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Yearly Challenges
Bookworms Take Shelfies
Clear the Shelves *COMPLETED*
Genre Bingo *COMPLETED*
Serial Reader *COMPLETED*
Shelf 1
Shelf 2
Shelf 3
Personal Reading Goals✅ Read 90 books
✅ Donate 20 books to charity or Little Libraries
✅ Finish at least 3 yearly challenges
Finish at least 6 monthly challenges (1/6)
Finish 2 book series' (1/2)
✅ Read 8 books over 300 pages
Read 2 books over 400 pages (1/2)
Bookworms Take Shelfies
Progress: 25/32
*Author: James Patterson: 1/5
✔️ 1. The River Murders
*Genre: Cozy Mysteries: 5/5
✔️ 1. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
✔️ 2. The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat
✔️ 3. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
✔️ 4. Murder Gets a Life
✔️ 5. Poison in Paddington
*Length: Under 200 pages: 10/10
✔️1. Karen's Witch
✔️2. Claudia and the New Girl
✔️3. The Genius Thieves
✔️4. A Christmas Escape
✔️5. Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye
✔️ 6. Hello, Mallory
✔️ 7. Teacher's Pet
✔️ 8. Little Miss Stoneybrook... and Dawn
✔️ 9. Mother's Helper
✔️ 10. Cave-In
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage: Romance Novel Series' Books: 5/5
✔️1. Fumbled
✔️2. A Little Dare
✔️3. Wife for Hire
✔️4. The Rocky Road to Romance
✔️5. The Problem with Playboys: An opposites attract, workplace romance
*Film & Theater: Movie Adaptations: 3/3
✔️ 1. The Amityville Horror
✔️ 2. A Bone to Pick
✔️ 3. Nights in Rodanthe
*Listopia: What Women Born in the 80's are Reading in 2021: 1/4
✔️ 1. Anxious People
Clear the Shelves
Progress: 31/30 - CHALLENGE COMPLETE
√ 1. Love Unexpected: With All My Heart
√ 2. Sleigh Ride with the Rancher
√ 3. The Amityville Horror
√ 4. Longbourn
√ 5. Twelve
√ 6. A Christmas Escape
√ 7. Real Murders
√ 8. Fumbled
√ 9. Lakeside Sweetheart
√ 10. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
√ 11. The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat
√ 12. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
√ 13. Katia's Promise
√ 14. Wife for Hire
√ 15. Her Wyoming Valentine Wish
√ 16. Murder Gets a Life
√ 17. The Ghost's Grave
√ 18. Backfire
√ 19. Gather Together in My Name
√ 20. Mother's Helper
√ 21. The Rocky Road to Romance
√ 22. Secret in the Moonlight
√ 23. The Problem with Playboys: An opposites attract, workplace romance
√ 24. The Golden Hawk
√ 25. The Vicious Vet
√ 26. Missing Since Monday
√ 27. A Steak in Murder
√ 28. Redemption on Rivers Ranch
√ 29. A Bone to Pick
√ 30. Thorn's Challenge
√ 31. Dragonwell Dead
Genre Bingo
Progress: 3/3 Bingos - CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
Graphic Novel: Boy-Crazy Stacey (1/1/22)
Anything Goes: Karen's Witch (1/3/22)
Romance: Love Unexpected: With All My Heart (1/5/22)
Middle Grade: Kristy and the Snobs (1/7/22)
Holidays: Sleigh Ride with the Rancher (1/8/22)
Horror: The Amityville Horror (1/9/22)
Historical Fiction: Longbourn (1/15/22)
Coming of Age: Twelve (1/21/22)
Cozy Mystery: A Christmas Escape (1/29/22)
Series Book: Thirteen (2/1/22)
Thriller: Real Murders (2/3/22)
On TBR 5+ Years: Lakeside Sweetheart (2/19/22)
Green Cover: Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (2/22/22)
Literary Fiction: Anxious People (3/6/22)
YA Fantasy: The Ghost's Grave (3/14/22)
Suspense: Backfire (3/16/22)
Paranormal: The Dollhouse Murders (6/13/22)
Short Stories: The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (7/23/22)
Fantasy: Bewitched to Death (10/6/22)
Science Fiction: Pines (10/26/22)
Serial ReaderShelf 1 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
Serial Reader 52/50
Series Starting
(Books #1-#5) 40/40
✔️✔️✔️✔️ Agatha Raisin: (view spoiler)
Alex Cross #1 Along Came a Spider
✔️✔️ Aurora Teagarden:(view spoiler)
✔️ Baby-sitters Club Super Special #1 Baby-Sitters on Board!
