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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or WrapWitch, Werewolf, Vampire, and Mummy
Read a book with one of these words in the title.
Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 490
Total Tasks Completed: 25
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Big Books: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
25.8 - Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading RallyOption 2: Testudo’s Turtle Power
Read a book set in a college or university (any genre).
Gothikana by RuNyx
Dark Academia is one of the genres, and in the description, it says
"When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore"
Option 6: Team Initials All-Stars
Read a book by a single author whose initials (first and last name) are found in PHILADELPhIA EAgLES
The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 515
Total Tasks Completed: 26
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Big Books: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
Kristina Marie25.5 - Bookwrm526's Task: SEC Football
This is a two book task. Choose two of the options below, and read one book for each option.
Required: State the options.
Option 1: Geography
Read a book set at least 75% in one of these states: AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, MO, OK, SC, TN, or TX.
Required: If the setting is not obvious from the Goodreads description, include a reference.
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
This book takes place in Georgia and has the setting listed on the main page.
Option 2: Animal Mascots
Choose a mascot from the list below and read a book with that animal on the cover: Elephant, Razorback, Tiger, Alligator, Bulldog, Wildcat, Horse, Gamecock, or Longhorn Steer.
Required: Post the cover.
Pony by R.J. Palacio
This book has a horse on the cover.
AR BookFinder: IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9.0
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 510
Kristina Marie20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Pick one option and read one book for that option.
Required: State which option you choose.
Option 3: Read a book with a setting of 50% or more in a state with a Native American reservation: AK, AZ, CA, CO, FL, ID, IA, KS, LA, MI, MN, MS, MT, NE, NM, NY, NC, ND, OR, SD, UT, WA, WI, and WY.
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
This book is set mostly in Michigan and is stated on the main page.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 530
25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to DadOption 4:
Read a book whose single author has initials that are found consecutively forward in order in the word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
Undescribable by Shantel Tessier
Author's nitials S T bolded above.
Option 6:
Read a book with MPG Humor.
L'accro du shopping à Manhattan
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 305
20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025Book: Straw & Gold
Task: option 1 - Read a book that is between 100-250 pages.
How it fits: The book has 210 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
20.7 History in the Hawkeye StateBooks must have an MPG of Historical or Historical Fiction
Three Sisters - Historical Fiction
Pub. Oct 1, 2021
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 175
30.5 Back to the GymOpt 3 - set in California
Rainbows End- set in San Diego, CA
Option 4: I have excellent instructors for my water fitness classes. They are September C., Patty C., David C., and Steve F. Read a book by a single author whose first name exactly matches one of my instructors (Steve, not Steven and Patty, not Patricia), or that shares their initials.
The Target by David Baldacci
Matches David C
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 205
30.6 Name Swap >501 pgsBook 1 - Book of choise
A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelly 304 pgs
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.
The Paris Agent by Kelly Rimmer 368 pgs
Julia Kelly - Kelly Rimmer
304 + 368 = 672 pgs
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 235
30.7 Sci-Fi Isaac Asimov >501 pgsOption 1 – Read a book by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot 224 pgs
Opt 4 Read a book that can be found on the first 5 pages of the following shelves: Robots or Artificial Intelligence
Network Effect 350 pgs
Found on Robots List - pg 1
224 +350= 574 pgs
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 265
10.4 Where the Dead Still WalkRead a book that is set at least 50 percent in Scotland, France, or India
Book read: The Twentieth Wife
How it fits: Set in India
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Points This Post: 10
Total points: 520
Tasks completed: 33
Mai10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or Wrap
Book with the word "vampire" in the title
American Vampire, Vol. 2 by Scott Snyder
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 185
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 13
NF Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 2
Mai10.6 Fields of Plenty
Read a book with a farm as the setting.
Farmhand, Vol. 1: Reap What Was Sown by Rob Guillory
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 195
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 14
NF Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 2
Bookwrm526Task #25.3 - There’s a First Time for Everything
Option 1A: Read a book with a main character that is a politician. I read 107 Days by Kamala Harris.
Option 3B: Read a book with an author that shares a name with one of my favorite hosts: Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark, Delia D’Ambra, Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat. The name must match exactly and can be in any position. I chose ASHLEY and read A Silence in Belgrave Square by Jennifer Ashley.
Total points so far: 725
30.1 Do it Again but DifferentlyOption 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.
Required State the prevoius task completed options and new chosen option.
A Soufflé of Suspicion a French Bistro Mystery #2
This book satisfies Fall challenge 30.2 Opt 3 Mystery or Mysteries in title, sub or series name. I previously completed this challenge with option 2 and 5
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.
The Teacher Pub Feb 2024
I read The Chef for Fall 25.4 which was Pub Feb 2019
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 395
Readerboard Name: Kathy P5.4 Labor Day
Read a book where the main character is a mother.
The Farm
The main character is Jane who is a single mother who becomes a surrogate to provide for her daughter.
