Prompt 15: Happy 15th!!

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one).

Challenges listed below:
Note the slight amendments to allow if you aren't participating for the whole year. Mix and match as how you can fit 15 books into however there should be at least 2 challenges.

By the Month... (2023)
you may picked a month for which you will be reading your books including the Goal number of books. For example, if you choose June, then read 7 books in June but only books that were added in your TBR in June of any year or published in June of any year

LOST 2023
When Bea posts FOUND 2023, I will add a link here too

Moving Mountains - 2023 Ed
you may adjust the goal number to fit into this goal of 15 books

Seriously Serial '23
you may pick a number to read for. For example, if you picked 10, you can read 10 books of first book in series OR you can read 2 books of fifth book in series

Trim That TBR (2022)
you may pick a category to read for. The goal will still be determined as per category 1 of this challenge

[Meg]

Are these on top of those challenges or can we count books towards this and the other challenge?

[Leena]

my spot

[Bea]

I think I need coffee before I can understand this one.

Thinking it out: I will read 15 books spread over several of the listed challenges. This could be books that I have planned for those challenges. If I did not participate in any of those games, I could pick a book consistent with the rules as amended above.

So...since I participate in these challenges, I can read 8 books from By the Month (say for May) then 5 from Lost (or Found) and 2 from Seriously Serial. Is that right?

[Tien]

@Meg: you can count books towards this & other challenge

@Bea: absolutely correct!

The amended rules above is really applicable to those who aren't currently participating in any of those challenges.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Ok so I am in two of these, by the month and tri. That tbr 2022.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

By the Month June
1) Memoirs of a Geisha
2 Reserved for the Cat
Completed 08/15/23
A Scandal in Battersea Completed
3) High Five completed 07/20/23
4Four to Score completed 07/28/23
5) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore completed 07/17/23
6) Hot Six completed 08/11/23
7) Acorna's Search
Completed 09/9/23

[Kristina Simon]

Prompt 15: Happy 15th!! ~ COMPLETE

Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges

LOST 2023 ~ oldest books on TBR
✓ 1. The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst (TBR Jun 29, 2010) Read: 6/17/23
✓ 2. Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer (TBR Jul 12, 2010) Read: 7/21/23

FOUND 2023 ~ finished LOST (above) on: 7/21
✓ 1. MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (TBR May 27, 2023; pub 2013) Read: 7/23/23
✓ 2. Charlatans by Robin Cook (TBR Jun 6, 2023; pub 2017) Read: 8/16/23

Moving Mountains (2023) ~ books must be on TBR prior to January 1, 2023
✓ 1. 6 ♥️ (blue cover; at least 10,000 ratings) ~ Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark Read: 4/27/23
(81.3% blue; 30,698 ratings)
✓ 2. J ♠️ (2-3 colours; stand alone)
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Read: 8/14/23
(blue, yellow, green)
✓ 3. J ♣️ (2-3 colours; part of a series)
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman Read: 7/11/23
(blue, grey, white; Beartown #2)
✓ 4. 4 ♦️(yellow cover; won/nominated for award)
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Read: 9/16/23
(58.6% yellow; 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction)
✓ 5. 9 ♠️ (black or white cover; stand alone)
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez Read: 7/16/23
(78.9% white)

Trim That TBR (2022) ~ TBR ends in 6
How many?!?! ~ Read 6 books added to TBR before Oct 1, 2022
✓ 1. Genuine Lies by Nora Roberts (TBR Apr 21, 2015) Read: 4/18/23
✓ 2. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl (TBR Jun 4, 2019) Read: 4/23/23
✓ 3. Kitty Confidential by Molly Fitz (TBR May 17, 2019) Read: 5/19/23
✓ 4. The Wife by Meg Wolitzer (TBR Jun 2, 2019) Read: 6/7/23
✓ 5. Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans (TBR Mar 30, 2012) Read: 8/11/23
✓ 6. Summer at Mustang Ridge by Jesse Hayworth (TBR Jul 22, 2013) Read: 8/23/23

[Bea]

I will use this challenge to catch up on some other challenges that are lagging.

