Moving Mountain - 2025 Ed

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Challenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2025

As always, this challenge restricted books added to TBR prior to the year it's being played so books must be on TBR prior to 1 January 2025.

Read books "Set in" (approximately 50%) OR "first published in"

1: 18th century
2: 19th century
3: the 1900s or 1910s
4: the 1920s or 1930s
5: the 1940s or 1950s
6: the 1960s or 1970s
7: the 1980s or 1990s
8: the 2000s
9: the 2010s
10: the 2020s
11: a decade either side of your birth year (no need to disclose)
12: FREE choice

Use this die roller to get your random draw: https://rolladie.net/#!numbers=1&...

You may choose a level as follows;

5 books (5 vowels in the alphabet)
12 books (12 characters in 'PICK-A-SHELF')
26 books (26 letters)
52 books (52 weeks in a year)

I'm leaving it rather simple this year, I think because some of those years might be difficult to read for

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Bea

Charity

christene_littlelibrary

Christina (AKA Babbling)

David

Ellis

Elvenn

Joanna

Joyce

Lagullande

LaurLa

Marina

Meg

Michelle

Mimi

Rosemary

Susan

Tien

[Tien]

Progress 41/52 books as at 08/27

⏳ 1. 3: the 1900s or 1910s - Summer by Edith Wharton (pub 1917) -Read 04/04
⏳ 2. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - Vengeance in Death (In Death #6) by J.D. Robb (pub 1997) -Read 02/16
⏳ 3. 9: the 2010s - Hive (Hive #1) by A.J. Betts (pub 2018) -Read 01/07
⏳ 4. 12: FREE choice - We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders #1) by Richard Osman -Read 01/16
⏳ 5. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - Master and Fool (The Book of Words #3) by J.V. Jones (pub 1996) -Read 05/31
⏳ 6. 12: FREE choice - Beyond The Bounds Of Time (The Gemarine Chronicles #2) by J.P. McDonald -Read 01/24
⏳ 7. 2: 19th century - The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7) by Arthur Conan Doyle (setting) -Read 02/09
⏳ 8. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot #13) by Agatha Christie (pub 1936) -01/04
⏳ 9. 11: a decade either side of your birth year (no need to disclose) - Homesickness by Murray Bail (pub 1980) -Read 08/04
⏳ 10. 6: the 1960s or 1970s - When Morning Comes by Arushi Raina (set 1976) -Read 05/20
⏳ 11. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon -Read 02/18
⏳ 12. 2: 19th century - Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (pub 1839) -Read 03/23
⏳ 13. 6: the 1960s or 1970s - Constable on the Hill (Constable Nick Mystery #1) by Nicholas Rhea (pub 1979) -Read 07/17
⏳ 14. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - Eric (Discworld #9) by Terry Pratchett (pub 1990) -Read 04/19
15. 11: a decade either side of your birth year (no need to disclose)
⏳ 16. 9: the 2010s - The Edge of Everything (The Edge of Everything #1) by Jeff Giles (pub 2017) -Read 01/09
⏳ 17. 1: 18th century - Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution #1) by Genevieve Cogman (setting 1793) -Read 02/18
⏳ 18. 1: 18th century - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano (pub 1789) -Read 06/28
⏳ 19. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen (pub 1937) -Read 03/04
⏳ 20. 3: the 1900s or 1910s - The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (pub. 1908) -Read 04/07
⏳ 21. 2: 19th century - Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (pub 1842) -Read 03/08
⏳ 22. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - Princess Elizabeth's Spy (Maggie Hope #2) by Susan Elia MacNeal (set WWII - 1940s) -Read 05/02
⏳ 23. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - A Man Betrayed (The Book of Words #2) by J.V. Jones (pub 1996) -Read 04/29
⏳ 24. 9: the 2010s - Partikel (Supernova #4) by Dee Lestari (pub 2012) -Read 01/17
⏳ 25. 2: 19th century - Victoria by Julia Baird (setting) -Read 03/23
⏳ 26. 1: 18th century - The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett (pub 1751)
⏳ 27. 8: the 2000s - Chill Factor (Weather Warden #3) by Rachel Caine (pub 2005) -Read 01/07
28. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
⏳ 29. 2: 19th century - She – A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard (pub 1887) -Read 03/13
⏳ 30. 9: the 2010s - All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) by Ally Carter (pub 2015) -Read 01/28
31. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
32. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
⏳ 33. 8: the 2000s - The Key (Guardians of Time #3) by Marianne Curley (pub 2005) -Read 01/18
⏳ 34. 9: the 2010s - See How They Run (Embassy Row #2) by Ally Carter (pub 2015) -Read 02/09
35. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
⏳ 36. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - No-No Boy by Ken Narasaki (set 1946) -Read 05/16
37. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
⏳ 38. 8: the 2000s - The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant #3) by Derek Landy -Read 02/01
⏳ 39. 2: 19th century - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (pub 1824) -Read 03/15
⏳ 40. 9: the 2010s - Dark Days (Skulduggery Pleasant #4) by Derek Landy -Read 02/24
⏳ 41. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - The Lady of the Lake (The Witcher #5) by Andrzej Sapkowski (pub 1999) -Read 08/27
⏳ 42. 10: the 2020s - The Girl Under the Floor (Maddie Ives #8) by Charlie Gallagher (pub. 2023) -Read 01/03
43. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
⏳ 44. 9: the 2010s - Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles #2) by Melina Marchetta (published 2011) -Read 02/27
⏳ 45. 2: 19th century - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (pub 1869) -Read 03/29
⏳ 46. 10: the 2020s - Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) by T.J. Klune (pub 2024) -Read 01/12
47. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
⏳ 48. 9: the 2010s - Dark Inside (Dark Inside #1) by Jeyn Roberts (pub 2011) -Read 03/07
⏳ 49. 2: 19th century - The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (pub 1886) -Read 04/06
50. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
⏳ 51. 12: FREE choice - Every Version of You by Grace Chan -Read 01/20
52. 1: 18th century

