Hooked on Books discussion
Read-a-Thons
>
Month RAT: August 2025
date
newest »
newest »
August 1-August 31 2025Optional Tasks
📘Read a book with a hat on the cover
📘Read a book with someone wearing sunglasses on the cover
📘Read a book set during the summer
📘Read a book with a sun on the cover
565/500 pp 08/8/25
1008/1000 pp 08/20/25
1348/1500 pp
1 book-08/4/25
3 books 8/18/25
5 books
8/1-Closer to Home-50 pp
from p 82
8/2-Closer to
Home-45 pp
8/3-Closer to
Home-66 pp
8/4-Closer to Home-119 pp
finished
8/5-starting Exile's Honor-60 pp
8/6-Exile's
Honor-100 pp
8/7-Exile's Honor-65 pp
8/8-Exile's
Honor-80 pp
8/9-Exile's
Honor-65 pp
8/10-Exile's
Honor-63 pp finished, starting One Good
Knight-45 pp
8/11-One Good
Knight-40 pp
8/12-One Good
Knight-40 pp
8/13-One Good Knight-40 pp
8/14-One Good
Knight-60 -pp
8/15-One Good
Knight-10 pp
8/16-One Good
Knight-35 pp
8/17-One Good
Knight-45 pp
8/18-One Good
Knight-45 pp
finished
8/19-A Study in
Sable-25 pp
8/20-A Study in
Sable-5pp
8/21-A Study in
Sable-15 pp
8/22-A Study in Sable-22 pp
8/23-A Study in Sable-32pp
8/24-A Study of Sable-40 pp
8/25-A Study in Sable-21 pp
8/26-A Study in Sable-50 pp
8/27-A Study in Sable-103 pp
finished
8/28
8/29
8/30-starting Miss Amelia's List-50 pp
8/31-Miss Amelia's
List-50 pp
Currently reading: 1/8 - 86 pages
2/8 - 11 pages
3/8 - 50 pages
4/8 - 149 pages
5/8 - 50 pages
6/8 - 101 pages
7/8 - 147 pages
8/8 - 64 pages
9/8 - 7 pages
10/8 - 56 pages
11/8 - 59 pages
12/8 - 47 pages
13/8 - 44 pages
14/8 - 48 pages
15/8 - 97 pages
16/8- 17 pages
17/8 - 25 pages
18/8 - 92 pages
19/8 - 67 pages
20/8 - 56 pages
21/8 - 79 pages
22/8 - 71 pages
23/8 - 68 pages
24/8 - 54 pages
25/8 - 87 pages
26/8 - 79 pages
27/8 - 62 pages
28/8 - 85 pages
29/8 - 48 pages
30/8 - 137 pages
31/8 - 109 pages
Finished:
Pages: 2152
August 1-August 31 2025Optional Tasks
📘Read a book with a hat on the cover
📘Read a book with someone wearing sunglasses on the cover
📘Read a book set during the summer
📘Read a book with a sun on the cover
1/500 pp
1/1000 pp
1/1500 pp
Total Pages Read: 4,813
Total Books Read: 13
Total Books Finished:
1. The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst - 8/2
2. Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala - 8/4
3. The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst - 8/5
4. Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala - 8/6
5. Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie - 8/7
6. The Whisperwood Legacy by Jo Schulte - 8/8
7. Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver - 8/9
8. The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. Chang - 8/11
9. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - 8/14
10. The Woman in Suite 11by Ruth Ware - 8/15
11. When We Go Missing by April Henry - 8/16
12. The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier - 8/22
13. Seed by Ania Ahlborn - 8/22
8/1: Pages: 138
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst - 138 pages
8/2: Pages: 269
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst - 239 pages - Finished book
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst - 30 pages
8/3: Pages: 157
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst - 7 pages
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala - 150 pages
8/4:Pages: 371
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala - 186 pages - Finished
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst - 185 pages
8/5: Pages: 369
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst - 153 pages - Finished
Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala - 158 pages
Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie - 58 pages
8/6: Pages: 269
Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie - 247 pages
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver - 22 pages
8/7: Pages: 409
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver - 100 pages
Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie - 207 pages - Finished - 8/7
The Whisperwood Legacy by Jo Schulte - 102 pages
8/8: Pages: 355
The Whisperwood Legacy by Jo Schulte - 250 pages - Finished - 8/8
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver - 82 pages
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - 23 pages
8/9: Pages: 266
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - 37 pages
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver - 173 pages - Finished - 8/9
The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. Chang - 56 pages
8/10: Pages: 80
