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Guess #2: CHIDE

C - Chardonnayed to Rest | J.C. Eaton ★★★ (09/11/25)
H - Hemlock & Silver | T. Kingfisher ★★★★ (09/12/25)
I – Guessed previously
D - Damsel in a Dress | Kirsten Weiss ★★★ (09/16/25)
E – Guessed previously

Fall 2025 Scavenger Challenge

Duration: Sep 21, 2025 - Dec 20, 2025
Completed: 30/20+

✔ 1. If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.
– Victoria Erickson
🍃 Read a book with a timepiece of some sort shown prominently on the cover; post the cover.
The Seven Dials Mystery | Agatha Christie ★★★ (12/05/25)


✔ 2. There are two times of the year: autumn and waiting for autumn
– Unknown
🍃 Read a book you had to wait to read – a new release, a library hold, etc.; tell us why you waited.
Carrie | Stephen King ★★★★ (10/15/25)
Super old book, but a huge library hold.

✔ 3. Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
– Lauren DeStefano
🍃 Read the last book of a completed series.
Gone by Midnight | Candice Fox ★★★ (11/24/25)
Crimson Lake #3. It looks like the series is complete.

✔ 4. Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.
– Siobhan Vivian
🍃 Read a book with a bright, colorful cover; post the cover.
This Old Homicide | Kate Carlisle ★★ (09/25/25)


✔ 5. Autumn leaves are like little gifts falling from the sky, making everything look magical.
– Unknown
🍃 Read a book with MAGIC or MAGICAL REALISM on its main GR page.
Virgil Wander | Leif Enger ★★★★★ (09/29/25)

✔ 6. I guess it's something about the air. Fall air always smells like possibility.
– Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
🍃 Read a book with the letters A-I-R in the title, in order, but not necessarily in the same word.
The Elephant Whisperer | Lawrence Anthony ★★★ (09/29/25)

✔ 7. There is something about autumn that makes things more beautiful. Out of all the seasons, it is the most honest about time. Summer and spring blind you to its passing with their colorful displays. Winter paints over everything in white. But autumn is not shy about things coming to an end. It welcomes it, waving leafy flags of red, yellow and gold. – Samantha Sotto Yambao
🍃 Read a book with what you consider a beautiful cover; post the cover.
The Java Enigma | Erni Salleh ★★ (09/30/25)


✔ 8. There's an endless autumn in me, scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke.
– Jarod K. Anderson
🍃 Read a book in which characters go camping or sleep in a tent, trailer or other recreational vehicle; tell us who.
Katabasis | R.F. Kuang ★★ (11/01/25)
Alice & Peter camp in hell.

✔ 9. Fall is the season for reading. Fall is the season for pumpkin-spiced drinks. Fall is the season for sweaters. Fall is my definition of peace, the utter epitome of relaxation.
– Mads Rafferty
🍃 Read a book set in a library or bookstore; tell us which.
The Vanishing Thief | Kate Parker ★★ (10/03/25)
Bookstore.

✔ 10. It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.
– Diana Gabaldon
🍃 Read a book with a beverage of some sort shown prominently on the cover; post the cover.
The Killer Question | Janice Hallett ★★★★ (10/26/25)


✔ 11. Autumn's gold is free.
– Laura Jaworski
🍃 Read a book you got for free.
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat | Syou Ishida ★★★ (10/03/25)

✔ 12. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
🍃 Read a book with a forest shown prominently on the cover; post the cover.
Gone by Midnight | Candice Fox ★★★ (11/24/25)


✔ 13. Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.
– Winston Graham
🍃 Read a book set in the fall.
Not Quite Dead Yet | Holly Jackson ★ (09/30/25)
Halloween and the week after.

✔ 14. I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky, and one by one they disappear.
– The Moody Blues
🍃 Read a book with color word in the title (words like Blues and Golden accepted, but not Greenwood).
The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins ★★ (10/13/25)

✔ 15. Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
– Nora Ephron
🍃 Read a book with a major character who is a student; tell us who.
The Harlem Charade | Natasha Anastasia Tarpley ★★★★ (09/22/25)
All three MCs are students – Jin, Alex and Elwin.

✔ 16. Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.
– William Cullen Bryant
🍃 Read a book with a smiling face on the cover; post the cover.
Mr. Lemoncello's Fantabulous Finale | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (10/04/25)


✔ 17. It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes ...
– Gwendolyn Brooks
🍃 Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in FALL CRISP (a letter may only be used as often as it appears in the phrase); post a link to the author’s GR page.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith ★★★ (09/28/25)

✔ 18. But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.
– Frank Sinatra
🍃 Read a book whose title begins with a letter in AUTUMN.
Murder under Cover | Kate Carlisle ★★ (09/22/25)

✔ 19. Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.
– Shira Tamir
🍃 Read a book with at least one windy day in the story; tell us the page/location number and quote an excerpt.
Night Will Find You | Julia Heaberlin ★ (10/05/25)
The storm is moving fast on my watch, but we’re in the thick of it. Page 112. It’s a storm but it’s also windy – wind chimes banging around discordantly is mentioned.

