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.
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Posts about book challenges and related topics.
2025 By the Numbers
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…
Six Shooter Challenge 2025
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…
Series Catch-up 2025
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…
Stacking the Series 2025
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…
Color Coded Challenge 2025
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…
Smash Your TBR 2025
I found this one on StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page. 1. On your TBR with the oldest publish date 2. From your most read genre from 2023 or 2024 (that’s still on your TBR) 3. That’s been on your TBR longest 4. With the highest page count on your TBR 5. The shortest…