✔️ Baby-sitters Little Sister #1 Karen's Witch
Bridgerton: The Duke and I
✔️ Cassie Coburn Mystery #1 Poison in Paddington
✔️ Cedar Harbor Mystery #2 Donna Rose and the Roots of Evil
✔️ Crayon Kitten Cozy Mystery #1 Bewitched to Death
Culhane Family #2 The Husband List
✔️ Curious Bookstore Cozy Mystery #1 The Witching Place: A Fatal Folio
✔️ Delicious Regency #1 An Apple Pie for a Duke
✔️✔️ Elsie Hawkins: (view spoiler)
Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess
✔️ The Family Upstairs #1 The Family Upstairs
✔️ Fear Street #1 The New Girl
✔️✔️ The Hardy Boys: (view spoiler)
The Herdmans #3 The Best Halloween Ever
Holly Gibney #1 The Outsider
✔️✔️ Horror High: (view spoiler)
✔️ Ivy Malone #1 Invisible
Jackson Falls #1 Forbidden Promises
The Jones Gang #1 Wagered Woman
Kay Scarpetta #1 Postmortem
✔️ The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class #1 Teacher's Pet
✔️ Little Black Book of Secrets #1 The Problem with Playboys: An opposites attract, workplace romance
Mercy Thompson #1 Moon Called
✔️✔️ Nancy Drew: (view spoiler)
✔️ Playbook #2 Fumbled
✔️ Queen Bees Quilt Shop Mystery #1 Murders on Elderberry Road
✔️ The Saddle Club #1 Horse Crazy
✔️ Sanctuary Island #1 Sanctuary Island
✔️ Secrets of the Manor #3 Elizabeth's Story, 1848
✔️ Taming the Tulanes #1 Small Town Scandal
✔️ The Unconventional Ladies of Mayfair #1 Not the Kind of Earl You Marry
✔️ Undead #1 Undead and Unwed
The Vampire Diaries #1 The Awakening
✔️ Victoria Square #2 The Walled Flower
Virgin River #1 Virgin River
The Wedding Date #2 The Proposal
✔️ Welcome Inn #1 Secret in the Moonlight
✔️✔️ The Westmorelands: (view spoiler)
✔️✔️ The Winnie Years: (view spoiler)
Serial ReaderShelf 2
Series Continuing
(Books #6-#10) 4/4
✔️ Hardy Boys Casefiles #9 The Genius Thieves
✔️ Hemlock Falls #7 A Steak in Murder
✔️ Sweet Briar Sweethearts Book #9 Redemption on Rivers Ranch
✔️ Tea Shop Mystery #8 Dragonwell Dead
Serial ReaderShelf 3
Series Ongoing
(Books #11 and Above) 8/8
✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ The Baby-sitters Club: (view spoiler)
✔️✔️ The Cupcake Club: (view spoiler)
✔️ The Hardy Boys #78 Cave-In
Out of the Comfort Zone
Progress: 8/8 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETE
1. START NEW READING CHALLENGES
Challenges encourage readers to find more diverse authors, explore new genres, or try out a different kind of literature.
❎ Chasing the Moon
✔ One Dark and Stormy Knight (10/20/22)
❎ Word Hunt
✔ Bewitched to Death (10/6/22)
✔ Resolved: You're Dead (10/6/22)
✔ Second Chances (10/7/22)
✔ Death of a Dead Man (10/8/22)
2. FIND BOOKS IN YARDSALES OR SECONDHAND STORES
Another way to push yourself is to leave your physical comfort zone by venturing outside of the bookstore or website you normally frequent trying your luck in different places.
