2025 Annual Challenge - REQUEST Badges

[Odette]

Requesting Badge One please:

Badge One - Themes

📍B - Books about books - What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
📍C - Childhood - The Good Teacher by Petronella McGovern
📍D - Dogs - Seven Perfect Things by Catherine Ryan Hyde
📍F - Fantasy - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
📍G - Ghosts - The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
📍H - History - Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield
📍L - Love - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
📍M - Mythology - Medea by Rosie Hewlett
📍N - Nature - The Overstory by Richard Powers
📍P - Pirates - Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
📍R - Religion - Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
📍S - Survival - Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
📍T - True Crime - Suburban Noir: Crime and mishap in 1950s and 1960s Sydney by Peter Doyle
📍V - Villainy - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
📍W - Women - The Women by Kristin Hannah

[Esther]

WOF Esther

Requesting badge 1

📍1 - Books about books: The Man Who Came Uptown
📍2 - Childhood The Fishermen
📍3 - Dogs Toto
📍4 - Fantasy Winter Lost
📍5 - Ghosts The Library of the Dead
📍6 - History: Les Guerriers de l'hiver
📍7 - Love: Qimmik
📍8 - Mythology: Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
📍9 - Nature Migrations
📍10 - Pirates L'écume des lames
📍11 - Religion: L’Évangile selon Yong Sheng
📍12 - Survival: The Infinite Sea
📍13 - True Crime: A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
📍14 - Villainy: Long Live Evil
📍15 - Women: Curfew

[Janice, Moderator]

Badges are posted for Odette & Esther.

[Amanda]

Requesting badge 1, please.

Badge One - Themes

📍B - Books about books The Wishing Game
📍C - Childhood - Somewhere Beyond the Sea
📍D - Dogs - Seven Perfect Things
📍F - Fantasy - Rhythm of War
📍G - Ghosts - Leigh Howard and the Ghosts of Simmons-Pierce Manor
📍H - History - Another Time, Another Place
📍L - Love - Love Me Anyway
📍M - Mythology - Babylonia
📍N - Nature - The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
📍P - Pirates - How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge
📍R - Religion - Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life
📍S - Survival - Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
📍T - True Crime - The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
📍V - Villainy - Apprentice to the Villain
📍W - Women - The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women's Interpretation

[Marie (UK)]

WOF Name Marie UK (aka Ms Speedy)
Requesting Badge 2
List Two - Titles. Read books alphabetically by Title. Articles such as a, an, the, etc will be ignored. A Night to Remember may be read as N, but not as A. The Bat may be read as B, but not as T.

📍A And Then There Were None
📍B Borderlands
📍C Coffee Will Make You Black
📍D Darling Girls
📍E Every Time We Say Goodbye
📍F Freakslaw
📍G Guilty by Definition
📍H The Hurricane Wars
📍I The Iceberg
📍J JAM
📍K Kent Coast Oyster Obliteration: Albert Smith's Culinary Capers Recipe 11
📍L The Last Murder at the End of the World
📍M The Mystery Guest
📍N The Nothing Man
📍O Old Soul
📍P Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
📍Q The Queen of Fives
📍R Ryan's Christmas
📍S The Switch
📍T Think Twice
📍U Undertaking Irene
📍V The Vintage Shop of Second Chances
📍W The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
📍Y You Are Fatally Invited: A Novel
📍Z The Zoo

[Janice, Moderator]

WOF - Janice

Badge One: Themes - Completed! May I please have a badge?


B Books About Books The Reading List
C Childhood - Somewhere Beyond the Sea
D Dogs - Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir
F Fantasy - Time's Convert
G Ghosts - Haunting Charlie
H History - Last Port of Call
L Love - Shadow Spell
M Mythology - The Fox Wife
N Nature - Once There Were Wolves
P Pirates - Magic Marks the Spot
R Relgion - The House of Lost Secrets
S Survival- The Children's Blizzard
T True Crime - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
V Villain - Dark Witch
W Women - The Women

[Janice, Moderator]

Badges are posted for Amanda, Marie aka as Miss Speedy, and Janice.