[Rosemary]

Challenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2025
Books must be on TBR before 1 Jan 2025

Goal: 26
Read: 26/26 - Finished 10/8/25

Books set in or published in:
✔ 1. 8: the 2000s
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare, 3 Feb 25, pub 2000
✔ 2. 11: a decade either side of your birth year
Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll, read 8 Jan 25, pub 1959
✔ 3. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
Fatherland by Robert Harris, read 24 Feb 25, set 1964
✔ 4. 10: the 2020s
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, read 2 Jan 25, pub 2023
✔ 5. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep by Georges Perec, read 11 Mar 25, pub 1965
✔ 6. 1: 18th century
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, read 18 Jan 25, pub 1768
✔ 7. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch, read 18 Jun 25, pub 1973
✔ 8. 12: FREE choice
The Circle by Dave Eggers, read 11 Jan 25, pub 2013
✔ 9. 2: 19th century
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy, read 25 Feb 25, pub 1876
✔ 10. 2: 19th century
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, 13 Mar 25, pub 1839
✔ 11. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray, read 12 Jun 25, set 50% in 1960s/70s
✔ 12. 8: the 2000s
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel, 2 Feb 25, pub 2005
✔ 13. 10: the 2020s
The Mercy Chair by M.W. Craven, read 14 Jan 25, pub 2024
✔ 14. 2: 19th century
James by Percival Everett, read 30 Jun 25, set in 1861
✔ 15. 10: the 2020s
How to Eat by Andrew Jenkinson, read 17 Jan 25, pub 2024
✔ 16. 1: 18th century
Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin, read 19 Jun 25, set in 18th century
✔ 17. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
Winter in Thrush Green by Miss Read, read 10 Jul 25, pub 1961
✔ 18. 5: the 1940s or 1950s
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, read 24 Apr 25, pub 1959
✔ 19. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau, read 16 Jan 25, pub 1929
✔ 20. 3: the 1900s or 1910s
The God's Eye by Anna Butler, read 30 Jan 25, set 1902-3
✔ 21. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
England Made Me by Graham Greene, 2 Mar 23, pub 1935
✔ 22. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac, read 9 Mar 25, pub 1936
✔ 23. 10: the 2020s
Slough House by Mick Herron, read 7 Feb 25, pub 2021
✔ 24. 12: FREE choice
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen, 23 Jan 25, pub 1994
✔ 25. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
News from Thrush Green by Miss Read, 10 Aug 25, pub 1970
✔ 26. 11: a decade either side of your birth year
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary, 27 Jan 25, pub 1956

