The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion
FALL CHALLENGE 2025
>
Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
date
newest »
newest »
LoraTask: 20.1 Most Improved: Kai's Task- Onihei Jokei
Read a book that combines a real historical event with fictional ones.
Book/Author: The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan / Eliza Knight
How it fits: the historical event is Queen Elizabeth II's ascension to the throne
Points for this task: 20
Total points: 295
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 1
25.8 - Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading RallyOption 1: Fly, Eagles, Fly!
Read a book with “fly,” “eagle,” or “green” in the title.
Vert émeraude by Kerstin Gier
Vert means green in French
Option 6: Team Initials All-Stars
Read a book by a single author whose initials (first and last name) are found in PHILADELPHIA EAGLES or MARYLAND TERRAPINS.
La Librairie Morisaki by Satoshi Yagisawa
S Y found in MARYLAND TERRAPINS
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 260
Joanne MI10.1 School is Cool!
MPG Science, Mathematics, or History
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
MPG HIsttory
Claiming 1 BB AND 1 IAF 571 pages
Points this task 10
BB's this task 1
IAF this task 1
Season Total 75
3 BB's
3 IAF
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ15.1 - 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.
The Start of Something Wonderful by Jessica Redland
START can be found in Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (STAR in Artemis; T in at)
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): The Start of Something Wonderful
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.
Her Final Words: Emily Slate Mystery Thriller, Book 4 by Alex Sigmore
FINAL can be found in Great Wall of China (F in of; INA in China; L in wall)
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Her Final Words
This post: 15 points
Total points to date: 85 points
Tasks completed: 9
Lisa MD15.3 - Stonehenge United Kingdom
Option 2: Publication year contains 2#'s from (1, 2, 3, 5, 7) AND Set in UK
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie
Published: August 14, 2025
Set almost entirely in UK
***I claim an IAF ticket***
🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 380/985
Total Books Read: 30
Total Tasks Completed: 25/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 8
Bookwrm526Task #5.1 By The Numbers
Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters. I read Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson. The word KITCHEN has 7 letters.
Total points so far: 545
Kristina Marie30.6 MAZZA1's Task: Name Swap
This is a Two book task. Both books read need to be single author only. No Children's books may be used for this task. The combined total for both books must be 501 pages or more.
Book 1: Read a book of your choice by a single author.
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
624 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. ONLY first and last names count.
Austenland by Shannon Hale
202 pages
Samantha Shannon and Shannon Hale have Shannon in alternate positions.
624+202=826 pages
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 390
Cindy FTask 30.2 Halloween Costumes
Option 1: All letters PIRATES in title and author name
Mistress Of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
Option 2: MYSTERY in series title
Wild Justice: A Medieval Mystery by Priscilla Royal
Points this post:30
Total points:150
Books read:15
Big Books:0
Golden Oldies:0
Non-Fiction:0
Tasks completed:13
trishhartuk5.5 Diwali
Read a book with a lighted candle on the cover.
Crimson Peak, Nancy Holder (320pg)
Cover task: The woman in white on the right is holding a candelabra
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 425
Tasks Completed: 27
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
Big Book Tickets: 0
Mod
5.4 Labor Day
Read a book where the main character is a mother.
The Dead Husband Cookbook
How it fits:
The main character, Thea, has a daughter named Ruthie
Points this post: 5
Total this season: 215
Mod
10.1 School is Cool!
Read a fiction book with MPG Literary fiction/Literature or Dark Academia,
MPGs may be stand alone or embedded
This Is How We End Things
How it fits:
Dark Academia MPG
Points this post: 10
Total this season: 225
Mod
10.2 Window to the Past
Read a book with a window on the over. The full window must be visible and shown as a window on a building, vehicles do not count.
Required: Post the cover.
Asylum Hotel
How it fits:
Points this post: 10
Total this season: 235
Mod
20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 1:
Read a book that is between 100-250 pages.
Beneath the Sugar Sky
How it fits:
174 pages
Points this post: 20
Total this season: 255
Mod
25.4 - Robin P's Task: The ABC's
Option 2: Titles
Read a book whose title words (minimum 3) are in alphabetical order
Every Moment Since
How it fits:
EMS
Option 4: School
Most people learn the ABC's in school. Read a book whose main character is in kindergarten through high school.
