2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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THINGS WITH WINGS - Nov 2021 monthly challenge
✅ Mairelon the Magician
✅ Witch Week
✅ The Colour Of Bee Larkham's Murder
✅ Lovely War
✅ Maresi
✅ Arcadia
✅ On Two Feet and Wings: One boy's amazing story of survival
🔳 The Enigma Game
🔳 The Raven's Wing

COLOUR CHALLENGE - 2021 yearly challenge
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

White :


Pink :


Red :


Orange :


Yellow :


Green :


Light Blue :


Dark Blue :


Purple :


Brown :


Black :


Metallic :


5+ colours:


Geometric :

On the Beach (Nevil Shute) OR Broken Shore

Ugly :


2+ colour words in title:


The word "colour"in title :


Word(s) descriptive of colour in title:

"Bright" "Spotted"

PEACE SIGNS
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1. The olive branch
1.1. Read a book set in Ancient Egypt, Greece or Rome
✅ 1.2. Read a book with a tree/branch/leaf on the cover When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection (Gabor Mate)
✅ 1.3. Read a book written by or about a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize The Stranger (Albert Camus)

2. The dove
2.1. Read a book set in a convent or any place of worship
✅ 2.2. Read a book with a dove or any other bird on the cover/in the title Mairelon the Magician
✅ 2.3. Read a book involving any sport or leading international sporting event Furia

3. The broken rifle
3.1. Read a book set in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, or Norway
3.2. Read a book with "broken" in the title * The Broken Shore
✅ 3.3. Read a book involving a nonviolent activist Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality (Sarah McBride)

4. The white poppy
✅ 4.1. Read a book set in the United Kingdom or any member state of the Commonwealth Death Comes to Pemberley (P D James)
4.2. Read a book with a white flower on the cover
✅ 4.3. Read a book involving women's rights violation Maresi

5. Roerich's peace banner
✅ 5.1. Read a book set in Russia or any ex-Soviet Republic The Death of Ivan Ilych
✅ 5.2. Read a book in which a cultural artifact is central to the plot *Book of Colours (Robyn Cadwallader)
5.3. Read a book involving the right to education

6. Peace symbol
✅ 6.1. Read a book involving the hippy movement or by a countercultural author Arcadia
✅ 6.2. Read a book set in the 60's or 70's The Wednesday Wars (Gary D Schmidt)
6.3. Read a book involving a nuclear disaster/testing

7. Rainbow flag
✅ 7.1. Read a book with any colour of the rainbow on the cover The Spotted Dog
✅ 7.2. Read a book involving an environmental movement Shallows (Tim Winton)
7.3. Read a book in which a peace walk or any other pacific demonstration takes place

8. Predator and prey lie down together
✅ 8.1. Read a book in which a peaceful alliance between former enemies is depicted Witch Week
✅ 8.2. Read a book with any predator and prey on the cover or in the title (for example: the wolf and the lamb) White Rabbit, Red Wolf (Tom Pollock)
8.3. Read a book involving indigenous people

9. V sign
9.1. Read a book involving a resistance movement against occupation The Enigma Game
9.10. Read a book set during the Vietnam War or about the psychological effects in veterans
✅ 9.11. Read a book involving the civil rights movement Lies We Tell Ourselves (Robin Talley)

10. Paper Cranes
✅ 10.1. Read a book involving the effects of the war in children The War I Finally Won
10.2. Read a book where someone is granted a wish The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
10.3. Read a book involving any kind of handicraft

11. Japanese Peace Bell
✅ 11.1. Read a book set in Japan * The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa)
✅ 11.2. Read a book involving politicians or diplomats *The King of Attolia
11.3. Read a book involving disarmament

12. Shalom/Salaam
✅ 12.1. Read a book set in the Middle East On Two Feet and Wings: One boy's amazing story of survival
12.2. Read a book originally written in Arabic/Hebrew
✅ 12.3. Read a book with the words "peace", "happiness", or "freedom" in the title The Ticket to Happiness