✔ 20. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
– Albert Camus
🍃 Read a book with flowers shown prominently on the cover; post the cover.
Change of Fortune | Jana Deleon ★★★★★ (09/21/25)


✔ 21. If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.
– George Eliot
🍃 Read a book with a bird name in the title.
The Rhyme of the Magpie | Marty Wingate ★★ (11/03/25)

✔ 22. Autumn mist makes everything look like a cozy storybook, full of adventure and magic.
– Unknown
🍃 Read a book with COZY MYSTERY on its main GR page.
Pampered to Death | Laura Levine ★★★★ (10/02/25)

✔ 23. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
– Henry David Thoreau
🍃 Read a book whose cover shows a person sitting; post the cover.
So Much Blue | Percival Everett ★★ (12/04/25)


✔ 24. Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
🍃 Read the first book of a series; tell us the series.
Ukulele of Death | E.J. Copperman ★★ (11/02/25)
Fran & Ken Stein #1.

✔ 25. Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.
– Elizabeth Lawrence
🍃 Read a book that made you ignore other things so you could keep reading.
Bad Actors | Mick Herron ★★★★★ (10/04/25)

✔ 26. Autumn is my favorite season because it’s full of fun, colorful leaves and cool breezes!
– Unknown
🍃 Read a book with fall leaves shown prominently on the cover; post the cover.
Book 'Em, Eddie | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (10/24/25)


✔ 27. How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
– George Burns
🍃 Read a book with a main character who is over 60 years old; tell us who.
Murder on the Marlow Belle | Robert Thorogood ★★★ (10/04/25)
Judith.

✔ 28. I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
🍃 Read a book set in a location beginning with a letter in SEASON (be as specific as possible); tell us where.
Yo! | Julia Alvarez ★★★ (10/06/25)
New York City and New Hampshire.

✔ 29. The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a [Oakland] Raider, pillaging just for fun.
– Steve Sabol
🍃 Read a book with a natural body of water shown prominently on the cover; post the cover.
Reel of Fortune | Jana Deleon ★★★★★ (10/28/25)


✔ 30. I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
🍃 Read a book with a main character who works primarily outdoors; tell us who and the job.
All the Lives We Never Lived | Anuradha Roy ★★ (11/22/25)
Myshkin is a horticulturist for his town.

*** Completed (12/05/25) ***

Katharine wrote: "if you accept bees as poison....

Suspect: Librarian ~ The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden (9/15/25)

Cause of death: poison ~ bee venom ~ [book:The Enlight..."

Bees are fine! The murder was not at The Three Broomsticks.

Meg wrote: "Scientist ==> Nancy Springer - The Case of the Missing Marquess 09/10

Beheading ==> [book:The Cat Who Could Read Backwards|508903..."

The murder was not by beheading.

Katharine wrote: "Suspect: Short Order Cook ~ Karen Harper The Poyson Garden (9/13/25)

Cause of death: fall (from tower) ~ The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper..."

The murder was not at the Waste Management Company. And sure, bees are fine!

Congrats, Ed! I'm guessing the Sicilian was read in 12/24?

Congrats, Angel!

Robin, almost - you don't have a read date for two of the books: The Killer Jack Mystery & Artificial Condition. Another of the books has a read date of 8/10 and the challenge didn't begin until 9/1. I hope you can use a different book? Thanks!

Congrats, L&M & Jonquil!

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Next guess: J-1
Adopt a Vampire by A.J. Sherwood
Pages: 168
Read: 6/8/25"

J1 is a hit.

Christina (AKA Babbling) wrote: "Guess #17

B0 - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown 13 September 2025 ★★★★★ (audiobook) Kindle Edition, 408 pages

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B0 is a miss.

Andrea wrote: "Bad Things, Small Packages by Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick 8/22/25
176 pages
B1"

B1 is a miss.

Congrats, Michelle!

Congrats, Angel!

Congrats, Tari!

LOL, congrats, Meg! I just need a read date for Bidding for Trouble and I'll mark you as complete. :)

Richard wrote: "I'm going to stop my challenge here. Thanks, I had fun."

1,282 books between Jan 24th & Sep 10th is dope enough. 😎

Sure is! Congrats, Richard!!

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Congrats, Jan and Michele!

Congrats, Meg! Congrats, Lynn!

Great job, Barb!