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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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15.4 Pompeii ItalyOption 2- Read a book that fulfills both requirements of Option 1.
Book 1- Read a book with MPG Historical Fiction
Book 2- Read a book with a word in the title that has a double letter: BOOK
The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso
Task total: 15
Season total: 230
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20.10 Group Reads
Gutenberg Classic: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Discussion post here
This book was first published in 1906, so one Golden Oldies ticket please!
Points this task: 20
Season total: 105
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 1
10.6 Fields of PlentyRead a book with a farm as the setting.
Book read: Cassie's Cowboy Crave
How it fits: Set on a ranch, from GR description: "Without the chance to say goodbye, Cassie is forced into a witness protection program on Emerson Ranch. "
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Points This Post: 10
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 14
30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: Beauty is in the Eye of BeholderOption 1: Read a book with a title (not subtitle) of at least 3 words that has the first letter of each word appearing in STREET ART.
The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology #1) by Aiden Thomas
first letters of words in title, TST, found in STreeT art
Option 3: Read a book with an MPG of Historical Fiction
A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon
Task total: 30
Season total: 260
Nick KY25.2 Ash’s Slash and Survive Opt. 4. Anthology. I read Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates.
Opt. 5. Nonfiction w MPG of Paranormal. I read The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 305
Kristina Marie10.4 Where the Dead Still Walk
Read a book that is set at least 50 percent in Scotland, France, or India.
Required If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
Death of a Dentist by M.C. Beaton
This book takes place entirely in Scotland, mostly in the fictional Scottish town of Lochdubh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_...
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 175
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
REPOST:
Option 2: Choose a task that you completed in the Summer or Fall 2025 Season. Read a book that satisfies one of the options you did not choose previously.
I completed Challenge 25.4 Bookworm526's task: Our National Parks Challenge in the Summer Challenge. I used Book 1 Option A and Book 2 Option A.
For this challenge I read 25.4 Bookworm's Book 1 Option B
Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title (subtitles excluded) that can be made from the phrase CONGAREE SWAMP.
I read this for the Fall Challenge Come Save Me by Molly Black
WORD=come
Option 4: Choose any book you read in the Summer or Fall Season. Using that book's first published date, read a book with the same first published month but has a different year.
Read in Summer challenge for Challenge 10.6 Supper Club first published September 20, 2022
For the Fall Challenge I read Black Star by Kwame Alexander
First published September 24, 2024
AR Info: IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5.0
Points this post: 30
Total points: 385/985
Task completed: 30/57
This was a hard one to post. I hope I covered everything.
30.3 Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee ComedianOption 1: Locations
Read a book set at least 50% in either Pennsylvania or Scotland
Foi de Chien: Les enquêtes d'un golden retriever
Setting: Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Option 4: Genre
Read a book with an MPG Humor
Nuit de noces à Ikonos
Points this Post: 30
Points Total: 175
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.7 - National Trust
Read a book with a single author's first and last initials can be found in NATIONAL TRUST.
If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
Author's initials, LN can be found in the phrase National Trust (LN in National).
This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 45 points
Tasks completed: 5
10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or WrapRead a book with Witch, Werewolf, Vampire, or Mummy in the title.
Witch King by Martha Wells
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 115
Total BB: 2
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15.1 Ancient or New?Book 1: Read a book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders on the list.
Days at the Torunka Café by Satoshi Yagisawa
Hanging Gardens of Babylon / Days
Book 2: Read a book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders on the list.
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
Great Wall of China / Grow
**I'd like an It's A Fact ticket for Things in Nature Merely Grow (nonfiction)**
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 130
IAF this Post: 1
Total BB: 2
Total IAF: 1
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15.3 Stonehenge United KingdomOne Book Option: Read a book with a first published year that includes at least 2 unique numbers from this list: 1,2,3,5,7 and is set in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
The Something Girl by Jodi Taylor
First published 2017
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 145
Total BB: 2
Total IAF: 1
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SUSAN A25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic Types
Option 2 – Read two books.
Book 1. Read ONE book from ONE of the lists above.
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Modern Gothic page 4 #306
Book 2: RAB snow on the cover.
Outside by Ragnar Jónasson
points this post: 25
previous total: 820
new total: 845
Erica H.20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task- Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State
Option 3: The Amana Colonies
Read a book that was first published in the month of October in any year 1965-2025 (inclusive).
The Last Kingdom published October 2004
Points: 20
Total points: 75
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 0
Jessica S10.8 The Ghouls Guide to Reading
Read a book from one of these lists (Books to get you in the Halloween Mood - page 1 number 3)
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 160
Jessica S10.10 Do They Exist?
Read a book where cryptids are essential to the story.
Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole
(Megalodon is on list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...)
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 170
Jessica S15.5 Sukhothai Thailand
Read a book with one of these standalone words in the title: First, King, Kingdom, City, Capital.
