The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Spring 2024 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.

✔5.1 The Guest
✔5.2 First Lie Wins
5.3 The Island of Dr. Moreau
✔ 5.4 The Silent Prodigy
✔5.5 Make Her Pay
✔5.6 Day Zero
✔5.7 The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
✔5.8 The Stepford Wives
✔ 5.9 Want to Know a Secret?
✔5.10 The Vanishing Hour

✔10.1 The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
✔10.2 14 Ways to Die
✔ 10.3 Finders Keepers
✔10.4 These Deadly Games
✔10.5 Cursed Cruise
✔10.6 I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison
✔10.7The Paris Novel
✔10.8 Murder Beyond the Grave
✔10.9 What Happened on Hicks Road
✔10.10 The Murder After the Night Before

✔15.1 When in Rome
✔The Resort
✔15.2 That's Not My Name
✔ Stay Awake
✔15.3 Stone Cold Fox
✔15.4 A Tempest of Tea
✔15.5 Don't Let Her Stay
✔15.6 What Moves the Dead
✔15.7 You'll Never Know I'm Here
✔15.8 The Mystery Writer
✔ 15.9 Eliza and Her Monsters
✔ 15.10 Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

✔20.1 Everyone Here Is Lying
✔20.2 The Wishing Game
✔20.3 Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
✔20.4 Silent Came the Monster: A Novel of the 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks
✔20.5 On a Quiet Street
✔20.6 Between Two Strangers
✔20.7 The Exception to the Rule
✔20.8 Nowhere Like Home
✔20.9 The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties
20.10 How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

✔25.1 Don’t Forget to Write
✔You'd Look Better as a Ghost
✔25.2 Keep Your Friends Close
✔The Stillwater Girls
✔25.3 The Vacancy in Room 10
✔The Beautiful and the Wild
✔25.4 The Midnight Witness
✔Safe In My Arms
✔25.5 And There He Kept Her
✔ There Should Have Been Eight
✔25.6 Darling Girls
✔The Rosewood Hunt
✔25.7 56 Days
✔ Off the Air
✔25.8 On the Way to Us
✔ The Mother-in-Law
✔ 25.9 Girls' Night Out
✔ Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries
✔25.10 Please Write
✔The Girl on the News
✔25.11 Daisy Darker
✔ Girls with Sharp Sticks
25.12 Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice
✔ The Summer She Went Missing
✔25.13 Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
✔ The Lies We Told

✔30.1 The Inheritance Games
✔ We Were Kings
✔30.2 The Ghostwriter
✔ Daughter of Mine
✔ 30.3 This Is Where It Ends
✔ Stranded
✔30.4Apples Never Fall
✔30.5 Murder Road
✔Murder, Interrupted
✔30.6 Murder Thy Neighbor
✔Almost Surely Dead
✔30.7 The Teacher
✔Where He Can't Find You

✔50.1 Lie Until It's True
✔The Fortune Seller
✔The One That Got Away with Murder

✔Spring challenge

✔5.1 Acts of Forgiveness
✔5.2 Every Summer After
5.3 Washington Square
✔5.4 If We're Being Honest
✔5.5 Waiting for the Night Song
✔5.6 Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
✔5.7 The Paris Diversion
✔5.8 The Stepford Wives
✔5.9 Do I Know You?
✔5.10 The Maid

✔10.1 The Lost Girls of Paris
✔10.2 The Lantern's Dance
✔10.3 Family Tree
✔10.4 The Long Game
✔10.5 After Annie
10.6
✔10.7 L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
✔10.8 Resurrection Row
✔10.9 My Side of the River
10.10 Pieces of Blue

15.1
1. The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
2.
15.2
✔1. Vacationland
✔2. No Offense
15.3
✔1. The Excitements
✔2. Murder Crossed Her Mind
✔15.4 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
✔15.5 The Kiss Curse
✔15.6 Wild and Distant Seas
✔15.7 One Italian Summer
✔15.8 Confessions of a Bookseller
✔15.9 What to Say Next
✔15.10 The Gifts of Imperfection

✔20.1-1. Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys
✔20.2-2 . A Winter in New York
✔20.3 By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
✔20.4 The Unmaking of June Farrow
✔20.5-B. The Butterfly Lampshade
✔20.6-1. Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors
✔20.7 The Path to Sunshine Cove
20.8-2. Welcome to Temptation
✔20.9-1. Never Wager with a Wallflower
20.10

25.1
✔1. Missing Joseph
✔4. The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
25.2
✔1. Table for Two
✔3. A Fire So Wild
25.3
✔2-1. The Wind Knows My Name
✔2-2. Fall of Angels
25.4
✔A. The Man with the Silver Saab
✔B. Wolf Winter
25.5
✔1. The Music of Bees
✔3. The Summer Book Club
25.6
1.
2. Anne of Manhattan
25.7
✔1. None of This Is True
✔2. Faithful Place
25.8
✔1. Watch Us Shine
✔2. The Dry
25.9
✔2. Summer at the Cape
✔3. Wild Ride Cowboy
25.10
1.
2. The Darling Songbirds
25.11
✔2. The Road to Rose Bend
✔4. Evergreen Springs
25.12
✔3. A Love Catastrophe
✔4. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
25.13
✔2. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
✔4. Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

30.1
✔1-1. Rutland Place
✔1-2 When the Moon Turns Blue
30.2
✔1. The Last Chance Olive Ranch
✔2. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
30.3
✔5a. Family Family
✔5b. At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities
30.4
1-1.
1-2. You Need to Know
30.5
✔1. Three Girls from Bronzeville
✔2. The Promise Girls
30.6
✔1. Wilde in Love
✔2. Emma of 83rd Street
30.7
✔1. The Women
✔4. The Diva Takes the Cake

50.1
✔2-1. The Last Garden in England
✔2-2. Tepper Isn't Going Out
✔2-3. Murder at the Mena House

Spring Challenge


5.1 - The Healthy Mind Toolkit: Simple Strategies to Get Out of Your Own Way and Enjoy Your Life
5.2 - The Royal Succession✔ 1719
5.3 - published as a Penguin Classic
5.4 - A Season of Monstrous Conceptions✔ 836
5.5 - Last Night in Montreal
5.6 - Life of Pi
5.7 - Term Limits
5.8 - Lock In
5.9 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
5.10 - The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family✔ 2291