3. GATHER RECOMMENDATIONS FROM YOUR NETWORK
Who better to turn to for advice on spicing up your reading life than your fellow readers?
4. DIVERSIFY YOUR BOOKSHELVES
Revamping your reading life can be as simple as seeking out a wider variety of authors (different countries, cultures, sexualities, gender, etc.)
5. FOCUS ON ONE FIELD OF INTEREST
If you have too many options to choose from and don’t know what to pick up next, challenge yourself to zero in on one field of interest.
*Love Inspired Romance Books*
✔ A Soldier's Promise (10/30/22)
6. VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
Seek help from librarians. They can often pinpoint what features you like in a book so that you can hunt them down in other novels.
7. JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
Sometimes judging a book by its cover (or title) is OK. Who knows? You may end up choosing something you may have never considered otherwise.
✔ What Happened That Night (10/18/22)
8. RANDOMIZE YOUR TBR SHELF
Set your Goodreads TBR list to show XX books per page (the number you prefer), then choose Random in the Sort menu and bob's your uncle, list randomized.
✔ Party Line (12/28/22)
9. EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN
In Goodreads main menu, go to Browse > Genres > Write: Unknown > Find genre > Choose a shelf or a list > Find books you want to read or that are in your want to read shelf already.
Word Hunt
Progress: 8/7 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
✔ 1. Unknown
Book: Bewitched to Death by Constance Barker
Quote: The unknown was scary. That was the best and the worst thing about the unknown.
Location: Page 123
✔ 2. Strange
Book: Death of a Dead Man by Karin Kaufman
Quote: "What strange man?" Julia asked.
Location: Page 25
✔ 3. Mysterious
Book: The House on the Cliff by Franklin W. Dixon
Quote: "Dad, you said you're working on a very mysterious case right now," Frank spoke up.
Location: Page 1
4. Secret
5. Peculiar
6. Curious
✔ 7. Moon
Book: Resolved: You're Dead by Nicholas Adams
Quote: A full harvest moon has appeared illuminate the still night.
Location: Page 42
✔ 8. Crescent
Book: Proof of Innocence by Lenora Worth
Quote: The big Victorian house glistened with an eerie grayish-white wash from the light of a crescent moon.
Location: Page 38
9. Celestial
✔ 10. Glass
Book: Second Chances by Diana Xarissa
Quote: Now she was tired and all she wanted to do was soak in a hot bath with a glass of wine and a good book.
Location: Page 8
✔ 11. Mirror
Book: The Snow White Christmas Cookie by David Handler
Quote: He cringed at the sight of himself in the mirror.
Location: Page 2
12. Reflect
13. Harmony
14. Peace
✔ 15. Friendship
Book: Small Town Scandal by Kay Stockham
Quote: Right now, however, Rosetta's friendship was too precious to pass up.
