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message 1: by Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief (last edited Dec 27, 2024 06:24AM) (new)

Dec 27, 2024 06:12AM

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This is the 3rd level of this challenge.

The challenge consists of many levels, this level is 251 - 500 books. So, if you have not completed the first 250, go back and complete the previous levels of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2025 that you haven't already finished.

Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 251 through 500) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.

Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2025 any books you've read this year may be included.

This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.

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Dec 27, 2024 06:15AM

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Jan 03, 2025 03:06AM

Princesspint (princesspint) | 12 comments

In Too be updated

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message 5: by Angel **Book Junkie** (last edited Sep 04, 2025 11:24AM) (new)

Apr 25, 2025 05:44PM

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message 6: by Beth (last edited Aug 08, 2025 09:28PM) (new)

Jun 18, 2025 05:32PM

Level 1 (1 - 100)
Level 2 (101 - 250)

Level 3 (251 - 500)
Jun 18 -
251. Cut Me In by Ed McBain
252. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
253. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
254. Anthem by Ayn Rand
255. Midnight in Death (In Death, #7.5) by J.D. Robb
256. Christmas in Quincy (The Edens, #0.5) by Devney Perry
257. Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
258. Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5) by Holly Jackson
259. Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
260. The Importance of Henry VIII by Marilyn Tower Oliver
261. See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
262. The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life by Bruce H. Wilkinson
263. Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
264. Empty Smiles (Small Spaces, #4) by Katherine Arden
265. Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
266. Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
267. Nothing More Dangerous (Broady Sanden, #1) by Allen Eskens
268. How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury (How To Train Your Dragon, #12) by Cressida Cowell
269. Still Life by Sarah Winman
270. The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1) by Jasper Fforde
271. Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
272. 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion (Irish Century Book, #1) by Morgan Llywelyn
273. Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4) by Elizabeth Peters
274. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
275. The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, #5) by Elizabeth Peters
276. Circe by Madeline Miller
277. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
278. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
279. Empty Smiles (Small Spaces, #4) by Katherine Arden
280. Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross, #8) by James Patterson
281. The Last Camel Died at Noon (Amelia Peabody, #6) by Elizabeth Peters
282. Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
283. In the Blood by Lisa Unger
284. Good Luck with That by Kristan Higgins
285. Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1) by Alan Brennert
286. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
287. The King's Deception (Cotton Malone, #8) by Steve Berry
288. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
289. The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
290. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
291. Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9) by Patricia Cornwell
292. The Trap by Melanie Raabe
293. Death in Disguise (Agatha Christie Investigates, #3) by Alison Joseph
294. Hope Rides Again (Obama Biden Mysteries, #2) by Andrew Shaffer
295. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
296. The Clinic by Cate Quinn
297. Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1) by Jasper Fforde
298. The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
299. Ramona and Her Mother (Ramona Quimby, #5) by Beverly Cleary
300. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
301. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5) by Rick Riordan
302. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry (The Rabbi Small Mysteries, #2) by Harry Kemelman
303. The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (Amelia Peabody, #7) by Elizabeth Peters
304. The Butcher Game (Dr. Wren Muller, #2) by Alaina Urquhart
305. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
306. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2) by Jasper Fforde
307. Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red (The Rabbi Small Mysteries, #5) by Harry Kemelman
308. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #22) by Agatha Christie
309. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3) by Benjamin Stevenson
310. Presumed Innocent (Kindle County, #1) by Scott Turow
311. The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
312. The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross Book, #9) by James Patterson
313. The Launch Party by Lauren A. Forry
314. As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3) by Holly Jackson
315. The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone, #9) by Steve Berry
316. The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw
317. Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10) by Patricia Cornwell
318. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
319. The Maid's Secret (Molly the Maid, #3) by Nita Prose
320. Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey

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message 7: by Beth (last edited 3 hours, 47 min ago) (new)

Jun 18, 2025 05:33PM

Level 3 continued

321. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
322. The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard
323. The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
324. The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens
325. I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
326. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
327. Not a Very Good Murderer by Ronan Farrow
328. The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
329. Silent Sister by Megan Davidhizar
330. The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1) by Anthony Horowitz
331. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
332. The Survivors by Jane Harper
333. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
334. Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders
335. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
336. Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America by Ayaz Virji
337. Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor
338. London Bridges (Alex Cross, #10) by James Patterson
339. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
340. The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11) by Patricia Cornwell
341. Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2) by Alan Brennert
342. Booked (The Crossover, #2) by Kwame Alexander
343. The Patriot Threat (Cotton Malone, #10) by Steve Berry
344. Feel the Bern (Bernie Sanders Mystery #1) by Andrew Shaffer

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message 8: by Beth (last edited Jun 18, 2025 05:35PM) (new)

Jun 18, 2025 05:33PM

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message 10: by Gabby (last edited Sep 03, 2025 02:30PM) (new)

Jun 25, 2025 03:35PM

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message 11: by Gabby (new)

Jun 25, 2025 03:35PM

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message 12: by Sammy (last edited 7 hours, 49 min ago) (new)

Jul 03, 2025 06:15AM

Here for level 3!