[Lagullande]

I'm really looking forward to this one. Thanks, Tien

Moving Mountain - 2025 Ed
Challenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2025

Goal: 12
Read: 4/12

1. 11: a decade either side of your birth year
2. 7: the 1980s or 1990s
3. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
4. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
5. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
✔️6. 3: the 1900s or 1910s: The Council of Justice 30/1/25
7. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
8. 9: the 2000s
✔️9. 4: the 1920s or 1930s: The Provincial Lady Goes Further 28/2/25
✔️10. 2: 19th century: A Study in Scarlet 28/2/25
✔️11. 9: the 2010s: Hild 11/3/25
12. 1: 18th century

[Susan]

This looks like fun, but also challenging to plan. Does anyone have any ideas for how to determine what time period books are "'Set in' (approximately 50%)" before reading them? I'm pretty sure there's nothing on my TBR published in the 18th or 19th century, so I may have to roll again for those.

[Susan]

Moving Mountains 2025

Challenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2025
Goal: 12 books

Read books "Set in" (approximately 50%) OR "first published in"
6-6-10-6-9-2-2-7-12-8-11-10
✔1. 6: 1960s or 1970s - Fail-Safe (1967) - fin 1/31
✔2. 6: 1960s or 1970s: - Babel-17 (1966) - fin 5/8
✔3. 10: the 2020s - Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2), pub 9/10/2020 - fin 1/20
✔4. 6: Flat Stanley pub 1964 - fin 6/21
✔5. 9: the 2010s: The Last Honest Horse Thief, pub 2018 - fin 1/6/25
✔6. 2: 19th century: The Jane Austen Project - fin 5/15
✔7. 2: 19th century: His Majesty's Dragon , set during the Napoleanic wars- fin 8/1
✔8. 7: the 1980s or 1990s: The Sacrifice of Tamar, pub 1/1/1994 - fin 1/11
✔9. 12: Free Choice: The Outcast Dead - fin 1/6
✔10. 8: the 2000s - Traveler(Traveler #1), pub 2/7/2017
✔11. 11: a decade either side of your birth year (1936 TO 1956): We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel, set during WWII - fin 2/9
✔12. 10: the 2020s - The Echo Wife, pub 2/16/21 - fin 2/26

COMPLETED 8/1

[Bea]

Moving Mountains 2025

Challenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2025
Goal: 12 books

1. 7: the 1980s or 1990s: Firestorm [pub. 1996]
2. 8: the 2000s: A Year on Ladybug Farm [pub. 2009]
3. 6: the 1960s or 1970s: A Moveable Feast [pub. 1964]
4. 6: the 1960s or 1970s: Dune [pub. 1965]
5. 12: FREE choice
6. 1: 18th century: The Last of the Mohicans [set in 1757]
7. 11: a decade either side of your birth year: Brat Farrar [pub. 1949]
8. 1: 18th century: A Tale of Two Cities [set in 1789]
9. 3: the 1900s or 1910s: Riders of the Purple Sage [pub. 1905]
10. 8: the 2000s: Cold Case [pub. 2000]
11. 1: 18th century: The Indigo Girl [set in 1739]
12. 6: the 1960s or 1970s: Captains and the Kings [pub. 1972]

[Joanna]

I'll start with 26, but this looks like it will be mostly easy to slot things into, so I may add more slots later.