Location: Loc 2147
JanuaryMarathon Challenge
Progress: 11/10 - CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
1. Boy-Crazy Stacey
2. Karen's Witch
3. Love Unexpected: With All My Heart
4. Kristy and the Snobs
5. Sleigh Ride with the Rancher
6. The Amityville Horror
7. Because of the Messiah in a Manger
8. Longbourn
9. Claudia and the New Girl
10. Twelve
11. The Genius Thieves
Books Read: 16
Genres Read:
2 Children's Mystery
1 Literary Fiction
1 Middle Grade
3 Mystery
5 Romance
1 Romantic Suspense
1 Biography
1 Non-fiction/Reference
1 Young Adult
Page Length:
11 Short (<250 pages)
5 Medium (250-500 pages)
0 Long (501-800 pages)
0 Very Long (800+ pages)
Favorite Book:
The Ghost's Grave
Least Favorite Book:
A Fair of the Heart
Books Read: 1
Genres Read:
1 Romance
Page Length:
1 Short (<250 pages)
0 Medium (250-500 pages)
0 Long (501-800 pages)
0 Very Long (800+ pages)
Favorite Book:
Least Favorite Book:
Books Read: 13
Genres Read:
5 Mystery
3 Children's Mystery
2 Romance
3 Young Adult
Page Length:
9 Short (<250 pages)
4 Medium (250-500 pages)
0 Long (501-800 pages)
0 Very Long (800+ pages)
Favorite Book:
The Problem with Playboys: An opposites attract, workplace romance
Least Favorite Book:
A Bone to Pick
Books Read: 19
Genres Read:
2 Thriller
3 Middle Grade
5 Romance
1 Children's
6 Mystery
1 Paranormal
1 Young Adult
Page Length:
11 Short (<250 pages)
8 Medium (250-500 pages)
0 Long (501-800 pages)
0 Very Long (800+ pages)
Favorite Book:
Sanctuary Island
Least Favorite Book:
Undead and Unwed
Books Read: 9
Genres Read:
2 Young Adult
3 Graphic Novels
3 Middle Grade
1 Mystery
Page Length:
8 Short (<250 pages)
1 Medium (250-500 pages)
0 Long (501-800 pages)
0 Very Long (800+ pages)
Favorite Book:
Horse Crazy
Least Favorite Book:
Krazy 4 U
Books Read: 28
Genres Read:
5 Romance
6 Middle Grade
1 Romantic Suspense
7 Mystery
1 Paranormal
4 Young Adult
1 Graphic Novel
1 Suspense
1 Thriller
1 Science Fiction
Page Length:
19 Short (<250 pages)
9 Medium (250-500 pages)
0 Long (501-800 pages)
0 Very Long (800+ pages)
Favorite Book:
Jessi's Secret Language
Least Favorite Book:
Second Chances
Books Read: 8
Genres Read:
2 Middle Grade
1 Young Adult Fantasy
2 Young Adult
1 Chick Lit
2 Romance
Page Length:
5 Short (<250 pages)
3 Medium (250-500 pages)
0 Long (501-800 pages)
0 Very Long (800+ pages)
Favorite Book:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Least Favorite Book:
I Saw You That Night!
Books Read: 18
Genres Read:
2 Cozy Mystery
3 Middle Grade
2 Children's
1 Thriller
5 Romance
4 Young Adult
1 Suspense
Page Length:
10 Short (<250 pages)
8 Medium (250-500 pages)
0 Long (501-800 pages)
0 Very Long (800+ pages)
Favorite Book:
The Christmas Spirit
Least Favorite Book:
Spirit of the Season
Current TBR = 1867Must. stop. book. buying. and. swapping.
Current TBR = 2122Shameful. Absolutely shameful ;)
Current TBR = 2120A miniscule improvement lol
Current TBR = 2476Up it goes. Where it stops, sadly, no one knows ...
ATY 2023 LIST1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
2. A book by an author you read in 2022
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
4. A book with an interracial relationship
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
6. A book where books are important
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
8. An author's debut book
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
11. A book about a person/character with a disability
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3
18. A book related to science
19. A book related to the arts
20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
23. A book with a body of water in the title
24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
25. A book with a tropical setting
26. A book related to pride
27. A book by an author from continental Europe
28. A book that is dark
29. A book that is light
30. A book related to a chess piece
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com
32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
34. A novella
35. A book with a school subject in the title
36. A book that has been translated from another language
37. A book with the theme of returning home
38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
39. A western
40. A book with a full name in the title
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
43. A book that involves a murder
44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
47. A book related to a geometric shape
48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
51. A book published in 2023
52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
I reached my 90-book-reading goal this month! In fact, I've already surpassed it :)
Final TBR for 2022 = 2899 books*Hides head in shame*
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Spirit of the Season (other topics)The Christmas Spirit (other topics)
Second Chances (other topics)
Kristy and the Snobs (other topics)
Mother's Helper (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Constance Barker (other topics)Karin Kaufman (other topics)
Franklin W. Dixon (other topics)
Nicholas Adams (other topics)
Lenora Worth (other topics)
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