Killer Instinct
How it fits:
"Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people." She is a 17 year old high school student
Points this post: 25
Total this season: 280
Mod
25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad
Option 4:
read a book whose single author has initials that are found consecutively forward in order in the word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
In an Absent Dream
How it fits:
Seanan McGuire found in antidisestablishmentarianiSM
Option 6:
Read a book with MPG Humor. The weirder the better.
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
How it fits:
Humor MPG
Points this post: 25
Total this season: 305
ROBIN P30.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Classic Science Fiction: Isaac Asimov
501 p requirment
Option 1: Book by Asmiov - Murder at the ABA: A puzzle in four days and sixty scenes - 246 p
Option 4: A book adapted to movie or TV
Slow Horses - 334 p
TV show info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Ho...
Total pages - 580
Points this post: 30
Total points: 445
BB:3 GO:2 IAF:5
Rockynook15.8 - Easter Island Chile
book with at least 3 people on cover
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
3 people in water
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 320
Rockynook5.3 - American Football
Read a book with the MPG Sports or Football
The Rule Book by Sarah Adams
MPG Sports
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 325
Kristina Marie25.6 – Lisa MD's Task: The Harry Bosch Universe
Read 2 books, one from 2 different options.
No childrens, sequential art, graphic novels, or comics.
Required: State which options you chose.
Option 3:
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in one of the main characters' name: “Harry Bosch,” “Mickey Haller,” “Renee Ballard,” or “Jack McEvoy.”
Required: State which character you used.
Infinite Archive by Mur Lafferty
Mur Lafferty's initials can be found in "Mickey Haller."
Option 4:
Read a book from any series with at least 3 primary works that has an MPG of Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Legal Thriller or Detective which has been adapted to the big screen or developed into a TV series or movie.
Required: Series name must appear on Goodreads page. Provide a link to movie or TV adaptation.
Peach Cobbler Murder by Joanne Fluke
This is number 7 in the Hannah Swensen series. It has an MPG of Mystery, and other books in the series were developed into TV movies: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls529153619/
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 415
Kristina Marie30.2 Susan A's Task - Halloween Costumes
This is a two book task.
Choose two costumes and read one book for each. You may use one book with a MPG Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga.
Required State the options
2. MICHAEL PHELPS:
Read a book featuring an athlete (or retired athlete).
Required: If the sport is not evident from the Goodreads book main page, provide a reference.
Grand Slam Romance: Major League Hotties by Ollie Hicks
The main page book description tells that the main characters are magical softball players: "[N]ow that Mickey’s magical girl powers have been revealed, they can’t play softball until they obtain a Magical Girl license!"
4. DINO HUNTER:
Read a book with a dinosaur or dinosaur skeleton on the cover.
Required: Post the cover.
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 445
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
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.
Accidentally Wedded to a Werewolf
Points this post: 10
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 165
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 3
Mod
20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Option 3
Read a book with a setting of 50% or more in a state with a Native American reservation
These states include Wisconsin. The book takes place in Door County, Wisconsin
A Death in Door County
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 525 /985
Tasks Completed 28/57
IAF - 7
GO - 2
Elizabeth PTask 10.4 - Where the Dead Still Walk
Book set 50%+ in Scotland
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 215
Total Tasks: 14
GO: 0
BB: 3
IAF: 0
Total Books: 15
Bookwrm526Task #5.9 Celebrate History
Read a book set at least 50 percent 100 years ago- 1925 or earlier. I read A Soupçon of Poison by Jennifer Ashley, set in 1880 as stated in the GR description.
Total points so far: 550
20.1 Most Improved: Kai's Task- Onihei JokeiRead a book that combines a real historical event with fictional ones.
Hold Strong by Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz & Chris Crabtree
as per book description, "Anchored in an extraordinary true story" [of the sinking of Arisan Maru]
https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/the...
Task total: 20
Season total: 540
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 Sway a Soul by Ireen Chau
author's initials, IC, found in IsaaC
240 pages
Option 3 – Isaac Asimov was born 2 January 1920 and died 6 April 1992. Read a book that was first published between those dates- inclusive.
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
published 1990
676 pages
Total pages read: 916
Task total: 30
Season total: 570
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.3 - Where Past and Present Meet
Read a book that is written in a dual/multiple timeline.
Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
From the description, "Told through multiple points-of-view and alternating between past and present, Alex Finlay's Every Last Fear is not only a page-turning thriller, it’s also a poignant story about a family managing heartbreak and tragedy, and living through a fame they never wanted."