Moving Mountains 2025
Read: 24/26

✅1. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - Neon Roses (1980s) - 12/7/24
✅2. 2: 19th century - Things Fall Apart (1890s) - 5/22/25
✅3. 2: 19th century - Crucible of Gold (Napoleonic wars - 1803-1815) - 12/25/24
✅4. 10: the 2020s - XOXO (pub. 2021, contemporary) - 12/23/24
✅5. 9: the 2010s - Recursion (pub. 2019 - contemporary) - 2/13/25
6. 1: 18th century - The Bells
✅7. 9: the 2010s - The Kiss Quotient (pub. 2018, contemporary) - 1/6/25
✅8. 3: the 1900s or 1910s - The Pull of the Stars (1918) - 7/19/25
✅9. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - City Boy (set in 1928) - 12/13/24
✅10. 6: the 1960s or 1970s - The Berry Pickers
✅11. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - The Calculating Stars (1950s) - 7/15/25
✅12. 8: the 2000s - Crow Lake (pub 2002, contemporary) - 1/27/25
✅13. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - Die Trying (pub. 1998, contemporary) - 1/22/25
✅14. 9: the 2010s - The Dalai Lama's Cat (pub 2012, contemporary) - 12/31/24
✅15. 12: FREE choice - Beartown - 12/31/24
16. 3: the 1900s or 1910s - The Orchardist
✅17. 8: the 2000s - Then We Came to the End (pub. 2007; main events 2001-2005?) - 6/25/25
✅18. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - 1/26/25
✅19. 8: the 2000s - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2005-2007) - 2/16/25
✅20. 2: 19th century - Babel (1800s) - 3/11/25
✅21. 11: a decade either side of your birth year - Glengarry Glen Ross (1980s) - 2/18/25
✅22. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - 5/31/25
✅23. 3: the 1900s or 1910s - Skylark Farm - 5/6/25
✅24. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - Snow in August (1946-47) - 7/29/31
✅25. 8: the 2000s - Black Lipstick Kisses (pub 2004, contemporary) - 5/31/25
✅26. 12: FREE choice - The Ninja Daughter - 3/11/25

[Charity]

I will choose 5 for now as I still have a lot of "in the middle of" books to clean off my "Currently Reading".

A - 1920s or 30s - The House at Pooh Corner - Read 1/14/2025
E - 1980s or 90s - The Twits - Read 1/18/2025
I - 1900s or 10s - The Riddle of the Sands
O - 1970s or 1980s - 84, Charing Cross Road
U - FREE - Nutcracker and Mouse King / The Tale of the Nutcracker - Read 2/15/2025

[Tien]

@Lagullande, you're welcome!

@Susan, you can always try the shelves for 18th century or 19th century? People seem to shelve books there with this idea in mind (published or set in) or a listopia? Like this:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Meg]

Moving mountains 2025

1. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - After Darkness [set 1942]✔️
2. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - Cursed Bread [set 1951] ✔️
3. 10: the 2020s - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World [pub 2024]✔️
4. 2: 19th century - Learned by Heart [set 1805]✔️
5. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - Raising Demons [pub 1957]✔️
6. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - Jamaica Inn [pub 1936]✔️
7. 1: 18th century - The Lost Apothecary [set 1791]✔️
8. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - The Impossible Thing set 1926✔️
9. 3: the 1900s or 1910s - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries [set 1909]✔️
10. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - Cactus Pear For My Beloved [set 1940s]✔️
11. 11: decade birth year - The Secret Wisdom of the Earth [set 1985]✔️
12. 8: the 2000s - Disgrace [pub 2008]✔️
13. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - In an Antique Land [pub 1993]✔️
14. 8: the 2000s - Tales of a Female Nomad [pub 2001]✔️
15. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - No Longer Human [pub 1948]✔️
16. 8: the 2000s - Mystic River [pub 2001]✔️
17. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - The Most [set 1957]✔️
18. 1: 18th century - The Whisky Widow [set 1780]✔️
19. 2: 19th century - The Conjurer's Wife [set 1820s]✔️
20. 10: the 2020s - Mislaid in Parts Half-Known [pub 2024] ✔️
21. 6: the 1960s or 1970s - Banyan Moon [set 1960s]✔️
22. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - Jade and Emerald [set 1990s]✔️
23. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - The Antidote [set 1935]✔️
24. 4: the 1920s or 1930s - Trust [set 1920s]✔️
25. 7: the 1980s or 1990s I'll Come to You [set 1995] ✔️
26. 10: the 2020s - After the Great Storm [pub 2025] ✔️

