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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
20.2 - 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 1:
Read a fiction book from this list: Native American Literature
Required: State the page the book was found on
Mask of the Deer Woman on pg 8
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 325
BB Tickets: 6
GO Tickets: 2
It's a Fact Tickets: 6
ROBIN P30.6 MAZZA1's Task: Name Game
2 books, 501+ p
1. Book of Choice - To Capture What We Cannot Keep - Beatrice Colin - 291 p
2.Book whose author has same name in different position
Anarchy and Old Dogs - Colin Cotterill - 288 p
Total pages - 579
Points this post: 30
Total points: 925
BB:3 GO:5 IAF:8
30.6 - MAZZA1's Task: Name Swap
The combined total for both books must be 501 pages or more.
Book 1: Read a book w/ a 3+ title word from one of the Different Class track titles
Read a book of your choice by a single author.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson, 1010 pages
** Claiming 3 Big Book Tickets **
Book 2: Read a book w/ a 3+ title word from one of the More track titles
Kings of Coweetsee by Dale Neal, 280 pages
1010 + 280 = 1290 total pages
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 935/985
Tasks Completed: 53/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(10), GO(8), IaF(13)
20.5 - Bigger is Better: Tammy AZ's task - Pearl Jam
Option 2: Read a 350+ page book set 50%+ in New Orleans.
Last Car to Elysian Fields, 496 pages
(Setting from GR description: Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans in this intense, atmospheric...)
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 955/985
Tasks Completed: 54/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(10), GO(8), IaF(13)
CathyG15.1 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. Required: State the word and the wonder 7 Ancient Wonders: Temple of Artemis at Ephesus- lime
A Lime to Kill by Summer Prescott
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. Required: State the word and the wonder Great Wall of China after
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4.0
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 315/985
Tasks Completed 12/57
IAF -5
GO -
CathyG15.3 Stonehenge United Kingdom
Help Thread
Required: State the option
Option 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
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.
Scandal Above Stairs by Jennifer Ashley
published 2018
set in England
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 330/985
Tasks Completed 13/57
IAF -5
GO -
5.10 - Fall Into Reading
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules (a book with the MPG Childrens, etc that is NOT found in ARBF may be used)
Poison for Breakfast
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 960/985
Tasks Completed: 55/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(10), GO(8), IaF(13)
CathyG15.6 Tikal Guatemala
Read a book with a swimming pool on the cover.
Required: Post the cover
Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend by M.J. Wassmer
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 345/985
Tasks Completed 14/57
IAF -5
GO -
CathyG15.8 Easter Island Chile
Read a book with at least 3 people on the cover. The whole body does not need to be on the cover, but there needs to be enough to identify at least 3 distinct people. Silhouettes will work.
Required: Post the cover
The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 360/985
Tasks Completed 15/57
IAF -5
GO -
CathyG15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
Ain't She a Peach by Molly Harper
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 375/985
Tasks Completed 16/57
IAF -5
GO -
CathyG15.10 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'
Required: State the phrase used- Thundering Smoke
In Too Deep by Sharon Dunn
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 390/985
Tasks Completed 17/57
IAF -5
GO -
Slideshell5.1 By The Numbers
Read a book where the title has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters
Our Infinite Fates
New Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 44
Total Points: 735
BIG BOOK: 4
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
CathyG10.7 Have Yams Will Party
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the phrase The Ashanti Yam Festival
Letters may be use as often as they appear.
Required: State the word. this
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
Claiming It's a Fact ticket
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 400/985
Tasks Completed 18/57
IAF -6
GO -
Slideshell10.1 School is Cool!
Read a fiction book with MPG Literary fiction/Literature or Dark Academia
A Study in Drowning
New Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 45
Total Points: 745
BIG BOOK: 4
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
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10.7 Have Yams Will Party
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the phrase The Ashanti Yam Festival (Ties)
Hometown Ties
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 985 /985
Tasks Completed 57/57
IAF - 11
GO - 4
That's all the reading for this season, for me!
10.5 Season of the HarvestAuthor's initials in HARVEST: Before Everything by Victoria Redel
Points this post: 10
Total points: 790
50.1 - trishhartuk's Task: NewgrangeBook 1, Title word matches a word in lyrics of Clannad song https://genius.com/Clannad-newgrange-...
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods
The word is Mysterious.
paperback edition 352 pages
first published 2025
Book 2A, three-word title: An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn
paperback edition 332 pages
first published 2023
Book 3A, set in winter: The Mistletoe Matchmaker by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
paperback edition 354 pages
first published 2019
The author was born in Dublin, Ireland.