Lost (2023)
1. A Young Wife
2. Walks The Fire
3. No Mercy
4. Watch Me Die
5. Fallen

By the Month (May)
1. Black Heart
2. The Drowning Pool
3. The Jefferson Key
4. Blindsighted
5. Boundary Waters
6. So Lucky
7. I'm Not Scared

Seriously Serial (23)
1. The Girl in the Spider's Web
2. The Sinner
3. Tail Spin

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

my spot

[Joanna]

Prompt 15

This is great since I try to overlap most of my books anyway!

Read: 15/15 - Completed 9/26/23

Lost 2023
✅ Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America - 5/31/23
✅ Emperor of the Air - 4/26/23
✅ Ghostwritten - 8/25/23
✅ The Wishbones - 5/31/23
✅ Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas - 6/8/23

By the Month
✅ Exhalation (added June 2020) - 6/1/23
✅ Signs Preceding the End of the World - 7/17/23
✅ If Cats Disappeared from the World - 8/30/23
✅ Bad Feminist - 8/31/23
✅ I'll Give You the Sun - 9/9/23
✅ Less Is Lost - 9/17/23
✅ The Love Hypothesis - 9/21/23
✅ Heaven - 9/25/23


Seriously Serial
✅ The 42nd Parallel - 5/29/23
✅ The City of Ember - 9/3/23

[Meg]

15/15

Lost 2023
The Swan Song of Doctor Malloy✔️
There but for the✔️
Foal's Bread✔️
Larry's Party✔️
Dancing Girls and Other Stories✔️
Harvest✔️

By the month
Great Circle✔️
Starfish✔️
The Bay✔️
The Murder Rule✔️
Black and Blue✔️
Return to Valetto✔️
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech✔️

Moving mountains
Broken✔️

Found 2023
Solito✔️

[Amy]

Prompt 15: Happy 15th!! - DONE!!

By the Month - May
1. Project Hail Mary - Completed 5/27/23
2. The Secret To Superhuman Strength - Completed 5/23/23
3. What Makes Us - Completed 5/13/23
4. Keep This to Yourself - Completed 5/10/23
5. Before You Knew My Name - Completed 5/4/23
6. The Inside Ring - Completed 5/8/23
7. Just After Midnight: A Novel - Completed 5/6/23
8. West with Giraffes - Completed 5/21/23

Seriously Serial
9. The 23rd Midnight (Women's Murder Club #23) - Completed 9/1/23
10. Amok (Dox Thriller, #1) - Completed 8/14/23
11. The Light We Lost (Lost Light #1) - Completed 8/13/23
12. The Distant Echo (Karen Pirie, #1) - Completed 8/17/23
13. While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene #1) - Completed 6/17/23
14. An Unequal Defense (David Adams, #2) - Completed 7/6/23
15. Dark Angel (Letty Davenport, #2) - Completed 7/16/23

[[deleted user]]

LOST 2023
1. Decay Inevitable (10/27)
2. The Dinosaur Lords
3. The Grace of Kings
4. And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
5. The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football (11/6)

Seriously Serial
22 = 8 + 3 + 9 + 2
1. East of West, Vol. 8 (7/20)
2. The Hero of Ages (7/23)
3. East of West, Vol. 9 (8/31)
4. Death Without Company (9/2)

Moving Mountains
1. 5 of Clubs (Green): The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
(10/28)
2. K of Diamonds (4-5 Colors): A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
(9/12)
3. K of Hearts (4-5 Colors): We Are Okay
(11/7)
4. 7 of Spades (Brown): The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
(11/24)
5. 10 pf Hearts (Grey): Let the Right One In
(9/2)
6. A of Hearts (5 or More Colors): The Vanishing Half
(11/18)

[Susan]

Tien wrote: "The amended rules above is really applicable to those who aren't currently participating in any of those challenges"

So that means that, if I am participating in By The Month, I don't have to limit the books I count for this 15/15 prompt to any particular month, as long as I read each in its appropriate month for the BTM challenge?

