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This competition is just for fun! It's a way to track books and motivate us to read. There's no pressure to read as many books or get as many points as the year before. Providing points from prior years just gives me ( / Jenna, if she's around) an idea of how to sort the teams. :)
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Year 8 Team: Horns of Hammerad
Year 8 Individual Points: 4,034
Favourite read of 2025: Oh god, too many... I really liked The Everlasting & Hemlock & Silver in Fantasy... Clown in a Cornfield series in horror... Full Murderhobo and He Who Fights with Monsters in the LitRPG genre... A Rip Through Time series in mysteries... Only Bad Options series and The Light Brigade in Sci-Fi... and I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton... I've read nearly 750 books this year, so far...
Old Year Points:
(2024) Year 7 Points: 2601.4
(2023) Year 6 Points: 2321.4
(2022) Year 5 Points: 1293.4
(2021) Year 4 Points: 1219.9
(2020) Year 3 Points: 2293.0
(2019) Year 2 Points: 1970.3
(2018) Year 1 Points: 2003.8
Expecting to read around 4000+ points again next year, minimum... unless work listening rules change...
Name: NarilkaYear 8 Team: Horns of Hammerand
Year 8 Individual Points: 387.2
Favourite reads of 2025 (so far): This Inevitable Ruin, Hogfather and the Mother of Learning series
Name: Saar the Book OwlYear 8 Team: Silver Swords
Year 8 Individual Points: 181
Favourite read of 2025: too many, I can't choose...Of course the Gobbelino - series and Dungeon Crawler Carl - series, but also Horse and A Monster Calls
Name: TammieYear 8 Team: Lawless Rogues
Year 8 Individual Points: 536.4
Favourite read of 2025: A River Enchanted
Name: RachelGYear 8 Team: Lawless Rogues
Year 8 Individual Points: 2,591.3
Favourite read of 2025: Tusks, Tails and Teacakes, Demon World Boba Shop series, Isekai Farming
Name: MonikaYear 8 Team: Horns of Hammerad
Year 8 Individual Points: 1025.3
Favourite read of 2025: The Bewitching, Six wild crowns, Before we say Goodbye, Wiedzmin Szpony i Kly, Still Alice.
Name: VirginieYear 8 Team: Silver Swords
Year 8 Individual Points: 562.4
Favourite read of 2025: DCC, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Project Hail Mary, Swordcrossed, Bioshifter, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, The Tainted Cup
Name: PaulaYear 8 Team: Lawless rogues
Year 8 Individual Points: 1,079.6 (will be lower next year if i find a full time job)
Favourite read of 2025: The Bone Harp, Hemlock & Silver, The Everlasting, Mrs. Wickham, DCC, Empire of Silence, Reign & Ruin, Beguilement, The Devils, パーフェクトワールド 1, Magus of the Library, Vol. 1....and i will stop...for now
Name: Mitali2025 number of books read: 122 (~30k pages, similar every year with 100-120 books)
2025 number of buddy reads read with the group:6
Favorite read of 2025: The Shadow of What Was Lost, Dungeon Crawler Carl Series, Gardens of the Moon, The Help
Name: NirkatzeYear 8 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 8 Individual Points: 4093.7
Favourite read of 2025: Um... Hm.
Dungeon Crawler Carl, InCryptid, Honor Harrington Universe, Cherryh's Foreigner series, Red Rising, lots of Sebastien de Castell stuff, He Who Fights With Monsters, Bioshifter, Rip Through Time, Vorkosigan, Orphan X, Fred the Vampire Accountant, Midsolar Murders, Empire of Man, Blood Over Bright Haven, A Drop of Corruption, Wind and Truth... the list just keeps going...
Name: MarieYear 8 Team: Lawless Rogues
Year 8 Individual Points: 513.7
Favourite read of 2025: This Inevitable Ruin, The Will of the Many, He Who Fights with Monsters 11, Fall of the Argosi
Year 7 Individual Points: 673.1 (only joined in April)
Since this year was mostly disturbed because of pregnancy/giving birth/taking care of a newborn/moving house and now it's returning more back to normal, I expect to do better next year.
Name - ManjuYear 8 Team - Lawless Rogues
Year 8 Individual points - 581
Favorite reads of 2025 - Lincoln Lawyers, Renee Ballard, Wolf Den, Matthew Shardlake
Name: Diana Year 8 Team: Silver Swords
Year 8 Individual Points: 743 (but expecting much less next year)
Favorite read of 2025: the Riyria books reread and A Rip Through Time series
Name -Ann-MarieYear 8 Team - Silver Swords
Year 8 points - 1,524.9
Favorites - DCC, Dead Tired, Vera Wong, Orphan X, The Women of Wild Hill, etc lol
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