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message 1: by SRC Moderator, Moderator (new)

SRC Moderator | 7531 comments Mod
If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Summer 2026 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.


message 2: by JennRenee, Moderator (last edited Jul 10, 2026 11:53AM) (new)

JennRenee (jennreneeread) | 3380 comments Mod
✔️5.1 The Daydream Cabin
✔️5.2 Frankenstein in Baghdad
✔️5.3 Here Lie All the Boys Who Broke My Heart
✔️5.4 The Compound
✔️5.5 Night Objects
✔️5.6 A Sprinkle of Sweet Serendipity
✔️5.7 The Last Time We Drowned
✔️5.8 Raging Waters
✔️5.9 How to Survive in the Woods
✔️5.10 Starter Villain

✔️10.1 The Shark
✔️10.2 The Newlywed's Lie
✔️10.3 Murder Most Delicious: A Novel
✔️10.4 The Summer Fun Massacre
✔️10.5 Christmas Corpse
✔️10.6 I'll Follow You
✔️10.7 Take Me to Your Leader
✔️10.8 Wildlife, Warrants, & Weapons
✔️10.9 The Summer House Murder
✔️10.10 Almost Criminal

15.1 Nine Lives
Home Is Where the Lies Live
✔️15.2 How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
✔️ Too Scared to Sleep
✔️15.3 The Last Morning
✔️15.4 The Other Side of Now
✔️The Spin
✔️15.5 It's Me They Follow
✔️15.6 More than Friends
✔️15.7 Paper Ghosts
✔️15.8 Royal Vengeance
✔️15.9 Tales from the Cafe
✔️15.10 It Happened One Murder

✔️20.1 Dear Mother
✔️20.2 Startup Hell
✔️20.3 21 Willow Lane
✔️20.4 The Secret of the Old Clock
✔️20.5 The Last Book Club
✔️20.6 A Marriage at Sea:
✔️20.7 The Seventh Sister
✔️20.8 Five
✔️20.9 The Bridesmaid
20.10 Five-Star Summer

✔️25.1 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
✔️Yesteryear
✔️25.2 This Story Might Save Your Life
✔️The Someday Garden
✔️25.3 A Murder Most Camp
✔️Animal Farm
✔️25.4 Future Boy
✔️The Wrong House
✔️25.5 The Girl in the Lake
✔️Caller Unknown
✔️25.6 Sisterhood Above All
✔️Hot Girl Murder Club
✔️25.7 The Anniversary
✔️ Don't Answer the Phone
✔️25.8 Falling for You Again
✔️The New Boyfriend
✔️25.9 Heart of Glass
✔️Heather
✔️25.10 The Divorce
✔️Every Hunter Is Hunted

✔️30.1 Don't Ask Why
✔️Beach Thriller
✔️30.2 The Idaho Four
✔️The Women in White
✔️30.3 Her First Lie
✔️Rolls and Rivalry
✔️30.4 The Housewife
✔️ Dead Fake
✔️30.5 The Drowning Season
✔️The Man
✔️30.6 The Poisoner's Ring
✔️A Room with a View
✔️30.7 A Weekend on Allyson Island
✔️Fox
✔️30.8 Pretty Dead Things
✔️The Mother Upstairs

50.1


message 3: by Ash, Moderator (last edited Jun 24, 2026 10:18AM) (new)

Ash (essentiallyash) | 494 comments Mod
5.1 An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
5.2 A Girl Like That
5.3 Love in the Time of Serial Killers
5.4 The Compound
5.5 Come Find Me
5.6 Happy & You Know It
5.7 The Storm
5.8 Neverworld Wake
5.9 The Other Mrs.
5.10 Feed

10.1 Lore Olympus: Volume Four
10.2 You May Now Kill the Bride
10.3 One by One
10.4 56 Days
10.5 A Christmas To Die For
10.6 Twenty Years Later
10.7 Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
10.8 Exit Strategy
10.9 A Midsummer Night's Clean
10.10 Mrs. Nash's Ashes

✔15.1 Last One to Die
Bk 2 The Ones Who Come Back Hungry

15.2 Her Last Breath
Bk 2 Breathe In, Bleed Out
15.3 Sprinkle with Murder
15.4 Malibu Rising
Bk 2 The Guest List

15.5 The Surrogate Mother
15.6 Daughter of Mine
15.7 Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch
15.8 Frozen Charlotte
15.9 Japanese Gothic
15.10 One of Our Own

20.1
20.2 If I Live
20.3 13 Little Blue Envelopes
20.4 The Secret of the Old Clock
20.5 Dead & Breakfast
20.6 I'm Engaged to Mothman
20.7 Echoes
20.8 Final Cut
20.9 Fragments of the Lost
20.10 Five-Star Summer

25.1 Assistant to the Villain
Bk 2 The Correspondent
25.2 Daydream
Bk 2 Unravel Me
25.3 A Haunted Road Atlas: Sinister Stops and Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales
Bk 2 Deadline

25.4 Road Trip With a Vampire
Bk 2 When the Wolf Comes Home
25.5 Showstopper
Bk 2 House of Dark Shadows
25.6 The Last Thing He Told Me
Bk 2 Whalefall
25.7 If You Tell a Lie
Bk 2 Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories
25.8 The Walls Around Us
Bk 2 The Perfect Child
25.9 New Moon
Bk 2 Hollow
25.10 The Lost Girl
Bk 2 Girls Like Us

30.1 Listen for the Lie
Bk 2 Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
30.2 Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Bk 2 What We Did to Survive
30.3 No Accident
Bk 2 Only If You're Lucky
30.4 Beth Is Dead
Bk 2 In the Blood

30.5 A Death in Door County
Bk 2 Where the Drowned Girls Go

30.6 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Bk 2 A Rip Through Time
30.7 The Hand on the Wall
Bk 2 Tourist Season


message 4: by Lois (last edited Aug 26, 2026 10:35PM) (new)

Lois | 2920 comments ✔Summer challenge


✔5.1 After Hours at Dooryard Books
✔5.2 The Beekeeper of Aleppo
✔5.3 The Girl from the Grand Hotel
✔5.4 Dog on It
✔5.5 Summer Stage
✔5.6 Cherry Baby
✔5.7 Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood
✔5.8 Mansion Beach
✔5.9 The Code for Love and Heartbreak
✔5.10 The Frozen River

✔10.1 A Ghastly Catastrophe
✔10.2 Four Aunties and a Wedding
✔10.3 The Crowded Grave
✔10.4 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
✔10.5 The Christmas Spirit
✔10.6 Our Perfect Storm
✔10.7 When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
✔10.8 The Keeper
✔10.9 Slow Burn Summer
✔10.10 Run for the Hills

