2024 Fall Reading Challenge: Challenge Tracking

[Laura Z]

Fall Challenge

PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE

✅P: Same Bed Different Dreams, Ed Park ★★★
✅U: The Butcher Game, Alaina Urquhart ★★★
✅M: The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley ★★★★
✅P: Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond ★★★★★
✅K: After the Forest, Kell Woods ★★★★
✅I: Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice ★★★★
✅N: Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places, Naomi Shahib Nye ★★★★★
✅S: Slow Dance, Rainbow Rowell ★★★★
✅P: A Passage to India, E. M. Forster ★★★
✅I: Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, Ilyon Woo ★★★★
✅C: Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ★★★★
✅E: The Wedding People, Alison Espach ★★★★★
✅L: The Paradise Problem, Christina Lauren ★★★★
✅A: The Happy Ever After Playlist, Abby Jimenez ★★★★★
✅T: The Secret History, Donna Tartt ★★★★
✅T: A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher ★★★★★
✅E: Jackal, Erin E. Adams ★★★★

FAMILY GATHERING

✅F: Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, H. G. Bissinger ★★★★
✅A: All You Have to Do Is Call, Kerri Maher ★★★★
✅M: Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation, Michael Powell ★★★★
✅I: I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones ★★★★★
✅L: The Honey-Don't List, Christina Lauren ★★★★★
✅Y: The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo ★★★
✅G: Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian ★★★★
✅A: Again and Again, Jonathan Evison ★★★★
✅T: Tastes Like Shakkar, Nisha Sharma ★★★
✅H: How to Say Babylon, Safiyah Sinclair ★★★★
✅E: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth ★★★★
✅R: Road Home, Rex Ogle ★★★★
✅I: I Was Told It Would Get Easier, Abbi Waxman ★★★★
✅N: The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler ★★★
✅G: The Great Transition, Nick Fuller Googins ★★★

HOT APPLE CIDER

✅H: Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope, Sarah Bakewell ★★★★★
✅O: One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy, Dominic Erdozain ★★★★
✅T: The Champions, Kara Thomas ★★★★
✅A: The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Katherine Arden ★★★
✅P: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender ★★★★
✅P: Playground, Richard Powers ★★★★★
✅L: The Long Game, Elena Armas ★★★
✅E: Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World, Eric Jay Dolin ★★★
✅C: The Garden, Clare Beams ★★★
✅I: I Flipping Love You, Helena Hunting ★★★
✅D: Laziness Does Not Exist, Devon Price ★★★★
✅E: The Bullet Swallower, Elizabeth Gonzales James ★★★
✅R: Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation, Gina Rocero ★★★★

[Vi]

Not sure how to edit a comment I’ve already posted so I’m pasting a new one. I don’t want to spam so if someone knows how to edit comments, please do let me know!! 😬🫢

H - How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh

[Alistair]

Fall Challenge

I'm reusing titles between phrases because this is just for fun. All titles are subject to me changing my mind.

Family Gathering: 13/15

F: The Fox Wife -- Yangsze Choo ✔️
A: Brokeback Mountain – Annie Proulx ✔️
M: Oye -- Melissa Mogollon ✔️
I: I Shall Wear Midnight – Terry Pratchett ✔️
L: Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel ✔️
Y: Kitchen -- Banana Yoshimoto ✔️
G: Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green and David Leviathan ✔️
A: The Sea Elephants -- Shastri Akella ✔️
T: The Tale of Despereaux -- Kate DiCamillo ✔️
H: Siddhartha – Herman Hesse ✔️
E: Ethan Frome – Edith Warton ✔️
R: Redwall – Brian Jacques ✔️
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N: The New Tea Companion – Jane Pettigrew and Bruce Richardson
G: The Fault in Our Stars– John Green ✔️

