Hooked on Books discussion

Individual Competitive Challenge
September 2025

This is a relatively simple challenge. You will just read books from your TBR. The competitive aspect comes from the fact that you are competing against other members. Each book will be worth points. See the chart below for the point value. There will be badges for the top 3 highest scorers. I will award them at the end of the month. Make sure you update your scores. I will give you an extra day to update your scores. Now go work on those TBRs!

Sample tracking post
Total Points: 4 pts

1. Fortune's Fool | 9/3/25 | 3 pts
2. Give and Hazard All | 9/4/25 | 1pt
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Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System


Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.

Theme Bonus
Theme: Pies
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

September badges:

1st place:


2nd place:


3rd place:

R

Points: 8

Cloak and Grammar
The Wicked Ones
Dear Mrs. Bird
Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis
The Sorcerer and the Swan Princess
A Lost Clause

my spot

I’m gonna try this month

🥧 TBR Busters: September 2025 🥧
Total Points: 10

TBR:


1. Breathe In, Bleed Out 116 pages | 1 September | 1 pt
2. Deep End 319 pages | 4 September | 3 pt
3. Night Watcher 336 pages | 7 September | 3 pt
4. A Dance of Lies 448 pages | 11 September | 3 pt

TBR Busters September
Theme Bonus
Theme: Pies

Points: 27
1. I Know This Much Is True, 897pgs, 9/4/25 - 7pts + 2 pie pts "...Dutch apple pie a la mode."
2. Deep Cuts, 277pgs, 9/6/25 - 1 pt +2 pie pts, "...in the lull between dinner and pie."
3. The Last Precinct, 565pgs, 9/9/25, 5pts +2 pie pts, "key lime pie chills inside the refrigerator."
4. The Knight and the Moth, 400pgs, 9/10/25, 3pts
5. Eat, Pray, Love, 368pgs, 9/11/25, 3pts +2pie pts, "...half a coconut cream pie."

TBR BUSTERS
September 2025

Books I'd like to read this month:


1. TITLE | DATE | POINTS

TBR Busters: September 2025
Duration: September 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025

Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System


Theme Bonus
Theme: Pies
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Total Points: 13

1. What the Lady's Maid Knew - E.E. Holmes 9/1/25 | 331 pgs. | 3pts.
2. In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez 9/1/25 | 353 pgs. | 3pts.
3. Secret Societies: Inside the World's Most Notorious Organizations - John Lawrence Reynolds 9/2/25 | 320 pgs. | 3pts.
4. This Bitter Earth - Bernice L. McFadden 9/2/25 | 288 pgs. | 1pt.
5. The Sewing Machine - Natalie Fergie 9/3/25 | 320 pgs. | 3pts.
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TBR Buster - September 1-30, 2025
Theme: Pie
points

TBR Aug 31 9 /2622 ( some books maybe on multiple lists goodread , libby , hoopla audible , kindle, physical ... )
DNF = 5
total points : 25
theme : pie


1 9/1 See Me 3
2 9/2 The Girl Before 3
3 9/2 Holiday Roast Mortem 1+2 the first chalkboard hung over the pie counter
4 9/2 Dead to the Last Drop 1+2 the first chalkboard hung over the pie counter
5 9/2 Frothy Foul Play 3+2 ... a glass pie plate holding a blueberry tart.
6 9/3 Greenwich Park 3
7 9/3 The Hidden Staircase 1
8 9/3 A Walk to Remember 1
9 9/4 Broken Horses 3
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IN! Going with books added before the end of June this month.

Total Points: 13


1. Children of Memory - 3 points
2. The Information - 3 points + "The pie waft..." p214 + 2 points
3. Sleeping Murder - 1 point + "got her finger in this pie" p277 + 2 points
4. At the Mountains of Madness - 1 point
5. No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories - 1 point

Also, I need to come in second this month! 😆

🍁Currently Reading:🍁


🍁September TBR:🍁


🍁Total Pages Read:🍁
🍁Total Points:🍁

🍁Books Read:🍁
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my spot

as I am 47 books behind schedule this seems like a fun way to catch up. found the topic again time to post

1.One Piece, Volume 10 -23
2.SPY×FAMILY 13-14
3.Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster (Manga) Volume 6-7

TBR Busters: September 2025
Bonus Theme - Pies (2 pts)

Pages = Pts
100-300 = 1 pts
301 - 500 = 3 pts
501 - 700 = 5 pts
701 - 900 = 7 pts
901+ = 10 pts

Total Pts:

TBR Busters: September 2025
Duration: September 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025

Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System
100 - 300 = 1 pts
301 - 500 = 3 pts
501 - 700 = 5 pts
701 - 900 = 7 pts
901+ = 10 pts

Total Points: 6

1. 9/5 I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban-3
2. 9/6 Alex and Eliza-3
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