The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

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

✔Fall challenge


5.1 The Night We Met
5.2 Forests, Fishing & Forgery
5.3 The Burning Side
5.4 Bearer of Bad News
5.5 The Glass Forest
5.6 The Someday Garden
5.7 The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
5.8 And the Crowd Went Wild
5.9 The Windsor Affair
5.10

10.1 This Book Made Me Think of You
10.2 In the Middle of Hickory Lane
10.3 A Dangerous Crossing
10.4 Falling Like Leaves
10.5 Good People
10.6 Rustler's Moon
10.7 The Beadworkers
10.8 Cursed Daughters
10.9 Lady Tremaine
10.10 Deserts, Driving, & Derelicts

15.1
A. A Far-Flung Life
B. The Romance Revival
15.2
A. Landscape of a Marriage: Central Park Was Only the Beginning
B. The Irish Goodbye
15.3
1A. The Labrador Pact
1B. The Wicked Redhead
15.4
1A. Chancing your Arm
1B. First-Time Caller
15.5 Eva Luna
15.6 No Matter What
15.7 Burnt Echo
15.8 The Things We Never Say
15.9 Love You More
15.10 Thereby Hangs a Tail

25.1
5. A Body of Water
6. When Lemons Give You Life

30.1
5. Just Beachy
6. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
30.2
1-B. The Shippers
2-A. Sounds Like Love
30.3
2. More Than Enough
3. The Midnight Train
30.4
1A. The Key to Deceit
2. Audition
30.5

4. Blood Betrayal
30.6
A. Death Comes for the Archbishop
B, The Last Note of Warning
30.7
2. Road Trip
4. Wreck
30.8
1. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
3. The Magic Misfits

My plan so far:

5.1 The Fisherman
5.2 Fate's Bane
5.3 How to Kill A Witch
5.4 The Bear and the Nightingale
5.5 The Forest of Stolen Girls
5.6 The Apple and the Pearl
5.7 Hunger
5.8 Bleachers
5.9 The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones
5.10 The Last House on Needless Street

10.1 The Body Joyful
10.2 Redwood Court
10.3 A Trade of Blood
10.4 Heartstopper: Volume One
10.5 Rewitched
10.6 The Teller of Small Fortunes
10.7 And Then She Fell
10.8 The Way of Kings (preread at 49%)
10.9 A Sorceress Comes to Call
10.10 One by One

15.1 A. Mornings in Jenin (4.52) & B. The Starving Saints (3.58)
15.2 The Unmaking of June Farrow & The Everlasting
15.3 Assassin's Apprentice
15.4 The Children of Jocasta & The Last Witch
15.5 The Healing Season of Pottery
15.6 Thistlemarsh
15.7 The Road to Tender Hearts
15.8 Botanical Mischief
15.9 TBD
15.10 Eating Animals

25.1 Option 2 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches & Option 5 The Girl with a Thousand Faces

30.1 Jaws & The Night House

30.2 We Hexed the Moon & Paladin's Strength

30.3 How to Read a Book & The Last Thing He Told Me

30.4 Option 1A The Insomniacs & Option 4 A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

30.5 Option 3 Legendborn (10 each) Option 4 The Black Farm (The Black Farm)

30.6 Option B Sunset Song Published 1932 MOTORCAR. Set in 1914. & Option A The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926. MOTORCAR 272 + 288 pages = 560

30.7 Option 3 (All) and Published in Oct. All the Crooked Saints & Option 4 The Witch T-Thriller

30.8 Option 2 for both The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory & Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What It Is and Why It Matters Both found on Page 1 of Ecofeminism List.

5.1 The Velvet Knife
5.2 Mother, Mother
5.3 Old Ham
5.4 Girl Gone Missing
5.5 The Forest of Missing Girls
5.6 The Mortal Enemy Murder Club
5.7 Destination Funeral
5.8 The Fall of Iris Henley
5.9 The Amateur
5.10

10.1 You’ll Be Sorry
10.2 Augusta Pine Does Not Exist
10.3 Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
10.4The Edge of the Woods
10.5 The Witch
10.6 Lanterns, Lakes, & Larceny
10.7 Moon of the Turning Leaves
10.8 Behind White Picket Fences
10.9 Of Beast and Beauty
10.10 Death in the Dark Woods

15.1 You Know Why
Some Kind of Haunted
15.2 Dive Bar at the End of the Road
The House Swap
15.3 Sisters Take All
15.4 Coffin Moon
15.5 Before Your Memory Fades
15.6 The Tomorrow Tree
15.7 Find Me
15.8 The Hardest Ones to Fool
15.9 Promise Me Never
15.10 Cat Lady

