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January - December 2025
My It’s All In The Title Challenge 2025 (msg 402)
Moderate Level ❱❱ 5 books per category
Books Read ❱❱
1. Color
🔺Appaloosa Blues
🔺Black Dawn
🔺Heather
🔺Irish Rose ❱❱ 01.25 ★★★★
🔺The Sapphire Affair
2. Sky
🔺Fool Moon
🔺Stars in Their Eyes
🔺Stars, Love And Pirouettes ❱❱ 05.10 ★★★
🔺Sun God Seeks…Surrogate?
🔺Sun-Kissed
3. Food or Drink
🔺Bananapants ❱❱ 02.18 ★★★★
🔺Cupcakes & Chardonnay
🔺Mint Juleps and Justice
🔺Whiskey and Gumdrops
🔺Whiskey, You're The Devil ❱❱ 04.20 ★★★
4. Body of Water
🔺Love At Sea
🔺Of Sea and Stone ❱❱ 03.02 ★★★
🔺Return to Moon Lake
🔺Seaside Sunsets
🔺A Willow Creek Christmas ❱❱ 04.30 ★★★★
5. Person’s First or Last Name
🔺Gage
🔺Gideon
🔺Songs for Perri ❱❱ 01.04 ★★★
🔺Trudy ❱❱ 04.07 ★★★
🔺The Temptation of Lady Serena
6. Romantic Word
🔺Breathless In Love ❱❱ 05.08 ★★★★
🔺No Kissing under the Boardwalk ❱❱ 03.23 ★★★★
🔺Once Smitten, Twice Shy
🔺Passions in Death ❱❱ 02.22 ★★★★
🔺Sweet Seduction
☑️7. One Word Title
🔺Bound ❱❱ 01.29 ★★★★
🔺Driven ❱❱ 01.26 ★★★★
🔺Grind ❱❱ 01.02 ★★★★
🔺Karma ❱❱ 02.01 ★★★★
🔺Undone ❱❱ 01.21 ★★★★
8. Number in Title
🔺11 Bodies Moving On
🔺Fourth and Goal
🔺Nine Tailed
🔺Three Broken Promises
🔺Two Sexy!
9. Type of home
🔺Death at the Crystal Palace
🔺The Long Way Home
🔺My Liege of Dark Haven ❱❱ 01.18 ★★★★
🔺The Sleigh Bells Chalet
🔺Wreck the Halls
10. Family Member
🔺Bayou Baby
🔺Heir Untamed
🔺Her Perfect Mate ❱❱ 02.14 ★★★★
🔺The Playboy's Fugitive Bride
🔺Wild Child
Bonus
1. Cultural
🔺Aloha Texas
🔺California Sunrise
🔺Carolina Rebel ❱❱ 05.17 ★★★
🔺Reckless Nights in Rome
🔺Tennessee Touch ❱❱ 03.28 ★★★
2. A profession
🔺Bishop's Queen
🔺A SEAL's Salvation ❱❱ 02.16 ★★★★
🔺Shadowboxer
🔺Strong, Silent Cowboy
🔺Tempting the Bodyguard
3. Animal
🔺Breaking Badger ❱❱ 03.22 ★★★★
🔺Graveyard Dog ❱❱ 01.03 ★★★★
🔺Here Kitty, Kitty
🔺Hour of the Lion ❱❱ 03.31 ★★★★
🔺Wolf Hunger
4. Body part
🔺Change My Mind ❱❱ 01.30 ★★★★
🔺Down on Her Knees
🔺The Grisly Grizzlies: Kneecap ❱❱ 02.15 ★★★
🔺The Heart Principle ❱❱ 03.08 ★★★★
🔺Playing With Her Heart
5. Clothing
🔺Don't Judge a Prince by His Undergarments
🔺Dusty Britches
🔺Just a Little Kilted
🔺The Pecker Briefs
🔺Sexy in Stilettos
So I've been working on this one for over 6 years. I finished most of it in the first year or two, but I'm beginning to think I will never find that 12th article of clothing! So I'm calling it done!And restarting the whole thing. Without the clothing bonus! 😆
12 of each:
1. Colour
1. The Black Arrow
2. Sapphire & Lotus
3. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
4. The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments
5. Red Sky Mourning
6. The Woman in White
7. The Red Notebook
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10.
11.
12.
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
1. Hang the Moon
2. Return to Half Moon Farm
3. All the Glimmering Stars
4. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
5. Dragon Planet
6. The Pavilion in the Clouds
7. Beneath a Bloody Moon
8. Sunset Park
9. Four Day Planet
10.
11.
12.
