Current Challenges

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📚FORMAL BUDDY READS📚
These can be joined anytime!


✨ Tarot Duality Formal Buddy Reads

April | Card: The Emperor
Upright: Stability, leadership; Reversed: Control, rigidity
Theme: Authority, protection vs. oppression, hierarchy
📔Main Book: The Power by Naomi Alderman
📕Offset Book: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas


📖 Series Buddy Reads: Ongoing & New!

🐉 The Epic — Ongoing Series Buddy Read | The Thursday Murder Club
The Thursday Murder Club

Current Book: Book 2 – The Man Who Died Twice | Mar 15 – May 15

🎬 The Adaptation — NEW Series Buddy Read | Game Changers Series
Book 1: Game Changer


💟 Discord Buddy Reads

✨ The Madwoman Tradition
A Year of Unhinged Women, Gothic Roots, and Feminist Literature
https://discord.com/channels/14470259...

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📚READATHONS📚

⏱️ April Readathons

📅 2026 Spring Seasonal — March 20, 2026 - June 20, 2026
📅 April Readathon — April 1-30, 2026
📅 April's 24hr Readathon — April 25, 2026 (Mod Spotlight - Danielle)
📅 April's 24hr Readathon — April 22, 2026 (Mod Spotlight - Angie)

📅 Discord Back Room Readathon:
🎭✨ The Trickster's Tale — April 1-30, 2026 | https://discord.com/channels/14470259...

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📚MARATHONS📚
All of these can be joined anytime!

✨26: A Marathon Challenge by mod Donna
✨Fantasy Marathon by mod Donna
✨Mystery Marathon by mod Donna
✨26: the Rerun https://discord.com/channels/14470259... by mod Donna

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📚INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGES📚
Most of these challenges can be joined anytime!

📖 1 Month

March:

🍀 TBR Busters - March
🍀 March Obscure Holidays Reading Challenge! https://discord.com/channels/14470259...
🎭 The Bust Room | Mischief Command Center: https://discord.com/channels/14470259...

April:

🌸 Epic Journey
🌸 TBR Busters - April
🎭 The Bust Room | The Fool’s Command Center: https://discord.com/channels/14470259...
🌈 The Living Rainbow: https://discord.com/channels/14470259...

📖 2 Month

🌓 2026 Chiaroscuro Challenge · Light vs. Dark Pairs
🌸 April Showers Bring May Flowers

📖 3 Month

✨ Buzzwords 2026 Q1 https://discord.com/channels/14470259...
by mod Donna
✨ Buzzwords 2026 Q2 https://discord.com/channels/14470259...
by mod Donna

📖 12 Month

✨ (Impossible) Reading the Tarot (2026) by mod Ashley
✨ A to Z Challenge, 2026 by mod Ashley
✨ I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie, 2026 by mod Ashley
✨ Name Quest 2026: The Alphabet Adventure by mod Donna
✨ Read the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards by mod Donna

📖 Self-Paced / Open-Ended

✨ I Spy! Challenge — Host: Angie
✨ Just for Fun: Me Challenge — Host: Donna
✨ Read the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards — Host: Donna
✨ Ridiculously Random Reading Challenge — Host: Danielle

New Sign-ups: Open Through April 30, 2026

✨ Author Spotlight: James Patterson — Host: Anabella (ends December 31, 2026, new sign-ups are closed)
✨ The Best Part of Waking Up — Host: Amanda
✨ Summer Song Shuffle — Host: Teresa
✨ Voices in the Spotlight — Host: Donna

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📚PARTNER CHALLENGES📚

📖 2 Month
✨Partner Pick: Feb & Mar by mod Angie
✨Partner Pick: April & May by mod Angie

📖 3 Month
✨Do Not Open This Challenge by mod Lisa

📖 Self-Paced
✨The Narrative Nexus by mod Lisa

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📚TEAM CHALLENGES📚

📖 ~6 Month
✨Books in the Ballpark by mod Lisa

📖 12 Month
✨Time Traveler's Challenge by mod Ashley

📖 Self-paced
✨Killer Clown Roundup by mod Donna
✨Titan Monster Roundup by mod Donna
✨Sinister Toys & Haunted Objects Roundup by mod Donna
✨Escape Room Challenge by mod Michelle

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📚ENGAGEMENT THREADS📚

✨Bi-Weekly themed Book chats https://discord.com/channels/14470259... by mod Ashley