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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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10.8 The Ghouls Guide to ReadingThe Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
Pub 1841
**Claiming GO Ticket**
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7... Page 1 #51
Points the Task - 10
Total Points - 140
GO ticket - 1
10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or WrapThe Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
This is non-fiction
**claiming IAF ticket**
Points this Post - 10
Total Points - 150
Total Tickets
GO - 1
IAF - 1
Rebekah wrote: "10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or WrapThe Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
This is non-fiction
**Claiming IAF Ticket**
Points this..."
15.2 Machu Picchu PeruBook 1:
The Paris Express by Emma DonoghueBook 2: Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel by Cebo Campbell
Points This Post - 15
Total Points - 165
Total Tickets
GO - 1
IAF - 1
15.6 - Amy FL’s task - Back to the gym
Read a book with a swimming pool on the cover.
The Swimming Pool published January 1st, 1952
** Claiming 1 Golden Oldies Ticket **
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 860/985
Tasks Completed: 50/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(7), GO(8), IaF(13)
Lisa MD30.2 - Susan A's Task: Halloween Costumes
Option 1: Letters of "pirates" in title and/or author name
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
PIRATES in the PERfecT mArrIage - jeneva roSe
Option 3: "Mystery" or "Mysteries" in title/subtitle/series title
Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews
"MYSTERIES" in series title: Weezie and Bebe Mysteries (#3)
🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 545/985
Total Books Read: 43
Total Tasks Completed: 35/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 10
Mai10.7 Have Yams Will Party
Book with a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the phrase The Ashanti Yam Festival: "Fatale"
Fatale, Vol. 3: West of Hell by Ed Brubaker
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 365
Tasks Completed: 24
Books Read: 27
NF Tickets: 3
BB Tickets: 2
SHEMAC 25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad
Read 2 books, one from 2 different options.
Minimum page count 500 pages. (402 + 198)
Required: State which options you chose: 2 and 6
Option 2:
Read a book with one of these verbs in the title: HOLD, FOLD, WALK, RUN, COUNT, SIT.
Hard to Hold
Option 6:
Read a book with MPG Humor.
Glen & Tyler's Paris Double-cross
This task points: 25
Total season points: 650
10.2 Window to the PastBook: A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Task: 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.
How it fits:
Points this post: 10
Total points: 100
Julia10310.5 Season of the Harvest
Read a book where the a single author's first and last name initials can be found in the word HARVEST
A Life Worth Choosing: A Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice" Variation by Anngela Schroeder
This post: 10 points
Total points: 650
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 4
Total NF: 3
Tasks completed: 34
Books read: 49
30.5 Amy FL’s task - Back to the gymOption 2: Read a book with a title (excludes subtitles) word of 4 or more letters that can be made from "NO LAP SWIMMING DURING CLASS.”
Le Manoir aux roses
word MANOIR
Option 4: 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.
La Maison des voix by Donato Carrisi (DC)
Points this Post: 30
Points Total: 380
Task 10.8 - The Ghouls Guide to Readingon p1 on Halloween and Autumn Mysteries list
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940 points
Task 15.5 - Sukhothai, ThailandFIRST in title, one of listed words
Maigret's First Case
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955 points
EMurphy30.3 Katrisa's Task: Leah Renee Comedian
Option 2: Book from first 20 pages of list about cults Black Widows by Cate Quinn
*Page 4 of list
Option 4: MPG Humor Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 245
Books Read: 18
GO Ticket: 2
BB Ticket: 3
IAF Ticket: 4
Tasks Completed: 9
EMurphy20.4 Golden Oldies-Erica H's Task: What Fall Brings
Option 2: Cover at least 40% green
By Emilia Hart*68.6% green
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF: 0
Total:
Points: 265
Books Read: 19
GO Ticket: 2
BB Ticket: 3
IAF Ticket: 4
Tasks Completed: 10
Mod
20.5 - Bigger is Better: Tammy AZ's task - Pearl Jam
Option 1:
Read a book that is at least 350 pages, where the title contains one of these words: Ten, Once, Even Flow, Alive, Why Go, Black, Jeremy, Oceans, Porch, Garden, Deep, Release
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies - 368 pages
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 775 /985
Tasks Completed 44/57
IAF - 10
GO - 2
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
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. Letters can be used as many times as they appear.
Required: State the word and the wonder
The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, word is IDEAS and the wonder is lIghthouSE of AlexanDria
Non-fiction MGP, claiming 1 It's a Fact Ticket
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. Letters can be used as many times as they appear.