3. Food or Drink
1. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
2. The Potato Factory
3. The Little Paris Patisserie
4. Watermelon
5. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
6. A Toast to the Old Stones: A Tale from Kinloch
7. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
8. Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
9. A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: How (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong
10. The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner
11. Cupcakes for My Orc Enemy
12.
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
1. Tress of the Emerald Sea
2. A Bend in the River
3. Murder in Christmas River
4. Redemption River
5. Death Beside the Seaside
6.
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10.
11.
12.
5. Person’s First or Last Name
1. Kensuke's Kingdom
2. Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2
3. A Very Scalzi Christmas
4. All-New Firefly: The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 1
5. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
6. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
7. Lord Edgware Dies
8. The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal
9. Ethan Frome
10. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
11. Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival
12. The Bourne Identity
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
1. Lessons in Chemistry
2. Someone to Kiss
3. Sweetheart
4. The Marriage Act
5. An Autumn Crush
6. The Book-Lovers' Retreat
7. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
8. The Fatal Flying Affair
9. Love and Other Pranks
10. Darling Girls
11. The Boyfriend
12. Her Steadfast Hero / Her Devoted Hero
7. One Word Title
1. Q
2. Home
3. Upgrade
4. Shame
5. Villette
6. Reykjavík
7. Resurrection
8. Oathbringer
9. Kindred
10. Educated
11. China
12. Illuminae
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
1. Here One Moment
2. One Fine Fae
3. Once Were Warriors
4. The One
5. Nine Princes in Amber
6. The Twelve
7. Seven Shades of Evil
8. The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
9. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999
10. Around the World in 80 Novels: A global journey inspired by writers from every continent
11. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes
12. Quite Ugly One Morning
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
1. Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family's Experience Living in a Haunted House
2. The Dark Tower
3. The Reformatory
4. The Castle
5. The Secrets of Crestwell Hall
6. The Dream Home
7. Summer at The Cosy Cottage Cafe
8.
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10.
11.
12.
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
1. The Sins of the Father
2. The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
3. The Fairy Godmother
4. The Adventures of Brother Cadfael: A Collection of Chronicles
5. The Mother
6. The SideRoad Kids
7. Children of Time
8. Children of Ruin
9. Children of Memory
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11.
12.
Bonus
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
1. Roman Holiday
2. Murder On The Matterhorn
3. Around the World in Eighty Days
4. The Little Brooklyn Bakery
5. Norwegian Wood
6. The Witches of Vardø
7. The Martian
8. Montana Sky
9. The Virginian
10. Argentina
11. Abroad in Japan
12. The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
1. The Orchard Keeper
2. The Warden
3. The Maid
4. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
5. Paladin's Grace
6. Captains Courageous
7. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
8. Paladin's Strength
9. The Magus
10. The Housemaid
11. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
12. Dr. Mitchell
3. Animal
1. The Travelling Cat Chronicles
2. The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
3. Wolves of the Calla
4. Sleeping Dogs Lie
5. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
6. Tommo & Hawk
7. Beasts of Prey
8. The Butterfly Garden
9. Essex Dogs
10. A Single Swallow
11. Flybot
12. The Bees
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
1. The Bone Clocks
2. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
3. Nettle & Bone
4. Third Eye
5. Hearts in Atlantis
6. Blood Tingling Tales Vol. 1
7. No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
8. The Lonely Heart Attack Club
9. Breakfast in Burgundy: A Hungry Irishman in the Belly of France
10. Blood Caste
11.
12.
Am trying this, starting jan 1 20257: One-word Title
1: Elemental by Antony John - Jan 06, 2025
B-2: Profession
1: The Magician by Michael Scott - Jan 08, 2025
Categories1. Color
Scarlet
2. Sky
Onyx Storm
3. Food or Drink
4. Body of Water
5. Person’s First or Last Name
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Book of Azrael
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
6. Romantic Word
Iron Flame
A Touch of Darkness
A Touch of Ruin
A Touch of Malice
A Game of Fate
7. One Word Title
Winter
Cress
Cinder
Medusa
Cymbeline
8. Number in Title
Five Broken Blades
Four Ruined Realms
9. Type of home
The Briar Club
10. Family Member
Daughter of No Worlds
Bonus
1. Cultural
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
A Game of Gods
2. A profession
The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
The Butcher's Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett
3. Animal
Lord of the Flies
4. Body part
Fourth Wing
5. Clothing
Bossypants
Duration: January - December 2025Levels:
Easy 1-3 books per category
Moderate 4-7 per category
Difficult 8-12 books per category
Categories
Color
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2.
3.
Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
1.
2.
3.
Food or Drink
1.
2.
3.
Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
1.
2.
3.
Person’s First or Last Name
3.
Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
3.
One Word Title
3.
Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
1.
2.
3.
Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
1.
2.
3.
Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
1.
2.
3.
Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
3.
A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
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2.
3.
Animal
1.
2.
3.
Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
1.
2.
3.
Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
1.
2.
3.
Dates March 14, 2025 - (Finish Date)Difficult 8 Per Category
Tasks Completed : 6/15
Categories
Color:6/8
1. Red The Red Letter | Daniel G. Miller | March 31, 2025
2. Scarlet Beneath a Scarlet Sky | Mark T. Sullivan | 06.08
3. White/Black White Rose, Black Forest | Eoin Dempsey | 06.17
4. Orange and Black | book:Orange Is the New Black|6314763] | Piper Kerman | 06.29
5. Gray Gray After Dark | Noelle W. Ihli | 07.17
6. Onyx | Onyx Storm | Rebecca Yarros | 08.07
Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
1. Stars Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | 04.12.25
2. Star - The Five-Star Weekend | Elin Hilderbrand | 04.13.2025
3. Stars The Stars Don't Lie | Boo Walker | 05.22
4. Stars The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 06.14
5. Sun Catch the Sun | Jennifer Hartmann | 08.24
Food or Drink
1. Dessert | Dessert Flirt Repeat | Sarah Smith | 05.13
2. Peach | Southern Peach Pie and a Dead Guy | A. Gardner | 06.14
3. Crop | A Crop Farmer's Daughter | Ioni Goldstein | 07.04
4. Tea/Scones | Tea, Scones, and Malaria: A memoir of growing up in Africa | Katlynn Brooke | 07.21
5. Ice | Born in Ice | Nora Roberts | 08.22
Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
1. Lake: On Mystic Lake | Kristin Hannah | April 10, 2025
2. Backwater | The Backwater | Vikki Wakefield | 05.30
3.. Pool Pool Fishing | Barbara DeMarco-Barrett | 06.13
4. Lake It Happened on the Lake | Lisa Jackson | 06.20
Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
1. House The Birth House | Ami McKay | 04.17.2025
2. Apartment: The Jerk in Apartment 1B | Allie Everhart | 04.29
3. Manor The Manor of Dreams | Christina Li | 05.08
4. House Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 05.30
Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
Animal
1. Blackbird Butcher & Blackbird | Brynne Weaver | 04.06.25
2. Lark Leather & Lark | Brynne Weaver | 04.07.25
3. Sparrow Scythe & Sparrow | Brynne Weaver | 04.08.25
4. Wolf Wolf Signs | Vivian Arend | 08.03
Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
1. Limb Phantom Limb | Lucinda Berry | 05.16
2. Faces Making Faces | Amy Harmon | 06.08
3. Heart Every Heart a Doorway | Seanan McGuire | 07.19
4.Soul A Vampire's Soul | Angel Lawson | 08.20
Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
Person’s First or Last Name: 8/8 Complete
1. Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | March 15, 2025
2. Ellen What Happened to Ellen?: An American Miscarriage of Justice | Nancy Grace | March 22, 2025
3. Evie Did You See Evie?| Miranda Smith | March 24, 2025
4. Orquidea Duvina The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina | Zoraida Córdova | March 30, 2025
5. Hanna Reeves The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves | Christine Nolfi | March 31, 2025
6. Emily Ray My Name Is Emily Ray | Michele Domínguez Greene | 04.05.25
7. Carol We Don't Talk About Carol | Kristen L. Berry | 04.11.25
8. Alice What Alice Forgot | Liane Moriarty | 04.27
#Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)#
1. Million A Million Little Pieces | James Frey | March 15, 2025
2. One - One Dark Summer | Saskia Sarginson | March 16, 2025
3. 13 Binding 13 | Chloe Walsh | March 21, 2025
4. 13 Keeping 13 | Chloe Walsh | March 22, 2025
5. Four: Four: A Divergent Story Collection | Veronica Roth { March 22, 2025
6. Five The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold | 04.16.2025
7. First You Killed Me First | John Marrs | 04.18.2025
8. Ten: | Ten Tiny Breaths | K.A. Tucker | 05.07
웃유Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)웃유
1. Mother: First-Time Mother | A.J. Campbell | March 16, 2025
2. Mother: Just Like Her Mother | Julia Roberts | March 17, 2025
3. Husband: My Loving Husband | Sheryl Browne | March 20, 2025
4. Wife: The Final Wife | Jenny Blackhurst | March 21, 2025
5. Wife: Dear Wife | Kimberly Belle | March 29, 2025
