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Prompts1. Any book from your TBR!
2. Halloween Town: Read a book with Halloween-themed colors on the cover (black, orange, green, purple, red, etc.)
3. Tower of Terror: Read a book from a spooky genre [horror, slasher, thriller, mystery, horror subgenres (gothic, splatterpunk, body horror, psychological, etc.)]
4. Trick-or-Treat!: Have someone else choose your book/Read a book that has been recommended to you
5. The Final Girl: Read a book with a strong female lead
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes: Read a book about phantoms, ghosts, or other paranormal themes
7. Creature Feature: Read a book featuring non-human characters such as werewolves, vampires, zombies , etc.
8. Cultural Celebrations: Read a book that A) Takes place in the location of or B) Is centered around another culture’s Halloween-like celebration. You can find examples below:
*All Hallows' Eve (Christian with Celtic/Pagan roots)
*Awuru Odo, Nigeria (Igbo)
*Día de los Muertos, Mexico (Christian) (https://bookriot.com/dia-de-muertos-b...)
*Gai Jatra, Nepal (Hindu)
*Obon Festival, Japan (Buddhist)
*Pchum Ben, Cambodia (Buddhist)
*Pitru Paksha, India (Hindu)
*Samhain, Ireland and Scotland (Celtic/Pagan) (https://irishmyths.com/2021/09/27/bes...)
*Walpurgisnacht, Germany (Christian with Celtic/Pagan roots)
*Yulanpen, China (Buddhist/Taoist)
I will participate.
Looking forward to this. Already planning what I'm going to read
I will be there! Readathon + Halloween = two of my favorite things together!
I'll definitely try! I'll try to go for 3
I'm excited to see so many new and returning faces in here! And glad to hear I'm not the only one who's looking forward to the readathon. Can't wait to get spooky with y'all this month! 👻🎃🕷️🧛🦇
Fun, fun. I'm definitely in!1. Any book from your TBR!
Compromised into a Scandalous Marriage
Emergency Reunion
Farm Fresh Murder
A Home for Her Family
The Inn
Kill You Twice
The Wrangler's Wedding Pact
2. Halloween Town: Read a book with Halloween-themed colors on the cover (black, orange, green, purple, red, etc.)
3. Tower of Terror: Read a book from a spooky genre [horror, slasher, thriller, mystery, horror subgenres (gothic, splatterpunk, body horror, psychological, etc.)]
4. Trick-or-Treat!: Have someone else choose your book/Read a book that has been recommended to you
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
5. The Final Girl: Read a book with a strong female lead.
Pride and Prejudice
Red Queen
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes: Read a book about phantoms, ghosts, or other paranormal themes
7. Creature Feature: Read a book featuring non-human characters such as werewolves, vampires, zombies , etc.
The Struggle
Vampire High
I'm in 👻
We are now officially 2 weeks away from the start of the readathon! I know I've been excitedly building my TBR in anticipation and hope that everyone else is just as excited!👻🎃🔪🧙♀️🕷️🧛🦇💀🧟🕸🥀🪦🐈⬛⛓🖤🌙⚰🍁🦴🍫🧡
Yes! *Fist Pump*Spook-a-Thon: Individual Readathon
Duration: October 28 to October 31, 2022
I ended up with way less reading time than anticipated during this time, but completed one AWESOME book!
1/8 completed!
1. Any book from your TBR!
2. Halloween Town: Read a book with Halloween-themed colors on the cover (black, orange, green, purple, red, etc.)
3. Tower of Terror: Read a book from a spooky genre [
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
October 31--5 STARS
4. Trick-or-Treat!: Have someone else choose your book/Read a book that has been recommended to you
5. The Final Girl: Read a book with a strong female lead
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes: Read a book about phantoms, ghosts, or other paranormal themes
7. Creature Feature: Read a book featuring non-human characters such as werewolves, vampires, zombies , etc.
8. Cultural Celebrations: Read a book that A) Takes place in the location of or B) Is centered around another culture’s Halloween-like celebration. You can find examples below:
*All Hallows' Eve (Christian with Celtic/Pagan roots)
*Awuru Odo, Nigeria (Igbo)
*Día de los Muertos, Mexico (Christian) (https://bookriot.com/dia-de-muertos-b...)
*Gai Jatra, Nepal (Hindu)
*Obon Festival, Japan (Buddhist)
*Pchum Ben, Cambodia (Buddhist)
*Pitru Paksha, India (Hindu)
*Samhain, Ireland and Scotland (Celtic/Pagan) (https://irishmyths.com/2021/09/27/bes...)
*Walpurgisnacht, Germany (Christian with Celtic/Pagan roots)
*Yulanpen, China (Buddhist/Taoist)
READATHON CENTRAL2022 Spook-a-Thon: Individual Readathon
Duration: October 28 to October 31, 2022
Prompts
1. Any book from your TBR!
2. Halloween Town: Read a book with Halloween-themed colors on the cover (black, orange, green, purple, red, etc.)
3. Tower of Terror: Read a book from a spooky genre [horror, slasher, thriller, mystery, horror subgenres (gothic, splatterpunk, body horror, psychological, etc.)]
4. Trick-or-Treat!: Have someone else choose your book/Read a book that has been recommended to you
5. The Final Girl: Read a book with a strong female lead
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes: Read a book about phantoms, ghosts, or other paranormal themes
7. Creature Feature: Read a book featuring non-human characters such as werewolves, vampires, zombies , etc.
8. Cultural Celebrations: Read a book that A) Takes place in the location of or B) Is centered around another culture’s Halloween-like celebration.
I'm going to try for 4 books1. Any book from your TBR: technically all four of these books
2. Halloween Town:
3. Tower of Terror: The Game
4. Trick-or-Treat!:
5. The Final Girl: Seafire
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes: All the Crooked Saints
7. Creature Feature: The Shadow Hour
8. Cultural Celebrations:
Is there a rule against continuing a book that was started before the spook-a-thon?
Theresa wrote: "Is there a rule against continuing a book that was started before the spook-a-thon?"Nope, that's totally okay! You can read anything you want for this readathon i.e. graphic novels, large print, audiobooks, short stories, books you've already started and will finish for the readathon, books you'll start but won't finish during the readathon, etc.
2025 Reading Challenge
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The Moonstone (other topics)The Game (other topics)
All the Crooked Saints (other topics)
The Shadow Hour (other topics)
Seafire (other topics)
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2022 Spook-a-Thon: Individual Readathon
Duration: October 28 to October 31, 2022
In this thread you will find helpful information about our individual readathon and ask any questions you have!
Spook-A-Thon
Welcome to 2022 Reading Challenge’s first individual readathon! This Halloween we will be hosting a 4-day individual reading challenge to get everyone in the spooky spirit and boost our reading stats for the year!
General Information
This 4-day readathon runs from October 28 to October 31, 2022, beginning and ending at midnight in your personal time zone.
There are 7 prompts that participants can use and an additional prompt that opens up your reading potential to any book on your TBR. You can use each prompt as many times as you like and use any books (graphic novel, large print, audio, etc.) that you prefer. The sky is the limit with this readathon!
Once the readathon goes live, we will post a tracking and discussion thread for participants to keep everyone updated on how their reading is going and discuss. We also have a few activities planned for the readathon that will be posted periodically throughout the 4-day event. We’d love to have you join us for all of the fun but none of this is required to participate! Simply begin your reading on the 28th and conclude on the 31st.