Points: 110
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 5
Total books: 10
Total tasks: 8
Readerboard Name: Kathy P25.5 - Bookwrm526's Task: SEC Football
Option 1: The sixteen teams in the SEC come from 11 states. Read a book set at least 75% in one of these states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.
Someone Else's Love StoryThe book is set in Georgia which is noted in the setting section.
Option 2:
Choose a mascot from the list below and read a book with that animal on the cover.
Alabama - Elephant
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
Points: 135
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 5
Total books: 12
Total tasks: 9
Mary PDX5.9 Celebrate History
Read a book set at least 50 percent 100 years ago- 1925 or earlier
Masquerade
Set in 15th century
points: 5
total points: 240/985
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30.3 Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee Comedian
Option 3: For this option check a book off a literary bucket list and read a NEW TO YOU book from this New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century list
The Road
Book is new to me
Option 4: Read a book with an MPG Humor.
Bossypants
MPG Humor
total points: 205/985
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30.6 MAZZA1's Task: Name Swap
Book 1: Read a book of your choice by a single author.
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry
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.
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
Henry Marsh
points this time: 30
total points: 235/985
Repost 20.7 History in the Hawkeye StateBooks must have an MPG of Historical or Historical Fiction
Opt 3 Read a book that was first published in the month of October in any year 1965-2025 (inclusive).
Three Sisters - Historical Fiction
Pub. Oct 1, 2021
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 295
Christine V20.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall Brings
Option 2: Read a book whose cover is at least 40% green as determined by tineye
The Bewitching
Points this post: 20
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=2)
It's A Fact: 0
Christine V20.6 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.
A Mouthful of Dust
Points this post: 20
Total points: 140
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 10
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=2)
It's A Fact: 0
Christine V30.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac Asimov
Option 4: Read a book that can be found on the first 5 pages of the following shelves: Robots or Artificial Intelligence
Lock In is found on page 2 of the Robots list
Option 5: Read a book that has been adapted and released into a movie or television series. If the movie/tv series is from a series of books, any book from that series may be read.
The Trespasser, part of the Dublin Murder Squad Series
"Dublin Murders" is a television series based on the Dublin Murder Squad Series of books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_...
Points this post: 30
Total points: 170
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 12
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=2)
It's A Fact: 0
25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic TypesOption 2 – Read two books.
Book 1. Read ONE book from ONE of the lists above.
Modern Gothics List - first book
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Book 2. Read any book, fiction or non-fiction, with snow on the cover.
by Sarah Morgenthaler~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 540
Total Tasks Completed: 27
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Big Books: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
Rockynook20.9 - Fall Birthdays
Option 1: Happy Birthday Zach (his birthday was actually yesterday!)
Book with one of these items on cover: A pumpkin, black cat, witch’s hat, skull or full moon
The Love Bandits by Angela Casella
black cat on cover
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 440
SHEMAC25.9 - Cat's Task: 30 Years of Pulp
Pick one option below
Required: State the option: 1
Option 1: Two book option, Read one book for each task below
Task 1: Different Class - Read a book that shares a title word with one of the track titles.
In the Morning Light
Approved Not for Kids #387
Required: state the track title and word - Monday Morning; Morning
Task 2: More - Read a book that shares a title word with one of the track titles. Words must be at least 3 letters long, and must match exactly, no exceptions!
Danger of Love
Required: state track title and word: Got to Have Love; Love
This task points: 25
Total season points: 505
SHEMAC 10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or Wrap
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.
The Witch’s Grumpy Dragon
This task points: 10
Total season points: 515
(Will you ask a mod to check the Not for Kids page for me, please?)
Mai20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 3: Book from page 1 of the list Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025
Abundance by Ezra Klein
*Claim 1 Non-Fiction Ticket*
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 215
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 15
NF Tickets: 1
BB Tickets: 2
Mai30.5 Amy FL’s task - Back to the gym
Option 2: Book with a word in the title that can be made from "NO LAP SWIMMING DURING CLASS”: "long"
The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer
Option 3: Read a book set at least 50% in California
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 245
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read: 17
NF Tickets: 1
BB Tickets: 2
Mai30.2 Susan A's Task - Halloween Costumes
1. PIRATES: Book with all the letters of PIRATES found in the book title
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
*Claim 1 Non-Fiction Ticket*
3. Read a book with the word MYSTERY in the subtitle
Lady Mechanika Vol. 1: The Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse by Joe Benítez
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 275
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 19
NF Tickets: 2
BB Tickets: 2
Slideshell25.8 - Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading Rally
Option 2: Testudo’s Turtle Power
Read a book set in a college or university
Year Four
Option 3: Game-Winning Romance
Read a sports romance featuring football
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
*Claiming ONE Big Book Ticket - 665 pages*
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 36
Total Points: 580
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Task 10.10 - Do They Exist?features cryptids / cryptozoologists- mentioned in blurb and listed in the task as an example
Discount Armageddon
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870 points
20.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall BringsOption 3: Read a book by an author whose first OR last name can be spelled from the phrase RIDDLE OR JOKE
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
ERIK is found in the phrase
***Claiming an It's a Fact Ticket for Non-Fiction***
New Points: 20
Total Points: 125
GO: 3
IaF: 1
Mai15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
Book where the single author's first and last initials can be found in CAMBODIA
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman
*Claim 1 Non-Fiction Ticket*
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 18
Books Read: 20
NF Tickets: 3
BB Tickets: 2
25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for EverythingOption 1-B Read a book from Boxall’s 1001 books to read before you die
Where Angels Fear to Tread (#1014 on list)
***Claiming a Golden Oldie Ticket as published in 1905***
Option 2-B Read a book that has a college setting.