Required: State the word and the wonder
- audible versionMMPB version pages: 960 pages, claiming 2 BB tickets https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
the wonder is The Great Wall of China, and the word is "CALLA"
Points this post: 15
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 1
Total Points: 270
BB Tickets: 4
GO Tickets: 2
It's a Fact Tickets: 6
20.3 - Review Raffle - Masoodah's Task: What's in a name?Option 1: author that shares the same FIRST NAME initial as the first LETTER in READERBOARD name
Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
Points this post: 20
Total points: 235 + 20 = 255
Task 15.2 - Machu Picchu, Perubook 1: train on cover
With a Vengeance
book 2: author CT initials in CITY
by Chuck Tingle========
960 points
(I might have got earlier posts wrong with running total - sorry!)
15.9 Angkor Wat CambodiaRead a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
The initials MK are in KHMER
Post Total: 15
Grand Total: 340
Mod
25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad
Minimum page count to a rotund 500 pages.
Option 2:
Read a book with one of these verbs in the title: WALK
Resurrection Walk - 407 pages
Option 6:
Read a book with MPG Humor.
Deserts, Driving, & Derelicts - 266 pages
MPG - Cozy Mystery, Mystery, Audiobook, Fiction, Humor
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 800 /985
Tasks Completed 45/57
IAF - 10
GO - 2
Julia10310.10 Do They Exist?
Read a book where cryptids are essential to the story.
A Death in Door County
(This book was listed as an example in the task.)
This post: 10 points
Total points: 660
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 4
Total NF: 3
Tasks completed: 35
Books read: 50
Julia1035.6 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.
Testimony of Mute Things
(THINGS can be made from ENGLISH HERITAGE)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 665
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 4
Total NF: 3
Tasks completed: 36
Books read: 51
5.3 American FootballRead a book with the MPG Sports or Football.
The Baller by Vi Keeland
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 640
Total Tasks Completed: 33
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Big Books: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
10.6 Fields of PlentyRead a book with a farm as the setting.
Bet The Farm by Staci Hart
The book is set on the family farm. Setting is clear from the description.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 650
Total Tasks Completed: 34
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Big Books: 7
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.
Triple Crown (Jefferson Hinkley #3) by Felix Francis
448 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.
Beloved by Francis Chan
160 pages
Total pages read: 608
Task total: 30
Season total: 630
15.2 Machu Picchu PeruBook 1
Read a book with a train or train tracks on the cover.
by Amita ParikhBook 2
Read a book with a single author's first and last initials in the phrase LOST CITy OF THE INCaS
A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 665
Total Tasks Completed: 35
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Big Books: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
Kristina Marie25.8 - Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading Rally
Pick two different options and read one book for each. Required: State the options chosen.
Option 1: Fly, Eagles, Fly!
Read a book with “fly,” “eagle,” or “green” in the title.
Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke
This title has the word "fly" in Come Fly the World.
Option 4: Tailgate Traditions
Read a novel set at least 75% in Pennsylvania or Maryland. Required: Provide reference to location if not obvious on book page.
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
This book takes place in Maryland and is stated on the book's main page.
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 650
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.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
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.
chRisT tHE rEdeemer - Three
Room for Three by K. Webster
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 680
Total Tasks Completed: 36
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Big Books: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
25.5 - Bookwrm526's Task: SEC FootballOption 1: Geography
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.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Setting
Florida (United States, 1970), St. Augustine, Florida (United States)
Option 2: Animal Mascots
Choose a mascot from the list below and read a book with that animal on the cover.
Florida - Alligator (I will also accept crocodiles, caimans, and gharials)
by Hannah Nicole MaehrerIt's under Villain
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 705
Total Tasks Completed: 37
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Big Books: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
Theresa30.5 - Amy FL’s task - Back to the gym
Option 1 - EoS was named after the Greek goddess of the dawn. Read a book with the MPG Greek Mythology.
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Option 2 - Read a book with a title (excludes subtitles) word of 4 or more letters that can be made from "NO LAP SWIMMING DURING CLASS.” Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
Required: State the word
All You Could Ask For by Mike Greenberg
Word = Could
Points this post - 30
Total points - 150
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.
Book read on 8/14/25 - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Book read on 11/4/25 - Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin
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.
Book read 8/4/25 The Wedding People by Alison Espach Pub July 2024
Book read 9/23/25 The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Pub July 2022
Points for this Task - 30 pts
Total Points - 195
Total Tickets This Season
GO - 1
IAF - 1
30.3 Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee ComedianOption 1: Locations
Leah’s homebase currently is Philadelphia, PA (Go Birds!). The Fringe Festival is in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read a book set at least 50% in either Pennsylvania or Scotland
Required: If setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
Set more than 50% in Scotland - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
From MP description “ A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. ”
Option 2: Her Show 2025
This year Leah’s 1 hour show is called “Best Cult Ever” and deals with her experiences as a Mormon as well as leaving the church. Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list of books about cults
Cults Books
Required: State the page.
