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Congrats, Teresa and Mary!
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Thanks Robin! Congrats on finishing!
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Summer 2025 SpellDuration: Jun 21, 2025 - Sep 20, 2025
Completed: 30/30
A Perfection of Thought
(20)
✔ A - Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)
✔ P - Enemy Women | Paulette Jiles ★★ (06/21/25)
✔ E - The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★★★ (06/27/25)
✔ R - Music for Wartime | Rebecca Makkai ★★★ (06/23/25)
✔ F - The Fifth Petal | Brunonia Barry ★ (06/23/25)
✔ E - Endling | Maria Reva ★★★★★ (06/29/25)
✔ C - Death at the White Hart | Chris Chibnall ★★★ (06/29/25)
✔ T - Things in Nature Merely Grow | Yiyun Li ★★★ (06/21/25)
✔ I - Run on Red | Noelle W. Ihli ★★ (06/30/25)
✔ O - Of Love and Shadows | Isabel Allende ★ (06/23/25)
✔ N - A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)
✔ O - Brownsville: Stories | Oscar Cásares ★★★★ (06/24/25)
✔ F - Redemption Point | Candice Fox ★★★ (06/25/25)
✔ T - Heir to the Empire | Timothy Zahn ★★★ (07/04/25)
✔ H - How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir | Molly Jong-Fast ★★★ (06/30/25)
✔ O - Killing State | Judith O'Reilly ★★ (07/20/25)
✔ U - Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)
✔ G - Booked for Death | Victoria Gilbert ★★★ (07/27/25)
✔ H - Bran New Death | Victoria Hamilton ★★★ (07/02/25)
✔ T - The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans | Laura Trethewey ★★★★ (07/11/25)
It was a Song
(10)
✔ I - The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks ★★ (07/09/25)
✔ T - The Burning Issue of the Day | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/22/25)
✔ W - Run for the Hills | Kevin Wilson ★★★★ (06/30/25)
✔ A - Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★ (07/14/25)
✔ S - Beyond A Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★★ (06/28/25)
✔ A - Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie ★★★ (07/18/25)
✔ S - Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)
✔ O - The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean ★★ (08/14/25)
✔ N - No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding | Catherine Mack ★ (07/04/25)
✔ G - Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (07/31/25)
*** Completed (08/17/25) ***
Congrats, Jimena and Robin!
Thanks Barb!
Thanks Barb!
Congrats, Joann!
Congrats, Kathy, Jimena and Angel!
Congrats, Robin!
Congrats, Jimena and Meg!
✔ 91. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010): Read a book with a scientific research team in the plot (tell us what they research).National Security | Marc Cameron ★★ (03/01/25)
A terrorist one, unfortunately, who are trying to weaponize ebola.
✔ 92. The Ref (1994): Read a book in which the main character is married.
Fall of a Philanderer | Carola Dunn ★★★ (01/09/25)
Daisy.
✔ 93. Reindeer Games (2000): Read a book set in a small town (tell us where).
The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare ★★★ (01/28/25)
Wethersfield, Connecticut.
✔ 94. The Retaliators (2021): Read a book with a high body count (tell us how many).
The Wind Through the Keyhole | Stephen King ★★★★ (02/12/25)
In the hundreds.
✔ 95. Remember the Night (1940): Read a book in which a character sacrifices their happiness for the sake of another (tell us who).
The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf | Isa Arsén ★★ (02/21/25)
Both Margaret and Wesley, for each other.
✔ 96. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964): Read a book with a red item prominently shown on the cover (post the cover).
Egg Drop Dead | Vivien Chien ★★★ (01/07/25)
The placemat.
✔ 97. The Santa Clause (1994): Read a book in which someone dies setting the plot in motion.
The Shadow of Memory | Connie Berry ★★★★ (02/14/25)
Will Parker.
✔ 98. Santa Clause is Comin' to Town (1970): Read a book with a punctuation mark in the title.
Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust | Mindy Quigley ★★★★ (01/11/25)
✔ 99. Scrooged (1988): Read a book set in the near past (tell us when).
Cantoras | Carolina De Robertis ★★★ (03/18/25)
1976-1983.
✔ 100. The Shop Around the Corner (1940): Read a book with a preposition in the title.
A Glimmer of a Clue | Daryl Wood Gerber ★★ (02/11/25)
✔ 101. Silent Night (2021): Read a book marked Apocalyptic or Post Apocalyptic in its main page.