6. Sister: The Silent Sister | Diane Chamberlain | April 16, 2025
7. Child Child's Play | Danielle Steel | 04.25.25
8. Mother What Every Mother Needs | Emily Shiner | 04.27
Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
1. Manhattan The Sandersons Fail Manhattan | Scott Johnston | 04.08.25
2. Dallas Living Dead in Dallas | Charlaine Harris | 04.23
3. Hit Girls Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade | Nora Princiotti | 04.30
4. Vacation People We Meet on Vacation | Emily Henry | 05.03
5. Friends Keep Your Friends Close | Lucinda Berry | 05.22
6. Woman Local Woman Missing | Mary Kubica | 05.28
7. Liars We Were Liars | E. Lockhart | 06.04
8. Society The Obituary Society | Jessica L. Randall | 06.15
One Word Title
1. Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | 04.04.25
2. Boomerangers | Heather M. Orgeron | 04.20.25
3. Splintered | A.G. Howard | 04.22
4. Prep | Curtis Sittenfeld | 06.08
5. Will | Veronique Kodjo | 06.08
6. Arsen: A Broken Love Story | Mia Asher | 06.13
7. Doppelbanger | Heather M. Orgeron | 06.20
8. Idle | Fisher Amelie | 07.18
A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.):
1. Queen Dirtbag Queen |Andy Corren | March 14, 2025
2. Maid The Maid | Nita Prose | April 2, 2025
3. Helpaka..maid/slave/babysitter The Help | Kathryn Stockett | 04.25
4. Construction Gracie Harris Is Under Construction | Kate Hash | 05.01
5. Model The Role Model | Daniel Hurst | 05.18
6. Butcher Sister, Butcher, Sister | K.D. Aldyn | 06.05
7. Thief The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 06.13
8. Criminal Lullabies for Little Criminals | Heather O'Neill | 07.19
Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.): 1/8
1. Marriage The Marriage Rules | Samantha Hayes | March 15, 2025
2. Marriage The New Marriage | L.G. Davis | 04.14.25
3. Love Mad Love | Willow Aster | 04.27
4. Wedding | The Wedding Party | Lorna Dounaeva | 05.02
5. Love Everything I Know About Love | Dolly Alderton | 05.04
6. Love Flat-Out Love | Jessica Park | 05.09
7. Love Secret Love | Willow Aster | 06.21
8. Love I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You | Ally Carter | 08.23
I'm in for Moderate, 4 to 7 per category Progress: 20/60+
Categories
1. Color
The Red Fox Clan John Flanagan 5/13/25 - Red
The Green Ember S.D. Smith 6/6/25 - Green
The Black Star of Kingston S.D. Smith 7/5/25 - Black
2. Sky (cloud, star, moon, sun, etc.)
Vindmakeren Maja Lunde 7/1/25 - Vind is wind in Norwegian.
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow Jessica Day George 9/2/25 - mooon
3. Food or Drink
The Archer's Cup S.D. Smith 6/29/25 - Cup in title
4. Body of Water (sea, pond, creek, etc.)
5. Person’s First or Last Name
The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner S.D. Smith 7/9/25 - Whitson Mariner is the first and last name of a character.
Prince Lander and the Dragon War S.D. Smith 7/10/25 - Lander is the name of a character.
George Bernard Shaw 7/17/25 - Pygmalion is a nameBatyr Nursen: fengslet, torturert, kastet ut av tre land Stig Magne Heitmann 7/22/25 - Batyr Nursen is a person
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 7/25/25 - Roger Ackroyd is a character
6. Romantic Word (kiss, wedding, bride, etc.)
7. One Word Title
The Crown Kiera Cass 5/20/25 - Tronen in Norwegian, which is the language I read it in.
8. Number in Title (once, twice, etc can count as well)
The First Fowler S.D. Smith 6/26/25
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 7/15/25
9. Type of home (house, manor, cabin, etc)
10. Family Member (sister, father, wife, aunt, uncle, step-sister, cousin, etc.)
Bonus - You may elect to do none, one, a few, or all. These are optional.
1. Cultural (a real place, language, people group)
2. A profession (doctor, soldier, preacher, cowboy, etc.)
The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning John Flanagan 5/8/25 - Ranger is a job in the book
The Missing Prince John Flanagan 5/21/25 - Prince is a job
The Last Archer S.D. Smith 6/24/25 - Archer is a job
The Book Thief Markus Zusak 7/20/25 - Thief can be a job
The Maze Runner James Dashner 8/1/25 - Runner can be a job.
3. Animal
Julegrisen J.K. Rowling 8/12/25 - Gris is pig in Norwegian
4. Body part (head, hands, arms, eyes, etc)
5. Clothing (dress, pants, shoes, etc)
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Update post: My It’s All In The Title Challenge 2024 (msg 399)
Moderate Level🚦5 books per category
Books Read🚦75