The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. Chang - 80 pages
8/11:Pages: 266
The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. Chang - 8/11 - 248 pages - Finished
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - 18 pages
8/12:Pages: 124
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - 124 pages
8/13:Pages: 56
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - 56 pages
8/14:Pages: 238
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - 92 pages - Finished
The Woman in Suite 11by Ruth Ware - 146 pages
8/15:Pages: 296
The Woman in Suite 11by Ruth Ware - 238 pages - Finished
When We Go Missing by April Henry - 56 pages
8/16:Pages: 336
When We Go Missing - 216 pages - Finished
A Mastery of Monsters by Liselle Sambury - 120 pages
8/17: Didn't Read
8/18:183 pages
The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier - 78 pages
Seed by Ania Ahlborn - 108 pages
8/19: 68 pages
The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier - 60 pages
Seed by Ania Ahlborn - 8 pages
8/20: 72 pages
The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier - 72 pages
8/21: 202 pages
The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier - 72 pages
Seed by Ania Ahlborn - 130 pages - Finished
8/22: 225 pages
The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier - 70 pages - Finished
Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala - 155 pages
8/23: Didn't read
8/24: Didn't read
8/25: Didn't read
8/26:
Titan of the Stars by E.K. Johnston - 64 pages
8/27
8/28
8/29
8/30
8/31
08/01: Cone: A Deep Sea Thriller. Con't. from July 31. To p. 162.
Ethiopian Bible in English Complete with 88 Books Large Print : Includes Lost Texts Of Enoch, Jubilees and Other Apocryphal Writings to p. 6
8/02:
08/03: Ethiopian Bible in English Complete with 88 Books Large Print : Includes Lost Texts Of Enoch, Jubilees and Other Apocryphal Writings. Read 20 pp.
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time. Own. Historical Nonfiction.
Erebus Dawning SF Space Opera to 52%.
08/04:
Erebus Dawning
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time. To p..19
Ethiopian Bible in English Complete with 88 Books Large Print : Includes Lost Texts Of Enoch, Jubilees and Other Apocryphal Writings
8/05: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
Erebus Dawning
08/06: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 38
13.
08/07: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 49.
Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President Libby Virtual
15.
16.
08/08: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 73
The Cold Visitor: A haunting horror about a cosmic curse to 19% NetGalley ARC /KU
08/09: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 89
08/10:
Darker Days. NG ARC Current. To %
Port Luck KU Virtual to p. 42
08/11: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 113.Port Luck to p. 147.
08/12: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 121.
Port Luck to p.
I Bought a Haunted Church KU to p.
08/13:
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 149
I Bought a Haunted Church KU to p. 105
08/14: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p
163.
08/15: Mary Libby Virtual
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 177
The 7 She Saw. KU Virtual Thriller to p. 57
08/16: Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time to p. 211
Beast of Death Cavern: A Cryptid Thriller KU Virtual to p. 13
08/17:
08/18: A Perfect Wife KU Virtual
NINE BURNED LIVES a gripping and witty cozy murder mystery. KU Virtual. SENIOR SLEUTH Cozy.
Rebecca.Classics. chapter/day read. To p. 17.
08/19:
Rebecca to p. 45
How to Survive a Horror Story. Hoopla Virtual to 11%
08/20: Rebecca.Classics to p. 85
Mary Libby Virtual to p. 20
How to Survive a Horror Story. To 21% Hoopla Virtual
08/21: Rebecca.Classics to p. 135Mary to p. Libby Virtual
08/22: Rebecca.Classics to p. 189
Mary to p. 73 Libby Virtual /KU
08/23:
Rebecca Chapters 13-16 (my daily read)✅
08/24: Rebecca through p. 313
The Extinction Agenda. Mount TBR, reread to 11%
08/25: The Extinction Agenda to 12%
Rebecca, daily Reads, Chapters 19-25, p. 395
Blood Tide NG ARC new. Thalassaphobia Aversion Self-Therapy😊.
8/26:
Blood Tide
Artifact: A Sci-Fi Thriller. KU. New Release.
8/27:
Artifact: A Sci-Fi Thriller
8/28: Artifact: A Sci-Fi Thriller to p. 100.
8/29:
Artifact: A Sci-Fi Thriller to p. 123.
Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library. Libby Virtual. To p. 5.
8/30: Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library to p. 39.