10.1 - Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
10.2 - Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
10.3 - A Superior Death
10.4 - Track of the Cat
10.5 - Moonflower Murders
10.6 - Monk's Hood
10.7 - The Iron King✔ 723
10.8 - The Strangled Queen✔ 804
10.9 - The Brides of High Hill
10.10 - Remarkably Bright Creatures

15.1 - 1: How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
2: Seveneves
15.2 - 1: The Fountain Overflows
2: Fevered Star
15.3 - 2: The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work
15.4 - 2: The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham, Horror)
15.5 - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau✔ 2290
15.6 - The Weaver and the Witch Queen
15.7 - The Travelling Cat Chronicles
15.8 - The Book of Lost Things
15.9 - Gathering Blue
15.10 - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things✔ 622

20.1 - 3: Neverwhere✔ 602
20.2 - 4b: The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat✔ 233
20.3 - A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain✔ 544
20.4 - 2: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries: Book One of the Emily Wilde Series
20.5 - B: The Reckoning✔ 258
20.6 - 3: Killers of the Flower Moon p6
20.7 - The Anatomist's Wife
20.8 - 2: Close to Death✔ 2289
20.9 - 3: The Poisoned Crown✔ 1195
20.10 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

25.1 - 1: Helen of Troy
4: xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths
25.2 - 1: Prodigal Summer
3: Uncultured
25.3 - 3-1: Half a Lifelong Romance
3-2: Burial Rites (SNM)
25.4 - A: Growth of the Soil
B2: Kristin Lavransdatter
25.5 - 2: The Nurse's Secret
4: Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
25.6 - Fantasy
1: Just One Damned Thing After Another
2: A Thousand Ships
25.7 - 1: Silent Spring
2: Broken Harbour
25.8 - 1: Dune Messiah
3: Anne of Avonlea
25.9 - 1: Daughter of Fortune
4: The House of the Spirits
25.10 - 3: Canine Enrichment for the Real World: Making It a Part of Your Dog's Daily Life
4: The Dispatcher
25.11 - 2: The Tea Rose
3: Native Tongue
25.12 - 1: The Way of Kings
4: Dogs of War
25.13 - 3: The Shadow of the Gods
4: Shards of Earth

30.1 - 1-1: A Murder Is Announced
1-2: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
30.2 - 1: Midnight Riot
2: Saint Peter's Fair
30.3 - 3a: Ninefox Gambit
3b: How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
30.4 - 1: The Survivors
2: What Alice Forgot
30.5 - When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
Burn: New Science Reveals How Metabolism Shapes Your Body, Health, and Longevity
30.6 - 1: The Pillars of the Earth
2: The Shadow of the Wind
30.7 - 1:
4: Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World

50.1

Spring Challenge Reading Plan

Tasks: 19/61
Points: 265/1085
#Books: 23
Big book tickets: 2
(2x)
It's a fact tickets: 1


Audiobooks: 4/8
Ebooks: 5/35
Library books: 5/30
Books I own: 0/4


✅ 5.1 Spring Colours: The Coworker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 5.2 What Goes Around...: Pineapple Street ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5.3 P-P-P-Pick Up A Penguin


✅ 5.4 What's In A Name?: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5.5 Welcome, Watchers of Illusion
("right")

5.6 Tiger, Tiger


✅ 5.7 Trust Nobody: Night Owl ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 5.8 Roboteers, Stand By: Die unerhörte Reise der Familie Lawson (p 1)

⭐️5.9 What is the Seasonal Reading Challenge?


✅ 5.10 All The Information Is On The Task: Haus aus Salz und Tränen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


10.1 - Tick Tock


10.2 - Pointless


✅ 10.3 - Dusty Bin: Don't Let Her Stay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


✅ 10.4 - The Adventure Game: The Vaster Wilds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 10.5 - Blankety Blank: Evil Eye: A Novel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

10.6 - Traitor


10.7 - Springtime in Paris


10.8 - Spring Forward


10.9 - Beware the Ides of March
("what")

10.10 - World Bee day


15.1
&

🔜 15.2
& ✅ Der letzte Schachzug ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

15.3
✅ Six Scorched Roses ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ &

15.4
& (genre: (auto)biography)

✅ 15.5 Survey Says: Tom Lake ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

15.6 Rebirth, Renew, Refresh


15.7 Let's Break!


15.8 Readers Unite!


15.9 I am beautifully different.
(disability list p 6)

15.10 Take A Mental Health Day


✅ 20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind: Funny Story (option 1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 20.2 Rookie at the Top - JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well! Slaying the Vampire Conqueror (option 1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles: Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 20.4 Golden Oldies - Hannelore's Task: I Really Like This Bowl
Listen for the Lie (option 3) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Lisa’s Task: Bowling For Dollars: The Malevolent Seven (option B) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

20.6 It's a Fact - Jammin Jenny's Task: TV Family Fun
(option 1)

20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Lois' Task: The Dating Game


✅ 20.8 Nickels and Dimes -Trishhartuk's Task: The Golden Shot
Sword Catcher (option 2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 20.9 Moderators Pet - Marie-Anne's Task: Card Game Memories: American Crown - Beatrice & Theodore (option 2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

20.10 Group Reads


25.1 - RobinP task The Fab Four
(option 1) & (option 3, „little“ - Sgt Pepper, With a Little Help from My Friends)

✅ 25.2 Tiens task - Kid's Sports
The Husbands (option 3) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ & Check & Mate (option 2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

25.3: KMarieD: What’s your favorite challenge type?
(One book option, Option 1 - „hide“)

25.4: Nick KY’s Task: Nordic Noir Plus Ten
&

25.5 - Delicious Dee - Bee Hive Bookclub
(option 2) & (option 3)

25.6 - JennRenee's Task: Pick a Genre!
Romance: &

25.7 - Lora - Happy St. Patrick's Day
(option 1) & (option 2, author born in Ireland)

✅ 25.8 - MEGSCL - Learning to read: Truly, Devious (option 1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ & Ice (option 2) ⭐️⭐️

25.9 Chris MD - Dance with Me
(option 1) & (option 2)

25.10 - JenK's Task - Keep On Rolling
(option 1) & (option 4)

25.11 - Kathy KS’ Task : “Spring has sprung”
⭐️ (option 4) & (option 2)

25.12 - Shelby - A Birdish Year
(option 1, list p 6) & (option 4)

25.13
(option 2, crown-brown) & (option 4 - lap in collapse)

30.1 - Katrisa's Task: Spring Zodiac
& (on p 1 of the list) (option 2)

30.2 - Susan A's Task: Word Search
& ?