All the Water in the World | Eiren Caffall ★★ (01/30/25)
✔ 102. Single All the Way (2021): Read a book in which the main character is single throughout the book.
Mothers and Sons | Adam Haslett ★★★ (01/09/25)
Peter.
✔ 103. Spirited (2022): Read a book whose plot doesn't offer anything new (that is, you've read this before).
Yeast of Eden | Sarah Fox ★★ (04/24/25)
Standard cozy mystery plot.
✔ 104. Tangerine (2015): Read a book in which a speaking character is a sex worker.
A Conspiracy of Paper | David Liss ★★ (01/27/25)
Kate.
✔ 105. Terrifier 3 (2024): Read a book first published in 2024.
I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir | Youngmi Mayer ★★★★★ (12/02/24)
Pub. Nov 12, 2024.
✔ 106. Tokyo Godfathers (2003): Read an adult book with a teenager as a major character.
The Waste Lands | Stephen King ★★★ (01/13/25)
Jake.
✔ 107. Trading Places (1983): Read a book in which the main character is poor.
Murder at Mabel’s Motel | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (02/17/25)
Granny Reid and the Reid family is not very well to do.
✔ 108. T'was the Night Before Christmas (1974): Read a book in which someone insults someone else (tell us who and how).
One of the Girls | Lucy Clarke ★★ (01/03/25)
Nico insults Fen by calling her fat and disgusting.
✔ 109. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011): Read a book in which a speaking character is a stoner.
Death of the Author | Nnedi Okorafor ★★ (02/02/25)
MC Zelu.
✔ 110. A Very Murray Christmas (2015): Read a book with a snow storm in it.
The Black Country | Alex Grecian ★★ (01/08/25)
✔ 111. While You Were Sleeping (1995): Read a book whose title contains an -ing verb.
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures | Katherine Rundell ★★★★ (12/02/24)
✔ 112. White Christmas (1954): Read a book with a predominantly white cover (post the cover).
You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist | Kari Ferrell ★★★ (01/10/25)
✔ 113. White Reindeer (2013): Read a book set on an island (tell us which).
Aunt Bessie Enjoys | Diana Xarissa ★★★ (01/03/25)
Isle of Man.
✔ 114. The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974): Read a book in which the main character dreams of unhappy things.
Dark Echoes of the Past | Ramón Díaz Eterovic ★★★ (02/10/25)
Heredia dreams that he has been captured and his cat tortured.
✔ 115. You've Got Mail (1998): Read a book set in a bookstore or library.
The Crime That Binds | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (01/26/25)
*** Completed (06/15/25) ***
✔ 46. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992): Read a book whose cover shows multiple birds (post the cover).Murder at the Taffy Shop | Maddie Day ★ (02/05/25)
✔ 47. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1967 & 2000): Read a book whose cover shows the top of a mountain (post the cover).
A Cold, Cold World | Elena Taylor ★★★ (06/15/25)
✔ 48. The Ice Harvest (2005): Read a book in which the mob is present.
The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies | Susan Wittig Albert ★★ (02/18/25)
Ridiculously.
✔ 49. In Bruges (2008): Read a book in which the main character has had something stolen -and- an attempt on their life has been made (tell us how your book fits).
The Club Dumas | Arturo Pérez-Reverte ★ (03/05/25)
A couple of manuscripts are stolen from Lucas, and attempts are made to kill him.
✔ 50. Iron Man 3: Read book #3 of a series (tell us the series).
Hop 'Til You Drop | J.M. Griffin ★★★ (02/24/25)
Jules and Bun #3.
✔ 51. It's a Wonderful Life (1946): Read a book with wings prominently shown on the cover (post the cover).
Big Sky | Kate Atkinson ★★ (02/17/25)
✔ 52. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947): Read a book with found family.
Along the Saltwise Sea | A. Deborah Baker ★★ (02/26/25)
✔ 53. Jack Frost (1998): Read a book in which a character is a musician.
The Antidote | Karen Russell ★★★★ (03/31/25)
Due.
✔ 54. Jingle All the Way (1996): Read a book with a child's toy on the cover (post the cover).
A Midnight Puzzle | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (04/18/25)
The clock is a jigsaw puzzle.
✔ 55. Joyeux Noel (2005): Read a book in which the main character sings for an audience.