[Jenn]

Omg way to go everybody 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[Leslie]

WoF Leslie
Requesting Badge 1

1. Task 1, The Bestseller
2. Task 2, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
3. Task 3, One Good Dog
4. Task 4, The Starless Sea
5. Task 5, Layla
6. Task 6, The Paris Gown
7. Task 7, Hello Stranger
8. Task 8, The Rainfall Market
9. Task 9, Happiness for Beginners
10. Task 10, Cinnamon and Gunpowder
11. Task 11, The Wonder
12. Task 12, The Martian
13. Task 13, College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
14. Task 14, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
15. Task 15, Things I Wish I Told My Mother

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Leslie!

[Jenn]

Way to go Leslie 🎉

[Margo]

Hi Janice, I'd like to claim my first badge please:

WoF margo

BADGE 1

📍B - Books about books The Midnight Library
📍C - Childhood Hum If You Don't Know the Words
📍D - Dogs Lily and the Octopus
📍F - FantasyThe Kaiju Preservation Society
📍G - Ghosts Spirited
📍H - History Cleopatra & Julius
📍L - Love The Love of My Life
📍M - Mythology Ithaca
📍N - Nature To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
📍P - Pirates Ship of Destiny
📍R - Religion Haven
📍S - Survival The Road
📍T - True Crime A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Substances and the Killers Who Used Them
📍V - Villainy reread Fingersmith
📍W - Women The Invention of Wings

[♞ Pat]

WOF Pat

Requesting Badge #1 ...

1B ~ Books About Books
The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick 3☆

2C ~ Childhood
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger 4☆

3D ~ Dogs
Toto by A.J. Hackwith 4☆

4F ~ Fantasy
Motheater by Linda H. Codega 3☆

5G ~ Ghosts
My Mother Cursed My Name by Anamely Salgado Reyes 5☆

6H ~ History
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance 5☆

7L ~ Love
My Friends by Fredrik Backman 5☆

8M ~ Mythology
The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen 3☆

9N ~ Nature
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl 5☆

10P ~ Pirates
Saltblood by Francesca De Tores 4☆

11R ~ Religion
Last Circle of Love by Lorna Landvik 5☆

12S ~ Survival
When We Had Wings by Ariel Lawhon 5☆

13T ~ True Crime
The Holdout by Graham Moore 4☆

14V ~ Villany
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 4☆

15W ~ Women
Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall 4☆

[Janice, Moderator]

Badges are posted for Margo and Pat. :)

[Margo]

Thanks Janice! Love the badge design :-)

[Almeta]

May I have Badge Two please?

WoF - Almeta
Badge Two, List 2 completed
Task 1A The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Task 2B .Baskets and Beignets
Task 3C The Covenant of Water
Task 4D Dark Knight Station: Origins
Task 5E Elon Musk
Task 6F Faster:How Jewish Driver, American Heiress, Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
Task 7G Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Task 8H An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire
Task 9I The Inheritance
Task 10J Judgment Prey
Task 11K Kaikeyi The Messy Lives of Book People
Task 12L The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II
Task 13M The Messy Lives of Book People
Task 14N Never Grow Up
Task 15O The Only One Left
Task 16P Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Task 17Q The Queen
Task 18R The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Task 19S Such Sharp Teeth
Task 20T Twisted Love
Task 21U Unnatural Death
Task 22V 'v' Is For Vengence
Task 23W The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
Task 24Y The Yellow Room
Task 25Z The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Almeta.