Doll Parts Hoopla Virtual to 2%
8/31:
Hell House KU
Prompts Read:-Set in Summer:
-
'--Sunglasses On Cover Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
--Hat on Cover
Not on Cover, but in Content:
Titles Read:
.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
✅ HOB - Month RAT: August 20251/8: 1,861
Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything - 168 - ⭐️⭐️
Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country - 314 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss - 305 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Be Uncommon: 40 Ways to Leave Average Behind - 168 - ⭐️⭐️
Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera - 261 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Algebra is Useful: 5000 Practice Problems to Show how Algebraic Identities can be used to Simplify Arithmetic Calculations - 282 - ⭐️
The Realities of Autonomous Weapons - 363 - ⭐️⭐️
2/8: 1,831
Board Games in 100 Moves - 176 - ⭐️⭐️
Beepedia: A Brief Compendium of Bee Curiosities - 176 - ⭐️⭐️
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora - 304 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Excuse Me, But I Was Next...": How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas - 304 - ⭐️
Cesare Borgia: His Life and Times - 327 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
When We're in Charge: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership - 258 - ⭐️⭐️
How to Smoke Pot (Properly): A Highbrow Guide to Getting High - 286 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3/8: 2,032
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome - 352 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Class Act - 288 - ⭐️
Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community - 280 - ⭐️⭐️
Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives - 291 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics - 217 - ⭐️⭐️
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur - 194 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Re-Engineering Humanity - 410 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4/8: 1,917
Long Live: The Definitive Guide to the Folklore and Fandom of Taylor Swift - 185 - ⭐️⭐️
Discovering Cosmetic Science - 369 - ⭐️⭐️
Inside an Honor Killing: A Father and a Daughter Tell Their Story - 224 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church - 448 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
100 Days of Baggage Reclaim: The Self-Esteem Project - 120 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tennis For Dummies - 395 - ⭐️⭐️
Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work - 176 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5/8: 1,275
Creative Courage: Leveraging Imagination, Collaboration, and Innovation to Create Success Beyond Your Wildest Dreams - 206 - ⭐️⭐️
Bibliophobia - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
10,000 Hours: You Become What You Practice - 173 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World - 656 - ⭐️⭐️
6/8: 2,036
Advanced Memory Palaces: The second book you should read on your memory - 204 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Game Artist: The Ultimate Career Guide - 394 - ⭐️⭐️
Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures - 317 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
At the Emperor's Pleasure: Surviving Wartime Captivity in the Far East - 282 - ⭐️⭐️
Cinematic Algorithms: The Rise of Generative AI in Video Art and Visual Culture - 225 - ⭐️⭐️
Doctor Who: Heroes and Monsters Collection - 326 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7/8: 1,248
Entrepreneurial Leap: Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur? - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor - 288 - ⭐️
Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery - 432 - ⭐️⭐️
How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
8/8: 1,726
100 IS THE NEW 30: HOW PLAYING THE SYMPHONY OF LONGEVITY WILL ENABLE US TO LIVE YOUNG FOR A LIFETIME - 546 - ⭐️⭐️
24 Hours in the Viking World: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
Bad to Blue: The True Story of a Chinatown Gangster Turned NYPD Detective - 294 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of Color Crayons - 134 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Loan Sharks: The Birth of Predatory Lending - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
101 Skills You Need to Survive in the Woods: The Most Effective Wilderness Know-How on Fire-Making, Knife Work, Navigation, Shelter, Food and More - 208 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9/8: 2,317
Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies - 304 - ⭐️
Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch - 256 - ⭐️
Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Hacking Laziness, Building Self Discipline, and Overcoming Procrastination - 115 - ⭐️
The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict - 608 - ⭐️⭐️
Molecular Symmetry and Fuzzy Symmetry - 138 - ⭐️
Make Change Work for You: 10 Ways to Future-Proof Yourself, Fearlessly Innovate, and Succeed Despite Uncer tainty - 320 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel - 288 - ⭐️⭐️
10/8: 1,379
Color Theory For Dummies - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The 100X Leader: How to Become Someone Worth Following - 279 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tales from the Pit: Casino Table Games Managers in Their Own Words - 300 - ⭐️⭐️
Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
It All Makes Sense Now: Embrace Your ADHD Brain to Live a Creative and Colorful Life - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
11/8: 1,310
Artisan Entrepreneurship - 200 - ⭐️⭐️
Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism - 374 - ⭐️⭐️
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally - 176 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk - 368 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Magic Your Mind Happy: Amazing magic tricks for happiness, confidence and calm - 192 - ⭐️
12/8: 1,010
ENGAGEMENT MAGIC: Five Keys for Engaging People, Leaders, and Organizations - 342 - ⭐️⭐️
