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No worries, thanks Amanda!

I'm finished.

November 2025 Scavenger Challenge

Duration: Nov 01, 2025 - Nov 30, 2025
Completed: 8/8

✔ 1. Read a book with a dark cover; post the cover.
Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories | Kate Atkinson ★★ (11/03/25)


✔ 2. Read a book with an unusual plot, your interpretation; tell us how it fits.
One of Us | Dan Chaon ★★★ (11/02/25)
(view spoiler)[A serial killer who wants to harness ESP that he thinks has been genetically passed over to a friend’s twin children, but the kids run away from him only to be adopted by a traveling circus group who have been instructed by their resident medium to help the kids (hide spoiler)] .

✔ 3. Read a book with any word in the title beginning with D (3 letters or more).
Ukulele of Death | E.J. Copperman ★★ (11/02/25)

✔ 4. Read a book with MYSTERY on its main GR page.
The Rhyme of the Magpie | Marty Wingate ★★ (11/03/25)

✔ 5. Read a small book (no more than 200 pages); tell us how many.
What Stalks the Deep | T. Kingfisher ★★ (11/12/25)
179 pages.

✔ 6. Read a book whose title words all begin with a letter in HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (a letter can only be used as many times as it appears in the phrase; ALL words count); 3-word minimum.
Poverty, by America | Matthew Desmond ★★★★ (11/14/25)

✔ 7. Read a big book (more than 450 pages); tell us how many pages.
Katabasis | R.F. Kuang ★★ (11/01/25)
560 pages.

✔ 8. Read a book set in space.
All Systems Red | Martha Wells ★★★★★ (11/08/25)

*** Completed (11/14/25) ***

I'm finished.

Countries of the World #15 – Oman

Duration: Oct 01, 2025 – Oct 31, 2025
Completed: 10/6+

✔ Country: Oman
🚩Read a book whose title starts with a letter in OMAN (ignore A, An and The or equivalent if not English).
Mr. Lemoncello's Fantabulous Finale | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (10/04/25)

Stats

✔ Capital: Muscat
🚩Read a book whose author's first and last initials are in the word MUSCAT (letters can only be used as many times as they appear in the word).
A Local Habitation | Seanan McGuire ★★ (10/08/25)

✔ Population: 4,520,471 (2021 estimate)
🚩Read a book whose total number of pages contain at least 2 of the numbers in the population (tell us the page count).
Slough House | Mick Herron ★★★★ (10/01/25)
312 pages.

✔ Area: 119,500 sq mi
🚩Read a book whose year it was first published has at least 2 of the numbers in the area (tell us the year published).
The Vanishing Thief | Kate Parker ★★ (10/03/25)
Pub. 2013

Trivia

✔ 1. Sur
🚩Read a book in which a boat/ship voyage is an important part of the plot (tell us how your book fits).
Murder on the Marlow Belle | Robert Thorogood ★★★ (10/04/25)
The murder is on a boat journey.

✔ 2. Desert Fjords
🚩Read a book with a large body of water or mountains on the cover (post the cover).
Our Wives Under the Sea | Julia Armfield ★★ (10/07/25)


✔ 3. Dishdasha
🚩Read a book with a mostly white cover (post the cover).
Pampered to Death | Laura Levine ★★★★ (10/02/25)


✔ 4. Riyam Memorial
🚩Read a book that is set in one of the countries on the incense trail (for the purpose of this task: Oman, Yemen, Somalia, Egypt, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Italy and Greece; tell us the country your book is set in).
A House in the Sky | Amanda Lindhout ★★★★ (10/08/25)
Somalia.

✔ 5. Haboob
🚩Read a book whose main character’s first name starts with a letter in HABOOB (tell us the name).
Into the Windwracked Wilds | A. Deborah Baker ★★★★ (10/07/25)
Avery & Hepzibah.

✔ 6. Atlantis of the Sands
🚩Read a book whose location starts with a letter in UBAR (tell us where the book is set).
All That We See or Seem | Ken Liu ★★★ (11/14/25)
Boston.

*** Completed (11/14/25) ***

Congrats, Amanda!

Congrats, Amanda!

Congrats, Amanda!

Congrats, Amanda!

Congrats, Amanda!

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Katharine wrote: "Suspect ~ Businessman
Ashley Herring Blake Delilah Green Doesn't Care (11/1/25)

Cause of death ~ vehicle (car)
by [author:Lee Chil..."

The murder was not by vehicle.

Meg wrote: ".
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Computer programmer ==> Michelle Chouinard - The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco 11/06

Stabbing (knife) ==> ..."

The murder was not by stabbing.

Congrats, Robin! I just need read dates for A Conspiracy of Truths and The Empty House and I'll mark your challenge as complete.

Congrats, Robin!

Mary! wrote: "Countries of the World #16 – Sao Tome and Principe
Duration: Nov 1 - 30, 2025
0/6

at least four of the tasks from the Trivia section


SAO TOME & PRINCIPE
Once known as the Chocolate Isles, an isl..."

A belated welcome to the challenge, Mary! GR didn't show me any new posts in this thread until Robin's completion post.

Patrizia wrote: "Read a book with a needle shaped object on the cover

Can the clock hands on this cover fit? "

Yes, the bare branches of the tree look poky too.

Congrats, Joann!

Congrats, Amanda!

Congrats, Amanda! I just need a read date for Monster of Florence and I'll mark you as complete.

Congrats, Amanda!

Congrats, Amanda!