Jenna's "Once More, With Feeling" Challenge 2026

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So excited to be returning to this challenge! My challenge is structured a little differently; since I plan my life on the 12 week system, my Challenge is retrofitted to work off the rolling 12 week year system

Key:
✓ = ticks a 'box' for challenge requirement
☑️ hoping to work into ATY '26 challenge
⚪️ placed in ATY '26 challenge, not yet read; once a book with this designation is read, it will be changed to a green check
✅ book has been read, counted toward ATY '26 challenge

Rules/Expectations/Anti-rules/Goals:
- Plan can (and likely will) change at any time
- Reading should be fun. If I'm not enjoying myself I'll pivot and make changes
- I can and will read out of order ... I'm a mood reader, it is what it is 🤷🏼‍♀️
- prioritizing books from my physical shelves/owned ebooks/owned audible/library (why: reduce spending, support library, use what I already have, make tbr progress, get to some reads I've been wanting to experience for a long time but keep getting pushed off)

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Books I really want to read this year and hopefully fit in to this challenge:
(Will delete as I find a place for them)
☑️ Women Who Run With the Wolves
☑️ The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity Julia Cameron

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Series
Series I want to start or complete:
⚪️ Outlander (Outlander #1)
☑️ Stormlight Archive
⚪️ A Game of Thrones: A Game of Thrones

link to my personal comprehensive series tracker:
LINK coming soon

temporary link: 2026 on Goodreads


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Series triggered/started by a challenge book (aka first book read for this challenge, will likely continue the series):
- Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1)

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Additional Goal: read 3 'self help' or 'learning' books per quarter
~~~~~~ Q1 ~~~~~~
⚪️ (Prompt 4) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
⚪️ (Prompt 9) The 12 Week Year
⚪️ (Prompt 12) Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
~~~~~~ Q2 ~~~~~~
⚪️ (Prompt 15) Making Time: A New Vision for Crafting a Life Beyond Productivity
⚪️ (Prompt 17) The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
⚪️ (Prompt 20) The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
~~~~~~ Q3 ~~~~~~
⚪️ (Prompt 27) 12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur
⚪️ (Prompt 29) Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: French Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach
⚪️ (Prompt 36) Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pigpen to Paradise
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⚪️ (Prompt 40) Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
⚪️ (Prompt 45) Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness
⚪️ (Prompt 46) How to Win Friends & Influence People
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Other Pacing Notes:
- Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction to Hekate's Modern Witchcraft - Second Edition - read across the year as book is intended, Jan-Dec
- Lingua Latina per se illustrata. Pars I: Familia Romana, Grammatica Latina - working through in parts, will likely spread over Q1
[Prompt 3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list --> A book about a family or family relationships]
- The Way of Kings - hoping to buddy-read with hubby; timing tbd
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Other Challenges I'm participating in this year:

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Welcome to LINKSVILLE
Links to Other Challenges and Primary Record-Keeping list:

2026: 2026 on Goodreads
coming soon: link to ✨Jenna's 2026 Challenge Home Base✨
2025 n/a (took the year off from GR)
2024 Links: ✨Jenna's 2024 Personal Challenge✨
2023 Links: ✨Jenna's 2023 Challenge Home Base✨

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✨ Q1 Plan (Weeks 1-13) ✨
*bolded once finalized

1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y
Outlander Diana Gabaldon - Time Travel
- owned, paperback & audible
- have false-started multiple times, I WANT to actually enjoy and appreciate this series gal dang it!!



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2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover
The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker
- hardcover, owned (blue)



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3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list
The Prompt: A book about a family or family relationships
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana



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4. A book by a new-to-you author
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity David Allen
- hold placed at library



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5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025
Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction to Hekate's Modern Witchcraft - Second Edition
- paperback, owned



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6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears
Of Blood and Bones: Working with Shadow Magick & the Dark Moon Kate Freuler
- paperback, owned


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7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book
A Real person: Marie Antoinette
Becoming Marie Antoinette Juliet Grey
- hold placed at library



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8. A book set in Africa, Asia, or Australia
The Women Kristin Hannah (Asia)
- hardback, owned



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9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title
The 12 Week Year
- hardback, owned



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10. An award winning book
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Erik Larson
- hold placed at library



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11. A history or historical fiction book
Labyrinth Kate Mosse
- paperback, owned



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12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
- owned, audible



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13. An author's second/sophomore book
Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon
- series started in previous prompt
- paperback, owned

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✨ Reflections on Q1 (Weeks 1-13) ✨

