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Length & Publication date
◈ an audiobook between 6-7 hours
◈ an audiobook between 7-8 hours
◈ an audiobook between 8-9 hours
◈ an audiobook published in June
◈ an audiobook published in July
◈ an audiobook published in August
Authors, Narrators & Characters
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator or character who was born in June
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator or character who was born in July
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator or character who was born in August
◈ an audiobook where the narrator's or author's or a character's name can be connected to summer (e.g.: name of a flower, June, etc) in any way
◈ an audiobook with the author's or narrator's initials in the word MIDSUMMER
Genres and Shelves
◈ an audiobook with MPG Travel
◈ an audiobook with MPG Contemporary
◈ an audiobook with MPG Adventure
◈ an audiobook from the Shelf Island OR Islands
◈ an audiobook from the Shelf: Summer OR from Sea
Series
◈ an audiobook 6th in a series
◈ an audiobook 7th in a series
◈ an audiobook 8th in a series
Covers
◈ an audiobook with yellow cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with blue cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with gold cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with purple cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with yellow letters on cover
◈ an audiobook with blue letters on cover
◈ an audiobook with gold letters on cover
◈ an audiobook with purple letters on cover
◈ an audiobook with the sun on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a body of water on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a parasol or any type of sunshade on cover
◈ an audiobook with seashell on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a ship/boat on cover
◈ an audiobook with icecream or an icy drink on the cover
◈ an audiobook with fireworks on cover
◈ an audiobook with sunglasses on cover
Title
◈ an audiobook with the letters COCKTAIL in the title and/or author's name
◈ an audiobook with author's initials in BARBECUE
◈ an audiobook with a title starting with a letter from SUNDAE
Plot & Text
◈ an audiobook set at least partly in summertime
◈ an audiobook featuring any kind of holiday that is celebrated during the summer months (Summer Solstice, Aomori Nebuta Matsuri, La Tomatina, July 4, etc)
◈ an audiobook featuring a barbecue
◈ an audiobook where someone goes swimming
◈ an audiobook where someone goes on a road trip
◈ an audiobook with the word FIREWORKS mentioned in the text
◈ an audiobook where any "summer sport" is mentioned (your interpretation: sailing, golf, volleyball, basketball, kayaking, etc.)
◈ an audiobook featuring a summer romance
◈ a mystery or thriller on audio involving tourists or summer festivals
◈ an audiobook featuring a character on a summer break
◈ a nonfiction audiobook about nature, summer history, or the great outdoors
◈ an audiobook with a topic you consider HOT 🌞🔥❤️🔥🌶️
Setting/Tags
◈ an audiobook set in any of the Carribbean Islands or tagged minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in Brazil or tagged Brazil minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in the US or tagged US(A) minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in Spain or tagged Spain minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in France or tagged France minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in Greece or tagged Greece minimum 5x
Just for Fun
◈ an audiobook you listened to by the pool or on the beach
◈ an audiobook you listened to while travelling
◈ an audiobook you listened to while walking
◈ an audiobook you listened to while packing (for a trip)
◈ an audiobook you listened to while wearing sunglasses or a hat
◈ an audiobook you listened to while eating ice cream or drinking a cold drink
◈ an audiobook you listened to while doing household chores
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” ~ Sam Keen
~ 🎧🏖️📘The Summer Season Audiobook Challenge 📘🏖️🎧~
Whether you’re road-tripping down the coast, mowing the lawn, sipping iced coffee on the porch, or hanging out clothes to dry — this is your moment to shine. Or sweat. It’s summer, after all. Below you'll find the hot or cool summer prompts for your listening.
Duration: 1 June - 31 August
Rules & How to:
Option 1- Walking on Sunshine
🕶️Pick a level and choose your audiobook tasks
🕶️You may read as many books as you want for the chosen tasks
🕶️You are allowed to use 1 audiobook to cover 3 tasks.
Option 2 - Good Vibrations
🏄Pick a level and choose your audiobook tasks
🏄You may read as many books as you want for the chosen tasks
🏄You are allowed to use 1 audiobook to cover 2 tasks.
Option 3 - The Long Hot Summer
🌞 Pick a level and choose your audiobook tasks
🌞 You may read as many books as you want for each chosen task.
🌞 1 audiobook covers 1 task only.
Levels:
Shade Seeker: 1-5 books
Beach Comber: 6-10 books
Sunbather: 11-15 books
Wave Wader: 16-20 books
Heatwave Hero: 21-25 books
Sun Soaked Sage: 26-30 books
Endless Summer Legend: 30+ books
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This challenge was created with the help of and under the Creative Directorship of Karen ⊰✿, whose audiobook challenges at the NBRC Group have been the source and the inspiration. 🥰
Badges were generated by ChatGPT.
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It's time to nominate books for our BotM in July 2025. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have not been published at the time of nomination.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again.
Ineligible books:
All the Light We Cannot See
The Book Thief
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Giver
The Light Between Oceans
Little Women
The Lost Apothecary
Me Before You
The Night Circus
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Project Hail Mary
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Shining
The Silent Patient
Where the Crawdads Sing
Sharp Objects
Six of Crows
The Midnight Library
➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author/book-promotion.
Any attempts perceived as promotion will be removed without notice.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. We want to make sure to include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.
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NOMINATIONS
1. Leaving Time
2. The Outlaw Noble Salt
MAY NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
You can vote for the June Books of the Month here:
❎ June 2025 Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the May Books of the Month are Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn .
🔖 Cloud Cuckoo Land - discussion here
🔖 Sharp Objects- discussion here
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♓💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♓
📚 23 April was World Book Day. There is a challenge that's dedicated to it. You can join: here.