A Picture of Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (02/06/25)
Lady Hardcastle.
✔ 56. Just Friends (2005): Read a book set in Canada.
Sweetland | Michael Crummey ★★ (05/11/25)
✔ 57. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005): Read a book set during Christmas season but doesn't include any festivities.
Tourist Season | Carl Hiaasen ★★ (04/01/25)
✔ 58. Klaus (2019): Read a book with a letter or an envelope on the cover (post the cover).
Deadly Assessments | Drew Hayes ★★★★★ (04/05/25)
✔ 59. The Knight Before Christmas (2019): Read a book in which time travel is part of the plot.
The Third Rule of Time Travel | Philip Fracassi ★ (04/12/25)
✔ 60. Krampus (2015): Read a book in which some sort of punishment for disobedience or misbehavior is given out (tell us how your book fits).
Old School | Gordon Korman ★★★★ (02/03/25)
Dex is suspended from school for possession of a Swiss Army knife.
✔ 61. Last Train to Christmas (2021): Read a book with the word LAST intact and alone in the title.
The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir | Sarah Kendzior ★★★ (04/25/25)
✔ 62. Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020): Read a book in which some sort of training occurs (tell us how your book fits).
Summer of a Thousand Pies | Margaret Dilloway ★★★ (03/03/25)
Shell trains Cady to bake pies by the end of summer by making her bake 1000 pies.
✔ 63. Let it Snow (2019): Read a book marked Young Adult on its main GR page.
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear | Seanan McGuire ★★★ (02/01/25)
✔ 64. Lethal Weapon (1987): Read a book where the main characters are partners in the same profession (tell us what they do).
Murder Comes to Call | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (02/09/25)
Beryl & Edwina, Private Investigators.
✔ 65. The Lion in Winter (1968): Read a book in which the main character separates or is separated from their spouse.
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern | Lilian Jackson Braun ★★★★ (02/27/25)
Qwilleran.
✔ 66. The Little Drummer Boy (1968): Read a book in which an animal is important to the plot (tell us how).
The Blacktongue Thief | Christopher Buehlman ★★★ (01/17/25)
An assassin keeps tabs on Kinch by inhabiting the body of a blind cat.
✔ 67. Little Women (1994 & 2019): Read a book in which someone recovers from an illness, either permanently or for a short period (tell us who).
The Colour | Rose Tremain ★★ (01/26/25)
Pare & Edwin – they recover once from an unknown illness and succumb the second time.
✔ 68. Love Actually (2003): Read a book in which someone learns or is learning a new language (tell us who and which language).
Shout | Laurie Halse Anderson ★★ (02/03/25)
Laurie, Danish.
✔ 69. Love Hard (2021): Read a book in which some form of online communication is important (tell us what).
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami ★★ (03/30/25)
Sarah is imprisoned based on her social media content, and she finds out something key about their captors when she gets an email from someone who used to be imprisoned with her.
✔ 70. Love the Coopers (2015): Read a book with a dog prominently shown on the cover (post the cover).
Death Waits in the Dark | Julia Buckley ★ (01/15/25)
✔ 71. The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017): Read a fictional book based on a real person (tell us who the book is about if not obvious).
Baudolino | Umberto Eco ★★★ (01/29/25)
Frederick Barbarossa.
✔ 72. March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934): Read a book that makes you laugh.
Carpe Jugulum | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (01/11/25)
✔ 73. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944): Read a book in which the main character has to move to a different location for whatever reason (not a vacation or a short trip; tell us why).
Murder at the Grand Hotel | Isabella Bassett ★★ (01/11/25)
Caroline has to move from England to the French Riviera to become her uncle’s secretary.
✔ 74. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983): Read a book written by an author who has another day job (think celebrity memoirs).
In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some | Josh Gad ★★★★ (02/10/25)
Josh Gad, actor.
✔ 75. The Merry Gentleman (2008): Read a book in which the main character saves someone (tell us how).
Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie ★★ (02/03/25)
Poirot finds out one of the characters is a jewel thief but decides to give this guy a second chance because he’s a young man with a bright future or something.
✔ 76. The Merry Gentlemen (2024): Read a book in which there is a dance.
Royal Flush | Rhys Bowen ★ (03/03/25)
✔ 77. Mickey's, Mr. Magoo's & the Muppets Christmas Carol (1983, 1962 & 1992): Read 3 books with a main character whose first name begins with an M.