Being Ecological - 220 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying - 176 - ⭐️
✅ Month RAT: August 202513/8: 1,159
Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry - 240 - ⭐️
Beware the Banshee's Cry: The Folklore & History of Messengers of Death - 278 - ⭐️⭐️
Smelling to Survive: The Amazing World of Our Sense of Smell - 280 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Awefeeling: How You Can Decrease Pain, Break Negative Patterns, and Find Peace in Only 31/2 Minutes a Day - 210 - ⭐️
How to Keep House While Drowning - 151 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
14/8: 2,425
The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies - 202 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Animal Talk: Interspecies Telepathic Communication - 194 - ⭐️
My Kitchen Table: 100 Essential Curries - 208 - ⭐️⭐️
Marching Powder - 404 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
100 Days to Brave: Devotions for Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self - 240 - ⭐️⭐️
Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species - 248 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
100 Morning Treats: With Muffins, Rolls, Biscuits, Sweet and Savory Breakfast Breads, and More - 305 - ⭐️⭐️
The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror - 368 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
15/8: 1,830
The Entrepreneur's Book of Actions: Essential Daily Exercises and Habits for Becoming Wealthier, Smarter, and More Successful - 304 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dianaworld: An Obsession - 411 - ⭐️⭐️
My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag - 313 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Father Nature: The Science of Paternal Potential - 386 - ⭐️⭐️
Music Direction for the Stage: A View from the Podium - 416 - ⭐️⭐️
16/8: 1,028
Planes, Trains & Amphetamines: Clubbing Holiday Confessions - 427 - ⭐️⭐️
Green Gold: The Avocado's Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation - 410 - ⭐️⭐️
Intimate Conversations: How to Talk to the People You Love - 191 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
17/8: 1,985
A Spy's Guide To Thinking + Strategy - 251 - ⭐️⭐️
A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: How (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong - 288 - ⭐️
Running the Smoke - 320 - ⭐️⭐️
Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rise and Fall of the 80s Toon Empire: A Behind the Scenes Look at When He-Man, G.I. Joe and Transformers Ruled The Airwaves - 422 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World - 432 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
18/8: 1,978
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef - 304 - ⭐️⭐️
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior - 362 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat - 400 - ⭐️⭐️
Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight - 336 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach - 288 - ⭐️⭐️
Innovation and Entrepreneurship - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
19/8: 2,162
Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence - 352 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef - 336 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan - 392 - ⭐️⭐️
Autism and Girls: World-Renowned Experts Join Those with Autism to Resolve Issues That Girls and Women Face Every Day! - 234 - ⭐️
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? - 352 - ⭐️⭐️
Imagined Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
20/8: 1,486
Born on a Blue Day - 226 - ⭐️⭐️
Odyssey - 448 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership - 496 - ⭐️⭐️
One for Joy: An introvert’s guide to the secret world of solitude - 316 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
21/8: 1,476
Dare to Do: Taking on the planet by bike and boat - 288 - ⭐️⭐️
The Men's Health Big Book: Getting Abs: Get a Flat, Ripped Stomach and Your Strongest Body Ever--in Four Weeks - 400 - ⭐️⭐️
Your Own Kind of Girl - 324 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Body Intelligence: Harness Your Body's Energies for Your Best Life - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
I Used to Know That: Maths - 192 - ⭐️⭐️
22/8: 2,400
Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West - 432 - ⭐️⭐️
Queer Magic: LGBT+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World - 312 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr - 176 - ⭐️⭐️
Reverse Wine Snob: How to Buy and Drink Great Wine without Breaking the Bank - 288 - ⭐️⭐️
In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life - 232 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health - 384 - ⭐️⭐️
The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ Month RAT: August 202523/8: 2,241
It's Always Sunny and Philosophy: The Gang Gets Analyzed - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World - 544 - ⭐️⭐️
Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In - 417 - ⭐️⭐️
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris - 416 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bookshop Tours of Britain - 272 - ⭐️⭐️
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter - 304 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
24/8: 1,981
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy - 496 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Get Rich Now: Earn More Money, Faster and Easier than Ever Before - 217 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Behind Sad Eyes: The Life of George Harrison - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century - 424 - ⭐️⭐️
Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak - 204 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture - 192 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Style Therapy: 30 Days to Your Signature Style - 192 - ⭐️⭐️
25/8: 2,362
No Bullsh*t Leadership: Why the World Needs More Everyday Leaders and Why That Leader Is You - 224 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity - 477 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist - 216 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives - 192 - ⭐️⭐️
Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator - 320 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back - 416 - ⭐️
The Black Sea: A History - 298 - ⭐️⭐️
Habits That Make A Champion - 219 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
26/8: 1,505
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss - 301 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
How to Build a Billion Dollar App - 480 - ⭐️⭐️
The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King - 228 - ⭐️⭐️
Last Call for Bud Light: The Fall and Future of America's Favorite Beer - 304 - ⭐️⭐️
JumpStart Your Priorities: A 90-Day Improvement Plan - 192 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
27/8: 1,610
Seriously HAPPY: 10 life-changing philosophy lessons from Stoicism to Zen to supercharge your mindset - 178 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II - 656 - ⭐️⭐️
The Rejection that Changed My Life: 25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work - 288 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age - 488 - ⭐️⭐️
28/8: 945
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. - 246 - ⭐️⭐️
The Roads To Rome: The perfect guide to the vibrant history of your European summer escape - 464 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Miracle Morning Millionaires: What the Wealthy Do Before 8AM That Will Make You Rich - 235 - ⭐️⭐️
29/8: 1,485
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World - 272 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The A-Z of Curious London: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics - 160 - ⭐️⭐️
Daughter of the Razor: An Australian True Crime Story - 170 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare - 304 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis - 307 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Well-Being - 272 - ⭐️
30/8: 2,076
Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity - 352 - ⭐️⭐️
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages - 361 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
McIlhenny's Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire - 266 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir - 213 - ⭐️
Your Fully Charged Life: A Radically Simple Approach to Having Endless Energy and Filling Every Day with Yay - 256 - ⭐️⭐️
Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures - 228 - ⭐️⭐️
31/8: 1,168
Japanese Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters - 416 - ⭐️⭐️
Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results - 240 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Unfuck Your Eating: Using Science to Build a Better Relationship with Food, Health, and Body Image - 192 - ⭐️⭐️
Nature at Night: Discover the Hidden World That Comes Alive after Dark - 320 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📘Cover - hat
📘Cover - someone wearing sunglasses
📘Set - summer
Planes, Trains & Amphetamines: Clubbing Holiday Confessions
"going to Ibiza wasn’t merely a summer holiday" p.9
📘Cover - sun
Total pages read: 54,806
Total books read: 180
August 1-31st Read-a-ThonGoals:
Books: 24/15
Pages: 8,478/6,000
Optional Tasks
📘Read a book with a hat on the cover -
📘Read a book with someone wearing sunglasses on the cover
📘Read a book set during the summer - Great Big Beautiful Life
📘Read a book with a sun on the cover
8/1: on pg274 of 416 in Great Big Beautiful Life (142pgs) (Set in the Summer). Black Notice
8/2: Finished Black Notice(441p) The Perks of Being a Wallflower
8/3: The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Started The Word is Murder
8/4: The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Finished The Word is Murder (400pgs)
8/5: Finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower (218pgs). Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
8/6: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. Started The Poppy Fields
8/7: Finished Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (339pgs) The Poppy Fields, Started The House in the Cerulean Sea
8/8: Finished The House in the Cerulean Sea (398pgs), The Poppy Fields, started You
8/9: Finished You (464pgs), The Poppy Fields
8/10: The Poppy Fields (Completed 304pgs), started Intermezzo and Watching You
8/11: Intermezzo and Watching You
8/12: Finished Intermezzo (454pgs), Watching You started The Pull of the Stars
8/13: Watching You, The Pull of the Stars, started The Hunting Wives
8/14: Watching You, Started Fractured, Finished The Pull of the Stars (294pgs)
8/15: Finished Watching You (320pgs), Finished The Hunting Wives (356pgs), Started Carrie Soto Is Back
8/16: Carrie Soto Is Back, Fractured
8/17: Finished Fractured (388pgs), Started The Dragonian's Witch, Carrie Soto Is Back
8/18: The Dragonian's Witch, Started The Maid's Secret, Carrie Soto Is Back
8/19: Finished The Dragonian's Witch (268pgs) and The Maid's Secret (336pgs), Started The Alice Network
8/20: The Alice Network, Carrie Soto Is Back
8/21: Finished The Alice Network (503pgs), finished Carrie Soto Is Back (384pgs), Started The Long Walk and Feel the Bern
8/22: Finished The Long Walk (370pgs), Feel the Bern, Started Girl in the Blue Coat
8/23: Finished Feel the Bern (256pgs),
8/24: Started I Know This Much Is True, Finished Girl in the Blue Coat (301pgs)
8/25: Started and Finished What Does It Feel Like? (133pgs), Started and Finished James (303pgs), I Know This Much Is True, Started Homeseeking
8/26: Homeseeking, I Know This Much Is True
8/27: Homeseeking, I Know This Much Is True
8/28: Finished Homeseeking (512pgs), I Know This Much Is True, Started The Surrogate Mother
8/29: I Know This Much Is True, The Surrogate Mother
8/30: Finished The Surrogate Mother (320pgs), I Know This Much Is True, Started Deep Cuts
8/31: I Know This Much Is True
Completed Books: 30/15Completed Pages: 6421/1500
The Maid's Secret
Icing on the Case
Wires and Nerve
Gone Rogue
A Fatal Yarn
Night of Secrets
The Fox Wife
Still Pumped from Using the Mouse
Silver Linings
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Assassin of Fire and Sacrifice
Animal Farm
Five Nights
Read Between the Crimes
From Fable to Grave
The Baker and the Wolf
Can You Solve the Murder?
