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Last updated: 09/16/25
LeahS. Autumn Readathon raffle entries 1 College: a book that takes place in an educational setting.
The Examiner
2 Career: a book with a job or profession in the title
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
3 Pay Day: a book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
James
10 Midlife Crisis: a book that includes a major life change
The vaster wilds
Joyce MGrow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - Pretend I'm Dead by Jen Beagin
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change - Witch World
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book - Rory & Ita
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - The Fortnight in September
Amy S✅Career: A book with a job or profession in the title The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis
✅Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads The Hours by Michael Cunningham
✅Taxes Due: A book you borrowed The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
✅Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
Kathy EBuy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
✅Dominicana - Angie Cruz
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
✅Universality - Natasha Brown [152p]
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
✅The Lonely Hearts Book Club - Lucy Gilmore
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
✅The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Deesha Philyaw
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Rae PPay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zenter & Brittany Cavallaro
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Cards on the Table
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Black Hearts in Battersea (rags to riches)
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College: A book that takes place in an educational setting - Flower Power Trip, James J Cudney - 10/09/25 (Set on a college campus.)
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title - Maid of Murder, Amanda Flower - 10/09/25 (Maid in the title.)
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed - Murder at Pope Investigations, Kathi Daley - 06/09/25 (kindle unlimited)
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - Raven Black, Ann Cleeves - 08/09/25 (I've seen the Vera and Shetland shows, but this was the first book I'd read by the author.)
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire - 07/09/25
MacKenzie PCollege: A book that takes place in an educational setting - Doll Parts (completed 9/8)
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads - Summer Romance (119,068 ratings) (completed 9/7)
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed - The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club (completed 9/12)
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You (completed 9/8)
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Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character - DominionTaxes Due: A book you borrowed - When Among Crows
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - Nothing Ever Happens Here
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Completed: 4/4
College: a book that takes place in an educational setting Patina finished Sept. 6Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Get Married: A book with more than one author Ballad for Sophie finished Sept. 7
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character Chaos Reigning finsihed Sept. 6
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed Something Like Home finished Sept. 12
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author Julie Chan Is Dead finished Sept. 9
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book Chosen by a Horse finished Sept. 7
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE The Floating World finished Sept. 9
College: a book that takes place in an educational settingMe and Earl and the Dying Girl
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Code Name Verity
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
The Woman in Me
MJ R
Kate P✓College: a book that takes place in an educational setting -- Bunny
✓Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads -- Farenheit 451
✓ Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover -- Black Rabbit Hall
✓Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author -- Hospital
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🔸Taxes Due: A book you borrowed: from granddaughter: Woof by Spencer Quinn
🔸Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count: 165: Three Days in June
🔸Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author: Olga Berrocal Essex - Delia's Way
🔸Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change: from Argentine barrio high school student who plays soccer to women's professional league soccer in USA: Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
🔸LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE: L for Lay: A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
Dixie's Individual Fall Read-a-Thon 9/13/25 4/4 + 4 moreThe Prompts COMPLETED!
√College: a book that takes place in an educational setting Tales From a Village School
√Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads Cannery Row {150,801 ratings}
√Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
√Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character 4-H filly (Mr. Kelham)
√Taxes Due: A book you borrowed Miss Iceland (library book)
√Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author Land of Love and Ruins {author Oddný Eir}
√Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World
√LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE Ellen Tebbits
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Joanna G's entryPay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover - Castle Hangnail
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed - The Lost World
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - Dancing with Bears
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book - Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
✔︎Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover: The Bingo Palace ✔︎Taxes Due: A book you borrowed: Tell Me Everything
✔︎Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change: Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus
✔︎LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
Jillian H.Fall Read-a-thon
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads-
The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden 9/13/2025
Get Married: A book with more than one author-
Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson 9/14/2025
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover-
The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahonTaxes Due: A book you borrowed
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author-
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec 9/9/2025
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE-
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams 9/8/2025
Nancy TCareer: A book with a job or profession in the title - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - The Inmate by Freida McFadden
Cynthia C. Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Hemlock & Silver
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
We Are Always Tender With Our Dead
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
Breathe In, Bleed Out
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame
College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
The Incandescent
Deborah RTaxes Due: A book you borrowed Infinite Archive
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count The Enchanted Greenhouse
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
Robin H-R Finished 09/14/2025Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Mayhem MansionMillionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
The Muscovy ChainGrow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
The HomesmanLIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
The Leper of Saint Giles
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I finished 7! Thank you to whoever invented read-a-thons!
1. Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 9 hr 53 min
2, Get Married: A book with more than one author Three Apples Fell from the Sky by by Narine Abgaryan, translated by Lisa Hayden)--120 pages left.
3. Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover Kooky Spooky Love by Josie Silver 320 pp
4. Taxes Due: A book you borrowed The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling 8 hours
5. Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author The Heavens 272 pp
6. Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change The Names 9.4 hours
7. Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 Audio- 8 hours left
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Reminder: you can still submit raffle entries tomorrow Sept 15.
Andrea P.Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads- Say You'll Remember Me
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover- Abuela, Don't Forget Me
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character- A Game of Noctis
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed- Klara and the Sun
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count- The Wedding
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author- The South
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change- What Will People Think?
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book- Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE- Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Apologies that I’m still unable to tag books, but I did try to be thorough for the MODS. Thanks! Brittany H - 6 books read for the read-a-thon
✅Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson -Over 600,000 ratings (this is a novella but it’s over 100 pages)
✅Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character- Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood -Conor Harkness, a significantly older and wealthy biotech business tycoon.
✅Taxes Due: A book you borrowed- Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks - I borrowed from Libby
✅Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count- Bees in June by Elizabeth Bass Parman- 352 pages ; ISBN: 1400342600
✅Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author-The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner- first time reading her
✅LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury- F
Daniel J. Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author--Call Me Esteban
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change--To the Far Blue Mountains
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book--Frontier
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE--End of the Drive
Pearl Game of Life Readathon
✅Career: A book with a job or profession in the title - The Housekeeper and the Professor - (translated Asian novel)
✅Get Married: A book with more than one author - The Honeymoon Crashers by Christina Lauren aka Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings
✅Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
✅Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change - He Gets That From Me by Jacqueline Friedland (#26 common noun in authors name)
✅LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE - The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra (#5 Weird title)
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NancyJ Readathon September 6-14 2025
Completed books
The Prompts
✅E. Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover -9/14/25
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
✅F. Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character -9/9/25
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✅G. Taxes Due: A book you borrowed -9/10/25
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha by Dorothy Gilman
✅I. Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author - 9/12/25
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
✅J. Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change -9/7/25
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
My entry:✅Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis - Sept. 14th
✅Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Artificial Condition Dramatized Adaptation by Martha Wells - Sept. 9th
✅Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count 256
Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango - Sept. 13th
✅Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas - Sept. 12th
✅Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis - Sept. 6th
✅Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards - Sept. 12th
✅LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
The Lemon Sisters by Jill Shalvis - Sept. 7th
✅3. Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Read 9-1-25 - 9-7-25)✅5. Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Stay Close by Harlan Coben (Read 9-4-25 - 9-7-25)✅6. Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Read 9-12-25 - 9-14-25)✅7. Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
A Tap on the Window by Linwood Barclay (Read 9-10-25 - 9-14-25)✅9. Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli (Read 9-7-25 - 9-10-25)✅10. Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston (Read 9-8-25 - 9-9-25)✅11. Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen (Read 9-12-25 - 9-12-25)7/12
Katherine P.Payday (100,000+ ratings) This Is How It Always Is
Millionaire Estates (wealthy character) Blue Ruin
Taxes Due (book I borrowed) A Game of Lies
Midlife Crisis (major life change) The Strawberry Patch Pancake House
Other Amy✅Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
Orbital
(currently 117,112 ratings)
✅Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
But Not Too Bold
(view spoiler)
✅Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
(151 pages)
✅Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
The River Has Roots
✅Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
(view spoiler)
Jessica R.Books finished during challenge: 9
INDIVIDUAL
The Prompts
College: a book that takes place in an educational setting
Picture Day
Career: A book with a job or profession in the title
Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads
The Great Believers
Get Married: A book with more than one author
Buy a House: A book with a residential building on the cover
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Speeding Ticket: A book with a 5 in the page count
Drafted: An Illustrated Memoir of a Veteran’s Service During the War in Vietnam (250pgs)
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Raiders of the Lost Heart
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change
Murder by Cheesecake (wedding)
Invest in Stock: A nonfiction book
Sticky Notes: Memorable Lessons from Ordinary Moments
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
Completed - 6Pay Day: A book with more than 100,000 ratings on Goodreads - 357000 ratings
Maybe in Another Life, Taylor Jenkins Reid | 9/11
Millionaire Estates: A book featuring a wealthy character - Sir Thomas
Dearest Mary Jane, Betty Neels | 9/9
Taxes Due: A book you borrowed
Obsession, Debra Webb | 9/13
Grow Your Family: A book by a new to you author
Badlands, C.J. Box | 9/8
Midlife Crisis: A book that includes a major life change - move, new position
Hidden Nature, Nora Roberts | 9/6
LIFE Tile: A book whose title contains a word starting with a letter in LIFE
Leverage in Death, J.D. Robb | 9/7
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Around the Year in 52 Books
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Because the read-a-thon goes until whenever you go to bed on September 14, this thread will remain open for you to submit your entry through September 15. The raffle drawing will be on September 16.
As a reminder, please post your books read alongside the prompt you are fulfilling and to please give me a first name and last initial for your entry.
Happy Reading!