- Marygene. Southern Sass and a Battered Bride | Kate Young ★ (02/19/25)
✔ 78. Miracle on 34th Street (1947): Read a book in which someone spends time in a mental health facility (tell us who).
End of Watch | Stephen King ★★ (01/20/25)
Brady.
✔ 79. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979): Read a controversial book.
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | Loung Ung ★★★ (02/07/25)
It’s a controversial book among Cambodians who also lived through Khmer Rouge because according to them, Loung was very young during her ordeal and her memory cannot be relied on.
✔ 80. My Uncle Antoine (1971): Read a book in which a speaking character is an undertaker (tell us who).
Death of a Mad Hatter | Jenn McKinlay ★★ (01/15/25)
Baskin.
✔ 81. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989): Read a book that is set during the main character's vacation.
Death Around the Bend | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ 82. The Nativity Story (2006): Read a book set during ancient times (for the purpose of this task, before 5 CE; tell us when your book is set).
The Voyage Home | Pat Barker ★★ (01/22/25)
1400 BC or so.
✔ 83. The Night Before (2015): Read a book with the word NIGHT intact and standing alone in the title or subtitle.
Murder on a Girls' Night Out | Anne George ★★★ (01/03/25)
✔ 84. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): Read a book set during Halloween -and- read a book with a pumpkin (or many) on the cover (post the cover).
Fatal Fudge Swirl | Meri Allen ★★★ (03/12/25)
✔ 85. The Noel Diary (2022): Read a book in which a major character returns to their hometown after a long absence.
Aloha Alibi | Jasmine Webb ★★★★ (02/01/25)
Charlotte to Kihei.
✔ 86. Noelle (2019): Read a book set in a desert (tell us where).
A Match Made for Murder | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (02/08/25)
Arizona – Sonoran.
✔ 87. The Polar Express (2004): Read a book set in a country with land in the arctic circle (Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden or US; tell us where your book is set).
Black Woods Blue Sky | Eowyn Ivey ★ (03/19/25)
US – Alaska.
✔ 88. Prancer (1989): Read a book set on a farm.
Farm to Trouble | Amanda Flower ★ (02/01/25)
✔ 89. The Preacher's Wife (1996): Read a book in which the main character is a preacher, nun, monk, pastor or other religious leader (tell us what they are).
The Shadow of Death | Jane Willan ★★★ (01/14/25)
Sister Agatha is a nun.
✔ 90. The Princess Switch (2018): Read a book in which the main character is a cook or baker.
Strangled Eggs and Ham | Maddie Day ★★★ (01/20/25)
Robbie.
I'm finished.A Movie List for Christmas
Duration: Dec 01, 2024 - ?
Completed: 117/117
The Movies
✔ 1. 8-Bit Christmas (2021): Read a book with a cardinal number in the title (eight or 8, not eighth).
The Drawing of the Three | Stephen King ★★★★ (01/11/25)
✔ 2. About a Boy (2002): Read a book in which someone performs in front of an audience (tell us what they do).
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home | Harry Kemelman ★★★ (02/28/25)
Rabbi Small delivers sermons and talks in front of both his flock and outside.
✔ 3. Anna and the Apocalypse (2017): Read a book set in Scotland.
Murder at a Scottish Social | Traci Hall ★★★ (01/24/25)
✔ 4. The Apartment (1960): Read a book with a residential building on the cover (post the cover).
Death in an English Cottage | Sara Rosett ★★★ (01/16/25)
✔ 5. Arthur Christmas (2011): Read a book in which a child shares a profession with their parent (tell us what they do).
The Raven Thief | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (01/01/25)
Tempest is a stage magician like her mother and a carpenter like her father.
✔ 6. Bad Santa (2003): Read a book in which something valuable is stolen (tell us what).
Darkly | Marisha Pessl ★★ (01/08/25)
A game.
✔ 7. Batman Returns (1992): Read a book whose cover is mostly black (post the cover).
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls | Grady Hendrix ★ (02/04/25)
✔ 8. The Best Man Holiday (2013): Read book #2 of a series that you have started before starting this challenge (tell us the series and when you read the first book).
Mint Chocolate Murder | Meri Allen ★★★★ (12/01/24)
Ice Cream Shop Mysteries #2 - #1 read Jun 18, 2024.