30.1 Deadly Little Lessons
The Black Orchid
30.2 If Books Could Kill
Romantic Hero
30.3 Stay Buried
Plant Lady
30.4 Kiss Slay Replay
Killer Families
30.5
30.6 The Hidden Staircase
The Other Side of Midnight
30.7 No Rest for the Wicked
The Midnight Knock
30.8 The Enchanted Garden Cafe
A Curious Kind of Magic
30.9

5.1 A Little Bit Country
5.2 We Burned So Bright (170)
5.3 Rebound
5.4 His Stubborn Bear
5.5 Don't Let the Forest In
5.6 Ignite
5.7 Deep Dish
5.8 For the Fans
5.9 A Prince Among Pirates
5.10

10.1 Better the Devil
10.2 A Touch of Maple
10.3 The Whims of Love
10.4 You've Found Oliver
10.5 If Only in My Dreams
10.6 Fatal Attendant
10.7 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
10.8 Be My Monster
10.9 Bryony and Roses
10.10 The Man With No Shadow

15.1
The Only Light Left Burning
Mate Matched: Xavier & Brady
15.2
Trees: Wilde's End
Month: Black and Brown
15.3 Ascendant King
15.4 The Courtship of Julian St. Albans
15.5 The Red Collar
15.6 His Mate By Vengeance or Meet You In The Waves
15.7 Want You Back
15.8 In Memoriam
15.9 Free Fall
15.10 Jaws

20.10 Dungeon Crawler Carl

30.1
Horror: Dracula
Water: Dead Serious Case #2: Mrs Delores Abernathy
30.2
Option 1-A: My Cat Yugoslavia
Option 2-B: Love's Ace
30.3
Book 1: The Physician's Barbarian
Book 2: Pack of Lies
30.4
Option 1: A Dance Too Far
Option 2: Forbidden! Exorcist Roommate
30.5
Book 1
Book 2
30.6
Book 1: A Farewell to Arms
Book 2: Imperfect Illusions
30.7
Book 1: The City without End (City)
Book 2: Fang’d
30.8
Book 1: State of Wonder
Book 2: They Hate Each Other

To Be Placed
My Sister, the Serial Killer
The Nightingale
You're My Home

My spot.
5.1 States of Forest: : Alaska, Tongass National Forest
5.2 Amazon Size Forest:
5.3 Spread Like Wildfire:
5.4 Smokey the Bear:
5.5 Forest or Forrest:
5.6 Colors of Fall: ; Tin percentages: 67.2 yellow, 2.4 red
5.7 The Daily Ladle:
5.8 Fall means football:
5.9 Arrgh Matey Ahoy:

Fall Reading

⭐️5.1 A Box Full of Darkness
⭐️5.2 A Taste of Gold and Iron
5.3 Operation Bounce House
5.4 bear in title, subtitle or series name
5.5 Forrest in title or author name
5.6 Trust No One
5.7 bowl of food on cover
5.8 featuring American Football
5.9 Slippery Creatures
5.10 book of choice

⭐️10.1 A Drop of Corruption
10.2 tree name in title
10.3 Dead Beat
10.4 Godkiller
10.5 Lost and Found (found family)
10.6 Winter’s Orbit
10.7 Winter Counts
10.8 The Ending Writes Itself
10.9 mpg fairytales
10.10 Her Last Breath (?)

⭐️15.1 Artificial Condition & The Last Mandarin
15.2 Paladin's Strength & The Summer War
15.3 Swordheart
15.4 The Curse of Chalion & ⭐️Silver Nitrate
15.5 set in Africa, Asia or South America
15.6 No Matter What
15.7 The Last Contract of Isako
15.8 The Darkness Outside Us
15.9 City of Nightmares
15.10 Green City Wars

Fall 2026
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Fives
5.1 Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries
5.2 The Lust Crusade
5.3 Wax
5.4 Murder on the Red River
5.5 The Forest of Missing Girls
5.6 Missing Sister
5.7 Destination Funeral
5.8 Dreamland
5.9 What Stalks the Deep
5.10 Apprentice to the Villain

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Tens
10.1 The Silver Scream
10.2 Whispering Pines
10.3 The Box in the Woods
10.4 The Pumpkin Spice Café
10.5 Pumpkin Spice and Not So Nice
10.6 Salem's Fall
10.7 Killer on the Road
10.8 Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
10.9 How to Be Eaten
10.10 The Summer Fun Massacre