30.3 - MAZZA1's task - Looking Forward to the Olympics
& (option 4)

30.4 - Cat's Task: Books of Oceania
Liane Moriarty (library) &

30.5 Truitt_T’s task: Match it Up!
🔜 & ⭐️

30.6 - Amy FL’s task: The Chase is On
(option 1, James McBride) & ?

30.7 - TessaVanessa’s Task: The Price is Right
⭐️ (option 1 - crown) & ⭐️
(option 3)

𝓜𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓀𝒶


⌛ Initiated / pending
✅ Completed / claimed
♦️ Priority


✅ 5.1 - Spring Colours.
✓ The Fall by Ryan Cahill (89 p.) (3/12/2024)

5.2 - What Goes Around...


5.3 - P-P-P-Pick Up A Penguin.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (671 p.) 📚🌟

5.4 – What's In A Name?
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (333 p.) ❗

5.5 - Welcome, Watchers of Illusion.
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (341 p.) ❗

5.6 - Tiger, Tiger.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (460 p.)

5.7 - Trust Nobody.
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (612 p.) 📚

5.8 - Roboteers, Stand By.
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (224 p.) 🌟

5.9 - What is the Seasonal Reading Challenge?
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (316 p.) 🌟

✅ 5.10 - All The Information Is On The Task.
✓ The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron (229 p.) ❗


10.1 - Tick Tock.
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (518 p.) 📚

10.2 - Pointless.
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates (800 p.) 📚📚

10.3 - Dusty Bin.
Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute (262 p.) ❗

10.4 - The Adventure Game.
Conspiracy Game by Christine Feehan (336 p.)

10.5 - Blankety Blank.
The Trial by Franz Kafka (255 p.) 🌟

✅ 10.6 - Traitor.
✓ The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (375 p.) (3/10/2024)

10.7 - Springtime in Paris.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (440 p.)

✅ 10.8 - Spring Forward.
✓ The Gilded Cage by Lynette Noni (448 p.) (3/18/2024)

10.9 - Beware the Ides of March.
Dune by Frank Herbert (704 p.) 📚

10.10 - World Bee day.
The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People by Dan Buettner (320 p.) ❗


15.1 - Here's the Question.
Book 1. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (288 p.) 🌟❗
Book 2. You Don't Love Yourself by Nathalie Sarraute (233 p.)

15.2 - It's A Match.
Book 1. Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis (395 p.)
Book 2. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,037 p.) 🌟📚📚📚

15.3 - X's and O's.
Option 2. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (836 p.) 🌟📚📚❗

15.4 - Category Is...
Option 2. Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life by Jenna Hollenstein (250 p.) ❗ (landed on MPG 'nonfiction')

15.5 - Survey Says.
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (357 p.) (or Midnight Sun of finished)

♦️ 15.6 - Rebirth, Renew, Refresh.
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (626 p.) 📚 (Include link to this listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...)

15.7 - Let's Break!
From the Jump by Lacie Waldon (351 p.)

✅ 15.8 - Readers Unite!
✓ How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (339 p.) (4/27/2024)

15.9 - I am beautifully different.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (313 p.)

15.10 - Take A Mental Health Day.
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown (137 p.) ❗


✅ 20.1 - Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind.
✓ Option 3. The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni (439 p.) (3/30/2024)

✅ 20.2 - Rookie at the Top - JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well!
✓ Option 4b. The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (416 p.) (4/8/2024)

✅ 20.3 - Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm: Subtitles.
✓ Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change by Noam Chomsky (210 p.) ❗ (5/31/2024)

✅ 20.4 - Golden Oldies - Hannelores Task: I Really Like This Bowl.
✓ Option 2. The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni (432 p.) (3/2/2024)

♦️ 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Lisa’s Task: Bowling For Dollars.
Option A. Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon (1,131 p.) 📚📚📚
OR
Option B. Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole (1,026 p.) 📚📚📚

20.6 - It's A Fact - Jammin Jenny's Task: TV Family Fun.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (366 p.) 🌟

✅ 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lois' Task: The Dating Game.
✓ Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole (438 p.) (4/14/2024)

✅ 20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - Trishhartuk's Task: The Golden Shot.
✓ Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (498 p.) (5/26/2024)

✅ 20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Marie-Anne's Task: Card Game Memories.
✓ Option 3. The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake (496 p.) (5/23/2024)

20.10 - Group Reads.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann (354 p.) ❗


25.1 - RobinP's Task: The Fab Four.
Option 1. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter (352 p.) ❗
Option 4. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (281 p.)

25.2 - Tien's Task: Kid's Sports.
Option 1. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (324 p.)
Option 3. 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (305 p.)

✅ 25.3 - KMarieD's Task: What’s your favorite challenge type? ***ONE-BOOK TASK***
✓ Option 1.1-2. Powerless by Lauren Roberts (523 p.) 📚 (5/3/2024)

25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Nordic Noir Plus Ten.
Book A. I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (391 p.)
Book B. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor (272 p.) ❗

25.5 - Delicious Dee's Task: Bee Hive Bookclub.
Option 3. Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World by Brooke McAlary (288 p.) ❗
Option 4. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (215 p.)

25.6 - JennRenee's Task: Pick a Genre!
Book 1. Come Away with Me by Karma Brown (368 p.) (romance)
Book 2. Court of Nightfall by Karpov Kinrade

25.7 - Lora's Task: Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Option 1. A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus (320 p.)
Option 2. Normal People by Sally Rooney (273 p.)

25.8 - MEGSCL's Task: Learning to read.
Option 1. Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (368 p.)
Option 3. The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh (322 p.) (or Nevermoor)

25.9 - Chris MD's Task: Dance with Me.
Option 1. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (545 p.) 📚
Option 2. The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros (426 p.)

25.10 - JenK's Task: Keep On Rolling.
Option 1. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David (288 p.) ❗
Option 4. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (309 p.)

25.11 - Kathy KS’ Task : “Spring has sprung”.
Option 2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Option 3. Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana (208 p.)

