Q4 Challenge (Oct.-Dec. 2025): What a title!

[Shel, Moderator]

Time for our final quarterly challenge of the year! For this quarter's challenge, without reading the description, choose a book to read solely based on its title. Maybe the title makes you laugh, intrigues you, doesn't make sense, choose however you want!

Let us know what you're reading and what you thought of it here!

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Even though it’s next month’s BotM, and even though I think I’m the one who nominated it, I don’t actually know anything about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke other than it’s her debut novel and there’s a British TV series based on it. I think the title is just “strange” enough to fit the challenge, and the book has been on my shelf for ages, so I will apply this to the challenge when I read this for our November BotM.

[Shel, Moderator]

I went onto my library's "available now" ebook section to see if there were any good titles, and A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking jumped out at me! I've read and enjoyed other T. Kingfisher, so I think that's going to be my selection this time around.

[Kateblue]

Shel and Kathi, I have read both of the books you have selected and I think you will like them both. I did, though Jonathan was pretty darn long.

I am going to select a title already on my list to read, also, How to Survive a Fairy Bargain, though the first book had an even better title for this challenge, How to Summon a Fairy Godmother

[Dawn]

I think I'm going with Automatic Noodle. I added it to my TBR recently because of it's great name.