The Hitchcock Hotel
A Fateful Sentence
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
The Dark King and the Eternal Dance
Red Lipstick Kisses and Small Town Wishes
Wolf Cure
Retreat
Batter Royale
Cajun Kiss of Death
Captains Courageous
Around the World in Eighty Days
A Christmas Tale of Santa Claus and Grace: A faith-filled novella about the magic of Christmas
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
Summer Sun Safety8/1/25-8/31/25
📚 Books Read:
📚 Pages Read:
📘Read a book with a hat on the cover
📘Read a book with someone wearing sunglasses on the cover
📘Read a book set during the summer
📘Read a book with a sun on the cover
Month RAT - AugustFinished:
01
02
DNF
03
finished
04
finished
05
06
finished
07
08
finished
09
DNF
10
11
12
finished
13
14
15
finished16
17
18
finished
19
20
21
22
finished23
24
25
26
finished
27
28
finished
29
30
31
Lauri’s Spot!HoB August Readathon 2025
Target: 4000 pages
Optional Tasks
📘Read a book with a hat on the cover
📘Read a book with someone wearing sunglasses on the cover
📘Read a book set during the summer
📘Read a book with a sun on the cover
Fri 8/1: 185 pages
Sat 8/2: 265
Sun 8/3: 142
Mon 8/4: 163
Tues 8/5: 134
Wed 8/6: 113
Thurs 8/7: 104
Fri 8/8: 144
Sat 8/9: 243
Sun 8/10: 245
Mon 8/11: 132
Tues 8/12: 118
Wed 8/13: 183
Thurs 8/14: 143
Fri 8/15: 234
Sat 8/16: 136
Sun 8/17: 108
Mon 8/18: 90
Tues 8/19: 104
Wed 8/20: 160
Thurs 8/21: 96
Fri 8/22: 104
Sat 8/23: 150
Sun 8/24: 136
Mon 8/25: 152
Tues 8/26: 115
Wed 8/27: 91
Thurs 8/28: 107
Fri 8/29: 159
Sat 8/30: 148
Sun 8/31: 175
Total pages read: 4579
Books used:
Books finished:
Hooked on Books
Books mentioned in this topic
This Summer Will Be Different (other topics)Belladonna (other topics)
Husbands & Lovers (other topics)
Find Her Alive (other topics)
Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Ania Ahlborn (other topics)Jennifer Hillier (other topics)
E.K. Johnston (other topics)
April Henry (other topics)
Liselle Sambury (other topics)
More...
This month we are celebrating Summer Sun Safety Month. It is celebrated in August every year as a reminder to stay safe in the sun. Some tips for saying safe in the sun are: Wear protective clothing, wear sunscreen, wear sunglasses, wear a hat, avoid tanning beds and stay hydrated.
Runs: 8/1/25 - 8/31/25
Time: Follow your time zone
Readathon Rules:
📘Books must be finished within the dates listed above
📘No page limits
📘Re-reads, Fan fiction & Graphic Novels accepted
📘Set your personal goal (ideas: # of books, # of pages, Start or finish a series, work on challenge books, etc)
📘Set up a tracking post below
Optional Tasks
📘Read a book with a hat on the cover
📘Read a book with someone wearing sunglasses on the cover
📘Read a book set during the summer
📘Read a book with a sun on the cover