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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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5.7 National Trust
Read a book with a single author's first and last initials can be found in NATIONAL TRUST.
Letters may be used as many times as they appear
Not Safe for Work
How it fits:
Nisha Tuli = NaTional treasure
Points this post: 5
Total this season: 330
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10.6 Fields of Plenty
Read a book with a farm as the setting.
Required If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference
Black Sheep
How it fits:
Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm.
Points this post: 10
Total this season: 340
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15.6 Tikal Guatemala
Read a book with a swimming pool on the cover.
Required: Post the cover
Alex, Approximately
How it fits:
Points this post: 15
Total this season: 355
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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
The Butterfly Garden
How it fits:
The Butterfly Garden = BoilinG waTer
Points this post: 15
Total this season: 370
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20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Option 1:
Read a fiction book from this list: Native American Literature
Required: State the page the book was found on
Where They Last Saw Her
How it fits:
Found on page 7 of the Native American Literature list
Points this post: 20
Total this season: 390
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25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for Everything
Option 1: PopSugar and other challenges
A - PopSugar -
Using the prompt for my most unexpected read, read a book with a main character that is a politician.
Pike Island
How it fits:
Andrew Harrison “Harry” Leonard is destined for politics. Getting his start on the Rochester City Council, he quickly rose to become the youngest representative in Congress.
Option 3: Side Hustle
A - Audiobooks
Read (or listen) to a book that won or was a finalist in the Audie Awards
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
How it fits:
2024 Mystery winner
Points this post: 25
Total this season: 415
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30.2 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.
In the Hall with the Knife
How it fits:
Clue Mystery, #1
6. MONSTERS:
Read a book featuring Zombies and is essential to the story.
Allison Hewitt Is Trapped
How it fits:
Allison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak hits.
Points this post: 30
Total this season: 445
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30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: Beauty is in the Eye of Beholder
Option 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.
After the Red Rain
How it fits:
After The Red Rain = sTReet ARt
Option 4.
Read a book with a single author author's first and last initial can be found in the word MUSEUM
Heart of the Sun
How it fits:
Mia Sheridan = MuSeum
Points this post: 30
Total this season: 475
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20.10 Group Reads
Fiction - Nordic Noir - The Chestnut Man
How it fits:
Commented on the discussion thread: Message 14
Points this post: 20
Total this season: 495
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30.5 Amy FL’s task - Back to the gym
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
Hatchet Girls
How it fits:
GIRLS- no lap SwImminG duR cLass
Option 4 : Read a book by a single author that shares their initials. The initials can be reversed so SC, CS, PC, CP, DC, CD, SF, and FS all work. Middle initials may be ignored.
The Murder Game
How it fits:
Carrie Doyle = CD
Points this post: 30
Total this season: 525
15.8 Easter Island ChileAt least 3 people on the cover: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Points this post: 15
Total points: 765
15.9 Angkor Wat CambodiaAuthor initials in CAMBODIA: The Happy Camper by Melody Carlson
Points this post: 15
Total points: 780
25.5 - Bookwrm526's Task: SEC FootballOption 1: Geography
Read a book set at least 75% in one of the listed states.
La Femme à l'étage
> Setting : Birmingham, Alabama
Option 4:
Read a book first published in 1966.
Le chat qui lisait à l'envers
> First published January 1, 1966
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 440
Lisa MD5.9 - Celebrate History
Set at least 50% in 1925 or earlier
Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Hester is set in the early 1800's
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 595/985
Total Books Read: 47
Total Tasks Completed: 39/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 10
Lisa MD20.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task: What Fall Bring
Option 3: Author's first or last name in "Riddle or Joke"
Fallen Star by Lee Goldberg
Author's first name: "Lee" in riddLE or jokE
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 615/985
Total Books Read: 48
Total Tasks Completed: 40/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 10
Bookwrm526Task #25.2 - Slash and Survive: A Final Girl Challenge
Option 1: Read a book with "IT" in the title only.- subtitles excluded. Word must be stand alone. Possessives allowed, no other variations. I read If You've Got It, Haunt It by Rose Pressey.
Option 4: Read an anthology/collection of stories. It can be a collection of novellas, written all by one author, written by multiple authors, it doesn't matter. Just an anthology or collection of stories. I read I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young.
Total points so far: 965
Lisa MD25.2 - Ash' Task- Slash and Survive: A Final Girl Challenge
Option 1: The word "IT" is in title
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
First published October 1, 1935
***I claim a GO ticket***
Option 2: A roadtrip is essential to story
A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas by Jackie Lau
Former high school sweethearts reconnect on a road trip home for the holidays
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 640/985
Total Books Read: 50
Total Tasks Completed: 41/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 10
Lisa MD25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad
Option 5: Main character is policeman, Navy sailor, private detective, ambulance driver, dance instructor, or bodybuilder
Citizen K-9
MC is a retired police officer now working as a private detective
Option 6: MPG: Humor
The More the Terrier by David Rosenfelt
MPG: Humor is listed 4th
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 665/985
Total Books Read: 52
Total Tasks Completed: 42/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 10
25.4 - Robin P's Task: The ABC'sOption 1: Authors Read a book whose author's first and last initials are sequential in the alphabet
A Dry White Season by André Brink
Option 3: Genres
Read a book with an MPG that starts with A, B, or C
Denison Avenue MPG's Asian Literature, Bookclub, and Canadian Literature.