[Rosemary]

Prompt 15: Happy 15th!
COMPLETED 27 Jun 23

By the Month 2023
✔ The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard, 28 Apr 23
✔ Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, 11 May 23
✔ Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks, 13 May 23
✔ Network Effect by Martha Wells, 27 May 23
✔ Mr Finchley Discovers His England by Victor Canning, 30 May 23
✔ The Bookseller's Tale by Ann Swinfen, 16 June 23
✔ A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma, 27 Jun 23

Seriously Serial 2023
✔ The Secret (The Secret, #1) by Rhonda Byrne, 20 Apr 23
✔ Murder and the First Lady (Eleanor Roosevelt, #1) by Elliott Roosevelt, 27 Apr 23
✔ Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5) by L.M. Montgomery, 30 Apr 23
✔ Coffin And The Paper Man (John Coffin, #22) by Gwendoline Butler, 1 May 23

Lost 2023
✔ Engleby by Sebastian Faulks, 20 Apr 23
✔ The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell, 19 May 23
✔ The Living and the Dead by Patrick White, 2 June 23
✔ The Alchemist's Apprentice by Kate Thompson, 6 June 23

[Rosalynn]

Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges

2023 Lost

1. #Girlboss
2. Defending Jacob
3. Odd Thomas
4. One Plus One
5. The Shoemaker's Wife
6. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
7. The Maze Runner
8. The Fault in Our Stars
9. The Silent Girl
10. Little Bee

[Tien]

Susan wrote: "Tien wrote: "The amended rules above is really applicable to those who aren't currently participating in any of those challenges"

So that means that, if I am participating in By The Month, I don't..."
yes

[Coralie]

LOST
Oh Sweden! Oh Israel! read May 25
The Maintenance of Headway read June 1

By the Month
May
Eversion read May 10
Octavia Gone read May 11
Cupid and Psyche read May 11
Evelina's Garden read May 15
A Long Petal of the Sea read May 19
We Are All Completely Fine read May 20
Eyes of the Void read May 25

Read 9/15

[Christina (AKA Babbling)]

Prompt 15: Happy 15th!!

Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one).



Seriously Serial '23
8 (x #1)
1. Geared for the Grave by Duffy Brown (Cycle Path #1)
2. Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine (Stillhouse #1)
3. The Miser of Mayfair by Marion Chesney (A House for a Season #1)
4. Dragon Blue: A Lie That's True byMacy Babineaux (Dragonlords of Xandakar #1)
5. Love, Comment, Subscribe by Cathy Yardley (Ponto Beach Reunions #1)
6. A Fatal Twist of Lemon by Patrice Greenwood (Wisteria Tearoom #1)
7. Cat Got Your Diamonds by Julie Chase (Kitty Couture #1)
8. Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao (Blood Heir Trilogy #1)

By the Month... (2023)
June (7 books)
9. First published June 1, 2014 Possessed by an Immortal by Sharon Ashwood
10. First published June 1, 2018 Diary of a War Bride by Lauri Robinson
11. First published June 23, 2012 Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon
12. First published June 1, 2021 Bacchanal by Veronica G. Henry
13. First published June 6, 2019 Limited Wish by Mark Lawrence
14. First published June 1, 2015 The Norma Gene by M.E. Roufa
15. First published June 2, 2015 The Liar's Key by Mark Lawrence

[Snowtulip]

Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one).

Challenges listed below:
Note the slight amendments to allow if you aren't participating for the whole year. Mix and match as how you can fit 15 books into however there should be at least 2 challenges.

By the Month... (2023)
you may picked a month for which you will be reading your books including the Goal number of books. For example, if you choose June, then read 7 books in June but only books that were added in your TBR in June of any year or published in June of any year

LOST 2023
When Bea posts FOUND 2023, I will add a link here too

Moving Mountains - 2023 Ed
you may adjust the goal number to fit into this goal of 15 books

Seriously Serial '23
you may pick a number to read for. For example, if you picked 10, you can read 10 books of first book in series OR you can read 2 books of fifth book in series

Trim That TBR (2022)
you may pick a category to read for. The g

[Tien]

Prompt 15
15/15 books

LOST 2023
My last 2 for this year!
1. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy -Read 05/20
2. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy #3) by Cormac McCarthy -Read 07/02