25.12 - Shelby's Task - A Birdish Year.
Option 1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (487 p.)
Option 4. Learned Hopefulness: The Power of Positivity to Overcome Depression by Dan Tomasulo (200 p.) ❗

25.13 - Bookwrm526's Task - Connections.
Option 2. Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell (416 p.)
Option 4. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (496 p.)

30.1 - Katrisa's Task: Spring Zodiac.
2-1. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (374 p.)
2-2. The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (342 p.)

30.2 - Susan A's Task: Word Search.
Book 1. The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington (602 p.) 📚
Book 2. The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (352 p.)

♦️ 30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: Looking Forward to the Olympics.
4a. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (259 p.)
4b. Of Blood and Fire by Ryan Cahill (541 p.) 📚

30.4 - Cat's Task: Books of Oceania.
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (546 p.) 📚

30.5 - Truitt_T’s Task: Match it Up!
Book 1. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried (240 p.) ❗
Book 2. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (208 p.)

30.6 - Amy FL’s task: The Chase is On.
Option 1. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (976 p.) 📚📚
Option 4. Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross (357 p.)

♦️ 30.7 - TessaVanessa’s Task: The Price is Right.
Option 1. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (484 p.)
Option 3. The Current by Tim Johnston (408 p.) (*Spun a '40')


50.1 - Tammy AZ's Task: Exploration Through Reading.



❝𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝❞




✓ Goal: 210/150 points
◺ Pages Read... This Season: 4,932 || SRC All Time: 81,666
◺ Books Read... This Season: 13 || SRC All Time: 208

🌟 Golden Oldies: 0 || SRC All Time: 21
📚 Big Book: 1 || SRC All Time: 66
❗It's a Fact: 2 || SRC All Time: 9


❝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)

Reading Plan Spring 2024
Total points to complete challenge 1085


5.1 Cover contains a mimimum of 3 distinct colours according to Tineye

5.2 Read a borrowed or recycled book Migrations
5.3 Published as a Penguin classic according to list The Magician
5.4 Author Initials in CARL LINNAEUS (1) The Wren, the Wren
5.5 word of 4 + letters in KNIGHTMARE (NIGHT; TIME; MIGHT; KNIGHT; HEAT; TEAR GAME etc The Ministry of Time
5.6 Tiger on cover (5) The Tiger and the Acrobat BB
5.7 MPG Espionage or Spy thriller Mr. Churchill's Secretary
5.8 From Robots shelf https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... In the Lives of Puppets
5.9 Exclamation or Question Mark in title Where Are We Now?
5.10 Poison in Paradise

10.1 Clock or Watch on Cover The Seven Dials Mystery
10.2 Two or more Zeros in page count The Walled Garden
10.3 Author initials in DUSTY BIN The Final Play
10.4 MPG Adventure OR the word Adventure or GAME in the title (plurals and Posessives OK) The Eagle in the Sand
10.5 2 word title where both words start with the same letter. have options on NG Sinister Spring
10.6 Read a book written under a pseudonym JD Robb or Robert Galbraith The Running Grave
10.7 Read a book set in France Spitting Gold
10.8 Read the next book in a series that you've already started. (half numbers OK) The Eternal Ones
10.9 title word 4+ that can be made from the letters in BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH The Secret of Villa Alba
10.10 Read a book where the Title AND Author name both contain the letter B A Week in December

15.1 (2)
a. Read a book with one of these words in the title. WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN WHY HOW Where the Crawdads Sing
b. author whose initials (all) can be found in the word QUESTION A Walk to Remember

15.2 Read two book each with a different single author, whose first or last name match. Names must match in placement.
The Hotel
A Bird in Winter

15.3 Book with X in title AND 2 O"s in author's name The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax Dorothy Gilman
15.4 Contemporary MPG AND title starts and ends with same letter OR match autho'rs name (see list) Arcadia
15.5 Read a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards (3) The Chalk Man
15.6 Read a book that is an re-imagining or retelling of a classic, fairytale, or myth. Fair Rosaline
15.7 Read a book where a trip, vacation, or getaway is central to the story The House of Doors
15.8 Read a book with a book featured on cover (1) The Book of Doors
15.9 Read a book from featured lists - Bewilderment
15.10 Non Fiction with MPG Mental health / Mental Illness The Gifts of Imperfection

20.1 ALL author initials in the phrase FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS. Murder in Williamstown
20.2 Author Initials WAJBAC The October Man
20.3 Read a book with a subtitle that has at least 6 words in it Change the Story, Save the World: Efficiency Is the Name of the Game
20.4 Read a book where the first and last initials of the author(s) can be found in the quote “I REALLY LIKE THIS BOWL”. Spells for Forgetting
20.5 Read a book where the letters “WBAL” can be found in the title and/or author’s name Chain-Gang All-Stars
20.6 author name match https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069608/ In the Blink of An Eye
20.7 Read a book with MPG Romance that is #1, #2, or #3 in a series. Silence
20.8 Word of at least four letters in the title, that can be made from EITHER “BOB MONKHOUSE” OR “BERNIE THE BOLT”. House of Shades
20.9 Read a book that is either #1, #3 or #4 in a series and has at least one of the digits 1, 3, or 4 in year of first publication. Murder Most Unladylike
20.10 How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse (Everand Audio) (3)

25.1
b published or set in 1960's Don’t Forget to Write
c. Word of 4 or more letters found in the title of songs on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band OR on Magical Mystery Tour Getaway With Murder

25.2
a author's (first & last) initials are found in one of these swimming training aids: TRAINING FIN, KICKBOARD, PULLBUOY (almost anything) Hallowe'en Party
b Read a book with page count that consists of with at least 2 of these numbers (0, 1, 2, 5) The Housekeepers

25.3 Very easy to fill
a four letter word in the title or subtitle spelled from TITLE WORD SPELLED FROM PHRASE The Shadow Key
b all author initials, middle initials count in the phrase AUTHOR INITIALS CONTAINED IN PHRASE Arbroath Smokie Slaying

25.4
a Set in Nordic country Echoes of the Runes
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (2022, Karin or Smirnoff)
b related to first book by author name setting or year of pub The Haunting of Brynn Wilder

25.5
a Author initials in the order given are :- KS, SM, JG, LW, KV, LM, LB, BM, AS, SD, DF To the Dogs
c From Africa or France shelf - The Lagos Wife p12 Last on page Africal