COMPLETED CHALLENGES

= COMPLETED = POPSUGAR - 2021 yearly challenge - joined post #116
✅ 1. 2021 publication: A Million Things (Emily Spurr)
✅ 2. Afrofuturist: An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)
✅ 3. heart on cover: Loveless (Alice Oseman)
✅ 4. saggitarian author: The High Deeds of Finn MacCool (Rosemary Sutcliff)
✅ 5, dark academia: A Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray)
✅ 6. gem in title: The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman)
✅ 7. dream job (editor): Magpie Murders (Anthony Horowitz)
✅ 8. Women's Prize for Fiction winner: The Idea of Perfection (Kate Grenville)
✅ 9. family tree: Breadcrumbs and Bombs (Susan Findlay)
✅ 10. 1990s bestseller: The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
✅ 11. about forgetting: Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
✅ 12. seen on shelves: The Order of the Phoenix (J K Rowling)
✅ 13. locked room mystery: Truly Devious (Maureen Johnson)
✅ 14. restaurant setting: See Your At Harry's (Jo Knowles)
✅ 15. B&W cover: We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
✅ 16. indigenous author: Too Much Lip (Melissa Lucashenko)
✅ 17. song/book shared name: The Pied Piper (Nevil Shute)
✅ 18. passion subject: Trans Like Me (C.N. Lester)
✅ 19. body positivity: Leah on the Offbeat (Becky Abertalli)
✅ 20. BLM: The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
✅ 21. genre hybrid (comedy/mystery): Maskerade (Terry Pratchett)
✅ 22. set outdoors: The Oregon Trail (Rinker Buck)
✅ 23. something broken on cover: Slam (Nick Hornby)
✅ 24. Muslim American author: The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
✅ 25. published anonymously: Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
✅ 26. oxymoron title: A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee)
✅ 27. fresh starts: And We Stay (Jenny Hubbard)
✅ 28. magical realism: Elatsoe (Darcie Little Badger)
✅ 29. multiple countries: All The Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
✅ 30. somewhere like to visit in 2021: Overkill (Vanda Symon)
✅ 31. by podcaster: The Infinite Noise (Lauren Shippen)
✅ 32. starting Q, X or Z: The XY Axis (Karin Bishop)
✅ 33. three generations: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred D. Taylor)
✅ 34. social justice issue (stolen generation): The White Girl (Tony Birch)
✅ 35. different format (graphic novel): The Adventure Zone: Here Be Gerblins (Carey Pietsch & J, G, T & C McElroy)
✅ 36. less than 1000 reviews: Prairie Ostrich (Tamai Kobayashi)
✅ 37. friend would like: Magic for Liars (Sarah Gailey)
✅ 38. art/artist: Memory and Dream (Charles de Lint)
✅ 39. everyone but me has read: Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
✅ 40. fave past prompt (title 20+ letters): The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)
✅ 41. longest length in TBR list: Ship of Magic (Robin Hobb)
✅ 42. shortest length in TBR list: I'm Afraid of Men (Vivek Shraya)
✅ 43. prettiest cover in TBR list: The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)
✅ 44. ugliest cover in TBR list: The Kestrel (Lloyd Alexander)
✅ 45. oldest on in TBR list: Whispering in the Wind (Alan Marshall)
✅ 46. on last year's TBR list: The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull (Barry Kinsberg)
✅ 47. associate favourite person/place/thing: Bombs on Aunt Dainty (Judith Kerr)
✅ 48. random book from TBR list: In the Market for Murder (T E Kinsey)
✅ 49. DNF from TBR list: Archivist Wasp (Nicole Kornher-Stace)
✅ 50. library book from TBR list: Black Heart, Ivory Bones (ed Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling


= COMPLETED = SPELL A BETTER WORLD - 2021 yearly challenge - joined post #330 (for 1 July - 31 December only)
✅ B Bombs on Aunt Dainty (Judith Kerr)
✅ E Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)

✅ C Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
✅ U An Unsuitable Job For A Woman (P.D. James)
✅ R A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers (Sari Solden & Michelle Frank)
✅ I Inbetween Days (Vikki Wakefield)
✅ O Overkill (Vanda Symon)
✅ U The Undomestic Goddess (Sophie Kinsella)
✅ S Ship of Magic (Robin Hobb)

✅ N Night Witches (Kathryn Lasky)
✅ O Or What You Will (Jo Walton)
✅ T Twopence To Cross The Mersey (Helen Forrester)

✅ J Jane In Love (Rachel Givney)
✅ U The Upside of Unrequited (Becky Abertalli)
✅ D Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Adib Khorram)
✅ G The Grammarians (Cathleen Schine)
✅ E An Earthly Knight (Janet Mcnaughton)
✅ M Mark of the Plague
✅ E Eric (Terry Pratchett)
✅ N Nest (Esther Erlich)
✅ T To Helvetica and Back (Paige Shelton)
✅ A Archivist Wasp (Nicole Kornher-Stace)
✅ L Legends of the Lost Lilies (Jackie French)


= COMPLETED = BRAIN POWER - June 2021 monthly challenge - joined post #4
✅ Emotion/sense in title: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred D Taylor)
✅ Set in school/college/uni: The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place (Julie Berry)
✅ Translated into >3 languages: Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
✅ Character blind/vision-impaired: The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
✅ Characters sport/active: White Boots (Noel Streatfeild)
✅ Less than 200 pages: Finna (Nino Cipri)
✅ Character balance (any sort): The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
✅ Low on TBR: While You Were Reading (Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus)
✅ Makes heart race: Elatsoe (Darcie Little Badger)(
✅ Temperature related cover/title: The High Deeds of Finn MacCool (Rosemary Sutcliff)
✅ A 2021 quarterly or monthly theme (diversity): Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