Round 2
1. 2: 19th century - The Other March Sisters [set 19thc]✔️
2. 11: decade birth year - Atmosphere [set 1984]
3. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
4. 5: the 1940s or 1950s - Beyond That, the Sea [set 1940s-1950s]✔️
5. 11: decade birth year - Theory & Practice [set 1986]✔️
6. 7: the 1980s or 1990s - The Fifth Elephant [pub 1999]✔️
7. 11: decade birth year - Flashlight [set 1970s-1990s]✔️
8. 12: free - The Bright Years✔️
9. 8: the 2000s - Always Home, Always Homesick [set 2003]✔️
10. 9: the 2010s - Because Internet [pub 2019]✔️
11. 5: the 1940s or 1950s
12. 6: the 1960s or 1970s - A Language of Limbs [set 1970s]✔️
13. 11: decade birth year
14. 5: the 1940s or 1950s
15. 6: the 1960s or 1970s - The Safekeep [set 1961]✔️
16. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
17. 2: 19th century - Carmilla [pub 1872]
18. 1: 18th century - Upon a Starlit Tide [set 1758]✔️
19. 6: the 1960s or 1970s - Broken Country [set 1960s]✔️
20. 10: the 2020s - Wild Dark Shore [pub 2025]✔️
21. 9: the 2010s - The Valley of Amazement [pub 2013]✔️
22. 1: 18th century
23. 11: decade birth year
24. 12: free - Days of Light✔️
25. 6: the 1960s or 1970s - Shy Creatures [set 1964]
26. 3: the 1900s or 1910s

[Susan]

Tien wrote: "@Lagullande, you're welcome!

@Susan, you can always try the shelves for 18th century or 19th century? People seem to shelve books there with this idea in mind (published or set in) or a listopia? ..."

This is just what I needed. Thanks!

[Marina]

I'll start with 12!

1. 7: the 1980s or 1990s: The Moscoviad (published in 1993)
2. 8: the 2000s: Cirkus Columbia (published in 2003)
3. 10: the 2020s: Killing Time (published in 2024) - read 28/01
4. 3: the 1900s or 1910s: The Pastor's Wife (published in 2014) - read 20/01
5. 5: the 1940s or 1950s: The Naked Woman (published in 1950) - read 15/02)
6. 9: the 2010s: Veleni di Dio, medicine del diavolo (published in 2011) - read 05/01
7. 9: the 2010s: Arctic Rising (published in 2012) - read 11/01
8. 2: 19th century: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (set in 1867) - read 08/04
9. 3: the 1900s or 1910s
10. 10: the 2020s: Storie della Serie Cremisi (published in 2021) - read 17/02
11. 3: the 1900s or 1910s
12. 3: the 1900s or 1910s

Read: 9/12

[Michelle]

Moving Mountain - 2025 Ed
Level - 12 Book
Read books "Set in" (approximately 50%) OR "first published in"

1: 18th century (1701 –1800)
Book - The Kingdom of Back
Author - Marie Lu
Date Read - 2/8/25
Rating - 5 stars


