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message 1: by Virginie (last edited Jan 04, 2025 10:05AM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments 2025 Monthly Challenge [Link]


JAN - New Year, New Books (New Releases)
FEB - Short Month, Short Books (Novellas & Short Stories)
MAR - BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) Authors
APR - Here Be Dragons!
MAY - May the 4th be with You (Scifi Month)
JUN - Pride Month (LGBTQIA+ Authors and Characters)
JUL - Self-Published and Indy-Published
AUG - Pre-2000s Fantasy
SEP - Stand-Alones
OCT - Spooktober
NOV - Cozy November
DEC - Choose Your Own Adventure (Make Your Own Category)


message 2: by Virginie (last edited 13 hours, 43 min ago) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments January: New Year, New Books (New Releases) [Link]

Read this year
Bioshifter Volume 3 by Natalie Maher Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron Swordcrossed by Freya Marske Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7) by Matt Dinniman The Serviceberry An Economy of Gifts and Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer Roverpowered 2 by Drew Hayes Direct Descendant (Daw Book Collectors, 1979) by Tanya Huff Roverpowered 3 Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist by Drew Hayes If We Survive This by Racquel Marie The Hungry Gods by Adrian Tchaikovsky
✔ 2024/03/14 Bioshifter: Volume 3
✔ 2024/06/04 Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1)
✔ 2024/10/08 Swordcrossed*
✔ 2024/10/29 Don't Let the Forest In*
✔ 2024/11/12 This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7)
✔ 2024/11/19 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World*
✔ 2024/12/04 Roverpowered 2
✔ 2025/04/01 Direct Descendant*
✔ 2025/05/07 Roverpowered 3
✔ 2025/06/17 If We Survive This*
✔ 2025/08/15 The Hungry Gods

The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis Morphotrophic by Greg Egan Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Babylonia by Costanza Casati
2024/02/06 The Tainted Cup*
2024/03/20 Death in the Spires
2024/03/19 Floating Hotel*
2024/04/09 Morphotrophic*
2024/06/04 Service Model
2024/06/13 Babylonia*

Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard Time's Agent by Brenda Peynado Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland The Sapling Cage (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1) by Margaret Killjoy Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1) by Maiga Doocy Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
2024/07/09 Navola
2024/07/30 Navigational Entanglements*
2024/08/13 Time's Agent*
2024/09/17 Yield Under Great Persuasion*
2024/09/24 The Sapling Cage (Daughters of the Empty Throne #1)*
2024/10/15 Sorcery and Small Magics*
2024/12/10 Hammajang Luck*

Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan Frail Little Embers by Fija Callaghan One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, #1) by Olivia Waite When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1) by Antonia Hodgson
2025/01/07 Immortal*
2025/02/13 Frail Little Embers*
2025/02/25 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
2025/02/27 Shroud
2025/03/18 Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1)*
2025/03/25 When the Moon Hits Your Eye
2025/04/15 The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy #1)*

The Devils (The Devils, #1) by Joe Abercrombie Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang Overgrowth by Mira Grant The Incandescent by Emily Tesh The Witch Roads (The Witch Roads, #1) by Kate Elliott Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle I Ran Away to Evil 3 A Cozy LitRPG Rom-Com by Mystic Neptune
2025/05/06 The Devils (The Devils #1)
2025/05/06 Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame*
2025/05/06 Overgrowth*
2025/05/13 The Incandescent*
2025/06/10 The Witch Roads (The Witch Roads #1)*
2025/06/10 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil*
2025/07/15 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
2025/08/05 Automatic Noodle
2025/08/12 Lucky Day
2025/08/19 I Re: As An NPC Troll (I Ran Away to Evil #3)

Roverpowered 4 Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist by Drew Hayes The Summer War by Naomi Novik All of Us Murderers by K.J. Charles The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes Kill the Beast by Serra Swift Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews
2025/09/10 Roverpowered 4
2025/09/16 The Summer War
2025/10/07 All of Us Murderers
2025/10/14 The Works of Vermin*
2025/10/14 Kill the Beast
2025/10/28 Hazelthorn