= COMPLETED = WHO RUNS THE WORLD - Quarterly Challenge Apr-Jun 2021 - joined post #44
Trans/Non-Binary authors:
✅ The Brilliant Death (Amy Rose Capetta)
✅ Magic for Liars (Sarah Gailey)
✅ An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)
✅ I'm Afraid of Men (Vivek Shraya)
✅ Little Fish (Casey Plett)
✅ Trans Like Me (C.N. Lester)
✅ Dreadnought (April Daniels)
✅ She of the Mountains (Vivek Shraya)
✅ Freshwater (Akwaeke Emezi)
✅ Whipping Girl (Julia Serano)
✅ Lizard Radio (Pat Schmatz)
✅ All The Birds In The Sky (Charlie Jane Anders)
✅ Finna (Nino Cipri)
✅ Life Isn't Binary (Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker)
✅ Yes, You Are Trans Enough (Mia Violet)
✅ Finding Nevo (Nevo Zisin)
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Asexual authors (my own category, but I suppose this could fit into "women authors from other countries"?):
✅ Loveless (Alice Oseman) - UK
✅ Elatsoe (Darcie Little Badger) - USA
✅ The Invisible Orientation (Julie Sondra Decker) - USA
✅ Baker Thief (Claudie Arseneault) - Canada
✅ Ace (Angela Chen) - USA

= COMPLETED = WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE - April 2021 monthly challenge
✅ The South: "The White Girl" by Tony Birch
✅ Mystery: "Magic For Liars" by Sarah Gailey
✅ Warning: "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
✅ Q: "The Kiss Quotient" by Helen Hoang
✅ Mourning: "Prairie Ostrich" by Tamai Kobayashi
✅ Slow down: "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
✅ Autumn: "Autumn Maze" by Jon Cleary
✅ Courage: "Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
✅ Middle: "The Kestrel" by Lloyd Alexander


= COMPLETED = GENRE BINGO (my own version) - 2021 yearly challenge
✅ 1. Science Fiction: Binti (Nnedi Okorafor)
✅ 2. Memoir: Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
✅ 3. Dystopian Fiction: Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
✅ 4. Family Saga: Twopence to Cross the Mersey (Helen Forrester)
✅ 5. Classics: Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
✅ 6. Coming of Age: The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
✅ 7. Magical Realism: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)
✅ 8. Mystery: Magpie Murders (Anthony Horowitz)
✅ 9. Non-fiction: Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
✅ 10. Travel: The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa)
✅ 11. Young Adult: The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull (Barry Jonsberg)
✅ 12. Humour & Comedy: Maskerade (Terry Pratchett)
✅ 13. Wartime Novel: The War That Saved My Life (Kimberley Brubaker Bradley)
✅ 14. Literary Fiction: The Idea of Perfection (Kate Grenville)
✅ 15. Graphic Novel: Here Be Gerblins
✅ 16. Self Help: Solving the Procrastination Puzzle (Timothy A. Pychyl)
✅ 17. Australian Author: Lirael (Garth Nix)
✅ 18. Diversity: Life Isn't Binary (Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker)
✅ 19. Childhood Favourite: Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
✅ 20. Urban Fantasy: Memory & Dream (Charles de Lint)
✅ 21. Chick Lit: Size 12 Is Not Fat (Meg Cabot)
✅ 22. Adventure: Red Wolf, White Rabbit (Tom Pollock)
✅ 23. Historical Novel: Pied Piper (Nevil Shute)
✅ 24. Short Story Collection: Black Heart, Ivory Bones
✅ 25. Historical NF: The Oregon Trail: A New American Journer (Rinker Buck)

NOT PART OF A CHALLENGE
✅ The Amulet of Samarkand (Jonathan Stroud)
✅ Too Good To Be True (Anne Cleeves)
✅ Abhorsen (Garth Nix)
✅ Seaward (Susan Cooper)

Planned 2022 Challenges:
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Serial Reader

PopSugar
A-Z Challenge

GIVE US A CLUE
"I deduce it was [suspect] in the [room] with the [weapon]"
SUSPECTS (covers)
Green:

Yellow:

Blue:

Purple:

Red:

White:

WEAPONS
Candlestick (or flames/fire)

Dagger (or knife/sword)

Lead Pipe (or musical/writing instrument)

Revolver (or gun/pistol)

Rope (or string/ribbon)

Wrench (or spanner/other tool)

ROOMS
Ballroom (dancer)

Billiard Room (hobby/game/sport/craft)

Cellar (detective/mystery/true crime)

Conservatory (someone/something conserved/saved)

Dining Room (food/drink on cover)

Hall (first in series)

Kitchen (cookery/chef)

Lounge (favourite genre)
Secret Passages ("secret" in title)

Study (passion/learning subject)