15.1
✔1. The River Is Waiting
✔2. Where the Rivers Merge
15.2
✔1. It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
✔2. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
15.3
✔1. The Killing Stones
✔2. Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
15.4
✔1. Beach Vibes
✔2. The Rainfall Market
✔15.5 Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s
✔15.6 It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit
✔15.7 Haunted Ever After
✔15.8 Yesteryear
✔15.9 Tales from the Cafe
✔15.10 One Was a Soldier

✔20.1 2. Dance with Death
✔20.2 3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
✔20.3 3. 15 Summers Later
✔20.4 3. Mistress of Mellyn
✔20.5 3. The Vineyards of Champagne
✔20.6 2. The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II
✔20.7 2. Kin
✔20.8 2. A Deadly Episode
✔20.9 3. What Happens in Amsterdam
✔20.10 Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

25.1
✔2. Strangers in Time
✔3. Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping On a Dead Man
25.2
✔5C. The Calamity Club
✔5D. The Ice Queen
25.3
✔2. Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
✔3. Last One Out
25.4
✔1. Must Love Flowers
✔2. Wild Dark Shore
25.5
✔1. Christmas at the Waratah Inn
✔2. Bethlehem Road
25.6
✔2. The Tour
✔3. Hot Flash Holidays
25.7
✔1. A Mark of Imperfection
✔2. The Little Wartime Library
25.8
✔1. Big Little Lies
✔5. Closer than you think
25.9
✔2. Mad Mabel
✔3. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
25.10
✔1. Through the Evil Days
✔2B. Irish Knit Murder

30.1
✔3-1. The Lake Escape
✔3-2. The Summer Escape
30.2
✔1. Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion
✔2. Land
30.3
✔1. It Happened One Summer
✔4a. Be Ready When the Luck Happens
30.4
✔1. The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
✔2. Mixed Signals
30.5
✔1. Wild Fire
✔3. When in Rome
30.6
A. A Room with a View
✔B. Fierce Poison
30.7
✔2A. The Library of Lost Dollhouses
✔3. Business Casual
30.8
✔2. Whistler
✔3. Another Summer

50.1
✔1. I Hope This Finds You Well
✔2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
✔3b. Practice Makes Perfect


message 5: by Mrsgeo (last edited Aug 31, 2026 04:59PM) (new)

Mrsgeo | 567 comments Tasks completed: 51/59 Books read: 74/83 Points: 960/1040

Readerboard: up to #2147: 900 points
+30 points: total 930 points repost

📚5.1 Ready or Knot ✔️#998
5.2
📚5.3 I Heard Him Exclaim: A Modern Gay Romance with a Dash of Christmas Magic #2167
❓️5.4 Red Dirt Heart 3 ✔️#2382
5.5
5.6
❓️5.7 Into the Tempest ✔️#2368
📚5.8 How I Met Your Father ✔️#2269
📚5.9 Nevada #2168
📚5.10 The Griffin, the Dragon, and Their Unicorn Omega #2169

📚10.1 The Imperfect Game ✔️#891
📚10.2 Sensible Commitments ✔️#2170
📚10.3 Lay It Down ✔️#1262
📚10.4 Such a Tough Omega ✔️#909
📚10.5 My Christmas Reindeer ✔️#2138
📚10.6 Reunion #2140
10.7 Non-Fiction MPG Science
📚10.8 Scream and Steam ✔️
📚10.9 Summer Ride ✔️#2141
📚10.10 Road Trip #2267

📚15.1 #2104
Bk1: Such a Broken Omega ✔️
Bk2: Omegas by Design ✔️
📚15.2 #2175
Bk1: Better Than Good ✔️
Bk2: Then Sawyer Happened ✔️
📚15.3 #1216
Bk1 & Bk2: Flying Blind ✔️
📚15.4 #2112
Bk1: A Fool and His Manny ✔️
Bk2: Red Dirt Heart 2 ✔️
📚15.5 Wintering with George ✔️#1360
📚15.6 The Dragon, The Bear, and Their Maned Wolf Omega ✔️#877
15.7 The Ghost on My Couch
📚15.8 His Reluctant Cowboy #2238
📚15.9 Blossom of the Samurai ✔️#852
📚15.10 Puck’s for Dinner ✔️#579

📚20.1 Proxy ✔️#574
📚20.2 Cowboy Haven ✔️#851
📚20.3 1750 - Jacqueline ✔️#1584
📚20.4 Rose Cottage ✔️#816
📚20.5 Kairos ✔️#1278
20.6 Non-Fiction
❓️20.7 John Wilder Gets Schooled ✔️#2369
📚20.8 Have Mercy on Me ✔️#501
📚20.9 A Very Hot Mess Christmas ✔️#470
20.10 - Group read - A Princess of Mars
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

📚25.1 #2100
Bk1: The House in the Cerulean Sea ✔️
Bk2: Little House in the Big Woods ✔️
📚25.2 #1280
Bk1: More Than Life ✔️
Bk2: Timing ✔️
📚25.3 #888
Bk1: Covering the Cowboy ✔️
Bk2: Flight to Canada: A Novel ✔️
📚25.4 #1329
Bk1: Karma Kitty Christmas ✔️
Bk2: Wings of Equity ✔️
📚25.5 #2125
Bk1: From the Flames ✔️
Bk2: State of Preservation ✔️
📚25.6 #270
Bk1: Hot Mess 4 ✔️
Bk2: Hot Mess 14 ✔️
📚25.7#292
Bk1: Full Throttle Overdrive ✔️
Bk2: Rescued by the Mafia Alpha ✔️
📚25.8 #2203
Bk1: Rough in Wranglers ✔️
Bk2: Climbing the Savage Mountain ✔️
📚25.9 #971
Bk1: Century Trails: Roughtstock Season Two ✔️
Bk2: Bless Us With Content ✔️
📚25.10 #2165
Bk1: Let the Wolf ✔️
Bk2: Feral Wolf ✔️

📚30.1 #2202
Bk1: Breakheart Pass: A compelling historical western adventure novel ✔️
Bk2: Sharpe's Storm ✔️
📚30.2 #2237
Bk1: The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug ✔️
Bk2: Bombs and Guacamole ✔️
📚30.3 #889
Bk1: Fixing What's Bent✔️
Bk2: Stand in Place ✔️
📚30.4 #2108
Bk1: Nanny Negotiations ✔️
Bk2: Boneshaker ✔️
❓️30.5 (#2268) repost #2366
Bk1: Cowboys Can't Kiss ✔️
Bk2: The Amethyst Dragon's Mythical Mate ✔️
📚30.6 #2179
Bk1: Eric Brighteyes ✔️
Bk2: A Family of His Own ✔️
📚30.7 #79
Bk1: In Too Deep ✔️Bk2: To Protect ✔️
📚30.8 #2177
Bk1: Three Vlog Night ✔️
Bk2: A Chaotic Range ✔️