25.6
a Book One: Read a book where all the letters of your genre appear in the title/subtitle/author name. The Cardinal's Court Cora Harrison
b Book Two: Read a book with at least a three word title where the first letter of every word can be found in the name of your genre. Lost in the City of Flowers HISTORICAL

25.7
a Read a book by an Irish Author The Book of Lost Things
b Read a book with a green cover Left Neglected

25.8
a Author first name begins with M S or F The Wishing Game
b all words in title are 3 letters or less
c MPG Children's Junior or MIddle Grade that fits SRC Rules The Graveyard Book

25.9
a #1, 2 or 3 in series Of Blood and Bone
b water and beach on cover The Seventh Son

25.10
a Over 50% RED or WHITE The Vaster Wilds
b All Letters of "THE NILE" in the title Murder on the Lusitania

25.11
a First Published 1927 - 1997 Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
b Read a book with a four|+-letter word in the title/subtitle made from the phrase “SPRING HAS SPRUNG". The Wheel Spins

25.12
a Read a book from the List https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... Fourth Wing
b Read a book where the author’s first & last initials can be found in …ACTOR, WRITER, and/or PRODUCER. Moral Injuries

25.13
a Name of Body part within another word year has ear in it fellowship = hip The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
b Colour made by adding letter at beginning or changing first letter
Come, Tell Me How You Live

30.1 PISCES
a) Book in a series of at least 12 - Murder on the Brighton Express
b) MOON in title - Moon Road - NG

30.2
a) The Book of Fire
b) The Devil You Know

30.3 Option 4
a) Word of 4+ letters containing but not beginning with the letter Q The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
b) ANY book from a series of 5 and ONLY 5 books Nine Liars

30.4 ONE BOOK OPTION
a) Scrublands

30.5
a) Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
b) Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

30.6
a) Read a book with author name matching one of these geniuses. (chasers) - MARK JAMES VICTORIA KEN The Big Bad Wolf
b) Read a book written by a single female author whose first and last name begin with the same letterDevil’s Breath

30.7
a) 5+ letter word in COME ON DOWN YOU'RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT Hades
b) 5 in page count Black-Eyed Susans


50.1 Read 3 books set on different continents
a. Exiles oceania
b. Skeleton Canyon North America
c. The Fish Can Sing Europe

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I will try and do as many as I can this time without giving up lol.

5 POINT TASKS

1. - Anna-Lou Weatherley
2. - Catherine Cooper
3. - Charles Dickens
4. - Laila Ibrahim carl LInnaeus
5. - Alice Bienia KNIGHT
6. - Brandy Walker
7. - William Boyd
8. - Marissa Meyer PAGE 1
9. - Jan Hurst-Nicholson
10.

10 POINT TASKS

1. - Christopher Bunn
2. - Rena George 200 PAGES
3. - Damien Boyd Dusty Bin FINISHED 2/3/2024
4. - Owen Mullen GAME(S)
5. - Barbara Freethy
6. - A.K. Alexander MICHELE SCOTT
7. - Natalie Meg Evans
8. -Damien Boyd (I've read the previous books already) FINISHED 1/3/2024
9. - Chris Galford MARCH
10. - Davis Bunn

15 POINT TASKS

1. - Adam Croft & - Nikki Sloane queStioN
2. - Sarah Sutton & - Sarah A. Denzil SARAH
3. - Will Adams & - Noelle Holten OXO
4. - Greg Scowen I SPUN HISTORICAL FICTION
5. - B.A. Paris BEST IN MYSTERY AND THRILLER IN 2017 FINISHED 5/3/2024
6. - Kenley Davidson A RE-TELLING OF CINDERELLA
7. - Ali Rosen
8. - Ali Berg
9. - Gail Honeyman Neurodiverse Characters PAGE 1
10. - Louise Gillett MENTAL HEALTH

20 POINT TASKS

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25 POINT TASKS

1. OPTION 1: - Nina George GEORGE & OPTION 3: - Jenni Keer LUCY - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
2. OPTION 1: - Dale Cramer kiCkboarD & - Tom Reynolds 280 pages
3. OPTION 1 : - Dorothy Koomson FROM & - Camilla Läckberg using initials CL which are in the phrase
4. - David Lagercrantz OPTION A & - David Lagercrantz SAME AUTHOR
5. - Marissa Meyer OPTION 4 FRANCE Page 8 & - Santa Montefiore OPTION 1
6. - Mia Sheridan THRILLER = aLL THE littlE RaIndrops & - Gretta Mulrooney ThriLLer
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30 POINT TASKS

1. OPTION 1 - Pisces - February 19-March 20 - James Patterson BOOK 23 & - J.R. Rain MOON
2. BOOK 1: - Rebecca Skloot rebeCcA SKLoot = LACKS & BOOK 2: - Cynthia Eden DEvil iN disguisE = EDEN
3. OPTION 2 - Robin McLain DAME & - Caitlyn Duffy BEACH
4. - Rosalind James NEW ZEALAND & - Melina Marchetta SHE'S AUSTRALIAN
5. - Catherine Curzon NON FICTION & - Chris Orcutt
6. OPTION 1 - James Patterson JAMES HOLZHAUER & OPTION 4 - Marissa Meyer
7. - Leigh Brill OPT 4 & - Bob G. Bernstein OPT 3 - I SPUN 15


50 POINT TASK (If I manage to get this far lol)

Boston Kate

5.1 The Road to the Country
5.2 Rise to the Sun
✔ 5.3 The Odyssey
5.4 The Frozen River
5.5 In the Time of the Butterflies
5.6 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
5.7 A Most Wanted Man
5.8 Saga, Volume 1
5.9 "What Do You Mean, Murder?" Clue and the Making of a Cult Classic
✔ 5.10 Oryx and Crake

10.1 Big Time
10.2 The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
10.3 Girl at War
10.4 The Adventure Zone Vol. 4: The Crystal Kingdom
10.5 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
10.6 What Feasts at Night
10.7 The Paris Network
10.8 Antimatter Blues
10.9 Every Time You Hear That Song
✔ 10.10 Zenobia July