The Black King by Sam Burns
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 185
Jessica S20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Option 1: Read a fiction book from this list: Native American Literature (page 1) https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 205
ROBIN P5.7 - National Trust
Author's first and last initials in NATIONAL TRUST.
Half Share - Nathan Lowell
Points this post: 5
Total points: 220
BB:3 GO:0 IAF:4
20.5 - Bigger is Better: Tammy AZ's task - Pearl JamOption 1, song title word in book title: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
464 pages
The word is Once.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 240
Kathy KS20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 2
Read a book that is #2 or later in a series-whole numbers only.The Kraken Project by Douglas Preston
Series: Wyman Ford #4
I listened to an audiobook; mmpb-402 p.
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 90
Tasks completed: 4/57
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
Kathy KS20.3 - Review Raffle: Masoodah's Task -What's in a name?
Option 1: Read a book by an author that shares the same FIRST NAME Initial of The First LETTER in you YOUR READERBOARD name
A Killing in China Basin by Kirk Russell
Kathy Ks= Kirk Russell
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 110
Tasks completed: 5/57
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
Deborah25.2- Ash's Task- Slash and Survive: A Final Girl Challenge
Option 2: Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?
Read a book where a Roadtrip is essential to the story. Doesn't matter how much of the book is spent on a roadtrip as long as it is essential.
Firestarter Andy and Charlie are on the run from a government agency (The Shop). Albany, NY to Hastings Glen, NY, to Vermont.
Option 4: Always check your candy.
Read an anthology/collection of stories.
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 120
Books Read: 9
Tasks Done: 7
FIONA (TITCH)10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or Wrap
What would costumes be without these classics:
Witch, Werewolf, Vampire, and Mummy
Read a book with one of these words in the title. Words must be stand alone, plural and possessives are accepted.
Diary of a Wimpy Vampire - Tim Collins
IL: MY - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
Points this task: 10
Total points: 30
Bookwrm526Task #25.8 - Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading Rally
Option 3: Read a sports romance featuring football (pro or college).
I read Go Deep by Fiona Davenport, which has MPG Sports, Romance, and Football.
Option 6: Read a book by a single author whose initials (first and last name) are found in PHILADELPHIA EAGLES. I read Spread Me by Sarah Gailey (SG in eagles).
Total points so far: 230
Kelly L20.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall Brings
Pick one option below and read one book for it.
Option 4
Read a book from a series where one word of 5+ letters in the title/subtitle/series can be found in the phrase OPERATION MINCEMEAT.
Déjà Dead is #1 in the Temperance Brennan series.
O[[PERAT]]ION MI[[NCEME]]AT --> PERAT NCEME --> TEMPERANCE
(I'm pretty proud of this one!!)
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This post: 20 points
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Season total: 110 points
Season Tickets: 1 IAF
Kristina Marie5.3 American Football
Read a book with the MPG Sports or Football. Genres may be stand alone or embedded.
Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport by Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford
MPG Sports.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 180
Readerboard name: List_Addict10.2: Windows to the Past
A book with a window of a building on the cover
Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by CJ Archer
Points this challenge: 20
KRISTA KY5.10 Fall Into Reading
Fall into reading by reading a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Say You'll Remember Me
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20
Books read: 2
Kristen IA20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 2:
Read a book that is #2 or later in a series-whole numbers only.
Required: Series must be listed on book page
25 Alive by James Patterson
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 70/985
Tasks Completed: 4/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word comes from one of the following phrases: 'Thundering Smoke', 'Smoke that Rises, OR 'Boiling Water'. Letters may be used as often as they appear. Required: State the phrase used
Lost in a Good Book
phrase: BoILinG wAter
Points this post: 15
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 50
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 1
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.1 School is Cool!
Read a non fiction book with the MPG Science, Mathmatics, or History
-OR-
Read a fiction book with MPG Literary fiction/Literature or Dark Academia
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
It is non-fiction with a MPG of History.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 395/985
Task completed: 31/57
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.4 Robin P's Task: The ABC's
Option 1: Read a book whose author's first and last initials are sequential in the alphabet, going forward.
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father by April Balascio
Option 3: Read a book with an MPG that starts with A, B, or C
Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss by David Bagby
MPG: Crime
Points this post: 25
Total points: 420/985
Task completed: 32/57
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.6 MAZZA1's Task: Name Swap
Book 1: Read a book of your choice by a single author.
Release by Lucy CHRISTOPHER
352 pages
Book 2: Using your first book, read a second book whose author has the same name as the author of the first book BUT in the alternate position.
Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets by CHRISTOPHER Farnsworth
352 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 450/985
Task completed: 33/57
30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But DifferentlyOption 1:
Choose an author you have discovered (new to you) in the Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 season of reading. Read another book by that author. Book cannot be part of the same series as previously read.
Required State book previously read and that the author was new to you.