📚50.1 #1585
Bk1: The One Thing Money Can't Buy ✔️
Bk2: Woods of the Raven ✔️
Bk3: Fix It Up ✔️


message 6: by RedSycamore (last edited Sep 01, 2026 04:29PM) (new)

RedSycamore | 571 comments To Place:



📚5.1 - Pyramids discworld7
✅✅5.2 - All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI)
✅✅5.3 - The Captain and the Glory
✅🤏5.4 - The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers(3)
✅✅5.5 - Cyrano de Bergerac
✅✅5.6 - cvr=fruit/veg Weyward
✅✅5.7 - The Tin Roof Blowdown
✅✅5.8 - Abandonment to Divine Providence
✅✅5.9 - マッシュル-MASHLE- 6(4/30/21)/8(10/4/21)
5.10 - any

✅✅10.1 - 1auth.AΩ.init in DESERT The Fourth Island
📚10.2 - Guards! Guards! discworld8 (finger ring)
✅✅10.3 - Set50%+in1of FRA,POL,ESP,NLD; maigret1 Pietr the Latvian
✅✅10.4 - 4+ltr.titl.wd frm ADDEFGMMOORSSUY, Rogue Protocol murderbot3
✅✅10.5 - When Christmas Comes
✅✅10.6 - The Hidden Staircase (Carolyn)
✅✅10.7 - The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
✅✅10.8 - マッシュル-MASHLE- 5
✅✅10.9 - The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
✅✅10.10 - This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History

15.1 - 1bk.titl.wd = 2bk.titl.wd +S (a/as, on/son, system/s, etc)
📚>> Bk1: You Gotta Have Wa
📚>> Bk2: The Train Was On Time
15.2 - title commonly misspelled word pair (they're/their/there; then/than)
📚>> Bk1: And Then There Were None
✅>> Bk2: Their Eyes Were Watching God
✅✅15.3 - マッシュル-MASHLE- 3 (2020-10-02)w
✅✅15.4 - Pedro Páramo
✅✅15.5 - The Carter of "La Providence" maigret4
✅15.6 - titl contains DEEFOMR The Freedom Manifesto
✅✅15.7 - A Theory of Haunting
✅✅15.8 - auth.AΩ.init in BEER CAN, The River Has Roots
✅✅15.9 - マッシュル-MASHLE- 4
✅✅15.10 - Kuhaku & Other Accounts from Japan

📚20.1 - MPG dystopia; detective duo; Brimstone pendergast5
📚20.2 - cvr=2+ circles Orbital
✅✅20.3 - 84, Charing Cross Road
✅✅20.4 - The Secret of the Old Clock
📚20.5 - plot/cvr=wine stuff Good Omens
📚20.6 - Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
✅✅20.7 - The Cabinet of Curiosities (red) pendergast3
✅✅20.8 - Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine
✅✅20.9 - 1wd.in.titl has AMRS; FIC w/set=Mars; NONFIC abt Mars Green Mars
✅✅20.10 - A Princess of Mars


This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me 20.6
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Wyrd Sisters 5.5
The Love That Keeps Us Sane:

25.1 - frm BookTok lists; MPG Book Club; frm 3 GR Challange Lists
✅✅>> Bk1: New2U auth Missing Sam
✅✅>> Bk2: Prev.read.auth Sunrise on the Reaping
25.2 - 1ea frm MPG Time Travel/Space/Dystopia/n/Aliens OR Detective/Cozy/Noir/True Crime
✅✅>> Bk1: Automatic Noodle (Cozy)
✅✅>> Bk2: Crusader's Cross (Noir/Detective)
25.3 - NONFIC music; auth.AΩ.init in MINGO; 4+ltr.titl.wd in park names
✅✅>> Bk1: Paradox (Colorado)
✅✅>> Bk2: The Late Monsieur Gallet maigret2 (late)
25.4 - titl.wd=Flower/Creep(in/g)/Snooze/Karma/Vampire/'/s; titl.starts.w/W (-a/the); MPG Time Travel
✅>> Bk1: Wyrd Sisters discworld6
📚>> Bk2: The Eyre Affair (time travel)
25.5 - auth.init.in AAADDGLMOSSU; MC=city cop; pub'd May+pg#2&5;
📚>> Bk1: Dance of Death pendergast6/(5)
📚>> Bk2: Pratchett! (MPG Humor+SF/Fantasy/BritLit) discworldAny
25.6 - set50%=CA+NV+AZ+UT; cvr=castle/manor; titl.wd dry/ier/est, hot/ter/est
✅>> Bk1: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
📚>> Bk2: Thunderhead (UT/AZ)
25.7 - auth.init frm MADAM MAYOR; plot=library/ian/bookstore/seller; cvr=any% contrasting colors
✅✅>> Bk1: The Astral Library
✅✅>> Bk2: Pegasus Descending (red/green)
25.8 - pub'd 2014; auth.brn Germany; frm big cats list; pg#=7>1; auth.1st.nm=M/lst=G
✅✅>> Bk1: Mother Courage
✅✅>> Bk2: Exit Strategy,Fugitive Telemetry murderbot 4/6
25.9 - MPG Climate Change; set50%+in PacCoast country;1auth.AΩ.init.in ELNINO/CLIMATE
✅✅>> Bk1: Eng AND Esp Vsn: The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien maigret3
✅✅>> Bk2: Still Life With Crows pendergast4 (PacCoast, USA)
✅✅25.10 - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

