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~ Monthly Audiobook Challenge ~

Each month we will have a different theme of audiobook for you to listen to.
Read one, two, three, or thirty. Up to you! Just post at the start of the month which books you will read in the category, update through the month and post a link to your Goodreads review (no links to external sites).

Let's find some great audiobooks together!

Duration: Monthly


September 2025 Theme:

◈ Get to that series
Read a book that in a series that you started more than a year ago and haven't continued yet (can be any # in the series)

How to Participate:

The Audiobook Challenge is designed to not only help you to read your audiobooks, but to also find out about other great audiobooks from other challenge participants!

Though you may pop in/out at any time, the Audiobook Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.

There are no minimum page requirements, and you can read abridged or unabridged audiobooks!


1. At the beginning of the month, post :
a: How many audiobooks in total you want to read for the month
b: How many audiobooks in the monthly category you want to read
c: Post the audiobooks (as you decide on them) by linking them to Goodreads in your post

2. During the month, read the audiobooks that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)

3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s) - note: can only be linked to Goodreads and not an external site
c: How many audiobooks you have read for this challenge this year


Then start a new post for the next month!


FORMAT YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE:


Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:

Books in category:

FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

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EXAMPLE : (under spoiler)(view spoiler)[

Start of Month

Total audiobooks to read: 6
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:


FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 9
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Great story about women, culture and love set in Nigeria. I loved the characters and the setting, and the audio narrator was great with the different voices and bringing the story to life (hide spoiler)]

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I have so many :o

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:

Books in category:


FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Honestly Karen, it's like you're looking for things that I've recently concentrated on and gotten most out of the way for already this summer 😆

Here was me being so pleased at finishing 10 series so far this year. Everything now unfinished I am waiting to catch the latest books in the sales for 😂

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 1
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 50

Books in category:



FINISHED

In category:

- 5 stars
- 3 stars

Not in category:

- 2 stars
- 1 star
- 3 stars
- 2 stars
- 3 stars
- 4 stars
- 2 stars
- 4 stars
- 3 stars
- 3.5 stars
- 4 stars
- 3 stars
- 3 stars
- 2 stars
- 4 stars
- 4 stars
- 4 stars
- 3 stars
- 2 stars
- 4 stars
- 4 stars
- 3 stars
- 4 stars
- 2 stars
- 1 star
- 3 stars
- 4 stars
- 3 stars


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: (278 in Jan-Aug) + 30
Audiobooks in monthly category read: (59 in Jan-Aug) + 2

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 15
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 5
Read a book that in a series that you started more than a year ago and haven't continued yet (can be any # in the series)

Books in category:
★

FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: (220)
Audiobooks in monthly category read: (33)

Sammy wrote: "Honestly Karen, it's like you're looking for things that I've recently concentrated on and gotten most out of the way for already this summer 😆

Here was me being so pleased at finishing 10 series ..."

haha oops

I never realized I accidentally missed august's challenge, ha.

Monthly Audiobook Challenge
Duration: September 2025

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 111
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 7

September Category:
◈ Get to that series (0 added)
Read a book that in a series that you started more than a year ago and haven't continued yet (can be any # in the series)



FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:

My Monthly Reccommendation (and why):

In! I should really get to Book 2 in the Orphan X and Book 7 in the Kate Daniels series. 😁


Total audiobooks read this year so far: 70 (end of Aug)

Audiobooks to read:

Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1
, 5 stars

Audiobooks NOT in category read:


MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

September Audiobook Challenge

Start of September
Total audiobooks read YTD: 126
Audiobooks in monthly category read YTD: 51
Total audio books to read in September: 5
Audiobooks in September category: 15

Books in category (series started >1 yr ago)



Other books
1. London Bridges (Alex Cross, #10) by James Patterson
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
3. The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11) by Patricia Cornwell
4. Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2) by Alan Brennert
5. The Patriot Threat (Cotton Malone, #10) by Steve Berry
6. Feel the Bern (Bernie Sanders Mystery #1) by Andrew Shaffer
7. Weyward by Emilia Hart


End of September recap
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly categories read:

My September recommendation (and why).

I have so many of these too! I'll see if I can fit one in. Maybe the next in the Miss Fortune series, Gator Bait. I finished the last one 5 years ago.

Yay I am excited for this one as I have many series I am in the middle of and need to continue/finish:
FINISHED
Books in category:
by Laurell K. Hamilton from Anita Blake Vampire Hunter #17
by Laurell K. Hamilton from Anita Blake Vampire Hunter #17
by Kelley Armstrong from Rockton/Casey Duncan #7

Books Not in Category:
by Melissa Pace- would love to have this be a series
by Jacqueline Woodson




End of Month
Total audiobooks read in Jan: 27
Total audioboks read in Feb: 20
Total audiobooks read in Mar: 30
Total audiobooks read in Apr: 34
Total audiobooks read in May: 25
Total audiobooks read in June: 26
Total audiobooks read in July: 24
Total audiobooks read in Aug: 23
Total audiobooks read in Sept:

Audiobooks in Jan category: 3
Audiobooks in Feb Category: 12 (Probably a few stretching but can't be bothered to move)
Audiobooks in Mar Category: 18
Audiobooks in Apr Category: 23
Audiobooks in May Category: 11
Audiobooks in June Category: 15
Audiobooks in July Category: 3
Audiobooks in Aug Category: 5
Audiobooks in Sept Category:

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):