Pumpkin Spice Latte: 13/17

P: The Princess Bride – William Goldman
U: Under the Whispering Door -- TJ Klune
M: The Fox Wife -- Yangsze Choo (Mystery) ✔️
P: Brokeback Mountain – Annie Proulx ✔️
K: Kitchen -- Banana Yoshimoto ✔️
I: I Shall Wear Midnight – Terry Pratchett ✔️
N: The New Tea Companion – Jane Pettigrew and Bruce Richardson
S: Siddhartha – Herman Hesse ✔️
P: The Puppets of Spelhorst -- Kate DiCamillo ✔️
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C: Redwall – Brian Jacques (Children’s) ✔️
E: Ethan Frome – Edith Warton ✔️
L: Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel ✔️
A: The Sea Elephants -- Shastri Akella ✔️
T: The Tale of Despereaux -- Kate DiCamillo ✔️
T: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo – translated by JRR Tolkien ✔️
E: Equal Rites -- Terry Pratchett ✔️

Hot Apple Cider: 13/13 -- COMPLETED

H: Siddhartha – Herman Hesse ✔️
O: Oye -- Melissa Mogollon ✔️
T: The Tale of Despereaux -- Kate DiCamillo ✔️
A: The Sea Elephants -- Shastri Akella ✔️
P: The Puppets of Spelhorst -- Kate DiCamillo ✔️
P: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo – translated by JRR Tolkien (Poetry) ✔️
L: Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel ✔️
E: Equal Rites -- Terry Pratchett ✔️
C: The Fox Wife -- Yangsze Choo ✔️
I: I Shall Wear Midnight – Terry Pratchett ✔️
D: Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green and David Leviathan ✔️
E: Ethan Frome – Edith Warton ✔️
R: Redwall – Brian Jacques ✔️

[Laura Z]

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[victoria]

🍂 Fall Challenge 🍂 Sept 1 to Nov 30
1 ✔️ My Friends, Hisham Matar
2 ✔️ The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden
3 ✔️ Earth Angel, Madeline Cash
4 ✔️ The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
5 ✔️ Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner

🍎☕️ [3/13, HOT APPLE CIDER: Sept 1 to __] • currently reading thru all the Booker Longlist, which is also thirteen books, so seems fitting to start here!

✔️ H - My Friends, by Hisham Matar (pages 165-399 read Sept 1)
O - Off-White, Astrid H. Roemer
T - Woodcutters, Thomas Bernhard
A - All Fours, Miranda July
P - A Sister’s Story, Donatella Di Pietrantonio
P - Spent Light, Lara Pawson
L - This Is The Place To Be, Lara Pawson
✔️ E - Earth Angel, Madeline Cash
✔️ C - Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner
I - I Will Crash, Rebecca Watson
D - The Rob Roy Kelly Wood Type Collection: A History, David Shields
E - The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
R - Dan, Joanna Ruocco

[Deborah]

I am going start with Pumpkin Spice I am going to do it just using titles

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M-Marlfox by Brian Jacques (READING)
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I-I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (complete: 9/1/24)
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C-Crumbling Towers by Anne Stryker (Complete: 9/1/24)
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L-The Language of Sycamores by Lisa Wingate (Complete: 9/5/24)
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T-Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander (Complete: 9/7/24)
T-The Trespassers by Stephanie Black (Complete: 9/20/24)
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[Tamara]

2024 Fall Reading Challenge

PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17)
P - Eragon by Christopher Paolini
U - The Unmothers
M - A Misfortune of Lake Monsters
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K - The Kitchen Imps and Other Dark Tales (09/06)
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N- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (09/07)
S - Strange Weather: Four Short Stories
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E- Enchanted Glass (09/07)
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T - Tears of the Giraffe
E - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

FAMILY GATHERING (15)
F -Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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G - As mentiras da nonna by Alberto Grandi
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- HOT APPLE CIDER (13)
H - Horror The Waste Lands
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A - Autobiography Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
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[Book Concierge]

Tessa's Tracking - Fall ATY Challenge
Begins: 01Sep24 / Ends: 30Nov24


S*P*E*L*L

13 / 13 Completed

✔ Hot Apple Cider
H - HISTORICAL FICTION (genre) / Black Cake ✔ – 15Sep24
O - Orbiting Jupiter ✔ – 14Sep24
T - THRILLER (genre) / The Sleepwalker ✔ – 08Sep24
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A - Arianna Davis / What Would Frida Do? ✔ – 05Sep24
P - POETRY (genre) / World of Wonders ✔ – 12Sep24
P - POETRY (genre) / Something Like Home ✔ – 11Oct24
L - Lee Harris / The Mother's Day Murder ✔ – 20Sep24
E - Eyes Of Prey ✔ – 04Sep24
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C - Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective ✔ – 27Sep24
I - Invisible Man ✔ – 28Sep24
D - Demon Copperhead ✔ – 24Sep24
E - Expectant Detectives ✔ – 17Oct24
R - Reptile Room ✔ – 21Sep24


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[Amy (Other Amy)]

2024 Fall Reading Challenge
September 1, 2024 to November 30, 2024
(Spell a phrase using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.)