The Poet Empress by Shen Tao Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman The Library of Amorlin (The Age of Beasts, #1) by Kalyn Josephson Green & Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons Daughter of Crows (The Kindness Academy, #1) by Mark Lawrence The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8) by Martha Wells Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8) by Matt Dinniman
2026/01/20 The Poet Empress*
2026/02/10 Operation Bounce House
2026/02/24 The Library of Amorlin* (The Age of Beasts #1)
2026/03/03 Green & Deadly Things*
2026/03/24 Daughter of Crows (The Kindness Academy #1)
2026/04/07 The Subtle Art of Folding Space*
2026/04/21 The Language of Liars*
2026/04/28 Ode to the Half-Broken
2026/05/05 Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries #8)
2026/05/05 Love Galaxy*
2026/05/12 A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl #8)


message 3: by Virginie (last edited Nov 06, 2025 05:56PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments February: Short Month, Short Books (Novellas & Short Stories)

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Short stories
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune Goblins & Greatcoats by Travis Baldree
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune
Goblins & Greatcoats by Travis Baldree

Collections
Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho

Novellas: standalone
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers The Deep by Rivers Solomon The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor Time's Agent by Brenda Peynado Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho Rose/House by Arkady Martine The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri

Novellas: series
The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate, #1) by Neon Yang The Expert System's Brother (Expert System, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky Ironclads by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1) by Alix E. Harrow In the Shadow of the Fall (Guardians of the Gods, #1) by Tobi Ogundiran

Read this year:
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky Chambers A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky Chambers Roverpowered 2 by Drew Hayes Roverpowered 3 Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist by Drew Hayes Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) by Martha Wells System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells The Hungry Gods by Adrian Tchaikovsky


message 5: by Virginie (last edited Nov 06, 2025 06:30PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments April: Here Be Dragons!

Ideas:
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi The Book of Dragons by Jonathan Strahan Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons


message 6: by Virginie (last edited 18 hours, 16 min ago) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments May: May the 4th be with You (Scifi Month)

Ideas: standalones
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Morphotrophic by Greg Egan The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei


message 7: by Virginie (last edited Nov 07, 2025 12:40AM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments June: Pride Month (LGBTQIA+ Authors and Characters)

Sapphic
Idolfire by Grace Curtis Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang

Aroace
Fallen Thorns (Fallen Thorns, #1) by Harvey Oliver Baxter

Trans
The Sapling Cage (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1) by Margaret Killjoy

Achillean
Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1) by Maiga Doocy Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland


message 8: by Virginie (last edited Jan 07, 2025 05:14AM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments July: Self-Published and Indy-Published


message 9: by Virginie (last edited Jan 07, 2025 05:14AM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments August: Pre-2000s Fantasy


message 10: by Virginie (last edited Nov 06, 2025 04:56PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:13AM

Virginie | 6126 comments September: Stand-Alones

Ideas: Fantasy
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Starling House by Alix E. Harrow The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

Ideas: Mythology
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller


message 11: by Virginie (last edited Nov 06, 2025 04:58PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:14AM

Virginie | 6126 comments October: Spooktober

Ideas
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle A Decade of Death and Decisions by Drew Hayes Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove Overgrowth by Mira Grant Until the Shadows Lengthen by Hannah Clayton The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes


message 12: by Virginie (last edited 13 hours, 38 min ago) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:14AM

Virginie | 6126 comments November: Cozy November

Ideas:
Mosswood Apothecary by J.P. Rindfleisch IX Kill the Beast by Serra Swift The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop, #2) by Sarah Beth Durst Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2) by Travis Baldree


message 13: by Virginie (last edited Jan 07, 2025 05:15AM) (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:14AM

Virginie | 6126 comments December: Choose Your Own Adventure (Make Your Own Category)


message 14: by Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:20AM

Jenna Kathleen (jennakathleen) | 5178 comments Mod
ooooh before you set this up, please check my new post in the [how it works] thread. I'd love your input :)

(also, if you need me to delete this comment, let me know)


message 15: by Virginie (new)
Jan 04, 2025 07:43AM

Virginie | 6126 comments Jenna wrote: "ooooh before you set this up, please check my new post in the [how it works] thread. I'd love your input :)

(also, if you need me to delete this comment, let me know)"

13 comments should be fine :)
I've been playing with the spreadsheet, I'm glad I didn't set things up immediately. Will take a look, thanks a lot for telling me!


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