[Katrisa]

WoF Katrisa
Requesting Badge 2 please!
📍A- Alaska - Thin Ice
📍B- British Columbia - Starlight
📍C- Congo - Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
📍D- Detroit - Say Nice Things About Detroit
📍E- Egypt - The Murder of King Tut
📍F- France - The Paris Hours
📍G- Georgia US - Play Dead
📍H- Hawaii - Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i
📍I- Iceland - The Darkness Knows
📍J- Jamaica - Wildblood
📍K- Kenya - Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
📍L- London - How to Stop Time
📍M- Moscow - The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
📍N- Nevada - What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas
📍O- Oslo - Blood on Snow
📍P-Pakistan - The Return of Faraz Ali
📍Q- Queensland, Australia - Crimson Lake
📍R- Rome - The First Man in Rome
📍S- Spain - Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
📍T- Tuscany - Aged for Murder
📍U- Ukraine - The Silver Bone
📍V- Venice - Maddalena and the Dark
📍W- Wisconsin - The Unlucky Ones
📍Y- Yellowstone - Yellowstone Standoff
📍Z- Zurich - Hausfrau

[Jenn]

Wow, I spend a day reading and everybody decides to badge up lol Way to go everyone 🎉🎉🎉

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Katrisa.

[♞ Pat]

Janice wrote: "Badges are posted for Margo and Pat. :)"

I love it! Thanks Janice!

[Alexandra]

WoF Alexandra

May I have my first badge, please?

Badge 1 - based on themes

✔️B - Books about books The Little Paris Bookshop
✔️C - Childhood Echtzeitalter
✔️D - Dogs About People
✔️ F - Fantasy Fourth Wing
✔️G - Ghosts Was man bei Licht nicht sehen kann
✔️H - History 1913: The Year Before the Storm
✔️L - Love Bride
✔️ M - Mythology The Song of Achilles
✔️N - Nature The Secret Life of Bees
✔️P - Pirates Frenchman's Creek
✔️R - Religion The Running Grave
✔️ S - Survival Mon Chéri und unsere demolierten Seelen
✔️T - True Crime Crime
✔️V - Villainy Insidious Intent
✔️ W - Women Bright Young Women

[LoriLovesBooks]

WoF name: LondonLori

Claiming 1st badge

Badge One - Themes

✅ B - Books about books - The Well of Lost Plots
✅ C - Childhood: The Silver Sword
✅ D - Dogs: Toto
✅ F - Fantasy: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
✅ G - Ghosts: The Hollow Boy
✅ H - History: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
✅ L - Love: The Moonlight Market
✅ M - Mythology: Ariadne
✅ N - Nature: Miss Benson's Beetle
✅ P - Pirates: Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
✅ R - Religion: The House of Lost Secrets
✅ S - Survival: Firesong
✅ T - True Crime: The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
✅ V - Villainy: Brighton Rock
✅ W - Women: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

[Janice, Moderator]

Alexandra and Lori, your badges are posted.

[Alexandra]

The badge is beautiful! Thank you, Janice!

[Marnie]

WoF Marnie

Requesting Badge 2 please ( titles)

A All Fours
B The Betrayals
C Cat's People
D Don't Let Him In
E The Edge
F Famous Last Words
G Guilty Wives
H How to Seal Your Own Fate
I It's a Love Story
J Just Last Night
K Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
L Life’s Too Short
M Murder in an Irish Village
N Naked in Death
O Onyx Storm
P Portrait in Death
Q The Queen of Poisons
R The Racketeer
S The 6:20 Man
T Th1rt3en
U The Unwedding
V The Villa
W Witness 8
Y The Younger Wife
Z Zero Days

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Marnie.

[Marie (UK)]

congrats everyone on your badges

[Sharon]

WOF SharonBiskit

Requesting Badge 2, please!