7: he 1980s or 1990s
Book - The Graveyard Apartment
Author - Mariko Koike
Date Read - 7/22/25
Rating - 1 Star


3: the 1900s or 1910s
Book - When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer
Author - Beth Seidel Levine

2: 19th century (1801 to 1900)
Book - Jennie Wade: A Girl from Gettysburg
Author - Tecla Emerson
Date Read - 4/10/25
Rating - 5 Stars


8: the 2000s -
Book - How to Run with a Naked Werewolf
Author - Molly Harper
Date Read - 2/1/25
Rating - 5 Stars


7: he 1980s or 1990s
Book - The Wicked Unseen
Author - Gigi Griffis
Date Read - 1/29/25
Rating - 4 stars


3: the 1900s or 1910s
Book - A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen
Author - Kathryn Lasky
Date Read - 2.19/25
Rating - 3 stars


11: a decade either side of your birth year ( 1960's or 1980's)
Book - This I Know
Author - Eldonna Edwards
Date Read - 3/24/25
Rating - 5 Stars


12: FREE choice
Book - Portrait in Death
Author - J.D. Robb
Date - 1/3/25
Rating - 5 Stars


11: a decade either side of your birth year ( 1960's or 1980's)
Book - A Night Divided
Author - Jennifer A. Nielsen
Date Read - 6/21/25
Rating - 5 Stars


12: FREE choice
Book - Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
Author - Adam Kay
Date Read - 1/5/25
Rating - 3 stars


2: 19th century
Book - Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford
Author - Sarah Ellis

[Elvenn]

Moving Mountain 2025

12 books (12 characters in 'PICK-A-SHELF')

1: 18th century ->
4: 1920s or 1930s ->
6: 1960s or 1970s ->
12 ->
5: 1940s or 1950s ->
12 ->
9: 2010s ->
9: 2010s ->
7: the 1980s or 1990s ->
12 ->
2: 19th century ->
9: 2010s ->

[[deleted user]]

Moving Mountains 2025

Completed: 3/26

9 (2010s) =
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society (1/28)

10 (2020s) =

3 (1900-1910s) =

9 (2010s) =

2 (1800s) =

5 (1940-1950s) =

10 (2020s) =

8 (2000s) =
The Last Kingdom (2/5)

7 (1980-1990s) =

7 (1980-1990s) =

4 (1920-1930s) =

1 (1700s) =

12 (Free Choice) =

5 (1940-1950s) =

4 (1920-1930s) =

5 (1940-1950s) =

8 (2000s) =
A Dirty Job (2/18)

5 (1940-1950s) =

8 (2000s) =

5 (1940-1950s) =

6 (1960-1970s) =

1 (1700s) =

3 (1900-1910s) =

2 (1800s) =

7 (1980-1990s) =

7 (1980-1990s) =

[christene_littlelibrary]

Challenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2025
Books must be on TBR before 1 Jan 2025

Goal: 26
Read: 0/26

Books set in or published in:
1. 8: the 2000s
2. 11: a decade either side of your birth year
3. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
4. 10: the 2020s
5. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
6. 1: 18th century
7. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
8. 12: FREE choice
9. 2: 19th century
10. 2: 19th century
11. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
12. 8: the 2000s
13. 10: the 2020s
14. 2: 19th century
15. 10: the 2020s
16. 1: 18th century
17. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
18. 5: the 1940s or 1950s
19. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
20. 3: the 1900s or 1910s
21. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
22. 4: the 1920s or 1930s
23. 10: the 2020s
24. 12: FREE choice
25. 6: the 1960s or 1970s
26. 11: a decade either side of your birth year

[Christina (AKA Babbling)]

Moving Mountain - 2025

As always, this challenge restricted books added to TBR prior to the year it's being played so books must be on TBR prior to 1 January 2025.