✔ 9. Better Watch Out (2016): Read a psychological mystery.
The Return of Ellie Black | Emiko Jean ★ (04/28/25)
✔ 10. The Bishop's Wife (1947): Read a book in which a supernatural entity exists (tell us what kind).
Lowcountry Boughs of Holly | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (01/04/25)
Ghost/Angel.
✔ 11. Black Christmas (1974): Read a book with a color name in the title.
A Tide of Black Steel | Anthony Ryan ★★★ (01/31/25)
✔ 12. A Boy Called Christmas (2021): Read a book that makes you happy.
Later Gator | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (01/06/25)
✔ 13. Carol (2015): Read a book with a same sex relationship.
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow | Natasha Pulley ★ (01/30/25)
Mori & Thaniel.
✔ 14. A Castle for Christmas (2021): Read a book with a castle on the cover and in the plot (post the cover if choosing that option).
Murder at an Irish Castle | Ellie Brannigan ★★★ (01/23/25)
✔ 15. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965): Read a book in which a play is staged.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler ★ (04/30/25)
Zelda’s own play.
✔ 16. A Christmas Carol (1908, 1910, 1938, 1951, 1984, 1997, 2004, 2009, 2020): Read a book originally published in any of the years above (tell us when your book was published).
The Owl Killers | Karen Maitland ★★★ (01/06/25)
Mar 26, 2009.
✔ 17. The Christmas Chronicles (2018): Read a book in which something is exposed via a camera (tell us how your book fits).
Sleight of Paw | Sofie Kelly ★★ (03/09/25)
The alibi for the accused.
✔ 18. A Christmas Horror Story (2015): Read a short story collection or anthology.
Buried Deep and Other Stories | Naomi Novik ★★★★ (12/01/24)
✔ 19. Christmas in Connecticut (1945): Read a book with a location name in its title.
Murder on Cape Cod | Maddie Day ★★★★ (01/23/25)
✔ 20. A Christmas Prince (2017): Read a book in which a major royalty is a character (tell us what they are).
The Lost Heir | Tui T. Sutherland ★★★ (01/07/25)
Queen Coral, Princesses Tsunami & Anemone.
✔ 21. A Christmas Story (1983): Read a book whose cover shows a weapon of some sort (post the cover).
Babylonia | Costanza Casati ★★ (03/09/25)
✔ 22. A Christmas Tale (2008): Read a book
The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth ★★★★ (01/02/25)
✔ 23. The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005): Read a book in which all the words in the title begins with a letter in TURKISHDELIGHT.
The Great River | Boyce Upholt ★★★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ 24. Deck the Halls (2006): Read a book whose cover shows a well-lit building (post the cover).
A Troubling Tail | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (03/08/25)
✔ 25. Die Hard (1988): Read a book with a major character of German origin.
Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson ★ (02/16/25)
Rudy, Bischoff.
✔ 26. Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (2020): Read a book by an author you consider a national treasure (the book could be written by someone who isn't an author by profession also, such as a celebrity memoir).
Finders Keepers | Stephen King ★★★ (01/18/25)
✔ 27. Dr. Seuss' the Grinch (2018): Read a book whose cover is predominantly green (post the cover).
Murder by Plum Pudding | Lee Strauss ★★★ (01/21/25)
✔ 28. Edward Scissorhands (1990): Read a book with falling snow on the cover (post the cover).
Thread on Arrival | Lea Wait ★★ (01/04/25)
Scene outside the window.
✔ 30. Elf (2003): Read a book whose main character is adopted.
London Calling | James Ponti ★★★★★ (02/13/25)
The spies are all adopted.
✔ 31. Falling For Christmas (2022): Read a book in which someone experiences memory loss (temporary is fine, tell us who).
Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie ★★★ (02/20/25)
One Esk/Breq/The Justice of Toren; their memory is manipulated by Anaander Miaanai.
✔ 32. The Family Stone (2005): Read a book which deals with a dysfunctional family.
Isaac's Song | Daniel Black ★★★★ (02/09/25)
✔ 33. Four Christmases (2008): Read a book which has more than one party as part of the plot.
Poinsettias and the Perfect Crime | Ruby Loren ★★★ (03/16/25)
✔ 34. Fred Claus (2007): Read a book in which the main character is morally gray.
Wizard and Glass | Stephen King ★ (01/23/25)
Roland.
