The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

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.

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✔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 You Belong Here OR Come Find Me
5.6 Happy & You Know It
5.7 The Storm
5.8 Neverworld Wake
5.9 The Other Mrs.
5.10

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
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7

25.1 Assistant to the Villain
Bk 2 The Correspondent
25.2
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
25.6
25.7
25.8
25.9

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 I'm Engaged to Mothman
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

✔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 Golden Boy
5.10

10.1 A Ghastly Catastrophe
10.2 Four Aunties and a Wedding
10.3 The Crowded Grave
10.4 Through the Evil Days
10.5 Christmas at the Waratah Inn
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. Déjà Dead
2. You Deserve Each Other
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 The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland
15.7 Haunted Ever After
15.8 Lázár
15.9 The Convenience Store by the Sea
15.10 One Was a Soldier

20.1
20.2 3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
20.3
20.4 3. Mistress of Mellyn
20.5 3. The Vineyards of Champagne
20.6 3. Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story
20.7
20.8 A Deadly Episode
20.9
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. Cursed Daughters
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. Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding
2. Bethlehem Road
25.6
2. The Tour
3. Hot Flash Holidays
25.7

25.8
1. Big Little Lies
5. Closer than you think
25.9
3. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
4. The Killing Stones
25.10
1. Through the Evil Days
2B. Hid from Our Eyes

30.1
3-1. The Lake Escape
3-2. A Novel Summer
30.2
1. Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion
2. The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
30.3
1. Kin
4a. Be Ready When the Luck Happens
30.4
1. Lemon Tart
2. Mixed Signals
30.5
1. Wild Fire
3. The Frozen River
30.6
A. My Brilliant Career
B. Fierce Poison
30.7
2A. The Library of Lost Dollhouses
3. This Is Not About Us
30.8
2. Lázár
3. A Year on Ladybug Farm

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20.10 - Group read

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Bk1: Three Vlog Night
Bk2: A Chaotic Range ✔️

50.1
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To Place (Read):
✅The Secret of the Old Clock

05.1 - Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids
05.2 - All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI)
05.3 -
05.4 - The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers(3)
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✅05.9 - マッシュル-MASHLE- 6(4/30/21)/8(10/4/21)
05.10 -

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10.6 - The Hidden Staircase (Carolyn)
10.7 - NONFIC MPGs Architecture, Business, Science, Technology or Design
✅10.8 - マッシュル-MASHLE- 5
10.9 -
10.10 - This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History

15.1 -
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✅✅15.3 - マッシュル-MASHLE- 3 (2020-10-02)w
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✅15.9 - マッシュル-MASHLE- 4
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20.10 - Sargasso of Space

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25.5 - auth.init.in AAADDGLMOSSU; MC=city cop; pub'd May+pg#2&5;
>> Bk1:
>> Bk2: Pratchett! (MPG Humor+SF/Fantasy/BritLit) Discworld 5-7
25.6 - set50%=CA+NV+AZ+UT; cvr=castle/manor; titl.wd dry/ier/est, hot/ter/est
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25.8 - pub'd 2014; auth.brn Germany; frm big cats list; pg#=7>1; auth.1st.nm=M/lst=G
>> Bk1:
>> Bk2: martha wells
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25.10 - 500+pg w/ all.auth.init.in.title AND letter U in auth.nm+title

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Summer Books

5.1 DRY in the title
5.2 WWI/middle east
⭐️5.3 This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
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 Hell Bent
5.10 book of choice

10.1
⭐️10.2 Rings of Fate
10.3 set in France/Poland/Spain/The Netherlands
10.4
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⭐️ 10.6 Slippery Creatures
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15.1
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⭐️15.3 Deal with the Devil
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⭐️15.6 The Hands of the Emperor
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30.1
30.2
30.3
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Heather's Plan
5.1 - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
5.2 -Minor Detail
5.3 -Heaven
5.4 -Binti
5.5 -My Sister Eileen
5.6 -Hunger
5.7 -Hurricane Girl
5.8 -Navajo Autumn
5.9 -For Every One
5.10 -

