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The Medical Examiner Challenge is hosted by Rick Mills at the Mystillery. This is a friendly competition that involves reading mysteries/thrillers and counting the named characters who die. Each named death equals a toe tag. The reader with the most toe tags at the end of the year wins. There are also badges for the reader who has read the most authors and who has read the most titles. This is my personal tracking page.

5 Authors	5 Titles	Series	107 Toe Tags
Alex Michaelides	The Silent Patient		8
Liane Moriarty	Here One Moment		23
Martha Wells	Artificial Condition	Murderbot 2	5
Mercedes Lackey	Burning Water	Diana Tregarde 2	67
Shelby Van Pelt	Remarkably Bright Creatures		4

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A month-by-month tracking page (with complete book list) for my 2025 reading year.

Month	Book Count	Running Total	Page Count	Running Total
January	0	0	0	0
February	0	0	0	0
March	0	0	0	0
April	0	0	0	0
May	0	0	0	0
June	0	0	0	0
July	0	0	0	0
August	0	0	0	0
September	0	0	0	0
October	0	0	0	0
November	0	0	0	0
December	0	0	0	0

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#	Book / Author / Series	Pages	Pub Year
1	Here One Minute – Liane Moriarty	480	2024
2	The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides	323	2019
3	Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt	368	2022
4	Compulsory – Murderbot 0.5 – Martha Wells	9	2018
5	Artificial Condition – Murderbot 2 – Martha Wells	149	2018
6	Burning Water – Diana Tregarde 1 – Mercedes Lackey	268	1989
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The Six Shooter Challenge is hosted by Rick Mills at the Mystillery. The goal is to read 6 books by a single author to earn a notch, but it’s a little more complicated… Notches count for points, and a formula that calculates the books to notches ratio gives bonus points, and it’s the reader with the most points (not the most notches) who wins each year. Also, incomplete notches from the previous year roll over, so it’s possible to complete more notches in a year than the number of qualifying books read divided by 6! (If you have read exactly 6 books per author attempted without any rollovers, you would have a perfect 1 score, plus your bonus points.) This is my personal tracking page. (Entries in blue are carried over from last year.)

Notches	Books	ratio	+bonus	=Score
0	5	0	0.000	0

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Found on Instagram, by flickeringfandom. This is a game more than a challenge, and any book that is part of a series counts. Points are calculated as: +1 for a book that is a continuation of a series; +3 for a book that is the latest volume of an incomplete series; +5 for the final book of a complete series; +1 for a book you re-read in order to continue a series; and -1 for the first book of a series started in 2025.

#	Book	Total Points
1.	Compulsory – Murderbot 0.5 – Martha Wells	+1= 1
2.	Artificial Condition – Murderbot 2 – Martha Wells	+1= 2
3.	Burning Water – Diana Tregarde 1 – Mercedes Lackey	-1= 1
4.	Children of the Night – Diana Tregarde 2 – Mercedes Lackey	+1= 2
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Found on Instagram, by flickeringfandom several years ago. This is a game more than a challenge. Only series books count, but they can be of any length. The number of the book in the series is where it goes in the stack; if the number is double digit it can be used as the straight number or as the sum of the digits. Numbers can also be added to complete a row (2+1=3; 2+2+1+1=6). Rows do not have to be completed in order, but only contiguous rows count towards the highest number score.

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1.	Diana Tregarde 1 – Burning Water – Mercedes Lackey
2.	Murderbot 2 – Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
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The color listed must be a major color on the cover of the book, or the related word must appear in the title of the book.

1. Blue	Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty
2. Red
3. Yellow
4. Green
5. Brown	The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
6. Black
7. White	Compulsory – Martha Wells
8. Any other color
9. Implied color (rainbow, plaid, shadow, ink, etc.)

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