Seriously Serial '23
3. River of Teeth (River of Teeth #1) by Sarah Gailey -Read 04/19
4. Ship of Smoke and Steel (The Wells of Sorcery #1) by Django Wexler -Read 04/25
5. Monty and Me (Monty Dog Detective #1) by Louisa Bennet -Read 04/25
6. Thorn Queen (Dark Swan #2) by Richelle Mead -Read 05/11
7. Traitor's Moon (Nightrunner #3) by Lynn Flewelling -Read 05/15
8. Undead and Unwed (Undead #1) by MaryJanice Davidson -Read 05/16
9. On the Edge (The Edge #1) by Ilona Andrews -Read 05/18
10. A Killer’s Game (Daniela Vega #1) by Isabella Maldonado -Read 05/22
11. The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2) by Helen Hoang -Read 05/24

By the Month '23
12. Storm Born (Dark Swan #1) by Richelle Mead -Read 05/03
13. Depends What You Mean By Extremist by John Safran -Read 05/12
14. Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros -Read 05/16
15. Of Light and Shadow by Tanaz Bhathena -Read 05/25

[Nat]

LOST 2023
1. The Wrath and the Dawn 5/26

Trim that TBR
2. The Sleepless 7/25
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes 8/19

Seriously Serial '23
4. Oh William! 7/11
5. Along the Saltwise Sea 5/3
6. Longshadow 5/13
7. Hag's Nook 5/29

By the Month
8. The Forest of Stolen Girls 4/25
9. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography 4/22
10. Black Water Sister 5/13
11. Sorrowland 5/20
12. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey 5/12
13. The Old Woman with the Knife 5/11
14. In the Dark 5/14
15. The Darkest Corners 8/20

Completed: 15/15

[Dee]

9/15

LOST 23
Until Proven Guilty - finished - 4/23/23
City of Masks -finished - 4/15/23
Between, Georgia - finished - 5/15/23
The Return of the Dancing Master - finished - 5/21/23
I'd Know You Anywhere - finished - 5/8/23
Witchling - finished - 6/1/23
Blue Smoke - finished - 7/6/23
Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood - finished - 7/4/23

FOUND 23
It'll Be An Adventure - finished - 7/22/23

Seriously Serial
goal to finish books totaling 23

[LaurLa]

Fifteen for Fifteen - Prompt 15: Happy 15th!!
April 11 - December 2023 ➖ COMPLETE

My Prompt 15 Plan (msg 25)

Prompt ➖ Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges

By the Month

💟Master of the Dark Side ➖ 05.02 ★★★★
💟Avenge Me ➖ 05.07 ★★★★
💟Sweet Filthy Boy ➖ 05.24 ★★★★

LOST 2023

💟Her Perfect Stranger ➖ 09.17 ★★★★
💟Precious and Fragile Things ➖ 08.26 ★★★★
💟All Good Things... ➖ 09.03 ★★★

Moving Mountains - 2023 Ed

💟The Honeymoon Cottage ➖ 07.10 ★★★★
💟The 6th Target ➖ 11.18 ★★★★
💟Racked and Stacked ➖ 05.09 ★★★★

Seriously Serial '23

💟Deeper Than The Ocean ➖ 08.22 ★★★★
💟Secret Obsession ➖ 07.21 ★★★★
💟Lucas ➖ 05.27 ★★★

Trim That TBR (2022)

💟A Scandal in the Headlines ➖ 05.06 ★★★
💟Ice Cold ➖ 06.19 ★★★★
💟Lethal Nights ➖ 11.04 ★★★★

[LynnB]

PROMPT 15 (start 11 Apr) - Completed 3 Nov 2023
Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one).

Note the slight amendments (above) to allow if you aren't participating for the whole year. Mix and match as how you can fit 15 books into however there should be at least 2 challenges.