30.1 - MPG Historical Fiction; MPG Thriller set 20yrs b4pub'd
📚>> Bk1: One Corpse Too Many cadfael2
📚>> Bk2: A Morbid Taste for Bones cadfael1 (20yrs30.2 - 500+pgs; pick1 History/ical/Medical/cine/Mystery/Space/Sports/Survival/+
✅✅>> Bk1: NONFIC The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads (History)
✅✅>> Bk2: FICTION 1comic OK (The Everlasting)
30.3 - auth's.AorΩ.nm frm AABBCCCEIIILLLPRRRRTUY; pub'd1898-2010
✅✅>> Bk1: Reality in Ruins: Conspiracy Theory As American Evangelical Crisis
✅✅>> Bk2: Sourcery discworld5;
30.4 - cvr=lemon; cvr50+% pink; 4+ltr.titl.wd frm AADEFNNNOORYYZ; PIE in auth.nm
✅✅>> Bk1: A Trick of the Light gamache7 (Louise Penny)
✅✅>> Bk2: The Count of Monte Cristo (HS list pg2)
30.5 - 3+wd.titl.inits frm INCENSE CLOCKS; 1auth's.AorΩ.nm frmHOURGLASSCOMPASS;
✅✅>> Bk1: Artificial Condition murderbot2 (159: pg#frm1950,etc)
✅✅>> Bk2: The Country Without a Post Office
30.6 - The King in Yellow,The House on the Borderland
✅✅>> Bk1: pub'd 1850-1914 The Man Whom the Trees Loved (STEAMER)
✅✅>> Bk2: The Alienist, 498 pages (STEA_E_)
30.7 - pub'd/set1763-1787; setOG13 state/ME/WV; auth.brn FRA, NLD, POL, LTU, ESP, MEX, CUB, PRI, HTI, DOM
📚>> Bk1: Gem of the Ocean (pennsylvania)
📚>> Bk2: The Infernal Machine, tad/TN williams, An Essay Upon Prints; Containing Remarks upon the Principles of picturesque Beauty, the Different Kinds of Prints, and the Characters of the most noted Masters; Illustrated by Criticisms upon particular Pieces...
30.8 - auth.AΩ.init=DB,BD,GB,BG,DP,PD; cvr=horse; 4+ltr.titl.wd frm lyrics
📚>> Bk1: Dinosaurs in the Attic:
✅>> Bk2: The Love That Keeps Us Sane:(love)

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50.1 - 750+pgs; No kids/comic
✅✅>> Bk1: All Systems Red murderbot1 (152pgs)
✅✅>> Bk2: Cvr=bird/s The Sparrow
✅✅>> Bk3a: set=MA The One Fifteen to Penn Station+
✅✅>> Bk3b: set=MA Jesus Was a Homeboy (152pgs)

Challenges:
✅✅faves/charts/worlds: The Astral Library
✅✅community (90s!): The Alienist
✅✅staff/FactFic: Weyward
literally/encore:

✅✅book/edit/escape/trend: The Everlasting
✅✅AAPI/Comm/Pride: Missing Sam
✅✅Marathon/Summer: The Count of Monte Cristo

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📚physical📚:
20.6 - Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life

5.1 - discworld7
10.2 - discworld8 (finger ring)
25.5 - >> Bk2: discworld9

30.7 - >> Bk2: An Essay Upon Prints:
30.8 - >> Bk1: Dinosaurs in the Attic:
50.1 - >> Bk3a: The One Fifteen to Penn Station
15.6 - titl contains DEEFOMR The Freedom Manifesto

15.1 - >> Bk1: You Gotta Have Wa (wa/was)
15.1 - >> Bk2: The Train Was On Time (wa/was)
30.7 - >> Bk1: Gem of the Ocean (pennsylvania)
15.2 - >> Bk1: And Then There Were None
20.2 - cvr=2+ circles Orbital

25.4 - >> Bk2: The Eyre Affair (time travel)
50.1 - >> Bk2: Cvr=bird/s AND 446+ pages The Sparrow

💿audio💿:
20.1 - pendergast5
25.5 - >> Bk1: pendergast6
25.6 - >> Bk2: Thunderhead (UT/AZ)

*30.1 - >> Bk2: cadfael1
*30.1 - >> Bk1: cadfael2
20.5 - plot/cvr=wine stuff; Good Omens

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5.10 - any


message 7: by Brigia (last edited Aug 29, 2026 08:58AM) (new)

Brigia | 515 comments Summer Books

Points: 235
# books read: 15

5.1 DRY in the title
5.2 WWI/middle east
✅ 5.3 The Last Sun („last“)
5.4
5.5
5.6 fruit/vegetables on the cover
5.7 tornado/hurricane/flooding in the story
5.8 pool/lake/beach on the cover
5.9 The Problem with Perfect
5.10 book of choice

10.1
10.2
10.3 set in France/Poland/Spain/The Netherlands
10.4
10.5
✅ 10.6 Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
10.7
10.8
10.9

15.1
15.2
✅ 15.3 Hell Bent
15.4
✅ 15.5 Deal with the Devil („with“)
15.6 The Hands of the Emperor
✅ 15.7 Ninth House
✅ 15.8 Thrown to the Wolves
15.9
✅ 15.10 Penric’s Demon

20.1
✅ 20.2 This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
✅ 20.3 Thirty Love (option 3)
✅ 20.5 The Tainted Cup
✅ 20.6 Party of Liars
✅ 20.7 All Systems Red (option 1 - song: All Alone)
✅ 20.8 The Wolf at Bay

✅25.6 Paladin's Grace & Across the Vanishing Sky


message 10: by Jessica (last edited Aug 02, 2026 09:05AM) (new)

Jessica S | 439 comments Jessica S Summer Reading Plan

5.1 - Heated Rivalry
5.2 - The Lion Women of Tehran
5.4 - The City of Brass
5.5 - Like Real People Do
5.6 - The Core of the Sun
5.7 - Natural Disaster

10.1 - The Bone King and the Starling
10.2 - Disrupted Engagement
10.3 - Swimming in the Dark
10.4 -
10.5 -
10.7 - Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
10.9 - Wild Summer
10.10 -

15.1 -
>> Bk1: Star Shipped
>> Bk2: If All the Stars Go Dark
15.2 -
>> Bk1: Kill Your Darlings
>> Bk2: You're My Home
15.3 - The Brightness Between Us
15.4 -
15.5 - Hamartia
15.6 - Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
15.9 - Japanese Gothic


20.4 - The Left Hand of Darkness or Foundation
20.5 -
20.8 - The Dead Lake
20.9 - We Met in Dreams
20.10 - When the Cranes Fly South

25.1
✅ Book 1 One of Us Is Lying
Book 2 Three Bags Full
25.3
✅ Book 1 Things We Lost in the Fire
Book 2 MINGO
25.4
✅ Book 1 The Wren in the Holly Library
Book 2 Flowers or Vampire
25.5
✅ Book 1 How to Flirt with a Hellhound
Book 2
25.6
25.7
Book 1 Fourth Wing
Book 2 Bend Him Break Him
25.10

30.1
Book 1: The Surf House
30.2
The Consort's Curse
30.3
Book 1 An Empty Embrace
✅ Book 2 The Haunting of Hill House
30.4
✅ Book 1: The Lemon Drop Kid
Book 2:
30.5
NautiCal
A Vow to Heal
30.6
Where the Lost Wander
Noli Me Tángere
30.7
Option 2: Under Gorse and Stone
Option 3:
30.8
✅ Book 1: For the Love of Luke
Book 2:

50.1

(view spoiler)