Points this post: 50
Total points: 840
Jasmiina F5.1 By The Numbers:
Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters:
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.
Norwegian: 9 letters
Points this post: 5
Total points: 105
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Jasmiina F5.10 Fall Into Reading:
Read a book of your choice:
Voice of the Ocean by Kelsey Impicciche.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 110
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JEN B10.8 The Ghouls Guide to Reading
Read a book from one of these lists: Halloween and Autumn Cozy Mysteries
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
This book is on Page 3 of the Halloween and Autumn Cozy Mysteries list
TOTAL POINTS: 420
Nick KY25.1 Nick KY’s Gothic Types
Opt. 1.
Book 1. From p. 1 of the Victorian Spiritualism list, I read The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Book 2. From p. 1 of the Sci Fi Horror list, I read Sandkings by George R.R. Martin. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 955
Nick KY30.7 Delicious Dee’s Sci Fi Classics: Isaac Asimov
Opt. 1. Read a book by Isaac Asimov. I read The Gods Themselves.
Opt. 3. Read a book 1st pub’d during IA’s lifetime, 1920-1992. I read Neuromancer by William Gibson, 1st pub'd 1984.
The 1960’s through early 1980’s is my favorite sci-fi period which is why I saved this wonderful task for last!
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 985 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETED!!!
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SHEMAC 20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task- Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State #2176
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 - 3
Option 3: The Amana Colonies
Read a book that was first published in the month of October in any year 1965-2025 (inclusive).
Men Like Us (October 2019)
This task points: 20
Total season points: 750
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read a book with Autumn in the title or author's name.
Autumn Bones by Jacqueline Carey / AUTUMN in title
Points this post: 5
Total points: 895
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Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Fall 2025 season.
Sociopath by Patric Gagne / chosen as the Nonfiction Group Read Book
discussion post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 20
Total points: 915
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5.1 By The Numbers
Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters.
Zomromcom
How it fits:
Zomromcom has 9 letters!
Points this post: 5
Total this season: 530
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15.3 Stonehenge United Kingdom
Option 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
The Vengeful Dead
How it fits:
Published in 2025
Book 2- Read a book set in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
The Potting Shed Murder
How it fits:
Daphne Brewster has left London behind and is settling into her family’s new life in rural Norfolk, planting broad beans in raised beds and vintage hunting for their farmhouse.
Points this post: 15
Total this season: 545
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25.9 - Cat's Task: 30 Years of Pulp
Option 1
Task 1: Read a book that shares a title word with one of the track titles
If Something Happens to Me
How it fits:
Something is the word
7. "Something Changed"
Task 2: Read a book that shares a title word with one of the track titles
Sounds Like Love
How it fits:
Word is LOVE
7. "Got to Have Love"
Points this post: 25
Total this season: 570
Amanda E. 30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: Beauty is in the Eye of Beholder
Option 3: Read a book with an MPG of Historical Fiction or Art.
Option 4: Read a book with a single author author's first and last initial can be found in the word MUSEUM
Books read: Hungerstone A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
How it fits: Hungerstone MPG = Historical Fiction, Letters S &M in Museum
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 215
Task Completed: 12
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30.1 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. Book cannot be part of the same series as previously read.
Required State book previously read and that the author was new to you.
No One Can Know
How it fits:
I read A Killing Cold July 7th, 2025 for summer 2025 challenge
She was a new to me author (I've read several of her books since!)
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.
I Did Warn Her
How it fits:
Previously read Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Pub June 13, 2017
I Did Warn Her
Pub June 17th, 2025
Points this post: 30
Total this season: 600
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25.5 - Bookwrm526's Task: SEC Football
Option 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.
The Only Survivors
How it Fits:
A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine
Option 3:
Read a book where football is central to the story.
The Champions
How it fits:
When a mysterious accident befalls a member of the all-star high school football team, the town's deadly history stands to repeat itself—and the price of discovering the truth is higher than anyone could imagine.
Points this post: 25
Total this season: 625
Amanda E.30.2 Susan A's Task - Halloween Costumes
Option 1: Read a book with all the letters of PIRATES found in the book title and/or author(s) name(s).
Option 6: Read a book featuring Zombies and is essential to the story.
Books Read: Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei and
by SenLinYuHow it fits: Option 1: P,R,T,A,S in Saltcrop, I,E in author name
Option 2: Alchemised features zombies called necrothralls that are resurrected corpses.
Google search explanation: In the book Alchemised, zombies are "thralls" created through forbidden necromantic magic by the story's villains, who have brought about victory in a war with the help of their undead creatures"
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 245
Tasks Completed: 13
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25.8 - Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading Rally
Option 2: Testudo’s Turtle Power
Read a book set in a college or university (any genre).