251. Spellbreaker
252. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
253. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
254. Solomon's Song
255. Undaunted
256. Russka
257. Redemption River
258. Around the World in 80 Novels: A global journey inspired by writers from every continent
259. The Butterfly Garden
260. In Bitter Chill
261. The Waringham Chronicles, Volume 2: The Wheel of Fortune
262. The Case of the Missing Marquess
263. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes
264. Death Beside the Seaside
265. Madame Bovary
266. And the Mountains Echoed
267. Under An Italian Sky
268. Essex Dogs
269. Little, Big: Or, the Fairies' Parliament
270. The Autumn of the Patriarch
271. The Librarian of Crooked Lane
272. Thomas Hardy
273. A Single Swallow
274. The Adventures of Brother Cadfael: A Collection of Chronicles
275. Flybot
276. Forbidden Mafia Prince
277. Fiction Land
278. Rotten to the Core
279. No Mardi Gras for the Dead
280. Quite Ugly One Morning
281. The Empire
282. Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
283. The Beatrix Potter Collection
284. The Mother
285. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
286. Julia
287. Everything Is Lies
288. The Passengers
289. One Small Mistake
290. The Funhouse
291. The Battle of the Labyrinth
292. The Pillars of the Earth
293. The Dream Home
294. The Woman in White
295. Le Morte d'Arthur
296. Dead Man’s Grave
297. All Better Now
298. Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean
299. Twenty Years After
300. Sleeping Giants
301. Anxious People
302. A Match Made in Venice
303. Brick Lane
304. Bethany's Sin
305. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
306. Musashi
307. So, Anyway...
308. The Bees
309. Mrs England
310. Freeze Frame
311. Blowback
312. Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
313. Summer at The Cosy Cottage Cafe
314. The Innocent and the Dead: a DI Jack Knox Murder Mystery
315. Smoky Joe's Cafe
316. No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
317. The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner
318. A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: How (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong
319. Fresh Water for Flowers
320. Wasteland Warlords 1: A Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure
321. Two Steps Forward
322. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
323. The Lonely Heart Attack Club
324. Heads You Lose
325. Interview with the Robot
326. Wasteland Warlords 2: A Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure
327. Cast Iron
328. The Murder on the Links
329. The Red Notebook
330. Wasteland Warlords 6
331. The Night Gate
332. The Vault
333. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
334. Breakfast in Burgundy: A Hungry Irishman in the Belly of France
335. Murder in the Air
336. Paris in the Present Tense
337. London Fields
338. Sixth Column
339. The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway
340. Game of Nines
341. Little Lord Fauntleroy
342. Recipe for Love
343. Blood Caste
344. Cupcakes for My Orc Enemy
345. The Christmas Hirelings
346. Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning
347. One More to Die
348. Interpreter of Maladies
349. Without a Hitch
350. The SideRoad Kids - Book 1: Growing Up in the U.P.
351. Crime Scenes
352. I Love You Like It's 1999
353. Guard Her With Your Life
354. Children of Time
355. Bewilderness Part One: Threshold
356. Children of Ruin
357. The Ascent of Eli Israel and Other Stories
358. Say No More
359. Children of Memory
360. No Man Is an Island: Stories of Friendship and Bonding
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message 13: by Sammy (new)

Jul 03, 2025 06:16AM

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message 14: by Jessica (Goldenfurpro) (new)

Aug 02, 2025 07:29AM

Jessica (Goldenfurpro) (goldenfurproductions) | 396 comments

Level 3 of the Serious Reader Challenge for 2025

TOTAL READ: 269/500

July
251. Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 2
252. Odder: An Otter's Story
253. Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 3
254. The Things We Miss
255. The Wild Robot on the Island
256. 古見さんは、コミュ症です。 33 Komi-san wa, Komyushō Desu. 33
257. Food Wars! 12
258. The Yomigaeri Tunnel
259. Skip・Beat!, Vol. 2
260. Kirby's Lessons for Falling in Love
261. Skip・Beat!, Vol. 3
262. Free Piano Not Haunted
263. We Could Be Magic
264. BEASTARS 8
265. Skip・Beat!, Vol. 4
266. Across a Field of Starlight
267. Food Wars!, Vol. 13
268. Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 4
269. Skip・Beat!, Vol. 5

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message 15: by Brittany (last edited Aug 18, 2025 12:48PM) (new)

Aug 15, 2025 10:03PM

Brittany McCann (brittanylmccann) | 1266 comments

LEVEL 1
LEVEL 2

SERIOUS READER CHALLENGE 2025 - LEVEL 3-
254 /300

JULY
251. 7/25
252. 7/27
253. 7/28
254. 7/29
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