Ninth House
New Points: 25
Total Points: 150
GO: 4
IaF: 1
Lisa MD5.10 - Fall Into Reading
Free Choice
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 385/985
Total Books Read: 31
Total Tasks Completed: 26/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 8
Lisa MD15.4 - Pompeii Italy
Option 2: MPG: Historical Fiction AND Title Word has double letter
The Last Assignment by Erika Robuck
Title Word: aSSignment
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 400/985
Total Books Read: 32
Total Tasks Completed: 27/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 8
Lisa MD20.7 - JenJ IA's task: Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State
Option 4: Author Initials in "Politics OR Govern"
***Required: MPG: Historical or Historical Fiction***
The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner
Author Initials: SP in PoliticS
MPG: Historical Fiction
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 420/985
Total Books Read: 33
Total Tasks Completed: 28/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 8
Jessica S30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
Option 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.
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
(Previously read book: Dust Child, author was new to me)
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.
The Bastard and the Heir by Eden Finley
Previously read book The Stars, Like Dust: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 410
Jessica S25.4 - Robin P's Task: The ABC's
Option 3: Genres
book with an MPG that starts with A, B, or C (CRIME)
Risky Behavior by L.A. Witt
Option 4: School
book whose main character is in kindergarten through high school.
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
(synopsis makes reference to school but it's also tagged High-school x 43 https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...)
Points this task: 25
Total Points: 435
Jessica S5.10 Fall Into Reading
book of your choice that meets SRC rules
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 440
Jessica S5.3 American Football
Book with the MPG Sports or Football
On the Ice by Amy Aislin
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 445
Jessica S15.3 Stonehenge United Kingdom
Option 2 - Read a book that fulfills both requirements of Option 1
book with a first published year that includes at least 2 unique numbers from this list: 1,2,3,5,7
book set in the United Kingdom
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
(no obvious from synopsis but tagged England x 10 https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...)
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 460
Jayme(theghostreader)5.4 Labor Day
Read a book where character is a mother
Anne's House of Dreamsby L.M. Montgomery
MC is a mother.
Task +5
Grand total 40
Lisa MD30.1 - JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
***Use Summer/Fall 2025 Completed Tasks***
Option 2: Option not previously used
It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
Used Summer 2025: Task - 50.1: The Summer My Boys Got Married
Option 1A - Title Word 3+ letters in "Pittsburgh Wedding Cookie Table"
Title Word: "Without" in pITTsbUrgH Wedding cOokie table"
***I did not use option 1A in last challenge***
Option 4: Same publishing month but different year
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Nobody's Girl: Published October 2025
Used Summer 2025: Task 10.7 - Camp Rock - I read:
Brothers - Published: October 2024
***I claim an IAF ticket***
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 450/985
Total Books Read: 35
Total Tasks Completed: 29/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 9
Jessica S30.2 Susan A's Task - Halloween Costumes
3. SHAGGY & VELMA - Read a book with the word MYSTERY or MYSTERIES in the title, subtitle, or series title
Elusive Relations by Nicky James
5. PUMPKIN - word PUMPKIN (intact) in the title or subtitle
The Pumpkin Patch by Darien Cox
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 490
SHEMAC 25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic Types
Read Two Books. Choose either Option 1 or Option 2.
Required: State the option - 2
Option 1 - Read two books, one from each of two different lists below:
Early Gothics
Victorian Spiritualism Fiction
Modern Gothics
Sci Fi Horror
Noir -- (1st 25 pages only)
Option 2 – Read two books.
Book 1. Read ONE book from ONE of the lists above.
Required: State which list and which page on the list your choice falls - Modern Gothics - page 1
Madam, Will You Talk?
Book 2. Read any book, fiction or non-fiction, with snow on the cover.
Required: Post the cover.
Turkey in the Snow Approved Not for Kids #404
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This task points: 25
Total season points:540
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Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters.
Anathema by Keri Lake
8 letters
Claiming BB
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 480
Total Tasks Completed: 24
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Big Books: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0