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Fifteens
15.1 The Girl with the Silver Eyes
Dead Weight
15.2 The Nature of Disappearing
The Intruder
15.3 Tunnel of Bones
15.4 The Cotton Candy Massacre: Part Treats
15.5 Before the Coffee Gets Cold
15.6 When All the Girls Are Sleeping
15.7 These Silent Woods
15.8 Clementine: Book One
15.9 Courier
15.10 Three Bags Full

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Twenties
20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 Dungeon Crawler Carl

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Twenty-Fives
25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4

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Thirties
30.1 Splasher
Dating After the End of the World
30.2 A Novel Love Story
Last Night Was Killer
30.3 Dangerous Impulses
Nine Liars
30.4 Candy Apple Kisses
The Escape Game
30.5
30.6
30.7 I Call Upon Thee
The Boyfriend
30.8 A Girl Walks Into the Forest
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
30.9

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Fifty
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my flexibe plans
5.5 The Forest in Folklore and Mythology
5.9 Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

10.7 O banquete dos deuses: Conversa sobre a origem da cultura brasileira (Coleção Jovem século 21)

15.2 A) Floradas Na SerraB) As Sete Irmãs
15.4 Option 2: Cuentos completos
15.5 africana, sulamericana ou asiática
15.6 Fernando Pessoa – Uma Quase-Autobiografia
15.7 O Silêncio das Montanhas ou A Parede
15.8 La mujer Quijote
15.10 Flush: Memórias de um cão

20.10 The Haunting of Hill House

30.1 Option 3: O Livro das Feras; Option 6: As irmãs Makioka
30.2 Option 1: A) Los peligros de fumar en la cama; B) qualquer um tagged "Contemporary"
30.8 lugar para brasileiro
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Total:
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GO Tickets:
It's a Fact Tickets:

Fives:
5.1 Julie of the Wolves
5.2 The Gathering
5.3 Playing with Fire
5.4 Touching Spirit Bear
5.5 Eyes of the Forest
5.6 Scythe
5.7 Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff
5.8 Kickoff!**
5.9 Of Mice and Men
5.10

Tens
10.1 Among the Brave
10.2 Whispering Pines
10.3 Among the Barons
10.4 The Jumbies
10.5 Ravenfall
10.6 Life As We Knew It
10.7 How I Became a Ghost**
10.8 Small Spaces
10.9 Cinder
10.10 Campfire

Fifteens
15.1 The Girl in the White Van
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die
15.2 What We Saw
The Naturals
15.3 Surrounded By Sharks**
Shadow over the Pumpkin Queen
15.4 The Call of the Wild
15.5 The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence
15.6 The Boy Who Ate Fear Street
15.7 Peak
15.8 Royal Scandal
15.9 Missing Pieces
15.10 White Fang

Twenties
20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Twenty-Fives
25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4

Thirties
30.1 Welcome to Dead House
The Last Kids on Earth
30.2 Wishtree
Hello, Universe
30.3 Reboot
The Isle of the Lost
30.4 Monument 14
Ender’s Game
30.5
30.6 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
To Kill a Mockingbird
30.7 The Hound of the Baskervilles
I Hunt Killers
30.8 The Explorer
Hide and Don't Seek: And Other Very Scary Stories
30.9

Fifty
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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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💿audio💿:

Mine

I have never participated before, hoping I can find some great reads so I am reserving this spot!

This is a work in progress. I will probably switch things up, depending on other reading challenges I do and books I happen to end up reading.
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5.1 - Demon Copperhead
5.2 - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - 312 pages
5.3 - Burn
5.4 - The Bear and the Nightingale
5.5 - The Darkest Part of the Forest
5.6 - Orange Is the New Black
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5.8 - Friday Night Lights
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5.10 - The Testing
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10.1 - Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
10.2 - Pines
10.3 - Catacomb
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10.9 - Stepsister
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15.1 -
Bk1: Option A The Grace Year Currently 4.12
Bk2: Option B Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family Currently 3.62
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Bk2: Option B: Wellness published september 2023
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Bk2: Option 1B - The Poppy War
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Bk1: Option 1A - A Clockwork Orange
Bk2: Option 1B - Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
15.5 - Forest of the Pygmies
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Bk1: Option 4 - The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Bk2: Option 3 - The Sun Down Motel
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Bk1: Option 1A - Midnight at the Blackbird Café
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Bk1: Option 2: The Boy Who Carried Bricks -- A True Story of Survival by Alton Carter
Bk2: Option 4: The Marrow Thieves
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