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This is the 3rd level of this challenge.

The challenge consists of many levels, this level is 251 - 500 books. So, if you have not completed the first 250, go back and complete the previous levels of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2025 that you haven't already finished.

Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 251 through 500) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.

Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2025 any books you've read this year may be included.

This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.


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This is the 2nd level of this challenge.

The challenge consists of five levels, and this one is for 101 - 250 books so, if you have not completed the first 100, go back and complete the previous levels of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2025 that you haven't already finished.

Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 101 through 250) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.

Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2025 any books you've read this year may be included.

This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.


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This is the 1st level of this challenge.

If you can commit to read at least a hundred books in 2025, welcome. The challenge will consist of five levels, each level will require you to read more books!
Level 1: 1 - 100 books
Level 2: 101 - 250 books
Level 3: 251 - 500 books
Level 4: 501 - 1000 books
Level 5: 1001 - infinity!

So, once you complete your first hundred, you may advance to the next level.

Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 1 through 100) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.

Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2025 any books you've read this year may be included.

This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.


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Happy 2025!
Post your books completed in 2025 here to start our next race! Can we get to 2 million this year?

RELAY READING CHALLENGE TIPS

Examples:

Some Tips:
1. Please post the book cover, date read, and page number of your book(s).
    If you need help, see Add a Bookcover Link.
2. Please double check your post total.
3. For those newly joining the page count, there is no need to post your backdated books. Just keep a tally from the point you join onward.
4. The original intent was for everyone to post page counts for just one to two books at a time to keep an up-to-date running tally, but a larger page dump for more books is okay. Just please DON’T wait until the end of the year.
5. Remember to click “Refresh,” just in case someone posted at the same time as you did.
6. If you're at the bottom of a page, make sure you don’t need to hit “Next.” Each GRs thread page holds 50 posts. If you see the person above you is at a 50 increment number, make sure you don’t need to go to the next page.

7. Please use the page numbers of the edition you read.
8. There are no page length or genre restrictions.
9. For audiobook conversion, use the most popular page length, or do little math - 1h is about 9000 words and 1 page is about 250 words.
10. Again, please double check your post total.

FIRST MILLION PAGES RELAY READING

We are doing it again!. Special thanks to Romance Readers Reading Challenges’ for letting us use their Million Page Run as template. There are quite a few groups that do something similar, but we like theirs the best.

We will be starting ours January 1, 2025. Until then, this thread will be frozen.


How It Works:
Anyone may join this challenge. To participate, all you need to have are two things--a book you’ve recently finished reading and the page count of that book.

Begin by posting the number of pages of a book you just finished. To continue, anybody who has finished a book since January 1st (regardless of start date), can post their book title, and taking the previous total, add the total pages of the books.

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Reoccurring every year, but start fresh from January to December.
(If you start after January, you may back-post from the beginning of the year.)

Rules
Read books by authors that are New 2 U (new to you).

• If an author writes under a pseudonym, you may use that, provided it is a different genre (or sub-genre, writes Historical Romance under one name and Paranormal Romance under another) and you have NOT read any of those books.

• Anthologies are always a wonderful way to try someone new, so as long as one of the stories has been written by a New 2 U author, they are permitted.

• Audiobooks are fine.

• Novellas are fine.

• You can set your goal now, or adjust as the year progresses.

• Feel free to make a special comment, if you found a real winner.
  (★Stars★ or ♥hearts♥ indications welcome!)

• Please indicate your totals. For example:

05/10

Levels
Come What May = Let's see how many I read.
Fresh Face = 5
Adventurer = 10
Risk Taker = 15
Devil May Care = 20 or more!

Need help? Check out listopia.



Reading Challenges ~ Emerald Coin

Earn your Emerald Coins with Reading Challenges joined on or after April 1, 2016.

To Earn an Emerald Coin:
One Coin upon reaching the Devil May Care Level in one year


Learn about Gem coins here

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GOAL:
Going from A - Z, and using authors’ first or last names, read the alphabet. For "X" and "Z" you may use authors with those hard to find letters in their names. Unless, of course, you're a ‘purist.’

Yes, you may use an author twice, once with their first name, and again with their last. In that case, you still need to read two different books.

Duration: One year from 1 January
You may read in any order, start at any time of the year. You may 'back date' to the 1st of January, if you desire.

* Please Note: There is another challenge that is "open-ended" (not yearly) that is posted here.

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Check this Wiki for a list of writers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of...




Challenge Themes ~ Amethyst Coin

Earn your Amethyst Coins with the Reading Challenges. Must Join a participating Reading Challenge on or after April 1, 2016.

To Earn an Amethyst Coin:
One Coin upon completing this challenge

Learn about Gem coins here

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Have you noticed the longer you are active on Goodreads, the larger your “to-read” (TBR) shelf becomes?

How do you tackle it? In date order? Alphabetical? Or do you just ignore it and hope to get to the books “one day”?

Rules: For this challenge, you’ll use a randomiser* to randomly pick numbers. Use these corresponding numbers on your “to-read” shelf to challenge yourself to read those books.

❶ Step 1
Go to www.random.org/integers/ to get your random numbers. (Instructions under spoiler.)
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1. Change the number in part 1 to the number of books you are choosing.
   In this example, I changed 100 to 2.

2. Change the second number (100) to the number of books on your “to read” shelf.
   In this example, I changed it to 187.

3. Click “Get Numbers.”
   



The next page will give you your random numbers:

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❷ Step 2
Go to your “to-read” shelf and find the books that match your numbers on your shelf. They are your selected books! (Example continues under spoiler.)
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In this example, the numbers given were 52 and 110 and book number 52 is “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”



Note: You may need to "turn on" your position number on your shelf. To do this, go to your "to-read" shelf, click on "Settings" (top right) then make sure "position" is selected and "save"

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*If you prefer not to use the randomiser, you may just choose random numbers yourself by rolling a dice, picking a number out of a hat, just choosing a number in your mind - up to you!!

Duration: One year from start date. (Though to keep with the original challenge each book selected should be read within one month. )

Levels:

Headlock: 1-8 books.
Coathanger: 9-17 books.
Spear Tackle: 18-26 books.
No Suspension: 27 + books

Help in Assigning Numbers to Your Books - (Screen under spoiler.)
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How to “turn on” the position indicator on your “to-read” shelf:

• Go to setting (blue arrow) and check-mark the box position (red arrow) and numbers will be assigned (purple arrow) to your books based on your add dates.

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Reading Challenges ~ Emerald Coin

Earn your Emerald Coins with Reading Challenges joined on or after April 1, 2016.

To Earn an Emerald Coin:
One Coin upon reaching the No Suspension Level in one year


Learn about Gem coins here