📍A-All the Way Down]
✔️📍B-The Betrayals
✔️📍C-Cold Revenge
✔️📍D-Dead of Winter
✔️📍E-Elevator Pitch
✔️📍F-The Fallen Man
✔️📍G-The Gift
✔️📍H-Heaven's Keep
✔️📍I-In the Hour of Crows
✔️📍J-Justified
✔️📍K-Killer Magic
✔️📍L-The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club
✔️📍M-The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
✔️📍N-Nantucket Homes
✔️📍O-Open Evening
✔️📍P-A Place for Us
✔️📍Q-Quiet the Dead
✔️📍R-Reckoning
✔️📍S-Seven Deadly Wonders
✔️📍T-Tales of Wychwood
✔️📍U-The Unhoneymooners
✔️📍V- A Valentine Murder
✔️📍W-What Lies in the Woods
✔️📍Y-Yellowstone Inferno
✔️📍Z-Z is for Zachariah

[Jenn]

Way to go Alexandra, Lori, Marnie, and Sharon 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[Marcus]

Badge 1: Marcus

B - Books about books: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires*
📍C - Childhood: Suffer the Children*
📍D - Dogs: Cujo*
📍F - Fantasy: The Daughters' War*
📍G - Ghosts: Collected Ghost Stories*
📍H - History: Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors*
📍L - Love: The Republic of Thieves*
📍M - Mythology: Wrath of the Triple Goddess*
📍N - Nature: A History of Tea: The Life and Times of the World's Favorite Beverage*
📍P - Pirates: A Pirate Looks at Fifty*
📍R - Religion: Revelator*
📍S - Survival: The Troop*
📍T - True Crime: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession*
📍V - Villainy: Hannibal*
📍W - Women: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls*

[Janice, Moderator]

Badges are posted for Sharon and Marcus.

[Tammy]

Requesting badge 1
WOF Tammys wall

📍B - Books about books The Book Woman's Daughter.
✔️📍C - Childhood Once Upon a Wardrobe
✔️📍D - Dogs - Dog on It
✔️📍F - Fantasy Butter, Sugar, Magic
✔️📍G - Ghosts - Let the Ghosts Speak
✔️📍H - History Waves of Mercy
✔️📍L - Love Counting Miracles
✔️📍M - Mythology Daughter of Fire
✔️📍N - Nature - Blind Man Walking: The American Landscape, Up Close and Personal on the Appalachian Trail
✔️📍P - Pirates - Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
✔️📍R - Religion Transcending Time
✔️📍S - Survival - Gravewater Lake
✔️📍T - True Crime Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
✔️📍V - Villainy - Pyramid of Secrets
✔️📍W - Women - The House of Eve

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Tammy.

[Lanelle]

May I have Badge 1, please?
WoF Name - Lanelle

B - Once Upon a Wardrobe
C - The Secret Garden
D - I Am The Codyman
F - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
G - The Remains of the Dead
H - The Unknown Ajax
L - Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes
M - Expecting Someone Taller
N - My Family and Other Animals
P - Sassinak
R - The 7-Day Christian
S - Titanic Affair
T - Catch Me If You Can
V - The Robe of Skulls
W - Back on Blossom Street

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Lanelle.

[Lanelle]

Janice wrote: "Your badge is posted Lanelle."

Thank you!

[Marie (UK)]

Requesting Badge 3

List Four - Female Authors - first of last name counts. Read books alphabetically by Female Authors.

📍A A Bird in the Hand - Ann Cleeves
📍B Costanza - Rachel Blackmore
📍C The Betrayals - Bridget Collins
📍D The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
📍E Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine Janet Evanovich
📍F Glorious Exploits - Ferdia Lennon
📍G The Spy Coast - Tess Gerritsen
📍H Broken Light - Joanne Harris
📍I Yellow Crocus Laila Ibrahim
📍J The Woman In The Wallpaper - Lora Jones
📍K When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
📍L The Shrine - L.J. Ross
📍M The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood
📍N Bed of Roses - Nora Roberts
📍O Hotel Silence - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
📍P The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
📍Q The Briar Club Kate Quinn
📍R Cuthbert's Way: A DCI Ryan Mystery - L.J. Ross
📍S Memphis - Tara M. Stringfellow
📍T The Glassmaker - Tracy Chevalier
📍U An Expert in Murder Nicola Upson
📍V Delicate Condition Danielle Valentine
📍W One Italian Summer: Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life - Pip Williams
📍Y Water Moon - Samantha Sotto Yambao
📍Z You Can Kill - Rebecca Zanetti

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Marie.

