Category: Reading Challenges

This is a SamiParker reading challenge, and is on StoryGraph. A PDF challenge page can be found here, and a downloadable tracking page can be found here. For each prompt, read a book that has the listed word, or a word that fits the listed description in the title.

1. Throne
2. Court
3. Body
4. You
5. Spell
6. Fae or Fairy
7. Evil or Wicked or Demon
8. A number
9. A color
10. The name of a 4-footed animal
11. A word related to Water
12. A word related to Music
13. A word related to Night
14. A word related to Time
15. A word related to Weather

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This one’s from StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page. The goal is to read a book that starts with each letter of the alphabet before the end of the year. For Q, X, and Z, the letters can be anywhere in the title.

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This challenge is to read more than a dozen books that have 500 or more pages. I don’t know where I found the original challenge, but I’ve been doing it for several years now. It is on StoryGraph, and a downloadable tracking page can be found here.

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This challenge looks for books that are over 400 pages and under 500 pages. It can be found on StoryGraph, and a downloadable tracking page can be found here.

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This one’s from StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page. The goal is to read 26 books, where the author’s name starts with each letter of the alphabet. For Q, X, and Z, the letters can be anywhere in the name.

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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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