2025 Reading Challenge discussion

DAILY TRACKING AND DISCUSSION
2025 Dark Academia, Spooky, Cozy: Individual Readathon
Duration September 26 to September 28, 2025


Welcome to the 2025 Dark Arcademia, Spooky, Cozy reading challenge! Within this thread, you can track your reading habits for the weekend and talk with other participants about books you’re reading and other related topics. Feel free to reserve yourself a post in this thread and continue updating it whenever you add pages/hours/titles to your readathon log. There is no pressure to post in here but we’d love to get a good conversation going to keep up everyone’s reading momentum!

Sample Tracking Log

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🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁EDITED TO ADD PROMPTS HERE, as well!🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

Your Prompts
🍁Anything from your TBR
🍁 Dark Academia
🍁 Something Spooky
🍁 A Cozy Mystery
🍁 Fall colors on the cover

Here are some questions to inspire discussion(s), should you choose to answer any of them.

1.) How are your reading challenges going so far? Are there books you are excited about for this readathon? Which one(s)?

2.) Are there annual events in your area that you like to attend for the fall season? What are they?

3.) What is your favorite spooky book from childhood? Are there any favorites from adulthood?

Reserving my spot!

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Reserving my spot also😊

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Your Prompts
🍁Anything from your TBR - Bewitched
🍁 Dark Academia - Arcana Academy (hryced until 18th) or A Separate Peace (200 p) or If We Were Villains (370 p) or The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
🍁 Something Spooky - The Last Life of Prince Alastor
🍁 A Cozy Mystery - Murder at the Vicarage
🍁 Fall colors on the cover - The Act of Ascension or The Foundling

Notes for myself:
• going to use this for HRCYED: 1) 24-hour non-stop reading 2) any readathon
• might also just read books with the same titles if they suit the genre prompts, as I've wanted to challenge myself like this for a while

Excited for the readathon!!

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DAILY TRACKING AND DISCUSSION
2025 Dark Academia, Spooky, Cozy: Individual Readathon
Duration September 26 to September 28, 2025

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Planned Reads: Legendborn (L, dark academia) and Good Girls Don’t Die (GGDD, something spooky).

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👻 DARK ACADEMIA, SPOOKY OR COZY (INDIVIDUAL) - Readathon
Duration: September 26 - September 28, 2025
Progress: x Books | y Pages

Prompts
🍁 Anything from your TBR
🍁 Dark Academia
🍁 Something Spooky
🍁 A Cozy Mystery
🍁 Fall colors on the cover

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Note: I do not count hours -- only books and pages.

I´m excited! Will do a little research on what I could read for this readathon!

🍁Anything from your TBR
🍁 Dark Academia
🍁 Something Spooky
🍁 A Cozy Mystery
🍁 Fall colors on the cover

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DAILY TRACKING AND DISCUSSION
2025 Dark Academia, Spooky, Cozy: Individual Readathon
Duration September 26 to September 28, 2025

🍁Anything from your TBR
🍁 Dark Academia - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
🍁 Something Spooky - The Haunting of Hill House
🍁 A Cozy Mystery - Cherry Cheesecake Murder
🍁 Fall colors on the cover The Pumpkin Spice Café

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RC: 2025 Dark Academia, Spooky, or Cozy:
Individual FALL Readathon
Duration: September 26 to September 28, 2025
☀ Progress 0/5

🍁🍁🍁 Prompts 🍁🍁🍁
🍁 Anything from your TBR: My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
🍁 Dark Academia: The It Girl; I have some questions for you; Murder Your Employer; The Swallows; A Good Giirls Guide to Murder; The Idiot (https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...)
🍁 Something Spooky: The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
🍁 A Cozy Mystery: Mrs. McGinty's Dead
🍁 Fall colors on the cover

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🍁Anything from your TBR
🍁 Dark Academia
🍁 Something Spooky
🍁 A Cozy Mystery
🍁 Fall colors on the cover

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I would like to try this one.

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🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁PROMPTS 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

🍁Anything from your TBR: Baby Proof
🍁 Dark Academia: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
🍁 Something Spooky: The Talisman
🍁 A Cozy Mystery: Etiquette for Lovers and Killers
🍁 Fall colors on the cover: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Discussion questions are now posted in message 2

sounds fun. going to try to remember to post more about reading for this weekend.

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