15.1
Book 1: What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Book 2: All My Rage
15.2
Book 1: A Better World
Book 2: The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
15.3
Book 1: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Book 2: The Last Verse
15.4
Book 1: Your House Will Pay
Book 2: Cemetery Boys
✔ 15.5 The Woman in Me
✔ 15.6 Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga
15.7 The Guncle Abroad
15.8 Not Another Banned Book
15.9 The Running Dream
15.10 The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

20.1 (2) Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
20.2 (4a) Ninth House
20.3 Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
20.4 (2) Lilac Girls
20.5 (B) Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
20.6 (3) Three Act Tragedy
20.7 A Fate Inked in Blood
20.8 (3) Hell Bent
20.9 (3) Gideon the Ninth
20.10 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

25.1
Book 1: (3) Take Me Home
Book 2: (4) Never Too Old to Save the World: A Midlife Calling Anthology
25.2
Book 1: (1) Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Book 2: (3) Love You, Mean It
25.3
Book 1: (1-1) Wandering Stars
Book 2: (1-2) The Morningside
25.4
Book 1: Cockroaches
Book 2: The Redbreast
25.5
Book 1: (2) Maame
Book 2: (4) Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
25.6
Book 1: Daughter of the Merciful Deep
Book 2: The Labyrinth of the Spirits
25.7
Book 1: (1) Familia
Book 2: (2) The Hunter
25.8
Book 1: (1) Amazing Grace Adams
Book 2: (3) Anne of Avonlea
25.9
Book 1: (1) Ithaca
Book 2: (2) The Covenant of Water
25.10
Book 1: (1) The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
Book 2: (3) The Angel of Indian Lake
25.11
Book 1: (2) Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win
Book 2: (3) And Then There Were None
25.12
Book 1: (3) Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Book 2: (4) The Dead Romantics
25.13
Book 1: (2) Beach Read
Book 2: (4) I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself


30.1
Book 1: The Mystery of the Blue Train
Book 2: Fool Moon
30.2
Book 1: A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba
Book 2: The Last Murder at the End of the World
30.3
Book 1: Atomic Anna
Book 2: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
30.4
Book 1: The Lost Man
Book 2: Looking for Alibrandi
30.5
Book 1: Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts
Book 2: Into the Riverlands
30.6
Book 1: (2) Just One Taste
Book 2: (4) Divine Rivals
30.7
Book 1: (2) The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
Book 2: (4) The Guncle


50.1
Book 1: When the Reckoning Comes
Book 2: Kaikeyi
Book 3: The Vanished Days

Completed:
25.6 A Christmas Case
30.5 The Comfort of Strangers
20.9 Cover Her Face
30.7 Darling, I'm Going to Charlie: A Memoir
20.3 Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
20.6 Horrorstör
25.6 Hour of the Witch
20.7 The Kiss Quotient
The Library of Borrowed Hearts
30.1 Maisie Dobbs
50.1 The Marriage Box
Marriage is Murder?
30.1 Moon-Child: A Play
20.4 Murder in a Chelsea Garden
Murder in the London Lights
Murder in Tuscany
30.7 Pork Pie Pandemonium
50.1 Sing, Unburied, Sing
30.5 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
50.1 Trans-Sister Radio

Want to Read:
The Bees
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The Book of Form and Emptiness
The Boy on the Bus
The Buried Giant
Delicious Foods
The Feast of the Goat
Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
Free-Range Kids, Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
God Says No
House of Leaves
The Husband's Secret
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Jungle Book
Killers of a Certain Age
The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Marriage of Opposites
Matrix
The Mosquito Coast
The Remains of the Day
Salvage the Bones
Shoot the Moon
The Sisters Brothers
Sleeping Giants
A Suitable Boy


5.1 Spring Colours
5.2 What Goes Around...
5.3 P-P-P-Pick Up A Penguin
5.4 What's In A Name?
5.5 Welcome, Watchers of Illusion
5.6 Tiger, Tiger
5.7 Trust Nobody
5.8 Roboteers, Stand By
5.9 What is the Seasonal Reading Challenge?
5.10 All The Information Is On The Task

10.1 - Tick Tock
10.2 - Pointless
10.3 - Dusty Bin
10.4 - The Adventure Game
10.5 - Blankety Blank
10.6 - Traitor
10.7 - Springtime in Paris
10.8 - Spring Forward
10.9 - Beware the Ides of March
10.10 - World Bee day

15.1 - Here's the Question
15.2 -It's A Match
15.3 X's and O's - a Mrs. Pollifax Mystery; Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa; The Expedition of Humphry Clinker; The Marriage Box
15.4 Category Is...
15.5 Survey Says
15.6 Rebirth, Renew, Refresh - xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, Alice
15.7 Let's Break! - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
15.8 Readers Unite! - book featured on cover The Library of Borrowed Hearts The Thirteenth Tale
15.9 I am beautifully different. - Turtles All the Way Down; The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
15.10 Take A Mental Health Day - A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder

20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind - Kent Coast Oyster Obliteration
20.2 Rookie at the Top - JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well! - Option 1: Hour of the Witch, Option 2: book with bridge on cover
20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles - Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew
20.4 Golden Oldies - Hannelore's Task: I Really Like This Bowl
Option 2: Murder in a Chelsea Garden
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Lisa’s Task: Bowling For Dollars - Option 1: any L.B. Montgomery book
20.6 It's a Fact - Jammin Jenny's Task: TV Family Fun - Option 1: Horrorstör
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Lois' Task: The Dating Game - The Kiss Quotient
20.8 Nickels and Dimes -Trishhartuk's Task: The Golden Shot - Apples Never Fall, One Bad Apple
20.9 Moderators Pet - Marie-Anne's Task: Card Game Memories - Option 3: Cover Her Face
20.10 Group Reads