Nancy Goldstone - Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Read for Summer 2025 - The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe by Nancy Goldstone
THIS AUTHOR WAS NEW TO ME IN SUMMER 2025
Option 4:
Choose any book you read in the Summer or Fall Season. Using that book's first published date, read a book with the same first published month but has a different year. The day does not matter.
Required Post the link the the previous book read.
Read for Summer 2025 - The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir by Tova Friedman PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2022
Read for this task - The Duke's Proposal for the Governess by Eleanor Webster PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2023
I'm claiming 1 IAF ticket for Four Queens
Points this post: 30
Total points: 65
IAF: 1
BB: 1
Task 5.4 Labor DayRead a book where the main character is a mother.
Our heroine, Kausar Khan, is the mother of three adult children. A good portion of the novel is focused on her relationship with her eldest daughter Sana.
Detective Aunty (Kausar Khan Investigates #1) (2025) by Uzma Jalaluddin (female) (Goodreads Author) (Paperback 329 pages)
15 + 05 = 20
Tasks Completed: 02
Points for this post: 05
Points thus far: 15 + 05 = 20
Books read: 02
Pages read: 699
Read but not claimed: 01
Goodreads Authors: 01
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Katrisa5.6 Preserving History
Read a book with a word in the title of three or more letters (excluding And, The), made from either ENGLISH HERITAGE or HISTORIC SCOTLAND or (if you can find one!) CADW.
I read The Cold Room
COLD in sCOtLanD
Points this Post: 5
Points this Post: 365
Katrisa10.4 Where the Dead Still Walk
Read a book that is set at least 50 percent in Scotland, France, or India
I read A Murder in Paris set in France
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 375
15.5 Sukhothai ThailandKingdom(s) in title: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Points this post: 15
Total points: 255
Jager15.8 Easter Island Chile
Read a book with at least 3 people on the cover.
Required: Post the cover
Death Checked Out: A Larkspur Library Mystery by Leah Dobrinska
points this post 15
total points 145/985
10/57
1 IAF / 2 BB / 0 GO
20.9 Moderator's Pet: Rockynook's task- Fall BirthdaysOption 1: Happy Birthday, Zach!
read a book that has one of the following items on the cover:
A pumpkin, black cat, witch’s hat, skull or full moon on the cover.
*Skulls approved in help thread
by Brynne Weaver ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 250
Total Tasks Completed: 11
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Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
30.6 MAZZA1's Task: Name SwapBook 1: Read a book of your choice by a single author.
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
Book 2: Using your first book, read a second book whose author has the same name as the author of the first book BUT in the alternate position. ONLY first and last names count.
Lauren Kate
Fallen
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 280
Total Tasks Completed: 12
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Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
30.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac AsimovOption 2 – Read a book by a single author where ALL the author’s initials can be found in isAac asimOv.
The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen
**CLAIMING BB**
509 pages
Option 5: Read a book that has been adapted and released into a movie or television series.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 310
Total Tasks Completed: 13
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
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15.5 - Sukhothai, Thailand
Read a book with one of these standalone words in the title: First, King, Kingdom, City, Capital.
Tales of the City
Points this task: 15
Season total: 120
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 1
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
No children’s (or related MPG) allowed. Pick an option and read one book for that option. Required: State the option.
Option 1: Read a book that is between 100-250 pages.
Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches -224 pgs, claiming 1 It's a Fact Ticket (Non-fiction)
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 1
Total Points: 70
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 2
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task- Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State
Choose one option and read one book for that option.
Books must have an MPG of Historical or Historical Fiction The MPG may be embedded IE Historical Romance
Required: State the option.
Option 1: The Surf Ballroom
Read a book that has a 4+ title word (subtitles excluded) made from the letters in the phrase THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED. Letters may be used as often as they appear. Required: State the word
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, the word is DEAD
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 90
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 2
Kristina Marie20.9 Moderator's Pet: Rockynook's task- Fall Birthdays
Choose an option and read one book for that option.
Required: State the option
Option 1: Happy Birthday, Zach!
Read a book that has one of the following items on the cover:
A pumpkin, black cat, witch’s hat, skull or full moon on the cover.
Required: post the cover
Devil’s Delight by M.C. Beaton
There is a skull on the scoop of ice cream.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 200
10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or WrapWitch, Werewolf, Vampire, and Mummy - Read a book with one of these words in the title.
Book read: Coven of the Witch
How it fits: Witch in the title
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Points This Post: 10
Total points: 190
Tasks completed: 15
Julia10320.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 2: Read a book that is #2 or later in a series
The Winds of Fate (Make the Darkness Light, #2)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 210
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 1
Total NF: 1
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 16
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20.6 - It's a Fact
Option 2:
Another goal I have is to try to concentrate on reading series that I have started and not start any new ones.
Read a book that is #2 or later in a series-whole numbers only.
Required: Series must be listed on book page
20th Victim - James Patterson
20th book in the Women's Murder Club
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 20