***Just a note, although this lists Graphic Novel as one of the genres, it is not-it has 232 pages of pure text, followed by 90 or so pages of drawings of the buildings on Denison Avenue***
New Points: 25
Total Challenge Points: 175
GO: 4
IaF: 1
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.
News of the World by Paulette Jiles 100% in Texas
Option 2: Animal Mascots
Choose a mascot from the list below and read a book with that animal on the cover.
South Carolina - Gamecock (any chicken will do)
Love Among the Chickens by P.G. WodehousePub in 1906
**Claim GO Ticket**
Points this Task - 25
GO Ticket - 1
Total Points - 900
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 7
IAF - 11
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.5 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
Southernmost
Author: Silas House
Totals
Points: 270
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 8
Total books: 21
Total tasks: 16
ROBIN P15.7 Parthenon: Greece
MPG Travel
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
**Claiming 1 IAF pt, nonfiction
Points this post: 15
Total points: 895
BB:3 GO:5 IAF:8
CathyG30.6 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.
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.
Spun Out by Lorelei James 309pp
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear 306pp
Claiming It's a Fact ticket
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 230/985
Tasks Completed 8/57
IAF -3
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CathyG30.3 Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee Comedian
This is a two book task. Choose two different options and read a book for each. No children’s (or related genres) may be used.
Required State the options
Option 3: Her Show 2024
Read a NEW TO YOU book from this New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century list
NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
This book is new to me
Claiming It's a Fact ticket
Option 4: Genre
Read a book with an MPG Humor.
The Scam by Janet Evanovich
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 260/985
Tasks Completed 9/57
IAF -4
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CathyG30.2 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
1. PIRATES:
Read a book with all the letters of PIRATES found in the book title and/or author(s) name(s).
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood
2. MICHAEL PHELPS:
Read a book featuring an athlete (or retired athlete).
Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 290/985
Tasks Completed 10/57
IAF -4
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CathyG10.9 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 Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
Claiming It's a Fact ticket
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 300/985
Tasks Completed 11/57
IAF -5
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Bookwrm526Task #20.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Fall 2025 season. The requirement for this task: you must participate in the book's discussion thread below with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book. I read The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood. I commented in the discussion thread at post 11.
Total points so far: 985 (I'm done!!!! This might be the earliest I've finished the challenge).
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15.4 Pompeii ItalyOption 1
Book 1
Read a book with MPG Historical Fiction
and
Book 2
Read a book with a word in the title that has a double letter. Examples of words with double letters: KEEP, HALL, COMMIT
Required: State the word
Option 2 ✔️
Read a book that fulfills both requirements of Option 1.
Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson - BOOK - pub 1934
**Claim GO TIcket**
Points This Task - 15
GO Ticket - 1
Total Points - 915
Total Tickets
BB -1
GO - 8
IAF - 11
5.4 Labor DayRead a book where the main character is a mother.
Zuid-moeders breken niet by Kimberley Klaver
Since the synopsis is in dutch I've translated it below. This shows the mc is a mother:
When Poppy comes to live with chef Alex in South Amsterdam after her world trip, madly in love and pregnant, it turns out that their own rules apply. The world of appearances, botox, gossip and wealth is far removed from her free, spiritual upbringing.
After the birth of their son Wolf, the pink maternity cloud is hard to find and the South turns into a minefield where the mother mafia rules and is always watching. Meanwhile, the charity event of the year in which Alex plays an important role is getting closer. Will Poppy hold her own?
Points this post: 5
Total points: 30
Kristina Marie15.2 Machu Picchu Peru
Book 1
Read a book with a train or train tracks on the cover. Required: Post the cover
Polostan by Neal Stephenson
The train runs from the middle of the cover to the right side.
Book 2
Read a book with a single author's first and last initials in the phrase LOST CITY OF THE INCAS.
Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
N. D. Stevenson's first and last initials can be found in LOST CITY OF THE INCAS.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 775
SHEMAC 15.2 Machu Picchu Peru
Book 1- Read a book with a train or train tracks on the cover.
The Necropolis Railway
Required: Post the cover
Book 2- Read a book with a single author's first and last initials in the phrase LOST CITY OF THE INCAS
Billy and Cord by Lisa Oliver
This task points: 15
Total season points: 730
HanneloreTask 30.5 Amy FL’s task - Back to the gym
Option 1: Read a book with the MPG Greek Mythology.
Book: Lavinia
How it fits: Book has the MPG Greek Mythology.
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose first name exactly matches one of my instructors. They are September C., Patty C., David C., and Steve F.