✔ 35. Get Santa (2014): Read a book set in London.
London Rain | Nicola Upson ★★ (01/10/25)
✔ 36. Godmothered (2020): Read a book with someone who appears on TV for any reason (tell us who).
Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause | Naomi Watts ★★★ (02/19/25)
Naomi Watts, actress.
✔ 37. Gremlins (1984): Read a book with a pet whose name starts with a letter in MOGWAI (tell us the pet's name).
Paint the Town Dead | Nancy Haddock ★★★ (01/25/25)
Amber the dog.
✔ 38. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022): Read a fiction book in which a real-life celebrity makes an appearance.
A Murder Most French | Colleen Cambridge ★★★ (02/06/25)
Julia Child is a major character.
✔ 39. Happy Christmas (2014): Read a book set in Chicago.
Death of the Author | Nnedi Okorafor ★★ (02/02/25)
✔ 40. Happiest Season (2020): Read a book with a character who has or will run for political office (tell us who and what they have campaigned for).
Queen's Peril | E.K. Johnston ★★ (02/07/25)
In Naboo, a queen is an elected position – Padme runs for Queen and wins.
✔ 41. Hogfather (2006): Read a book with an assassin in it.
The Oligarch's Daughter | Joseph Finder ★ (03/25/25)
✔ 42. The Holiday (2006): Read a book with major plot points occurring in both Europe and the Americas (tell us which countries).
The Question of Bruno | Aleksandar Hemon ★★ (02/05/25)
Bosnia, USA.
✔ 43. Holiday Inn (1942): Read a book that has won an award (tell us the award and the year the book won).
The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen ★★ (03/23/25)
National Book Award for Fiction, 2001.
✔ 44. The Holly and the Ivy (1952): Read a book about religion.
Stone Yard Devotional | Charlotte Wood ★★★ (03/23/25)
✔ 45. Home Alone (1990): Read a book with a major character who is younger than 12-years-old -and- read a middle-grade adventure book.
The Hanging Hill | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (04/12/25)
I think I'm done.Old, Obsolete and Obscure Words #4 - Food and Drink
Duration: May 01, 2025 - ?
Completed: 26/26
✔ A is for AFTERMELK: Read a book which involves politics in some way.
The Glass Key | Dashiell Hammett ★★ (05/21/25)
The main characters are dirty politicians and do all the evil things they do to win elections.
✔ B is for BLANC MANGER/BLAMANG/BLOMANGER/BLAMANGER: Read a book that has a predominantly white cover (post the cover).
A Lethal Lesson | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (05/16/25)
✔ C is for CHASTLETES: Read a book that seems open-ended or ‘unfinished’ in some way (briefly tell us why).
Conclave | Robert Harris ★★★ (05/09/25)
The pope who is elected at the end has a secret that has enormous implications to the papacy and the church should it ever be revealed, and we’re just left with the secret and basically the book says oh well, que será será. Which was deeply unsatisfying.
✔ D is for DUBBATTE: Read a book in which someone is learning or struggling with a new language (tell us who and the language).
Fellowship of Fear | Aaron Elkins ★ (05/27/25)
Gideon, German. He has only a rudimentary knowledge of it.
✔ E is for ENDORE: Read a book that features an artist (bonus for a painter) (tell us who).
My Friends | Fredrik Backman ★★★★★ (05/20/25)
The Artist and Louisa – both painters.
✔ F is for FARCE: Read a book that is marked HUMOUR (or HUMOR) on its GR mainpage.
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) | Jesse Q. Sutanto ★★★★ (05/05/25)
✔ G is for GALENTYN/GALENTYNE/GALYNTYN/GALYNTYNE/GALYTYNE: Read a book that has a title word that has more than one common meaning (e.g. ‘galentyn’ means both ‘a hot sauce’ and ‘a cold jelly’ and ‘crane’ could mean ‘a large bird’ or ‘a machine that lifts objects,’ etc.).
Chapter and Curse | Elizabeth Penney ★★ (05/03/25)
Chapter: a main division of a book or a period of time or an episode.
✔ H is for HORSE BREAD: Read a book in which someone is particularly rich or someone is particularly poor (tell us who).
Foundryside | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★ (05/23/25)
Sancia is extremely poor, Dandolo is extremely rich.
✔ I is for IOWTES: Read a book that has two or three co-protagonists (or a protagonist with one or two important sidekick(s)) (tell us who).