By the Month... (2023)
LOST 2023
Moving Mountains - 2023 Ed
Seriously Serial '23
Trim That TBR (2022)

LOST 2023
1. Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson, 22 Apr 2023
2. The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware, 4 July 2023
3. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling, 7 Aug 2023
4. Betsy: The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry, Jean Hatton, DNF 30 Aug 2023 (read over 1/2)
5. The Lady Brewer of London, Karen Brooks, 8 Sept 2023
6. American Princess, Stephanie Marie Thornton, 21 Oct 2023

Trim that TBR 2022
7. The Engineer's Wife, Tracey Enerson Wood, 24 May 2023
8. Love in the Time of Bertie, Alexander McCall Smith, 25 June 2023
9. Adult Assembly Required, Abbi Waxman, 29 Aug 2023

Seriously Serial '23 #1 series books
10. Buried in a Good Book, Tamara Berry, 27 June 2023, By the Book Mysteries #1
11. An American in Scotland, Lucy Connelly, 20 July 2023, Scottish Isle Mystery #1
12. Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, 10 Sept 2023, A Japantown Mystery #1
13. Murder at Melrose Court, Karen Baugh Menuhin, 11 Oct 2023, Heathcliff Lennox #1
14. Circle of Influence, Annette Dashofy, 26 Oct 2023, Zoe Chambers Mystery #1
15. The Broken Spine, Dorothy St. James, 5 Nov 2023, A Beloved Bookroom Mystery #1

[Joyce]

Fifteen for Fifteen FINISHED
Prompt #15 -Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one).

15/15

By the Month... (2023) whole year challenge
Break Shot: My First 21 Years Used in March 3/20/23
The Original used in March 3/23/23
Naked City used in July 7/31/23
A Murder in Time used in May 5/10/23
It's Like This, Cat Used in May 5/13/23
Making Contact With the Other Side: How to Enhance Your Own Psychic Powers Used in May 5/29/23
The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent Used in May 5/31/23
The Real Sherlock Used in May 5/31/23
Death Be Blue Used in October 10/3/23

LOST 2023
Locked Rooms 3/29/23
Quicksand: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller 4/6/23
Tithe 4/16/23

FOUND 2023
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife 7/27/23

Moving Mountains - 2023 Ed
Slade House 2/9/23

Seriously Serial '23 - whole year challenge
The Orc from the Office 7/18/23 used to help make up #21

[Bea]

Joyce, Found has been posted since May. You will find it here

[Dee]

question for this one - if I'm using seriously serial - can i say my goal for these books is those totaling 23 as a higher number??

[Lauren]

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #15: Happy 15th - Complete

Moving Mountains

✔︎ 10 - Grey: Willing Sacrifice by Shannon K. Butcher
Tineye: 71.3%
Read: August 31, 2023
✔︎ 9 - Black: Guild Boss by Jayne Castle
Tineye: 52.1%
Read: September 25, 2023
✔︎ 3 - Green: Fountain Of Secrets by Anita Clenney
Tineye: 51.2%
Read: December 1, 2024
✔︎ 2 - Red: Phoebe by Minerva Spencer
Tineye: 50.7%
Read: December 26, 2023
✔︎ Ace - 5 colors: Binding Ties by Shannon K. Butcher
Tineye: Green, Grey, Black, Blue, Brown, Yellow
Read: September 17, 2023
✔︎ 7 - Brown: Her Prodigal Passion by Grace Callaway
Tineye: 50.7%
Read: October 9, 2023
✔︎ 6 - Blue: Midnight Jewels by Jayne Ann Krentz
Tineye: 79.7%
Read: October 2, 2023
✔︎ 6 - Blue: Catch Her Death by Melinda Leigh
Tineye: 80.4%
Read: September 12, 2023
✔︎ 10 - Grey: The Pursuits of Lord Kit Cavanaugh by Stephanie Laurens
Tineye: 69.8%
Read: November 18, 2023
✔︎ 7 - Brown: Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
Tineye: 59.2%
Read: November 12, 2023



Seriously Serial

✔︎ 1. Guardians of Stone by Anita Clenney (Relic Hunters, #1)
Read: October 25, 2023
✔︎ 2. When the Rogue Returns by Sabrina Jeffries (The Duke's Men, #2)
Read: October 27, 2023
✔︎ 3. Fatal Consequences by Marie Force (Fatal, #3)
Read: December 6, 2023
✔︎ 4. Over the Top by Rebecca Zanetti (Maverick, Montana, #4)
Read: November 9, 2023
✔︎ 5. Bending the Rules by Marie Harte (Wicked Warrens, #5)
Read: November 22, 2023