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke
Page 1, 6th from bottom
** Claim IAF Ticket**
Points for This Task - 30
Tickets IAF - 1
Total Points - 225
Total Tickets This Season
GO - 1
IAF - 2
25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad - 500 pages TotalOption 1:
My father's name was Phillip, 2 L's. He always said his name was superior to the one-L'd Philip, because he could "give 'em L twice."
For this option, choose a book with Phillip, Philip, Phillips, Philips, or Phil as either author name (e.g. Philip Roth, Susan Phillips), main character name (e.g. The Big Sleep's Philip Marlowe) or part of the title/subtitle/series name (e.g. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - 256 pages
Option 6:
When my dad died a few years ago, the one thing everyone who knew him commented on and said they'd miss was his great (albeit weird) sense of humor.
Read a book with MPG Humor. The weirder the better.
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Pub 1919 - 256 pages
** Claim GO Ticket**
Points for This Task - 25
Ticket - GO
Total Points - 250
Total Tickets This Season
GO - 2
IAF - 2
Slideshell10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or Wrap
Read a book with one of these words in the title: Witch, Werewolf, Vampire, and Mummy
Love's a Witch
New Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 42
Total Points: 700
BIG BOOK: 4
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Mai15.2 Machu Picchu Peru
Book 1: Train on the cover
Rock Candy Mountain, Vol. 1 by Kyle StarksBook 2: single author's first and last initials in the phrase LOST CITY OF THE INCAS
Y/N by Esther Yi
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 380
Tasks Completed: 25
Books Read: 29
NF Tickets: 3
BB Tickets: 2
Slideshell30.3 Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee Comedian
Option 1: Locations
Read a book set at least 50% in either Pennsylvania or Scotland
Scotch on the Rocks
Option 2: Her Show 2025
Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list of books about cults
Black Sheep
Required: State the page - 8
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 43
Total Points: 730
BIG BOOK: 4
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
20.1 Most Improved: Kai's Task- Onihei JokeiA book that combines a historical event with fictional ones: The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
The event is the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 695
20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage MonthOption 3, set in a state with a Native American reservation (New York): Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Points this post: 20
Total points: 715
15.3 Stonehenge United KingdomOption 1
Book 1
Read a book with a first published year that includes at least 2 unique numbers from this list: 1,2,3,5,7
and
Book 2
Read a book set in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
✅ Option 2
Read a book that fulfills both requirements of Option 1.
Queen Lucia Part I: Make Way for Lucia
Pub in 1920
Entire book takes place in England
**Claim GO Ticket**
Points This Task - 15
GO Ticket This Task - 1
Total Points -265
Total Tickets This Season
GO -3
IAF - 2
10.3 Where Past and Present MeetRead a book that is written in a dual/multiple timeline.
Required If the dual/multiple time line is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Story goes back and forth between a girl’s POV that loves a painting with 4 figures on it and back 25 years when the painting was created with POV of four figures.
Points This Task - 10
Total Points - 275
Total Tickets This Season
GO - 3
IAF - 2
15.8 Easter Island ChileRead a book with at least 3 people on the cover.
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanPoints This Task - 15
Total Points - 290
Total Tickets This Season
GO - 3
IAF - 2
20.3 - 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
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Points this Task - 20
Total Points - 310
Total Tickets This Season
GO - 3
IAF - 2
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task- Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye StateOption 2
For this option, read a book with a 3+ word title (subtitles excluded) where all of the title words begin with a letter in ONE of these site names:
TOOLESBORO MOUNDS
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown 688 pages
* * CLAIM BB TICKET**
Points this Task - 20
Ticket this Task - 1 BB
Total Points - 330
Total Tickets This Season
BB - 1
GO - 3
IAF - 2
JEN B20.3 - 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 YOUR READERBOARD name
An Island Wedding by Jenny Colgan
J in Jenny matches J in Jenb
TOTAL POINTS: 400
Nick KY10.10 Do They Exist? Cryptid in the plot.
I read The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster by John O'Connor. Evidence for Cryptids is the whole plot.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 835
Nick KY20.8 Meg SLC’s Korea. Opt. 1. Set in Korea, I read White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 855
trishhartuk10.5 Season of the Harvest
Single author's first and last initials in the word HARVEST.
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop, Takuya Asakura (194pg)
hArvesT
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 580
Tasks Completed: 36
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 6
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10.3 Where Past and Present Meet
Book written in a dual timeline.
Fatale, Vol. 2: The Devil's Business by Ed Brubaker
The story is told in 2 time periods: 1970s Los Angeles and modern time.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 355
Tasks Completed: 23
Books Read: 26
NF Tickets: 3
BB Tickets: 2