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Ready Player One: A Year-Long Reading Challenge
January 1 - December 31st, 2024


Let's read books and complete tasks related to video games you know and love, and maybe a few that are new to you!


On the 1st and 15th of each month I will post a new video game in the Game Console Thread. You will have four tasks to choose from for each game. You only need to complete one. Participate in as many or as few games as you would like.


You will make your Completion Posts here IN YOUR OWN THREAD. Please use this format. {You are welcome to copy and paste the game tasks into your own thread if you would like.}


Completion Post
Video Game:
Book:
Author:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:


If you have any questions, please post them in the Cheat Codes Q & A Thread.


Challenge Rules:
📘 Standard Rules Apply
📘I will create an individual thread for you prior to the start date.
📘Your first video game will be posted on January 1, 2024.
📘Books must be completed after the video game has been posted.

Completion Post:

Video Game: Pong
Book:
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Date Read: 01/07
Task: 🕹 Read a book where the letters P-O-N-G are found anywhere in the title.
How it Fits: P-O-N-G in title

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Pac-Man 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Michael Rickard
Date Read: 1/21/24
Task: 🕹 Read a book where a character eats pizza.
How it Fits: MC eats a slice of pizza on page 128

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 The Legend of Zelda 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Ronan Farrow
Date Read: 02/05
Task: 🕹 Read a book with a subtitle.
How it Fits: Has a subtitle

Completion Post:

Video Game:🕹 🎮 👾 Final Fantasy 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Agatha Christie
Date Read: 02/20
Task: 🕹 Read a book tagged ANTHOLOGY / ANTHOLOGIES.
How it Fits: MPG Anthologies and tagged anthology

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Animal Crossing 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Gigi Pandian
Date Read: 03/05
Task:Read a book published during the COVID-19 Pandemic {let's go with 2020 - 2023}
How it Fits: Published in 2022

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Asteroids 👾 🎮 🕹

Book:
Author: Dr. Mark Plaster
Date Read: 03/23
Task: 🕹 Read a book with a mostly black cover. {Your discretion.}
How it Fits: Black cover

Completion Post:

Video Game: Grand Theft Auto 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: B.A. Shapiro
Date Read: 4/15
Task: Read a book that mentions a well-known rock-n-roll figure or has them as a character.
How it Fits: Axl Rose mentioned on page 129

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Game 8: April 15th ~ Frogger 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Tom Cotton
Date Read: 4/26
Task: 🕹 Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in SEGA
How it Fits: Title with S

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Game 9: May 1st ~ Call of Duty 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Jeff Edwards
Date Read: 05/07
Task: 🕹 Read a book with a military or veteran character.
How it Fits: MC is the captain of a naval destroyer.

Completion Post:

Video Game: Game 10: May 15th ~ Centipede 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Zakaria Erzinclioglu
Date Read: 6/3
Task: 🕹 Read a book with some type of bug or insect on the cover
How it Fits: Flies on cover

Completion Post:
Video Game: Game 11: June 1st ~ Super Smash Bros. 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Gregory Maguire
Date Read: 6/17
Task: 🕹 Read a book published in the 1990s
How it Fits: Published 1995

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Game 12: June 15th ~ Halo 👾 🎮 🕹
Book: Slayers
Author: Amber Benson
Date Read: 6/1
Task: Read a book that has its own line of merchandise, like t-shirts, mugs, etc.
How it Fits: There is a plethora of Buffy the Vampire/Spike merch

Completion Post:

Video Game:Game 13: July 1st ~ Sonic the Hedgehog 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Jefferson Bass
Date Read: 7/15
Task: 🕹 Read a book where the MC is a scientist
How it Fits: MC is a forensic anthropologist

Completion Post
Video Game: Game 14: July 15th ~ Donkey Kong 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Lillian Jackson Braun
Date Read: 08/4
Task: 🕹 Read a book with an animal character
How it Fits: Features two Siamese cats as active characters

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Game 15: August 1st ~ The Sims 👾 🎮
Book:
Author: Dana Haynes
Date Read: 8/10
Task: 🕹 Read a book where something is destroyed by fire.
How it Fits: Terrorists set a hotel on fire after crashing the plane.

Completion Post:

Video Game: Game 16: August 15th ~ World of Warcraft 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Date Read: 8/22
Task:Read a book where the MC goes on a quest of some kind
How it Fits: MC has to track down the only infected left

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Game 17: September 1st ~ Stardew Valley
Book:
Author: Dana Haynes
Date Read: 9/29
Task: 🕹 Read a book published in the 2010s {2010 - 2019}.
How it Fits: Published 11/2011

Completion Post:

Video Game: Game 18: September 15th ~ Space Invaders 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Martha Wells
Date Read: 9/30
Task: 🕹 Read a book set in space
How it Fits: Set in space

Completion Post:

Video Game: Game 19: October 1st ~ Fortnite 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Jack Cheevers
Date Read: 10/11
Task:🕹 Read a book published in December of any year.
How it Fits: 12/3/2013

Completion Post:

Video Game: Game 20: October 15th ~ Wii Sports 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Antonio J. Mendez
Date Read: 10/30
Task: 🕹 Read a book where a character watches or participates in tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, or boxing.
How it Fits: "We played tennis on our grass courts..." @9:22:05

Completion Post

Video Game: Game 21: November 1st ~ Minecraft 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Taichi Yamada
Date Read: 11/10
Task: 🕹 Read a book where the title starts with a letter in MOJANG.
How it Fits: Title w/ A

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Game 22: November 15th ~ Super Mario Bros. 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Carlyle S. Harris
Date Read: 11/28
Task: 🕹 Read a book with alternating points of view, like when there's a Player Two
How it Fits: Author and his wife narrate the same events from their experiences.

Completion Post:

Video Game: 🕹 🎮 👾 Game 23: December 1st ~ Pitfall! 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Date Read: 12/10
Task: Read a book that was based on or influenced by a movie
How it Fits: Anthology based on Predator movies

Completion Post:

Video Game: 👾 Game 24: December 15th ~ Tetris 👾 🎮 🕹
Book:
Author: William Craig
Date Read: 12/30
Task: Read a book set in Russia
How it Fits: Set during the battle of Stalingrad