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 95 points
Tasks completed: 10
Nick KY5.2 Autumn “Autumn” in title, I read Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 605
Nick KY20.2 August’s Indian Heritage Month
Opt. 2. From p 3 of the Native American History list, I read The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground by Jeffrey Ostler. https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 625
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ15.9 - Angkor Wat Cambodia
Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Author's initials (MD) can be found in caMboDia
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Carl el mazmorrero
This post: 15 points
Total points to date: 110 points
Tasks completed: 11
Nick KY25.8 Slideshell’s Eagles and Terps
Opt. 1. “Eagle” in title. I read The Hearth and Eagle by Anya Seton.
Opt. 4. Set in Pennsylvania. I read Long Bright River by Liz Moore.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 650
5.4 Labor DayRead a book where the main character is a mother.
My Mother's House & Sido by Colette
Points this post: 5
Total points: 85
25.4 - Robin P's Task: The ABC'sOption 2: Titles
Read a book whose title words (minimum 3) are in alphabetical order.
American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá
Option 3: Genres
Read a book with an MPG that starts with A, B, or C - Australia
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Points this post: 25
Total points: 110
Kelly L 20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Option 3
Read a book with a setting of 50% or more in a state with a Native American reservation. These states are: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Echo Park is set in Los Angeles, California , as confirmed by GR.
This post: 20 points
Tickets: ---
-----------------------------
Season total: 320 points
Season Tickets: 2 IAF, 1 BB
Mod
15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
***Nonfiction - claiming a IAF ticket***
The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 540 /985
Tasks Completed 29/57
IAF - 7
GO - 2
EMurphy30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
Option 2: Author whose name contains all the letters of MURALS The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
Option 3: MPG Historical Fiction or Art The Women by Kristin Hannah
*MPG Historical Fiction
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 60
Books Read: 4
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 2
EMurphy30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
Option 1: Choose a newly discovered author and read another book by that author Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
*Read Everything I Never Told You in Summer 2025, author was new to me
Option 2: Choose a task completed in Summer or Fall and read a book that satisfies one of the options not chosen previously Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
*Summer Challenge, 20.3 Review Raffle-Kelly L's Task: Celebrating Pride. Chose Option 2 previously, new choice is Option 4-Set in one of the listed countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UK, US
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 90
Books Read: 6
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 3
trishhartuk10.3 Where Past and Present Meet
Read a book that is written in a dual/multiple timeline.
The Echo of Old Books, Barbara Davis (431pg)
Ashlyn’s timeline is 1984; Hemi and Belle are both writing about events in 1941.
This link mentions both timelines: https://historicalnovelsociety.org/re...
Okayed in Help Thread message #17: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 435
Tasks Completed: 28
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
Bookwrm526Task #15.7 Parthenon Greece
Read a book with MPG Travel. I read The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag (genre verified in help thread posts 20 and 21).
Total points so far: 565
ROBIN P25.7 Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad - 500 p minimum
Option 4: author initials sequential in ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
The Delegates' Choice - Ian Sansom
found in blISh - 289 p
Option 5: Main character has one of the professions listed
Hidden From Sight - Sebastian Clifford is a private detective, which is one of the professions - 256 p
Total pages - 545
Points this post: 25
Total points: 470
BB:3 GO:2 IAF:5
Bookwrm526Task #25.7 - A Tribute to Dad
Option 4: Read a book whose single author has initials that are found consecutively forward in order in the word antidisestablishMEntarianism. I read Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd (256p).
Option 5: Read a book where the main character has one of the above professions. I chose policeman and read Copper Script by K.J. Charles (276p). The main character is described in the GR description as "Detective Sergeant Aaron Fowler of the Metropolitan Police".
256+276 = 532 p
Total points so far: 590
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (other topics)Copper Script (other topics)
Hidden From Sight (other topics)
The Delegates' Choice (other topics)
The Blue Sky (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
K.J. Charles (other topics)Mohammed El-Kurd (other topics)
Ian Sansom (other topics)
Galsan Tschinag (other topics)
Mike Rowe (other topics)
More...
Task #30.6 MAZZA1's Task: Name Swap
+GO ticket
task: Read two books where the authors share a name but in alternate positions
book 1: Moral Injuries
author: Christie Watson
book 2: The Murder at the Vicarage
author: Agatha Christie
name in common = Christie
other:
page count: 272 + 304 > 500
**Claiming GO ticket for The Murder at the Vicarage First published October 1, 1930
Points this post: 30
Total points: 285
Tasks completed: 17/57
BB: 1 / GO: 3 + 1 = 4 / IAF: 0