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1) by Ilona Andrews Piranesi by Susanna Clarke A Touch of Murder (Touched, #1) by E.M. Leya Dead Serious Case #1 Miz Dusty Le Frey (Crawshanks Guide to the Recently Departed, #1) by Vawn Cassidy The Darkness Outside Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #1) by Eliot Schrefer Leila by Prayaag Akbar Four Thousand Weeks Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Keeper (Kensley Panthers, #1) by Nicole Dykes Claiming Rys (Dark Forest Pack #1) by Annabelle Jacobs The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes The Unlikely Pair (Unlikely Dilemmas, #2) by Jax Calder Spitting off the Edge of the World (Not Strong Enough #1) by Courtney W. Dixon Singing Sands (Claremont Shores #1) by C.L. Blossom How to Fake It in Society by K.J. Charles Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Human Acts by Han Kang The Quiet American by Graham Greene


message 11: by Bec (last edited Jun 01, 2026 05:11PM) (new)

Bec (foreverfnm) | 139 comments 2026 Reading Plans

5.1 - A Song for the Dying (Ash Henderson #2)
5.2 - The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire
5.3 - Dark Asset (Marc Portman #4)
5.4 - Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
5.5 - The Night Circus or Station Eleven
5.6 - The Grapes of Wrath
5.7 - Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
5.8 - To the Lighthouse
5.9 - And the Corpse Wore Tartan (Steel #2)
5.10 - Any book

10.1 - Lethal Target (Jack Kane #1)
10.2 - Wives and Daughters
10.3 - A Moveable Feast
10.4 - Around the World in Eighty Days or Rain Dogs
10.5 - A Christmas Carol
10.6 - Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam
10.7 - Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science or The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
10.8 - Any book with less than 201 pages
10.9 - Prodigal Summer
10.10 - MPG "Road Trip"

15.1 - Who Dares Wins & Dare to Lead
15.2 Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right and Why I Write
15.3 - Breakout (Lex Harper #2)
15.4 - The Removal - (approved)
15.5 - Storm Watch (Pickett #23)
15.6 - The Coffin Maker’s Garden (Ash Henderson #3)
15.7 - The Haunting of Hill House
15.8 - any Chris Ryan or CJ Box
15.9 - Norwegian Wood
15.10 - Hunter or The Hunting

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10

25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4
25.6
25.7

30.1 - Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly and The Detective Up Late
30.2 - The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History or The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire & Hang on St. Christopher
30.3 - Option 1: The Fallen & Option 3: any book published between 1898 and 2010
30.4 - Lord of the Flies & Franny and Zooey
30.5 -
30.6 - Silas Marner & One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd


Books to fit:
Close Quarters (Mark Portman) - Adrian Magson
In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
Direct Action - Stephen Leather
Two on a Tower - Hardy
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Mass
Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
100 Best loved poems
The Hunting - Leather *
A song for the Dying - Stuart MacBride
Takedown - Stephen Leather
Battle Mountain - CJ Box
The Crossroads - CJ Box
The Deep Abiding - Sean Black
The Yacht Girl - Sean Black
Hunter - Jack Heath *


message 12: by Michelle (last edited Aug 31, 2026 06:31PM) (new)

Michelle (michellesoleil) | 426 comments 𝓜𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓀𝒶


⌛ Initiated / pending
✅ Completed / claimed
♦️ Priority


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(OPEN)


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10.4 - Man's Best Weather?
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (419 p.)

10.5 - Christmas in July.
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (233 p.)

10.6 -

10.7 -

10.8 - The Long and Short of It.
A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (757 p.) 📚📚

10.9 -

10.10 -


15.1 -

15.2 -

15.3 - Third and Ten. ***1-BOOK OPTION***
✓ Option 2. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (461 p.)

15.4 - ***1-BOOK OPTION***
none

15.5 - Plants and Animals.
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (626 p.) 📚

15.6 -

15.7 - The Hungry Ghost.
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (481 p.)

15.8 -

15.9 -

15.10 -
Sundial by Catriona Ward (320 p.)


20.1 Most Improved Player:
none

20.2 Rookie at the Top: Becky Q - Boba Break!
✓ Option 2: Root Cause: A Collection of Stories on Community by Sara-Jayne Slack (192 p.)

20.3 - Review Raffle: Kelly L's Task: The Best & The Rest.
✓ Option 1: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (604 p.) 📚

20.4

20.5

20.6 - It's a Fact: Cathy G's Task - Lake Life'. **non-fiction**
✓ Option 1: How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger (673 p.) ❗

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter -
✓ Option 1. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (288 p.)

20.8 Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL - A Puzzle.
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon (902 p.) 📚📚

20.9 - Moderator's Pet: DeeDee - Mars.
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas (371 p.)

20.10 - Group Reads -


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25.9 -

25.10 - ***1-BOOK OPTION***
none

30.1 -

30.2 -

30.3 -

30.4 - Katrisa's Task: My Sarah.
✓ Option 2. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (703 p.) 📚 (59.1% total)
✓ Option 3c. Light in August by William Faulkner (507 p.) (p. 8) 🌟📚

30.5 -

30.6 -

30.7 -

30.8 -


50.1 -



❝𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝❞

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) by Sarah J. Maas A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4) by Sarah J. Maas A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #5) by Sarah J. Maas Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1) by Leigh Bardugo A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) by Sarah J. Maas Hell Bent (Ninth House Trilogy, #2) by Leigh Bardugo Sundial by Catriona Ward Root Cause A Collection of Stories on Community by Sara-Jayne Slack Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel How Not to Die Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9) by Diana Gabaldon Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3) by Sarah J. Maas Light in August by William Faulkner


✓ Goal: 240/150 points
◺ Pages Read... This Season: 7,510 || SRC All Time: 111,143
◺ Books Read... This Season: 15 || SRC All Time: 273

🌟 Golden Oldies: 1 || SRC All Time: 23
📚 Big Book: 9 || SRC All Time: 91
❗It's a Fact: 1 || SRC All Time: 13


❝𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬❞

➵ Most points earned in one season: 335 (Spring 2023)
➵ Most pages read in one season: 9,796 (Summer 2023)
➵ Most books read in one season: 20 (Summer 2023)


message 13: by Andrea (new)

Andrea | 1 comments Summer 2026 Reading List

5.1- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert


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Shanna_redwind | 755 comments 5.1:


message 15: by Christine (last edited Aug 11, 2026 01:50PM) (new)

Christine | 974 comments Summer Challenge

The Keeper

The Astral Library
The Raven Scholar
A Column of Fire
A God in Ruins
Bel Canto
A Deadly Episode

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
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5.10

10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
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10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

15.1
15.2
15.3 - 2: Hell Bent
15.4
15.5 - Burial Rites 1776
15.6
15.7
15.8 - Heartburn, Slow Gods
15.9
15.10 - Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us