Challenges are working kind of well for me right now, so I'll jump into this one.

PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE

✅P - Paranormal Investigation: The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth (Available: T/B, S, M, P)
✅U - Unnatural Creatures (U, S, M, H, F, P)
✅M - Matt Wesolowski, Six Stories (S, M, W, ?)
✅P - Paranormal Investigation: Quiet Houses (Q, S, U, P, H, G)
⬜K - T. Kingfisher or Caitlín R. Kiernan
✅I - Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories (T, I, S, D)
✅N - A Night in the Lonesome October (A/N, R, Z, F, H, M)

✅S - Strange Beasts of China (S, Y, G, F)
✅P - Poetry: Bright Dead Things (B, A, L, P)
✅I - Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
✅C - Changeling (C, M, W)
✅E - Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (A/G, E, C, G, H, C)

⬜L - The Lake (T/L, B, Y, ?)
✅A - A Theory of Haunting (A/T, S, M, P)
✅T - Thirteen Storeys (T, J, S, H)
✅T - The Route of Ice and Salt (T/R, J, Z, H)
✅E - Emily B. Cataneo, Speaking to Skull Kings (S, E, C, F, H)

Optional:
FAMILY GATHERING
HOT APPLE CIDER

[Michelle]

11/13
H-title/author (Holly)- The Husbands
O-title- Olympus, TX
T-genre (thriller)-The Coworker

A-author (Ally)-The Unwedding
P-author(Polk)-Even Though I Knew the End
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L-genre (literary)- Migrations
E-author (Emily)-Funny Story

C-author (Ciccarelli)-Heartless Hunter
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D-author (Diane) Moon Spells: How to Use the Phases of the Moon to Get What You Want
E- author (Elly) The Woman in Blue
R-author (Randall)-The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

[Kim]

Completed 9.28.24
2024 Fall Reading Challenge
- PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE (17)

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.
P - The Paris Novel. Ruth Reichl. 9.1.24
U - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye. Victoria Laurie. 9.21.24 Urban Fantasy
M - The Tourist Attraction. Sarah Morgenthaler. 9.2.24
P - Racing the Rain. John L. Parker Jr.. 9.15.24
K - Little Monsters. Kara Thomas. 9.3.24
I - Calling for a Blanket Dance. Oscar Hokeah. 9.15.24 Indigenous
N - The Days I Loved You Most. Amy Neff. 9.2.24
S - The Summer Getaway. Susan Mallery. 9.18.24
P - 1st to Die. James Patterson. 9.24.24
I - I'll Be Seeing You: A Memoir. Elizabeth Berg. 9.15.24
C - Season of the Dragonflies. Sarah Creech. 9.18.24
E - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Erik Larson. 9.6.24
L - Letter to My Daughter. Maya Angelou. 9.25.24
A - The Dry Grass of August. Anna Jean Mayhew. 9.4.24
T - Heaven's River. Dennis E. Taylor. 9.5.24
T - The Time Machine. H.G. Wells. 9.12.24
E - Checked Out. Elaine Viets. 9.12.24

[JenniferAustin]

I am a latecomer to the Fall Challenge, but here goes!

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[Pie]

I went with Pumpkin Spice Latte and had a lot of fun. Thinking about trying for the others as well.