10.1 -Under Milk Wood
10.2 -Claire, Darling or The Affair
10.3 -The Street of Crocodiles
10.4 - Don’t Read This or You Might Die
10.5 -Candy Cane Murder
10.6 -Amphibian
10.7 -The Hunger Code: Resetting Your Body's Fat Thermostat in the Age of Ultra-Processed Food
10.8 -Solaris
10.9 -The Summer War
10.10 -The Rest of Our Lives

15.1 -
>> Bk1:The Circus Train
>> Bk2:The Andromeda Strain
15.2 -
>> Bk1:Once There Were Wolves
>> Bk2:The Clothes on Their Backs
15.3 -The Vine Witch
15.4 -Fire on the Mountain
15.5 -Counting the Cost
15.6 -When You Are Engulfed in Flames
15.7 -The Haunting of Sunshine Girl or Petra's Ghost
15.8 -A Psalm for the Wild-Built
15.9 -Moshi Moshi
15.10 -Huge

Done
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Plans
15.9 As irmãs Makioka

20.10 Sargasso of Space

25.3 Option 3: Preço de noiva (falta mais um)
25.4 Option 1: História dos Vampiros: Autópsia de um Mito (falta mais um)
25.8 Option 1: Arqueologia (falta um)

30.2 Terra Partida; O Sagrado e o Profano
30.3 - XBM’s task : Libraries I have loved: Art Circle Public Library - Option 3- As Cidades Invisíveis (1972) falta outro
30.4 3A- Franny and Zooey; 3C- Noite de Reis
30.5 - TessaVanessa’s Time to Read - Option 3: Arqueologia, patrimônio material e legislação ? waiting for the help thread
30.6 A-A Relíquia

Jessica S Summer Reading Plan

5.1 - A Discovery of Witches or Dirty Martini
5.2 -
5.3 - This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me or Only This Beautiful Moment
5.4 - Quicksilver or Pedro Páramo
5.5 - Like Real People Do
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5.9 - The Extraordinaries
5.10 -

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15.7 - Pedro Páramo
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15.9 - Japanese Gothic
15.10 -

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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
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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 *

Mine

Summer 2026 Reading List

5.1- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

5.1:

Summer Challenge


Red Rising
A Long and Speaking Silence
The Astral Library
Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us
Slow Gods
Heartburn
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
A Deadly Episode
Hell Bent
Stoner
The Raven Scholar
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

5.1
5.2
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5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
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5.10

10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

15.1
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15.6
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15.8
15.9
15.10

20.1
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20.9
20.20 - When the Cranes Fly South

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

Summer Reading Plan

10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

5.1 title word that contains all the letters of DRY
5.2 MPG Middle East or WWI
5.3 title word of 4 or more letters that matches a word in Hotel California
5.4 list Desert Books Dune Messiah
5.5 initials can be found adjacent (either direction) in the word "SUMMER"
5.6 fruits and/or vegetables on the cover
5.7 tornado, hurricane, or flooding is essential to the story
5.8 swimming pool, body of water enclosed by land, or a beach on the cover
5.9 published date containing the numbers 100
5.10 Book of choice

10.1 initials are in the word DESERT The Faraway Inn
10.2 wedding essential on the cover
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 book which features a Winter Holiday The Secret Christmas Library
10.6 author whose first/last name is Charles or list of related names
10.7 NF MPGs Architecture, Business, Science, Technology or Design
10.8 less than 201 pages or more than 400 pages
10.9 SUMMER intact in title 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
15.3 B1: Book 1-3 of series Discount Dan
B2: pub on 10th day or 10th month (Oct.) or year ends in 10th
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 initials in BEER CAN
15.9 set +50% in Japan, written by an author born/resides in Japan, or Japanese American Before the Coffee Gets Cold
15.10 title or an author name w/ “U” as its second letter Death of the Author

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25.1
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30.1

50.1

5.1 - Empty and Dry- by Jane Harper

5.2 - Movies and Deserts: by Richard Rubin

5.3- Music and Deserts: byIsabel Allende word: spirit

5.4 - Books and Deserts: by Luis Alberto Urrea

5.5 - Name is Summer: by Ralph Ellison

5.6 Garden to Table: by Michael Pollan

5.7 - Wind and Rain: by Erik Larson