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📘 Challenges Links
General Challenges
A Long Expected Party for individual readers or self directing teams
UNO Mini Challenges for individual players
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
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📕 2025 BUDDY READS can be requested and followed under this folder.
If you choose to request a buddy read in the buddy read requests thread, please be sure to come back to see if anyone has responded to your request. Please note that this folder is not for promotional purposes.
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📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Any activity perceived as promotional outside these folders will be removed without notice.
🌸 Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
This newsletter has also been posted under this folder.
This book was nominated & won for the 2nd time.
Sharp Objects
by Gillian FlynnFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr‘There is magic in this place … You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you’
Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity’s last hope.
Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heartbreaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in June 2025. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have not been published at the time of nomination.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again. Ineligible books: (view spoiler)
➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author/book-promotion.
Any attempts perceived as promotion will be removed without notice.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. We want to make sure to include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.
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NOMINATIONS
Welcome to the Group, Anu!
APRIL NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
You can vote for the May Books of the Month here:
❎ May2025 Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the April Books of the Month are The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole
🔖 The Glass Castle - discussion here
🔖 The Book of Azrael - discussion here
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♓💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♓
You still have time to join the
🍀🌷🍀 Spring Seasonal Challenges 🍀🌷🍀
🎧🪻Audiobook🪻🎧
Spring Season Audiobook Challenge
📘🪻Freestyle🪻📘
Spring Season Freestyle Challenge
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📘 Challenges Links
General Challenges
A Long Expected Party for individual readers or self directing teams
UNO Mini Challenges for individual players
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
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📕 2025 BUDDY READS can be requested and followed under this folder.
If you choose to request a buddy read in the buddy read requests thread, please be sure to come back to see if anyone has responded to your request. Please note that this folder is not for promotional purposes.
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📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Any activity perceived as promotional outside these folders will be removed without notice.
🌸 Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
This newsletter has also been posted under this folder.
Book #2 of the April 2025 BOTM is The Book of Azrael
by Amber V. NicoleWorld Ender meets Ender of Worlds...
A thousand years ago, Dianna gave up her life in the deserts of Eoria to save her dying sister. She called upon anyone who would listen, not expecting a monster far worse than any nightmare to answer. Now she does what Kaden asks, even if that means securing an ancient relic from the very creatures that hunt her.
A King thought long dead and long forgotten.
In the old world his name was Samkiel. In the new world it is Liam, but one title remains true throughout time. He is the World Ender, a myth to his enemies, a savior and King to those loyal to him. After the Gods War, he locked himself away, hiding from the world. He denied his crown and responsibilities, leaving the very ones who needed him most to deal with the fallout of the death of their homeworld. Now an attack on those he holds dear sends him back to the one realm he never wished to visit again and into the sights of an enemy he thought imprisoned eons ago.
Now enemies older than time must put aside their differences and work together in hopes of saving both their world and every realm in between.
Book #1 of the April 2025 BOTM is The Glass Castle
by Jeannette WallsThe Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
Nominations updated to here.
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in May 2025. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have not been published at the time of nomination.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again. Ineligible books: (view spoiler)
➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author/book-promotion.
Any attempts perceived as promotion will be removed without notice.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. We want to make sure to include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.
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NOMINATIONS
1. The Edge of Lost
2. All Creatures Great and Small
3. Murder at Haven's Rock
4. Wild Dark Shore
5. Held
6. Cloud Cuckoo Land
7. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
8. The King's Messenger
9. Sons of the 43rd: The Story of Delmar Dotson, Gray Allison, and the Men of the 43rd Bombardment Group in the Southwest Pacific
10. Sharp Objects
MARCH NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
You can vote for the April Books of the Month here:
❎ April 2025 Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the March Books of the Month are Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy and Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
🔖 Once There Were Wolves - discussion here
🔖 Margo's Got Money Troubles - discussion here
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♓💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♓
🍀🌷🍀 Spring Seasonal Challenges 🍀🌷🍀
🎧🪻Audiobook🪻🎧
Spring Season Audiobook Challenge
📘🪻Freestyle🪻📘
Spring Season Freestyle Challenge
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🍀🗓️📚The 2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge
March
Info & details can be found here
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📘 Challenges Links
General Challenges
A Long Expected Party for individual readers or self directing teams
UNO Mini Challenges for individual players
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
--------------------------------------------
📕 2025 BUDDY READS can be requested and followed under this folder.
If you choose to request a buddy read in the buddy read requests thread, please be sure to come back to see if anyone has responded to your request. Please note that this folder is not for promotional purposes.
-----------------
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Any activity perceived as promotional outside these folders will be removed without notice.
🍀Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
This newsletter has also been posted under this folder.
2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge - MARCH
📖If you are using the a copy of the Mastersheet, you can either copy the January tab and rename it March or you can simply continue listing your books on your current tab.
📙Looking forward to see what books you'll be reading in March.
Book #2 of the March 2025 BOTM is Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi ThorpeA bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world—from the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen.
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief, it isn’t brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone’s advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger.
Now, at twenty, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusion—fast. When her estranged father, Jinx, shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Then Margo begins to form a plan: she’ll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx’s advice from the world of wrestling. Like how to craft a compelling character and make your audience fall in love with you. Before she knows it, she’s turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margo’s problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
Blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight, Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a tender tale starring an endearing young heroine who’s struggling to wrest money and power from a world that has little interest in giving it to her. It’s a playful and honest examination of the art of storytelling and controlling your own narrative, and an empowering portrait of coming into your own, both online and off.
Book #1 of the March 2025 BOTM is Once There Were Wolves
by Charlotte McConaghyFrom the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands.
Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.
Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect?
Propulsive and spell-binding, Charlotte McConaghy's Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves—if she isn’t consumed by a wild that was once her refuge.