✔ P - M Train by Patti Smith (09/08)
✔ U - Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall (09/26)
✔ M - Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (09/06)
✔ P - Peking Duck and Cover by Vivien Chien (10/11)
✔ K - Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan (09/05)
✔ I - Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà Lại (09/30)
✔ N - The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer (09/14)

✔ S - Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher (09/24)
✔ P - They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta (09/28)
✔ I - It Waits in the Forest by Sarah Dass (09/11)
✔ C - The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes (09/20)
✔ E - Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche by Nancy Springer (11/20)

✔ L - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (09/22)
✔ A - Arcana Rising by Kresley Cole (10/30)
✔ T - The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull (10/07)
✔ T - The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (10/16)
✔ E - Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade by Nancy Springer (11/21)

[BookswithLydscl |]

Family Gathering:

F - Forcing, The
A - Abby Davies - The Cult
M - Moylen, Julie Owen - Circus of Mirrors
I - In The Dream House
L - Louise Erdrich - Future home of the living god
Y - YA - Clown in a Cornfield - Adam Cesare

G - Golden, Christopher - All Hallows
A - Andrea Camilleri - The Voice of the Violin
T - Turton, Stuart - TSDOEHardcastle
H - Hishashi Kashiwai - The Restaurant Of Lost Recipes
E - Elly Griffiths - The Janus Stone
R - Rachel Harrison - Such Sharp Teeth
I - In The Shadow of Spindrift House - Mira Grant
N - Neville, Stuart - Blood Like Mine
G - Griffiths, Elly - The Crossing Places

Pumpkin Spice Latte

P - Pat Barker - The Voyage Home
U - Ushers A Short Story - Joe Hill
M - Mura, Shion - The Easy Life in Kamusari
P - Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
K - Kiste, Gwendolyn - The Haunting of Velkwood
I - In The Shadow of Spindrift House - Mira Grant
N - Neville, Stuart - Blood Like Mine

S - Session 9 - Christian Francis
P - Page, Sally - The Secrets of Flowers
I - In The Vanishers Palace
C - Coward, Sacha - Queer as Folklore
E - Elly Griffiths - The House at Sea's End

L - Louise Erdrich - Future home of the living god
A - Adam Cesare - Clown in a Cornfield
T - Tingle, Chuck = Bury Your Gays
T - Tudor, CJ - A Sliver of Darkness
E - Elly Griffiths - A Room Full of Bones

Hot Apple Cider

H - Hishashi Kashiwai - The Restaurant Of Lost Recipes
O - TBR - One and Only Ivan, The - Katherine Applegate
T - Tender Is The Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica

A - Abby Davies - The Cult
P - Page, Sally - The Secrets of Flowers
P - Paul E. Hardisty - The Forcing
L - Louise Erdrich - Future home of the living god
E - Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret - Benjamin Stevenson

C - Chain Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
I - In The Dream House
D - Dean, Will - Wolf Pack
E - Elly Griffiths - The House at Sea's End
R - Rachel Harrison - Such Sharp Teeth

[Johanna]

Will put a three here and see which one I finish first!
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H - Bride BY Ali Hazelwood
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L - A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
E - The Measure byNikki Erlick
C - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
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[Dixie]

Hot Apple Cider 13/13 11/26/2024 FINISHED!

√H Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters - HUMOR
√O One Round Moon and a Star for Me - title
√T The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees - author TALLAMY

√A All the King's Animals - title
√P Dark Emu - author PASCOE
√P Ariadne’s Threads - POETRY
√L Little Grey Rabbit & Friends - title
√E Xingu - author EDITH Wharton

√C The Wind in the Willows - CLASSIC
√I I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie - title
√D Matilda - author DAHL
√E Engine Summer - title
√R Rip Van Winkle - title

[Beth F]

2024 Fall Reading Challenge
September 1, 2024 to November 30, 2024
(Spell a phrase using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.)

Joining late because I sort of forgot about reading challenges in GR and am in the mood to make reading selections for the rest of the year within the parameters of a challenge.

H - The Husbands by Holly Gramazio (title)
O - One Bite With A Stranger by Christine Warren (title)
T - This Cursed House by Del Sandeen (title)

A - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (title)
P - James by Percival Everett (first name)
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E - Weyward by Emilia Hart (first name)

C - Know My Name by Chanel Miller (first name)
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D - The Deal by Elle Kennedy (title)
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R - Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (first name)

[Allegra]

Late to the party, but here goes...

Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction--The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media by Brooke Gladstone
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover--Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama--The Last Romantics
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story

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