My Friends | Fredrik Backman ★★★★★ (05/20/25)
Fennell, Conway and Zanele.
✔ J is for JENEVER/GENEVA: Read a book in which a speaking character works in a medical field (tell us who).
An American in Scotland | Lucy Connelly ★★★ (05/18/25)
Emilia is a doctor.
✔ K is for KYCHOUN/KECHEN: Read a book with an important character who makes food for their job (tell us who).
Murder at Gulls Nest | Jess Kidd ★★★ (05/12/25)
Irene is Gulls Nest’s cook.
✔ L is for LETLARDYS/LETELORYE: Read a book with a compound word in its title.
Long Overdue at the Lakeside Library | Holly Danvers ★★ (05/17/25)
✔ M is for MAWMENEE/MAMMENYE/MAMMENE/MAUMENEE/MAWMENNY/ MAWMENYE: Read a book in which something strange, unexpected, or unusual occurs (using spoilers if needed briefly tell us what).
Song of Susannah | Stephen King ★★★ (05/08/25)
The whole of Susannah’s plot arc in this book is strange – she’s carrying the Crimson King’s child, but really it’s not her carrying it, it’s a demon that’s also part of her. It’s an accelerated pregnancy and because it’s inside her head (and in the demon) she can hit the brakes on it when she wants at least for a few hours. It’s super weird.
✔ N is NALE, NAPPY ALE, NAZY, and NIP/NYP: Read a book with an alcoholic drink shown clearly on its cover (bonus for ale/beer) (post the cover).
Shot Through the Book | Eva Gates ★★★ (05/24/25)
The spilled glass of wine.
✔ O is for OTEMELE: Read a book that has a title word that is spelled differently than it sounds.
A Midsummer Night's Scheme | Harper Kincaid ★ (05/17/25)
✔ P is for PAIN DE MAYNE/PAYNDEMAYN: Read a book in which someone lives in a manor or a posh/fancy home (tell us who and where they live).
A Murder of Crows | Sarah Yarwood-Lovett ★ (05/25/25)
Nell lives in a posh home that looks like it’s out of Architectural Digest apparently.
✔ Q is for QUINKINS: Read a book that has spirits or similar beings (e.g. ghost, phantoms, etc.).
The Dark Tower | Stephen King ★★★★★ (06/10/25)
Demons.
✔ R is for RUAYN/RUAYNE/REWEN/ROWEN: Read a book that is the second book of a series or trilogy (tell us the series/trilogy).
The Sayers Swindle | Victoria Abbott ★★★ (05/04/25)
Book Collector Mystery #2.
✔ S is for SEWE/SEW, SIPPETS, and SOPPES/SOWPES/SOWPYS: Read a book in which someone eats soup (bonus if they have it with bread) (tell us who and the type of soup they ate).
Under the Midnight Sun | Keigo Higashino ★★★★ (06/05/25)
Tomohiko eats miso soup with rice. No bread.
✔ T is for TALEMOUSE: Read a book with something triangular shown clearly on its cover (post the cover).
A Cold, Cold World | Elena Taylor ★★★ (06/15/25)
The top of the mountain.
✔ U is for UMBLES/NUMBLES/HUMBLES: Read a book in which someone or something being inside something is important to the book (use your interpretation) (using spoilers if needed tell who/what is in what).
A Drop of Corruption | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★★ (05/14/25)
Din needs to go inside the Shroud, a dangerous, eerie place, to interview the coworkers of the suspected killer.
✔ V is for VERJUICE/VERIOUS/VERIAWS/VARIOUS/VERGOUS: Read a book that has a predominantly green cover (post the cover).
Death at the Manor | Katharine Schellman ★★ (05/29/25)
✔ W is for WORM CASTLE: Read a book that is set during a real or fictional war (bonus for US Civil War) (tell us the war).
Suite Française | Irène Némirovsky ★★★ (05/22/25)
World War II.
✔ X is for XYLOCARP: Read a book from a short series (five or fewer books) of an ended series (e.g. the author died or indicated they are no longer writing those books; it has been many years since the last one was published; it was planned to be a small number of books, like a trilogy; etc.). (tell us the series and number of books).
Read or Alive | Nora Page ★★★ (05/04/25)
Bookmobile Mysteries #3. It’s the last book in the series – the author seems to have abandoned the series.