20.1 - 1: Yesteryear✔ p3 of Books About Being Trapped or Stranded 1774
20.2 - 1: The Tea Rose, The Pearl that Broke Its Shell
20.3 - 1: Gilead
20.4 - 2: The Mystery of the Blue Train
20.5 - 3: The Buried Giant?
20.6
20.7 - 3: A Long and Speaking Silence 1775
20.8 - 2: Marble Hall Murders 1777
20.9
20.20 - When the Cranes Fly South:


message 16: by Nafeesa (last edited Jun 02, 2026 12:24PM) (new)

Nafeesa  Farhaana  | 10 comments I won't be able to read all but here are few i'm planning on and more to decide:

5.1
5.2
5.3 - Canticle (California)
5.4 - The Moth Keeper (Desert, Pg 5)
5.5 - A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (MM)
5.6 - Writers & Lovers (orange)
5.7 - Salvage the Bones (hurricane)
5.8 - My Friends
5.9 - Dead Until Dark (100 in 2001)
5.10

10.1 -
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8: Selected Short Stories - R.L. Stevenson (696 pgs)
10.9 - I Know What You Did Last Summer
10.10 - Two-Way Street (road trip)

15.1
book 1:
book 2:
15.2- (break, brake)
book 1: Things Don't Break on Their Own
book 2: Dinner at the Brake Fast
15.3: The Maze Runner (Book 1, Oct)
15.4
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10

30.1
30.2
30.3
Option 1: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley (Art Circle Public Library)
Option 2: The Good Lie (Falling Water River Regional Library)
30.4
30.5
30.6
Option A: The Adventures of Tom Saywer (Steamer, 1876)
Option B: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Steamer, 1893)
30.7


message 17: by Diana S (new)

Diana S | 40 comments Summer Reading Plan

10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10


message 18: by EShay (last edited Jul 28, 2026 01:05PM) (new)

EShay Fagan (eshay11) | 581 comments 5.1 title word that contains all the letters of DRY How to Cheat Your Own Death
5.2 MPG Middle East or WWI The Alice Network
5.3 Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
5.4 list Desert Books Dune Messiah
5.5 initials can be found adjacent (either direction) in the word "SUMMER" The Starless Sea
5.6 fruits and/or vegetables on the cover The House Witch
5.7 tornado, hurricane, or flooding is essential to the story The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
5.8 swimming pool, body of water enclosed by land, or a beach on the cover Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
5.9 published date containing the numbers 100 Middlesex 9/16/2002, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 7/1/2006, the namesake 1/1/2003
5.10 Book of choice

10.1 The Faraway Inn
10.2 wedding essential on the cover The Collected Regrets of Clover
10.3 set 50% in France, Poland, Spain, and The Netherlands
10.4 4+ letter word in title from DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
10.5 The Secret Christmas Library
10.6 author whose first/last name is Charles or list of related names The Shadow of the Wind
10.7 NF MPGs Architecture, Business, Science, Technology or Design
10.8 Learn Like a Pro
10.9 Just for the Summer
10.10 MPG Road Trip

15.1 B1: Any book
B2: Same title word from book 1 w/ "s" added
15.2 Commonly misspelled words list, one book for each word pair: Here/hear
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
15.3 B1: Book 1-3 of series Discount Dan
B2: pub on 10th day or 10th month (Oct.) or year ends in 10th
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010)
15.4 B1: 50% in Chile, Mexico, Arizona, or California
B2: rainfall or desert lands on the cover
15.5 title word 4+ letters made from "I carry a river, it is who I am."'
15.6 letters of “freedom” in title
15.7 ghosts are essential to the story or MPG Ghosts
15.8 A Pocket Full of Rye
15.9 Before the Coffee Gets Cold
15.10 title or an author name w/ “U” as its second letter Death of the Author

20.1 Op2: A Deadly Episode
20.2
Op1: word in title: Tea, Chai, Milk, Honey, Sugar, Pearl The Honey Witch
Op2: circles on the cover.
Op3: author initials in BOBA TEA
Op4: sweet treat or sweet drink on the cover
20.3
Op1: NYT "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" Sing, Unburied, Sing
Op2: title, letters of B-E-S-T, in order no subtitles
Op3: one numeral (0 - 9) OR written number in the title
20.4
Op1: SciFi golden oldie published before 1970, award winner The Man in the High Castle
Op2: Pub 1920-1939 MPG Mystery, Suspense, or Detective
Op3: authors: Erle Stanley Gardner, Philippa Carr (and her other books by Victoria Holt or Jean Plaidy), Mary Stewart, Leon Uris, James Michener, and Robert Heinlein.
20.5
Op1: NF about wine, viticulture, winemaking, wine history, wine tourism, wine tasting, or food and wine pairing Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
Op2: fiction w/wine, vineyards, wineries, winemakers, sommeliers, or wine regions is essential to the story
Op3: wine glass, wine bottle, vineyard, grapevine, grapes, barrel, or wine cellar on the cover.
20.6
Op1: author initials in one of Great Lakes
Op2: ship/boat on cover
Op3: MPG Nature Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
20.7
Op1: Title word 3+ letters matches a word in the name of a Beach Boys song
Op2: MPG of Family, Friends, Friendship or Music
Op3: initials in GOOD VIBRATIONS
Op4: cover is at least 50% black and red
20.8 spoiler guesses
Op1:
Op2:
20.9
Op1: NF primarily about Mars, list options A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Op2: Fiction list about Mars
Op3: title word that contains all the letters of MARS
20.20 Group read
A Princess of Mars

25.1
Op1: lists of Booktok recs Fourth Wing
Op2: MPG Book Club
Op3: Lists to complete goodreads bookmarks
25.2 Book tropes - mystery
B1: Detective: Missing
B2:
25.3
Op1: set in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, or Kansas.
Op2: NF about music
Op3: title word in one: ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, and BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK
Op4: Author initials in MINGO
Op5: baseball/softball book lists
25.4
Op2: title that begins with “W.” Walk with Weight: The Definitive Guide to Rucking – Improve Metabolic Health, Prevent Injury, and Build a Stronger Body and Mind
Op4: Music book lists How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