Read books "Set in" (approximately 50%) OR "first published in"

5 books (5 vowels in the alphabet)

1. 3: the 1900s or 1910s
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis

2. 7: the 1980s or 1990s
B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton

3. 8: the 2000s (pub - July 1, 2001
An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn

4. 11: a decade either side of your birth year (no need to disclose) First published January 1, 1963
False Colours: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance by Georgette Heyer

5. 7: the 1980s or 1990s
Time Was by Nora Roberts (first published 1989 )

[David]

1. 8: Set in or First Published in the 2000's
American Prometheus by Kai Bird

2. 12: Choice Set in or First Published in the 1970's
They Came in Chains by J. Saunders Redding

3. 10: Set in or First Published in the 2020's
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

4. 9: Set in or First Published in the 2010's
Long Shadows, High Hopes by Neil Fraser

5. 6: Set in or First Published in the 1960's
Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick

[LaurLa]

Moving Mountain - 2025
January - December 2025

My Moving Mountain Challenge (msg 21)

Level ❱❱ 26 Books
Books Read ❱❱



☑️roll 2 ❱❱ 19th century
🔺set in 1800s
🔺Say Yes to the Marquess ❱❱ 03.15 ★★★★

roll 4 ❱❱ 1920s or 1930s
🔺set in 1920s
🔺Murder on the Flying Scotsman

roll 2 ❱❱ 19th century
🔺set in 1800s
🔺A Willow Creek Christmas

roll 3 ❱❱ 1900s or 1910s
🔺set in 1903
🔺Seeing a Large Cat

roll 8 ❱❱ 2000s
🔺set in/published 2009
🔺Sweet Seduction

☑️roll 10 ❱❱ 2020s
🔺set in/published 2024
🔺You Can Kill ❱❱ 01.18 ★★★★

☑️roll 7 ❱❱ 1980s or 1990s
🔺set in/published 1988
🔺Irish Rose ❱❱ 01.25 ★★★★

roll 1 ❱❱ 18th century
🔺set in 1700s
🔺Lucien's Fall



☑️roll 8 ❱❱ 2000s
🔺set in/published 2002
🔺Into the Night ❱❱ 04.16 ★★★★

☑️roll 10 ❱❱ 2020s
🔺set in/published 2024
🔺The True Love Experiment ❱❱ 01.10 ★★★★★

roll 10 ❱❱ 2020s
🔺set in/published 2024
🔺Hello Stranger

roll 2 ❱❱ 19th century
🔺set in 1800s
🔺The Temptation of Lady Serena

roll 7 ❱❱ 1980s or 1990s
🔺published in 1982
🔺The Belligerent Miss Boynton

☑️roll 12 ❱❱ FREE choice
🔺my choice
🔺The Crawling Darkness ❱❱ 01.13 ★★★

roll 2 ❱❱ 19th century
🔺set in 1800s
🔺Bold Land, Bold Love

roll 11 ❱❱ decade either side of your birth year
🔺birth year 1969 ❱❱ published in 1978
🔺Touch The Sun

roll 10 ❱❱ 2020s
🔺set in/published 2021
🔺Catching Fire



roll 9 ❱❱ 2010s
🔺set in/published 2015
🔺Breathless In Love

roll 7 ❱❱ 1980s or 1990s
🔺set in/published 1980
🔺Love At Sea

roll 8 ❱❱ 2000s
🔺set in/published 2003
🔺Shore Lights

☑️roll 12 ❱❱ FREE choice
🔺my choice
🔺Avenged ❱❱ 01.23 ★★★★

roll 8 ❱❱ 2000s
🔺set in/published 2007
🔺Here Kitty, Kitty

☑️roll 9 ❱❱ 2010s
🔺set in/published 2012
🔺Songs for Perri ❱❱ 01.04 ★★★

☑️roll 12 ❱❱ FREE choice
🔺my choice
🔺Can't Buy Me Love ❱❱ 01.05 ★★★★

roll 9 ❱❱ 2010s
🔺set in/published 2013
🔺Legal Ease

☑️roll 10 ❱❱ 2020s
🔺published 2024
🔺Passions in Death ❱❱ 02.22 ★★★★

[Michelle]

I'm in for 5.