The Dead Girls' Dance
How it fits:
The main characters are students at a college and the setting is in Morganville, Texas which is a college town.
Option 4: Tailgate Traditions
Read a novel set at least 75% in Pennsylvania or Maryland
The One That Got Away with Murder
How it fits:
Setting: Pennsylvania
Points this post: 25
Total this season: 650
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30.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac Asimov
Option 2 – Read a book by a single author where ALL the author’s initials can be found in Isaac Asimov. Letters may be used as often as they appear.
The Summer She Went Missing
How it fits:
Chelsea Ichaso = IsaaC
Option 4 –
Read a book that can be found on the first 5 pages of these lists
Artificial Condition
How it fits:
Found on page 1 of the Artificial Intelligence list
Points this post: 30
Total this season: 680
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15.4 Pompeii Italy
Required: State the option
Option 1:
Book 1- Read a book with MPG Historical Fiction
The Most
How it fits:
MPG Historical Fiction
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
Bad Creek
How it fits:
CrEEk has double letters.
Points this post: 15
Total this season: 695
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25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic Types
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.
She Is a Haunting
How it fits:
Modern Gothic- Page 5 when posting
Book 2. Because Gothic genres are often “chilly,” read any book, fiction or non-fiction, with snow on the cover.
Required: Post the cover.
The Writing Retreat
How it fits:
Points this post: 25
Total this season: 720
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30.6 MAZZA1's Task: Name Swap
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.
The Girl from Widow Hills
Smile for the Cameras
How it fits:
Megan MIRANDA --> MIRANDA Smith
Points this post: 30
Total this season: 750
Elizabeth PTask 20.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the group reads books and make a comment in the discussion thread
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
Discussion thread post 15: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
At 528 pages, good for *1 Big Book Ticket*
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 430
Total Tasks: 26
GO: 0
BB: 6
IAF: 0
Total Books: 32
25.8 - Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading RallyOption 2 - Read a book set in a college or university (any genre).
Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay
Option 5 - Read a novel with a cover featuring the Eagles’ colors of green, silver/gray, white, black. All colors must be represented and the combined colors be at least 50% according to tineye https://labs.tineye.com/color/
Women, Seated by Zhang YueranPoints this task - 25
Total Points - 960
CindyFTask 15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Title of at least 3 words where first letters of each word found in
Boiling WaTer (T,B,W)
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
Points this post:15
Total points:320
Big books:1
Golden Oldies:2
Non-Fiction:1
Tasks completed:26
Jager10.1 School is Cool!
Read a fiction book with MPG Literary fiction/Literature or Dark Academia
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
total points 525/985
35/57
2 IAF / 2 BB / 0 GO
Jager25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for Everything
Option 2: College
A - Location - Read a book set in one of the places we have toured; Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island or New York City (must NYC, not New York State).
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Option 3: Side Hustle
A - Audiobooks - Read (or listen) to a book that won or was a finalist in the Audie Awards - Required State the Year of the award - 2025 Winner
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
total points 550/985
36/57
2 IAF / 2 BB / 0 GO
Jager30.4 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.
The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
Option 3: Read a book with an MPG of Historical Fiction or Art.
Rednecks by Taylor Brown
total points 580/985
37/57
2 IAF / 2 BB / 0 GO
25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic TypesOption 2, book 1, a book from Victorian Spiritualism Fiction list, page 1 #52: The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox
Option 2, book 2, snow on the cover: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Points this post: 25
Total points: 865
MEGSCL15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
**688 pages - 1 bb ticket**
TOTAL
165 points - 4 IAF ticket - 3 BB ticket
MEGSCL10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or Wrap
Witch, Werewolf, Vampire, and Mummy: Read a book with one of these words in the title.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
TOTAL
175 points - 4 IAF ticket - 3 BB ticket
20.5 Pearl JamOption 1:
Read a book where the title contains one of the words from any of the songs titles from the album: Ten, Once, Even Flow, Alive, Why Go, Black, Jeremy, Oceans, Porch, Garden, Deep, Release
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
The word is Black. The book is 385 pages.
Post Total: 20
Grand Total: 415
Coffeegirl30.3 Leah Renee Comedian
Option 1: Locations 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.
Book: The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
Setting: The primary setting is the wooded area around Highchair Rocks in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. https://www.google.com/search?q=where...
Option 2 Her Show 2024 - Cult Books
Book: Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini
Page 1 of the cult Books List
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 65
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Book 1: Read a book of your choice by a single author.
The American Who Watched British Mysteries by Arthur John
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.
The Minders by John Marrs
Points this task - 30
Total points - 945