[Jenn]

Way to go everyone 🎉

[Jayme, Moderator]

Wow Marie. Badge 3 - Are you on the "badge a month" plan? lol

[Marie (UK)]

Jayme wrote: "Wow Marie. Badge 3 - Are you on the "badge a month" plan? lol"

I am doing the easy ones first then I can take my time over the ones I think more difficult

[Marie (UK)]

Janice wrote: "Your badge is posted Marie."

I love that Badge Janice

[Beth]

WOF: Beth

Requesting Badge 2

List 4 Female Authors

A-Pigeon
B-Whose Names Are Unknown
C-The Fall Girl
D- Thinking In Systems: A Primer
E-Olive, Again
F-The Paris Apartment
G- Silas Marner
H- Paper Ghosts
I- Woven in Moonlight
J-The Henna Artist
K- After Alice Fell
L- Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
M-The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
N-Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
O-The Marriage Portrait
P-Behind Her Eyes
Q-The Whalebone Theatre
R-Forgotten in Death
S- The Tale of Genji
T- The Witch Elm
U-The Fortunate Ones
V-The Waves
W-Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
Y-The Lost Girls
Z- The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights]

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Beth.

[Nistha]

WoF Nix

Requesting badge 2 - Object on cover


📍A- Airplane - Falling
📍B- Butterfly - The Butterfly Tattoo
📍C- Chair - The No-Show
📍D- Dishes - The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
📍E- Elephant - The Naga Warriors 1: Battle of Gokul Vol 1
📍F- Fruit - Apples Never Fall
📍G- Gate - Traitors Gate
📍H- Horse - The Bedroom Window
📍I- Insect - The Crimson Moth
📍J- Jewel/Jewelry - Still Beating
📍K- Key - The Mystery Guest
📍L- Lighthouse - The Bad Luck Lighthouse
📍M- Mansion - The Haunting of Hill House
📍N- Night Sky - The Walnut Mansion
📍O- Orange Fruit OR 75% Orange Cover - The Wolf Den
📍P- Picture within a picture - Magnolia Parks
📍Q- Quilt - The Christmas Quilt
📍R- Rose_ - The Villain Edit
📍S- Sky (50% of cover) - The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
📍T- Tea Cup - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
📍U- Umbrella - The Mad Girls of New York
📍V- Vase with flowers - Interview with the Vampire
📍W- Water- Just My Luck
📍Y- Yacht OR 75% Yellow Cover - Listen for the Lie
📍Z- Zeppelin - The Wind Whales of Ishmael

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Nix.

[Nistha]

Thank you <3

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
Requesting Badge 1 please
Badge One - Themes - 15 books
📕 Badge 1 Task B The Sequel
📕 Badge 1 Task C The Eight Mountains
📕 Badge 1 Task D My Name is Gucci: A Dog’s Story
📕Badge 1 Task F Death of the Author
📕Badge 1 Task G The Echoes
📕Badge 1 Task H Chloé
📕Badge 1 Task L A Brief Affair
📕Badge 1 Task M The Women of Troy
📕Badge 1 Task N The Axeman's Carnival
📕Badge 1 Task P Saltblood
📕Badge 1 Task R The Mission House
📕Badge 1 Task S James
📕Badge 1 Task T Murder at Myall Creek
📕Badge 1 Task V Lady Macbeth
📕Badge 1 Task W The Brightest Star

[Janice, Moderator]

Your badge is posted Shirley. Sorry for taking so long to post it.