a Quinceañera
7. Asian Author: Best Offer Wins

Brianna wrote: "Joining for 5.
Sequence: Alternating between male and female authors.

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

0/5"

good idea!

I'll give this a whirl!
Mosaic Mindset msg #31 - 0/8
alternation between nonfiction and fiction

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

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Welcome Rachel, Blu, Brianna, LoDo, Amy, and Susanna! You are all added to the participants list!

Happy Reading!

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Signing up for 6 :)

5/5 COMPLETED! Rainbow Mosaic

1. Red


2. Orange


3. Yellow


4. Green


5. Blue

Updated message 29-- 1/5

Update #28 - 2/4

update msg #15

Completed: 1/6
Thank you! 🌸


✅2. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

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Welcome Amanda and Laurie! Stats have been updated to here!

Happy Reading!

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Updated message 29-- 2/5

Not quite sure about my sequence yet, but I'll try with 3 either way.

Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

Your goal is to establish a repeating sequence using any bookish element you choose. Whether you are alternating cover colors, cycling through specific genres, or creating an alphabetical loop, the challenge is to keep the pattern going all month long.

Progress: 2/3

Stand alone:

Sign me up for 6!

🧩MOSAIC MINDSET🧩
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2026
🎉Completed: 9/6 books

I chose a genre pattern:
🔷Mystery/Thriller
🟨Literary Fiction
🟣Romance

🔷The Escape Game✅
🟨Dominicana✅
🟣The Rom-Commers✅
🔷She Didn't See It Coming✅
🟨The Sentence✅
🟣Say You'll Remember Me✅
🔷A Good Girl's Guide to Murder✅
🟨Homegoing✅
🟣The Bride✅

Mosaic Mindset msg #31 - 1/8
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I'd like to sign up for 6!
I'll alternate between fantasy and literally any other genre.

Progress: 6/6

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

Update message #8

Progress: 2/4

I will try to read 7 books. 7/7
I plan to alternate all shades of pink, all shades of purple, and all shades of blue.

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Mosaic Mindset msg #31 - 3/8

Updated msg #46 - 2/7

MOSAIC MINDSET
Duration: May 1 – May 31, 2026

Pattern TBD but I would like to read 4 books.

Updated msg #46 - 3/7