25.1 - RobinP task The Fab Four
25.2 Tiens task - Kid's Sports
25.3: KMarieD: What’s your favorite challenge type?
25.4: Nick KY’s Task: Nordic Noir Plus Ten
25.5 - Delicious Dee - Bee Hive Bookclub
Option 1: The Bees
Option 2: The Silent Sister or a book by Louise Penny
25.6 - JennRenee's Task: Pick a Genre! - historical fiction
Book 1 - Hour of the Witch
Book 2 - A Christmas Case
25.7 - Lora - Happy St. Patrick's Day
25.8 - MEGSCL - Learning to read
25.9 Chris MD - Dance with Me
Option 4: The Feast of the Goat, or book set in Cuba, Mexico, or Puerto Rico
Option 5: The Tango Singer
25.10 - JenK's Task - Keep On Rolling
Option 1: The Know-It-All or Wishful Drinking
Option 3: Murder in the London Lights
25.11 - Kathy KS’ Task : “Spring has sprung”: Rose of Sarajevo, The Marigold, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Orchid Thief and A Short, Sharp Shock, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Where the Crawdads Sing, River Sing Me Home
25.12 - Shelby - A Birdish Year - option 1: Cinder, Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows, His Majesty's Dragon
option 2: Murder in Tuscany (pregnant MC)
option 4: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
25.13 - Bookwrm526 - Connections
Option 2: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Free-Range Kids, Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry, Sink: A Memoir, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Glitter and Glue
Option 3: The Lost City of the Monkey God, God Says No, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation

30.1 - Katrisa's Task: Spring Zodiac
Option 1: Pisces
Book 1 - Maisie Dobbs
Book 2 - MOON in title - Moon-Child by Derek Walcott
30.2 - Susan A's Task: Word Search - Book 1: West Side Love Story by Priscilla Oliveras, The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau
Book 2: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston,
30.3 - MAZZA1's task - Looking Forward to the Olympics
30.4 - Cat's Task: Books of Oceania (2 books)
Book 1: The Dry, Apples Never Fall
Book 2: Three Wishes, A Man Lay Dead
30.5 - Truitt_T’s task: Match it Up! (2 book task - at least one must be a non-fiction book) - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know and The Comfort of Strangers
30.6 - Amy FL’s task: The Chase is On (2 book task - 700+ pages total
Option 1: Delicious Foods by James Hannaham - 384 pages mass market pb
Option 4: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang - 328 pages mass market pb
30.7 - TessaVanessa’s Task: The Price is Right - 2 books
Option 2: Darling, I'm Going to Charlie: A Memoir (Dice Game)
Option 4: Pork Pie Pandemonium

50.1 - Tammy AZ's Task: Exploration Through Reading
Option 1 - Road Trip: Read three books that take place on the same continent but in different locations on the continent.
Trans-Sister Radio (Vermont, USA)
The Marriage Box (New York)
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Louisiana)

To Place:

One Book Tasks
5.1 - Spring Colours - One Piece, Volume 11: The Meanest Man in the East
5.2 - What Goes Around... - White
5.3 - P-P-P-Pick Up A Penguin - The Street of Crocodiles
5.4 - What's In A Name? - A Pocket Full of Rye
5.5 - Welcome, Watchers of Illusion - The Neon Rain
5.6 - Tiger, Tiger - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
5.7 - Trust Nobody - Call for the Dead
5.8 - Roboteers, Stand By - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
5.9 - What is the SRC? - One Piece, Volume 10: OK, Let's Stand Up!
5.10 - All The Information Is On The Task - One Piece, Volume 12: The Legend Begins

10.1 - Tick Tock - 4:50 from Paddington
10.2 - Pointless - One Piece, Volume 3: Don't Get Fooled Again
10.3 - Dusty Bin - How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
10.4 - The Adventure Game - One Piece, Volume 8: I Won't Die
10.5 - Blankety Blank - Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery
10.6 - Traitor - The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
10.7 - Springtime in Paris - In the Café of Lost Youth
10.8 - Spring Forward - One Piece, Volume 2: Buggy the Clown
10.9 - Beware the Ides of March - The Secret of Chimneys
10.10 - World Bee day - A Psalm for the Wild-Built

15.3 - X's and O's - Six Memos for the Next Millennium
15.4 - Category Is... - A Little Lumpen Novelita
15.5 - Survey Says - The Empress of Salt and Fortune
15.6 - Rebirth, Renew, Refresh - What Moves the Dead
15.7 - Let's Break! - A Caribbean Mystery
15.8 - Readers Unite! - The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
15.9 - I am beautifully different. - The Long Way to a Small, Angry PlanetND1
15.10 - Take A Mental Health Day - Hallucinations

20.1 - Most Improved - - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - - One Piece, Volume 4: The Black Cat Pirates
20.3 - Best Review - - Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
20.4 - Golden Oldies - - One Piece, Volume 5: For Whom the Bell Tolls
20.5 - Bigger is Better - - Treacle Walker
20.6 - It's A Fact - - One Piece, Volume 9: Tears
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - - A Gathering of Shadows
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - - A Closed and Common Orbit
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - - Mammoths at the Gates
20.10 - Group Reads - - The Wager

25.3 - KMarieD: What’s your favorite challenge type? - The Crow Trap

30.4 - Cat's Task: Books of Oceania - Nine Perfect Strangers

Two Book Tasks
15.1 - Here's the Question -
Book 1: How to Win an Election
Book 2: One Piece, Volume 6: The Oath

15.2 - It's A Match - 2diff series
Book 1: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Book 2: Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

25.1 - RobinP task The Fab Four -
Book 1: Taran Wanderer
Book 2: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

25.2 - Tiens task - Kid's Sports -
Book 1: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
Book 2: Into the Riverlands

25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Nordic Noir Plus Ten -
Book 1: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
Book 2: Lexicon

25.5 - Delicious Dee - Bee Hive Bookclub -
Book 1: The Hive and the Honey: Stories
Book 2: The Measure

25.6 - JennRenee's Task: Pick a Genre! - TRUE CRIME
Book 1: Murder at Breakheart Hill Farm
Book 2: The Innocent Man

25.7 - Lora - Happy St. Patrick's Day -
Book 1: Eating Animals
Book 2: The Black Cauldron

25.8 - MEGSCL - Learning to read -
Book 1: Adventures in Immediate Irreality
Book 2: The Book of Three

25.9 - Chris MD - Dance with Me -
Book 1: For We Are Many
Book 2: Hidden Depths

25.10 - JenK's Task - Keep On Rolling - Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession

25.11 - Kathy KS’ Task : “Spring has sprung” -
Book 1: One Piece, Volume 7: The Crap-Geezer
Book 2: The A.B.C. Murders

25.12 - Shelby - A Birdish Year -
Book 1: They Do It With Mirrors
Book 2: Death in the Clouds

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Book 1: Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
Book 2: Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone

30.1 - Katrisa's Task : Spring Zodiac - 500+pgs; Pick1opt; 1kidsOK
Option 2 - Aries: Anathem, page 15
Book 2: The High King

30.2 - Susan A's Task: Word Search - NoComics
Option 1 : The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
Option 2 : Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer

30.3 - MAZZA1's task - Looking Forward to the Olympics - NoComics
Book 1: Telling Tales
Book 2: Three Act Tragedy

30.5 - Truitt_T’s task: Match it Up! - NoComics
Book 1: The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
Book 2: The Seven Dials Mystery

30.6 - Amy FL’s task: The Chase is On - NoComics
Book 1: The Final Empire
Book 2: Cards on the Table

30.7 - TessaVanessa’s Task: The Price is Right - NoKids; 2diff.opt
Book 1: Secret Lives
Book 2: A Murder Is Announced

Three Book Tasks
50.1 - Tammy AZ's Task: Exploration Through Reading
Book 1: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Book 2: Heaven's Prisoners
Book 3: Murder in Mesopotamia

Spring Challenge

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Heart of Dixie. by Tami Hoag
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Taken by Storm, by Tami Hoag
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Sarah's Sin, by Tami Hoag

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Keeping Company, by Tami Hoag
10.9 - Beware the Ides of March - Read a book with a title word of four letters or more that can be made from the letters in BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
Murder Road, by Simone St. James
10.10 - World Bee day - Read a book where the Title AND Author name both contain the letter B
Ice Planet Barbarians, by Ruby Dixon

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Georgie, All Along, by Kate Clayborn
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Magic, by Tami Hoag
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Bride, by Ali Hazelwood
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Heart of Gold, by Tami Hoag
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Reilly's Return, by Tami Hoag
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5.1 Spring Colors- by Peter S. Beagle
5.2 What Goes Around…- Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann ✔️
5.3 P-P-P-Pick Up A Penguin- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
5.4 What’s In A Name?- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
5.5 Welcome, Watchers of Illusion- title contains a word that can be made from the letters in KNIGHTMARE.
5.6 Tiger, Tiger- by Yann Martel
5.7 Trust Nobody- Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
5.8 Roboteers, Stand By- Cinder by Marissa Meyer, from page one
5.9 What Is the Seasonal Reading Challenge?- Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
5.10 - basically any book

10.1 Tick Tock- Clock on cover
10.2 Pointless- two or more 0’s in page number
10.3 Dusty Bin- Monsters Born and Made by Tanvi Berwah
10.4 The Adventure Game- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Title word option
10.5 Blankety Blank- The Toll by Neal Shusterman
10.6 Traitor- The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket (real name Daniel Handler) IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
10.7 Springtime in Paris- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
10.8 Spring Forward- Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo ✔️
10.9 Beware the Ides of March- Storm by Brigid Kemmerer
10.10 World Bee Day- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

15.1 Here’s the Question- 1: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh, 2: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
15.2 It’s A Match- 1: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, 2: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
15.3 X’s and O’s- 1:Pax by Sara Pennypacker IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8.0, 2: The Giver by Lois Lowry IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
15.4 Category Is…- 1: Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby (sci-fi) 2: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
15.5 Survey Says- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, 2014 young adult fiction
15.6 Rebirth, Renew, Refresh- Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
15.7 Let’s Break!- vacation w/ at least one overnight stay is central to story
15.8 Readers Unite!- Book on cover
15.9 I Am Perfectly Different- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Autism In Fiction, page one
15.10 Take A Mental Health Day- mpg mental health/mental illness, nonfiction

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30.1 Katrisa’s task: Spring Zodiac (Pisces)- 1: A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony IL: UG, 2: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7.0
30.2 Susan A’s Task: Word Search- 1: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley word: tell, 2: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn name: Deonn
30.3 MAZZA1’s Task: Looking Forward to the Olympics- Option 3, La Concorde: 1: the letters B, M, and X are in the title, 2: The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
30.4 Cat’s Task: Books of Oceania- 1: set at least 70% in Oceania, 2: author is from Oceania
30.5 Truitt T’s Task: Match It Up!- 2 book with matching word in title, one is nonfiction, 1: , 2:
30.6 Amy FL’s Task: The Chase Is On- Option 2: Two z’s anywhere in title, subtitle, or author name, Option 4: Son by Lois Lowry IL: MG+
30.7 TessaVannessa’s Task: The Price Is Right- Option One: Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool word: cursed, Option 4: by Erin Hunter IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10.0

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5.1 -Peaches and Honey
5.2 -Autumn Leaf (page exception)
5.3 -The War of the Worlds
5.4 -This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
✔5.5 - Take this Man or A Knight to remember
5.6 -The Tiger and the Acrobat
5.7 -The Third Man
5.8 -I, Robot
5.9 - Who Goes There? or Are Prisons Obsolete?
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✔10.9 - Where She Has Gone or Meet Me at the Lake
10.10 - The Bricklayer or We Were Brothers

✔15.1 -Who Goes There? or The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare and This Time Tomorrow
15.2 - 2 of: Astray; Daddy; How to Be a Good Wife
✔15.3 -The Slow Fix
✔15.4 -Halfbreed
✔15.5 -The Sense of an Ending
✔15.6 -A Spindle Splintered
15.7 -Down and Out in Paris and London
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15.10 -Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

✔20.1 -The Future
✔20.2 -Denison avenue, shut up you're pretty or kalona's fall
20.3 -Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
20.4 -The Monogram Murders
✔20.5 -Where She Has Gone or Birnam Wood
✔20.6 -The Children's Home
✔20.7 -Sweep in Peace
✔20.8 -What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal or The Glass Arrow
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25.2 Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird and Denison Avenue
25/3 The Name of the Rose
✔25.4The Ice Princess and What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal
25.5 The Death of Beesand Something Secret This Way Comes
25.6 Everyone Here Is Lying and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
✔25.7 F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
25.8 The Snow Walker and Who Are You?
25.9 Grave Surprise and Malinche
25.10 East of Eden
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30.1 -Cherry Cheesecake Murder and Moon Tiger
30.2 -Sister Wife and Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
✔30.3 -Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape and Bad Cree
✔30.4 -Nine Perfect Strangers
30.5 -Heart of A Stranger or Where She Has Gone
30.6 -Meet Me at the Lake and The Girl in the Lake
30.7 -Not a Sound and Night Broken


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