Goal: 5
Progress: 0/5 (0%)

4: the 1920s or 1930s
2: 19th century
9: the 2010s
5: the 1940s or 1950s
6: the 1960s or 1970s

[Joyce]

Moving Mountain - 2025 Ed
Challenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2025

Goal: 26 Letters in the alphabet
Read: 23/26

Read books "Set in" (approximately 50%) OR "first published in"
(view spoiler)[
1: 18th century
2: 19th century
3: the 1900s or 1910s
4: the 1920s or 1930s
5: the 1940s or 1950s
6: the 1960s or 1970s
7: the 1980s or 1990s
8: the 2000s
9: the 2010s
10: the 2020s
11: a decade either side of your birth year (no need to disclose)
12: FREE choice (hide spoiler)]

✔️10: the 2020s - The Ministry of Time Published 2024 - 1/17/25
✔️9: the 2010s- Hollow Kingdom Published in 2019 - 3/7/25
✔️5: the 1940s or 1950s- Red Planet Published 1949 - 2/22/25
✔️12: free choice- The Masked City Published 2015 - 1/9/25
✔️5: the 1940s or 1950s- Sparrow Hill Road 5/26/25
✔️10: the 2020s- Hell Bent Published 2023 - 1/30/25
✔️6: the 1960s or 1970s- A Swiftly Tilting Planet Published 1978 - 2/11/25
✔️9: the 2010s- Manhattan Mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America Published 2015 Read 5/15/25
✔️7: the 1980s or 1990s- Moving Pictures Published 1990 Read 3/20/25
✔️9: the 2010s- Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops Published 2012 Read 4/29/25
✔️6: the 1960s or 1970s- Gateway Published 1977 read 3/29/25
✔️12: FREE choice- The Broken Mirror 2/26/25
✔️8: the 2000s- Full Tilt Published 2003 Read 2/21/25
✔️12: FREE choice- We'll Prescribe You a Cat 3/17/25
✔️2: 19th century - The Light on Farallon Island Set in 1856 7/17/25
✔️7: the 1980s or 1990s - 1Q84 Set in 1984 7/29/25
✔️8: the 2000s- Manhattan Is My Beat Published 2001 Read 2/7/25
✔️12: FREE choice - Friend of the Devil 5/25/25
✔️10: the 2020s- The Night Guest Published 2021 read 5/20/25
✔️8: the 2000s-Dead Lines Pub 6/28/2005 Read 6/30/25
✔️1: 18th Century- takes place -The City of Brass 5/21/25
✔️8: the 2000s- The Haunted Forest Tour Published 2007 7/25/25
✔️10: the 2020s-System Collapse Pub 11/13/23 Read 7/2/25
8: the 2000s
11: a decade either side of your birth year (no need to disclose)
8: the 2000s

[Mimi]

Goal 12 book

1) 1 - 18th C - (published) gullivers travels
2) 12 - free - fast food nation
3) 12 - free -
4) 12 - free - webcamgirls
5) 12 - free
6) 6 - 1960s or 70s - (set in) daisy jones and the six
7) 7 - 1980s or 90s - tell me your dreams
8) 12 - free
9) 10 - 2020s - keeper of enchanted rooms 2022
10) 6 - 1960s or 70s - the ladys slipper (set in 1964)
11) 9 - 2010s - paper magician 2014
12) 5 - 1940s or 50s

[Susan]

Finished!

Updated in message 7 above.

It was so much fun to find a book about dragons set during the Napoleanic wars to use for the 19th century!

[Meg]

I finished my 26 and since I enjoyed it so much I'm going to try for another 26! I think it's so-able if I get easier numbers. Wish me luck!

[Rosemary]

I've finished too! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I had so many from the 1960s & 1970s it was a real challenge, not a period I read very much, but I got there!