✔ Y is for Y-: Read a book marked ‘HISTORICAL’ or ‘HISTORICAL FICTION’ on its GR main page.
A Body at a Boarding School | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (05/09/25)
✔ Z is ZEOÞ/ZEOÞEN/SEEÞ/SEÞEN: Read a book that you found to be a ‘slow simmer’ (tell us how).
Moby-Dick | Herman Melville ★★★ (05/16/25)
I mean, it takes forever and a day to get to the whale.
***Completed (06/15/25) ***
Summer 2025 Scavenger ChallengeDuration: Jun 21, 2025 - Sep 20, 2025
Completed: 0/20+
1. In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
– John Steinbeck
☀ Read a book with flowers shown prominently on the cover; post the cover
2. It's like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine, it feels something like summertime.
– Bon Jovi
☀ Read a book with a MC who works in/owns a vineyard
3. Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.
– Debasish Mridha
☀ Read a book in which characters dance; tell us who and briefly explain
4. My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach
– Unknown
☀ Read a book with a beach scene shown prominently on the cover; post the cover
5. If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.
– Katie Lee
☀ Read a book with FOOD on its main GR page
6. Pack your bags; fill your days; summer is for adventures in a million ways.
– Unknown
☀ Read a book whose title words all begin with a letter in PACK YOUR BAGS; 3-word minimum (a letter can only be used as many times as it appears in the phrase)
7. Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
☀ Read a book set in a bar/pub; tell us the name of the establishment
8. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
– John Steinbeck
☀ Read a book with a winter scene on the cover; post the cover
9. Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.
– Bryan Procter
☀ Read a book with at least one titled character (Lord, Lady, Prince, Queen); tell us who
10. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
– John Lebbock
☀ Read a book with a natural body of water shown prominently on the cover; post the cover
11. Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.
– Oprah Winfrey
☀ Read a book that was published no more than six months before you read it; tell us the publication date
12. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all too short a date.
– William Shakespeare
☀ Read a book with CLASSIC on its main GR page
13. The grill is the summer equivalent of a fireplace; everyone gravitates to it.
– Katie Lee
☀ Read a book in which someone cooks food on an outdoor grill; tell us who and what they cook
14. A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
– Patricia Briggs
☀ Read a book set in a location beginning with a letter in WINTER; tell us where
15. Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
– Sam Cooke
☀ Read a book with at least two rhyming words in the title
16. I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.
– Kellie Elmore
☀ Read a book with a blanket/quilt shown prominently on the cover; post the cover
17. Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz
☀ Read a book with MUSIC on its main GR page
18. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.
– Jenny Han
☀ Read a book with MAGIC or MAGICAL REALISM on its main GR page
19. I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
– Toni Morrison
☀ Read a book with a fruit shown prominently on the cover; post the cover
20. Summer is a verb.
– Lisa Birnbach
☀ Read a book with a word in the title that is used as a noun and a verb (like swing, cook, plant)
21. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
– Brian Wilson
☀ Read a book set in California
22. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
– Robert Orben
☀ Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in VACATION; post a link to the author’s GR page
23. Summer: Hair gets lighter. Water gets warmer. Nights get longer. Life gets better.
– Unknown
☀ Read a book with a night scene shown prominently on the cover; post the cover
24. Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars – a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.
– Nicholas Sparks
☀ Read a book with ROMANCE on its main GR page
25. The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
– Wallace Stevens
☀ Read a book with all of the letters N-I-G-H-T in the title, in any order
26. Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
– Regina Brett
☀ Read a book with clouds shown prominently on the cover; post the cover (bonus points for clouds in a sunny sky, not storm clouds)
27. Summertime is always the best of what might be.
– Charles Bowden
☀ Read a book found on a Goodreads’ Best of ____ list (Best Historical Fiction, Best True Crime – as long as “Best” is in the list name, it will work); post a link to the list and tell us where your book falls on that list
28. A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
– James Dent
☀ Read a book in which a mechanical device is “conveniently” broken or inoperative; using spoiler tags if necessary, briefly explain
29. Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
– Henry James
☀ Read a book with a repeated significant word in the title
30. The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn; the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
– James Russel Lowell
☀ Read a book with an insect shown prominently on the cover; post the cover
Mary-Megan wrote: "Next guess: G3 - Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry [432 pages] (6/7)"
G3 is a miss.
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