Book: True Crime : 50 gruwelijke misdaden en hoe deze zijn opgelost door forensische wetenschap
How it fits: Author's first name is David.
** Claiming one IAF ticket. The last book is non-fiction. **
Points this task: 30
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 2
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 0
IAF tickets: 2
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Option 2-
Book 1 - Read ONE book from ONE of the lists above.
Early Gothics
Victorian Spiritualism Fiction
Modern Gothics
Sci Fi Horror
Noir -- (1st 25 pages only)
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher / mid pg 2 on Noir list
Book 2- read any book, fiction or non-fiction, with snow on the cover.
by Samantha Chase / snow on coverPoints this post: 25
Total points: 890
Deborah10.1 School is Cool!
Go back to school and read a non fiction book with the MPG Science, Mathmatics, or History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Nonfiction
MPG: Science and History
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 270
Books Read: 22
Tasks Done: 17
Joanne MI5.1 By The Numbers
Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters
The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines - Desperate 9 letters
Claiming 1 IAF
Points this task 5
IAF this post 1
Season Total 175
4 BB's 5 IAF
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20.10 Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Fall 2025 season.
I have posted on the book discussion thread.
Sociopath
Nonfiction - 1 IAF
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 970 /985
Tasks Completed 55/57
IAF - 11
GO - 4
EMurphyOption 15.3 Stonehenge United Kingdom
Option 1: First published in a year that contains at least 2 numbers from the list (1, 2, 3, 5, 7) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Option 2: Set in the UK Too Close by Natalie Daniels
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 295
Books Read: 23
GO Ticket: 2
BB Ticket: 3
IAF Ticket: 5
Tasks Completed: 12
EMurphy25.6 Lisa MD's Task: The Harry Bosch Universe
Option 1: Any primary work from Harry Bosch Universe series The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Option 3: Author whose initials can be found in one of the MC's name A History of Burning by Janika Oza
*Jack McEvoy
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 320
Books Read: 25
GO Ticket: 2
BB Ticket: 3
IAF Ticket: 5
Tasks Completed: 13
EMurphy20.6 It's a Fact-Angela IL's Task: Reading Goals 2025
Option 2: #2 or later in a series Curtain by Agatha Christie
*Hercule Poirot #44
**Golden Oldies Ticket (written in the 1940's during WWII)
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 340
Books Read: 26
GO Ticket: 3
BB Ticket: 3
IAF Ticket: 5
Tasks Completed: 14
EMurphy15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
Author's initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
*Found in CAMBODIA
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 355
Books Read: 27
GO Ticket: 3
BB Ticket: 3
IAF Ticket: 5
Tasks Completed: 15
EMurphy15.1 Ancient or New
Option 1: Word of 4 or more letters in title that can be spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
*HOUSE made from Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Option 2: Word of 4 or more letters in title that can be spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly
*TELL from Great Wall of China
**It's a Fact Ticket
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 370
Books Read: 29
GO Ticket: 3
BB Ticket: 3
IAF Ticket: 6
Tasks Completed: 16
trishhartuk20.4 Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall Brings
Option 5. Read a book with at least one skein of yarn and two knitting needles shown on the cover.
Knit One, Die Two, Peggy Ehrhart (247pg)
The yarn is in the bowl on the settee, and there is a pair of knitting needles in one of the skeins of yarn at the back.
Okayed in Help Thread message #19: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 615
Tasks Completed: 39
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 6
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Tammy AZ's task: Pearl Jam📖📖📖 page count must be at least 350 pages 📖📖📖
Option 1: title contains one of the words from any of the songs titles
Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
🦃 GO in book title matches song title: Why GO
📖 364 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 255 + 20 = 275
Stephanie12720.3 - 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.
On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20/985
Tasks completed: 1/57
Books read: 1
Kelly L 25.2- Ash's Task- Slash and Survive: A Final Girl Challenge
Pick two different options and read one book for each option.
Option 2:
Read a book where a Roadtrip is essential to the story
The characters in The Road to Tender Hearts take a road trip from Massachusetts to Arizona
Option 4:
Read an anthology/collection of stories
Stag Dance is a "collection of one novel and three stories" per GR description
This post: 25 points
Tickets: ---
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Season total: 500 points
Season Tickets: 2 IAF, 1 BB
Stephanie1275.6 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.
Coeur de Lion
Phrase is HISTORIC SCOTLAND, word is LION
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25/985
Tasks completed: 2/57
Books read: 2
Stephanie1275.1 By The Numbers: Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters.
Ephemera
Points this post: 5
Total points: 30/985
Tasks completed: 3/57
Books read: 3
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5.10 Fall Into Reading
Fall into reading by reading a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Full House
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 975 /985
Tasks Completed 56/57
IAF - 11
GO - 4
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20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 1:
Read a book that is between 100-250 pages.
Insects, Ivy, & Investigations - 182 pages
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 950 /985
Tasks Completed 54/57
IAF - 10
GO - 4