25.5
Op1: All author initials in DOUGLAS ADAMS Cascade Failure
Op2: city-based police officer (detective or beat) as main character Holy Island
Op3: pub in May (any year) AND has 2 and 5 in the page count
Op4:MPG Humor + MPGs : Science Fiction, Fantasy, or British Literature We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
25.6
Op1: California, Nevada, Arizona, and/or Utah
Op2: castle, a palace, or other stately home on the cover
Op3: Hot, Hotter, Hottest, Dry, Drier, or Driest in the title/sub
25.7
Op1: initials in MADAM MAYOR
Op2: book featuring a library, bookstore, librarian, or bookseller Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Op3: set at a school
Op4: contrasting colors on cover: Violet and Yellow, Blue and Orange, or Red and Green
Op5: letters in SAHM appear in the title/sub There Is No Antimemetics Division
25.8
Op1: pub in 2014
Op2: author born in Germany
Op3: list: Big Cats
Op4: page count contains both a 7 and a 1, in that order
Op5: initial either a first name beginning with M or a last name beginning with G
25.9
Op1: MPG Climate Change OR w/ Weather or Climate in the title/sub
Op2: set in country bordering the Pacific Ocean
Op3: book available in Spanish
Op4: initials in ELNINO or CLIMATE.
25.10 1 book 500+ or 2 books 250+
OpA: 2 authors share initials
OpB: books of series in consecutive numbers
OpC: first word of the title starts with the last letter of the last word in the title/subtitle of book 1.
OpD: plural or possessive of a word in the title/subtitle of Book 1plural or possessive of a word in the title/subtitle of Book 1

30.1 2 books each option
Op1: MPG Thriller + MPG True Crime
Op2: MPG Thriller book that is set 20 years prior to the time the book was originally published + MPG Historical Fiction
Op3: MPG Thriller book that takes place at least 75% during a summer vacation + MPG Summer
30.2
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Knots and Crosses

30.3
Op1: One of author’s names made with letters in Art Circle Public Library
Op2: 3+ word title first letter of each word can be found in Falling Water River Regional Library
Op3: pub between 1898 and 2010
Op4: MPG Gardening, Nature or Food
Op5: set in Tennessee or Texas
30.4
Op1: lemon on the cover
Op2: Pink cover
Op3: a) by/about J.D. Salinger
B) title word from “FRANNY AND ZOOEY”
C) list of Required Reading in High School Siddhartha
Op4: author’s name includes letters PIE Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
30.5
Op1: Sun or body of water on cover
Op2: book title 3+ words all start from letters INCENSE CLOCKS
Op3: letters in an author single name from HOURGLASS and/or COMPASS
Op4: page numbers made from 1500, 1950, 1970 or 2000
30.6 501+ pgs titles of the the 2 books must contain all the letters of STEAMER
Book A: Pub 1850 and 1914
Book B: set between 1850 and 1914, pub at least 15 years after
30.7
Op1: pub or set 1763 - 1787
Op2: author that shares a last name with a Signer of Declaration of Independence or Patriots’ names list Death by Comfort: How modern life is killing us and what we can do about it
Op3: book set in 1 original colonies
Op4: author born in France, The Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti or Dominican Republic (formerly Hispaniola)
30.8 “Horse with no name”
Op1: title word from lyrics
Op2: horse on the cover The Hero and the Crown
Op3: initials match one of the band members Lessons in Chemistry

50.1 3 books 750+ pgs total
Book 1: Word from “Hope is the thing with feathers How to Seal Your Own Fate
Book 2: One or more birds on cover
Book 3:
OpA: Read a book first published 1830-1886 inclusive
OpB: initials (all) in "AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS" Down Cemetery Road
OpC: set in the state of MassachusettsThe Huntress


message 19: by Ellen (last edited Aug 24, 2026 03:20AM) (new)

Ellen Marcolongo | 13 comments 5.1 - Empty and Dry- The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) by Jane Harper by Jane Harper

5.2 - Movies and Deserts: The Last of the Doughboys The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin by Richard Rubin

5.3- Music and Deserts: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende byIsabel Allende word: spirit

5.4 - Books and Deserts: The Devil's Highway A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea by Luis Alberto Urrea

5.5 - Name is Summer: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison

5.6 Garden to Table: In Defense of Food An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan by Michael Pollan

5.7 - Wind and Rain: Isaac's Storm A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson by Erik Larson

5.8 - Cool and Refreshing: I've Got My Eyes on You by Mary Higgins Clark by Mary Higgins Clark

5.9 - The Sweat Limit: My Friends by Fredrik Backman by Fredrik Backman

5.10 - Chill and Read: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans by Virginia Evans

10.1- Dry, Drier, Driest: The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) by Dan Simmons by Dan Simmons

10.2 - June Brides: The Divorce by Freida McFadden by Freida McFadden

10.3 - Independence Day: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas by Alexandre Dumas

10.4 - Man's Best Weather: Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2) by Matt Dinniman by Matt Dinniman

10.5 - Christmas in July: In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren by Christina Lauren: Christmas

10.6 - Board Game Delight: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens

10.7 - Construction Season: Nexus A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari by Yuval Noah Harari. MPG: science.

10.8 - The Long and Short of It: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix by Grady Hendrix. 404 pages √

10.9 - School's Out: Summer Sisters by Judy Blume by Judy Blume

10.10 - Vacations Are Not Always Relaxing: This Land Is Your Land A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage by Beverly Gage

15.1 - Feast or Famine: Book 1: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco by Umberto Eco; book 2: Roses (Roses, #2) by Leila Meacham by Leila Meacham. Word: Rose.

15.2 - This or That: Book 1: The Right Nation Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait by John Micklethwait; book 2: The Right to Write An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron by Julia Cameron. Word pair: right/write.

15.3 - Third and Ten: A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) by Naomi Novik

15.4 Wet and Dry: My Invented Country A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende by Isabel Allende & Mecca by Susan Straight by Susan Straight

15.5 - Plants and Animals: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult by Jodi Picoult; word: wish √

15.6 - Summer of Freedom: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen by Jonathan Franzen

15.7 - The Hungry Ghost: Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen by Sarah Addison Allen

15.8 - Hold My Beer: Abandon by Blake Crouch by Blake Crouch

15.9 - It's A Float: Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

15.10 Summer Loves U: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata by Sayaka Murata


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Foxy Grandma (foxygrandma) | 1311 comments Beth_NC


5.1 - Boundary Crossed (Boundary Magic, #1) by Melissa F. Olson by Melissa F. Olson

5.2 - Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) by Ken Follett by Ken Follett

5.3 - Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens [ by author:Chevy Stevens|3163298]

5.4 - We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix by Grady Hendrix

5.5 - The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd by Edward Rutherford

5.6 - The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia by Sofía Segovia

5.7 - Camino Winds (Camino Island, #2) by John Grisham by John Grisham

5.8 - Reckoning Hour (Dean Lincoln Legal Thriller, #1) by Peter O'Mahoney by Peter O'Mahoney

5.9 - Chaos (Kay Scarpetta, #24) by Patricia Cornwell by Patricia Cornwell

5.10 - Cry Wolf (Brown and de Luca, #4.5) by Maggie Shayne by Maggie Shayne


10.1 - Moonshine (Cal Leandros, #2) by Rob Thurman by Rob Thurman

10.2 - American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld by Curtis Sittenfeld

10.3 - The Snow Gypsy by Lindsay Jayne Ashford by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