~~~~~ ACTUAL READING ORDER ~~~~~
⚪️ Week 1: The 12 Week Year (Prompt 9)
⚪️ Week 2: Outlander (Prompt 1)
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COMPLETED COVERS:

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✨ Q2 (Weeks 14-26) ✨

14. A book related to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh
The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey Monty Don (sunflower on cover)



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15. A book you've wanted to read for a long time
Making Time: A New Vision for Crafting a Life Beyond Productivity



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16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters
[Mrs. Peacock: widow, socialite]
A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York Greg King
- owned, hardback



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17. A book set in the wellness or beauty industries
The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
- owned, hardback



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18. A book with a location in the title
The History of Ancient Rome



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19. A book related to yesterday
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
- owned, paperback



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20. A book related to today
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment



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21. A book related to tomorrow
Seiðr Magic: The Norse Tradition of Divination and Trance
- trance and divination



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22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything Lydia Kang



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23. A book with a road trip or long journey
A Game of Thrones
- owned, paperback



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24. A book that is either frothy or gothy

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25. A book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list

Le Petit Prince
- en français
- owned, paperback



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26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name
The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley

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✨ Reserved - Reflections on Q2 (Weeks 14-26) ✨

~~~~~ ACTUAL READING ORDER ~~~~~
⚪️ Week 14:
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COMPLETED COVERS:

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✨ Mid-Year Check-in ✨

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✨ Reserved - Q3 (Weeks 27-39) ✨

27. A nonfiction book
12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur
- owned, audible



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28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution

29. A vacation book
Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: French Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach Paul Noble
- owned, audible



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30. [Frontlist Book] The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist
Author: Kate Morton
Frontlist Book: Homecoming
- owned, hardback



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31. [Backlist Book] The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist
Author: Kate Morton
Backlist Book: The Secret Keeper
- false-started this a couple times, want to actually read the thing
- owned, both paperback & audible lmao 🤦🏼‍♀️



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32. A novella of 100-250 pages

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33. A book with an Indigenous character or author
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology



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34. A book with a window on the cover
Uprooted
- owned, hardcover



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35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- owned, paperback
or
The Starless Sea
- owned, hardback



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36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40
Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pigpen to Paradise
- owned, paperback



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37. A book that includes a science topic
likely:
Biodynamic Gardening: Grow Healthy Plants and Amazing Produce
- physical tbr; owned, paperback
runners-up:
Remarkable Creatures
- physical tbr - owned, paperback



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38. A book that's part of a series
* next Outlander book
Voyager
- paperback, owned



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39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie
Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie
🤔 Maybe it's time to actually read something by Agatha Christie lol

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✨ Reflections on Q3 (Weeks 27-39)✨

~~~~~ ACTUAL READING ORDER ~~~~~
⚪️ Week 27:
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COMPLETED COVERS:

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✨ Q4 (Weeks 40-52) ✨

40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title
Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat



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41. A mystery or true crime book

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42. A book set in an isolated location

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43. A book involving survival
Man's Search for Meaning
- owned, paperback



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44. A book with a symbol of death on the cover
Nettle & Bone



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45. A book connected to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness
- owned, hardcover



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46. A book that is not a novel
How to Win Friends & Influence People


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47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title
You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together
or
Beyond This Horizon



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48. A book with something edible in the title
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
- owned, paperback



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49. A second book for your favorite prompt
Repeated Prompt: A book with a bird on its cover
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans



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50. A book with a bird on its cover
Daughter of the Forest



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51. A book published in 2026


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52. A book related to the name of one of Santa's reindeer
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

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✨ Reflections on Q4 (Weeks 40-52)

~~~~~ ACTUAL READING ORDER ~~~~~
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COMPLETED COVERS:

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✨ End of Year Summary/Review ✨

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✨ Reserved - Extra

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