10.4 - The Good Samaritan by John Marrs by John Marrs

10.5 - All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire (Love at Stake, #5) by Kerrelyn Sparks by Kerrelyn Sparks

10.6 - Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan by Chuck Hogan

10.7 - Money, and the Law of Attraction Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness by Esther Hicks by Esther
Hicks


10.8 - 1st Case by James Patterson by James Patterson

10.9 - Last Lessons of Summer by Margaret Maron by Margaret Maron

10.10 - Chasing Stardust by Erica Lucke Dean by Erica Lucke Dean


15.1 -
>> Bk1: Bone Canyon (Eve Ronin, #2) by Lee Goldberg by Lee Goldberg
>> Bk2: Bones Don't Lie (Morgan Dane, #3) by Melinda Leigh by Melinda Leigh

15.2 -
>> Bk1: Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon by Jennifer McMahon
>> Bk2: Her Final Breath (Tracy Crosswhite, #2) by Robert Dugoni by Robert Dugoni

15.3 - Killing Me Softly (Secrets of Shadow Falls, #1) by Maggie Shayne by Maggie Shayne

15.4 -
>>Bk1: The Girl from Devil's Lake (Joanna Brady Mysteries) by J.A. Jance by J.A. Jance
>>Bk 2: The Age of Ra (Pantheon, #1) by James Lovegrove by James Lovegrove

15.5 - What I've Done (Morgan Dane, #4) by Melinda Leigh by Melinda Leigh

15.6 - You Killed Me First by John Marrs by John Marrs

15.7 - The Unholy (Krewe of Hunters, #6) by Heather Graham by Heather Graham

15.8 - Dead End (Crossroads Queen, #9) by Annabel Chase by Annabel Chase

15.9 - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden by Arthur Golden

15.10 - In His Wake by Chad Zunker by Chad Zunker


20.1 - Dragonfly A Novel by Ronnell D. Porter by Ronnell D. Porter

20.2 - Don't Cry (Don't Cry #1) by Beverly Barton by Beverly Barton

20.3 - The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin by N.K. Jemisin

20.4 - The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) by Raymond Chandler by Raymond Chandler

20.5 - The Accidental Connoisseur An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World by Lawrence Osborne by Lawrence
Osborne


20.6 - The Polyamorists Next Door Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families by Elisabeth Sheff by Elisabeth Sheff

20.7 - 26 Beauties (Women's Murder Club, #26) by James Patterson by James PattersonIris Rainer Dart

20.8 - Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart by Iris Rainer Dart

20.9 - Land of Dreams by Gian Sardar by Gian Sardar

20.10 - Tinseltown Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann by William J. Mann


25.1
>>Bk 1: Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1) by Stephanie Garber by Stephanie Garber
>>Bk2: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid by Taylor Jenkins Reid

25.2
>>Bk 1 Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones by Tayari Jones
>>Bk 2 The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter A Novel by Brionni Nwosu by Brionni Nwosu

25.3
>>Bk 1 Talking to My Angels by Melissa Etheridge by Melissa Etheridge
>>Bk 2 A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash by Wiley Cash

25.4
>>Bk 1 Beyond the Highland Mist (Highlander, #1) by Karen Marie Moning by Karen Marie Moning
>>Bk 2 When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde by Catherine Ryan Hyde

25.5
>>Bk 1 Detective Cross (Alex Cross, #24.5) by James Patterson by James Patterson
>>Bk 2 Girl Blue (Brown and de Luca, #5) by Maggie Shayne by Maggie Shayne

25.6
>>Bk 1 Silver and Lead (October Daye, #19) by Seanan McGuire by Seanan McGuire
>>Bk 2 Hot Blooded (Dark, #11.5; Midnight, #2.5; Mageverse, #0.5) by Christine Feehan by Christine Feehan

25.7
>>Bk 1 The Hunter from the Woods (Michael Gallatin #2) by Robert McCammon by Robert McCammon
>>Bk 2 The Viper’s Nest Roadhouse & Cafe (Sam Quinn, #6) by Seana Kelly by Seana Kelly

25.8
>>Bk 1 Moving Day by Jonathan Stone by Jonathan Stone
>>Bk 2 Secrets Never Die (Morgan Dane, #5) by Melinda Leigh by Melinda Leigh

25.9
>>Bk 1 Starlight Hollow (Starlight Hollow, #1) by Yasmine Galenorn by Yasmine Galenorn
>>Bk 2 Save Your Breath (Morgan Dane, #6) by Melinda Leigh by Melinda Leigh

25.10 Desperate Measures by David Morrell by David Morrell



30.1
>>Bk 1 Gangland by Chuck Hogan by Chuck Hogan
>>Bk 2 MacPherson's Lament (Elizabeth MacPherson, #7) by Sharyn McCrumb by Sharyn McCrumb

30.2
>>Bk 1 The Witches Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff by Stacy Schiff
>>Bk 2 The Briar Club by Kate Quinn by Kate Quinn

30.3
>>Bk 1 Madhouse (Cal Leandros, #3) by Rob Thurman by Rob Thurman
>>Bk 2 Harrison Hyde and the Runaway Bride (The Texas Brand Generations, #1) by Maggie Shayne by Maggie Shayne

30.4
>>Bk 1 Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1) by Anne McCaffrey by Anne McCaffrey
>>Bk 2 America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray by Stephanie Dray

30.5
>>Bk 1 Every Last One by Anna Quindlen by Anna Quindlen
>>Bk 2 A Bleeding Ground (The Blood-borne Series Book 3) by C.R. Quinn by C.R. Quinn

30.6
>>Bk 1 The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2) by Edgar Rice Burroughs by Edgar Rice Burroughs
>>Bk 2 The Winter Rose (The Tea Rose, #2) by Jennifer Donnelly by Jennifer Donnelly

30.7
>>Bk 1 Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer (Theodore Boone, #1) by John Grisham by John Grisham
>>Bk 2 And the Crows Took Their Eyes by Vicki Lane by Vicki Lane

30.8
>>Bk 1 Morgan Is My Name (Morgan le Fay, #1) by Sophie Keetch by Sophie Keetch
>>Bk 2 Tam Lin by Pamela Dean by Pamela Dean


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Becky Q. (bestiebecky) | 78 comments 15.2
Book 1 - Breathe
Book 2 - Every Breath

25.1
Book 1 - Little Fires Everywhere
Book 2 - Where the Crawdads Sing


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Brigia | 515 comments Brigia wrote: "Summer Books

Points: 140
# books read: 8

5.1 DRY in the title
5.2 WWI/middle east
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5.6 fruit/vegetables on the cover
5.7 tornado/hurricane/flooding in the story
5.8 pool/lake/beach..."



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