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2025 Buddy Reading Calendar

January 2025
✔Gobbelino London & a Worry of Weres 1/3
✔The Mad Elf 1/4
✔Sparrow Hill Road 1/5
✔Finder 1/7
✔The Screaming Staircase 1/8
✔Spellbreaker 1/9
✔Brimstone Bound 1/11
✔Hell for Hire 1/13
✔Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear 1/14
✔The Fear Institute 1/15
✔The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure 1/15
✔The Second Generation 1/20
✔Protector 1/20
✔Interesting Times 1/22
✔Death in the Spires 1/22
✔The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant 1/23

February 2025
✔Gobbelino London and a Menace of Mermaids 2/3
✔The Girl in the Green Silk Gown 2/5
✔Driving the Deep 2/7
✔The Whispering Skull 2/8
✔Spellmaker 2/9
✔The Bone Harp 2/10
✔Infernal Enchantment 2/11
✔The Brothers Cabal 2/15
✔The Last Dragonslayer 2/15
✔The Chalice of the Gods 2/15
✔Summon the Keeper 2/17
✔Dragons of Summer Flame 2/20
✔Maskerade 2/22
✔Undeath and Taxes 2/23

March 2025
✔Gobbelino London & a Collision of Catastrophes 3/3
✔The Scavenger Door 3/7
✔The Hollow Boy 3/8
✔The Tainted Cup 3/8
✔Midnight Smoke 3/11
✔Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day 3/15
✔Wrath of the Triple Goddess 3/15
✔The Second Summoning 3/17
✔Dead Tired 1 3/18
✔Feet of Clay 3/22
✔Bloody Acquisitions 3/23

April 2025
✔Something in the Waters 4/3
✔Angel of the Overpass 4/5
✔Ghostdrift 4/7
✔Legends & Lattes 4/8
✔The Creeping Shadow 4/8
A Drop of Corruption 4/8
✔Mentats of Dune 4/10
✔Deathstalker 4/10
✔The Noose of a New Moon 4/11
✔The Fall of the House of Cabal 4/15
✔Long Hot Summoning 4/17
✔Dead Tired 2 4/18
✔Dragons of the Dwarven Depths 4/20
✔Reborn as a Demonic Tree 3 4/20
✔Hogfather 4/22
✔The Fangs of Freelance 4/23

May 2025
✔What Happened in London 5/3
✔The Empty Grave 5/8
Navigators of Dune 5/10
✔Deathstalker Rebellion 5/10
✔Scorched Heart 5/11
✔Dead Tired III 5/18
✔Gardens of the Moon 5/19
✔Dragons of the Highlord Skies 5/20
✔Jingo 5/22
✔Deadly Assessments 5/23
✔Strange New World 5/29

June 2025
✔All Out of Leeds 6/3
✔Hero Killer 6/3
✔Dungeon Crawler Carl 6/9
✔Deathstalker War 6/10
✔Licence To Howl 6/11
✔White Silence 6/16
Sporemageddon 6/18
✔Dragons of the Hourglass Mage 6/20
The Last Continent 6/22
✔Undeading Bells 6/23
✔The Singularity Trap 6/25

July 2025
✔Trouble Brewing in Harrogate 7/3
✔Carl's Doomsday Scenario 7/9
Deathstalker Honor 7/10
✔Dark Whispers 7/11
✔Murder by Memory 7/11
✔Dark Light 7/16
✔Dragons of a Fallen Sun 7/20
✔Carpe Jugulum 7/22
✔Out of House and Home 7/23

August 2025
✔A Right Shambles in York 8/3
✔Bookshops & Bonedust 8/8
✔The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook 8/9
✔A Killer's Kiss 8/11
✔Long Shadows 8/16
✔Dragons of a Lost Star 8/20
The Fifth Elephant 8/22
✔Posthumous Education 8/23

September 2025
✔Noah the Red 9/4
✔The Gate of the Feral Gods 9/9
Fortune's Ashes 9/11
The River Has Roots 9/13
Bad Moon 9/16
The Antventure Begins 9/18
Dragons of a Vanished Moon 9/20
The Truth 9/22
Second Hand Curses 9/23

October 2025
A Decade of Death and Decisions
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
Installment Immortality 10/5
Out of Time 10/16
Thief of Time 10/22

November 2025
Heretical Fishing 4
Floating Hotel
Murder by Cheesecake 11/1
Direct Descendant 11/1
Discount Dan 11/1
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 11/1
The Enchanted Greenhouse 11/1
The Strength of the Few 11/18
Brigands & Breadknives 11/20
The Last Hero 11/22

December 2025
Etiquette & Espionage 12/18
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents 12/22
The Door on the Sea 12/27

January 2026
The Shadow of What Was Lost 1/11

2021/2022/2023 Buddy Reading Calendar

November 2021
☑Every Heart a Doorway 11/15-11/19
☑Fool Moon 11/23-11/26
☑Down Among the Sticks and Bones 11/29-12/2

December 2021
☑The Shadow of the Gods 12/5-12/11
The Dragonbone Chair 12/6
☑Beneath the Sugar Sky 12/14-12/17
☑Grave Peril 12/17-12/19
The Blacktongue Thief 12/19

January 2022
☑In an Absent Dream 1/1-1/2
☑Unsouled 1/2-1/2
☑The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: The Self-Proclaimed Greatest Dragon in the Multiverse 1/3-1/6
☑Come Tumbling Down 1/13-1/14
☑Summer Knight 1/16-1/24
☑Across the Green Grass Fields 1/18-1/21
Gardens of the Moon 1/25
☑The Untold Story 1/26-1/29
☑Where the Drowned Girls Go 1/29-1/30

February 2022
☑The Bone Ships 2/14-2/21
☑Death Masks 2/15-2/16
☑Malice 2/21-2/27

March 2022
☑Blood Rites 3/1
☑A Master of Djinn 3/3-3/6
☑Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld 3/4-3/6
Valor 3/4

April 2022
☑Dead Beat 4/15-4/22

May 2022
The Hunger of the Gods 5/1
Call of the Bone Ships 5/2

June 2022
☑Proven Guilty 6/4-6/13

July 2022
☑White Night 7/27- 7/31

September 2022
☑Small Favor 9/14-9/17

November 2022
☑Turn Coat 11/19-11/20

December 2022
☑Changes 12/9-12/10


2023 Buddy Reading Calendar

January 2023
☑The Atrocity Archives 1/8/23-1/9/23
☑Side Jobs 1/9/23-1/12/23
☑Lost in the Moment and Found 1/17-1/19

February 2023
☑A Local Habitation 2/5-2/10
☑Ghost Story 2/13-2/14

March 2023
☑Backpacking Through Bedlam 3/14-3/11
☑Cold Days 3/13-3/22

April 2023
Broken Blade 4/10 Buddy read link
Skin Game 4/13 Buddy read link

May 2023
Brief Cases 5/13

June 2023
☑Slouch Witch 6/3
☑Peace Talks 6/13
Battle Ground 6/13

December 2023
The Justice of Kings 12/3 Buddy read link

2024 Buddy Reading Calendar

January 2024
☃️Spy x Family, Vol. 1 1/1 Link to Buddy Read
☃️One for the Money 1/1 Stephanie Plum's Skiptrace Shenanigans Book Club
☃️An Easy Death 1/2
☃️Baking Bad 1/3
☃️The Color of Magic 1/8
☃️Two for the Dough 1/8
☃️Blood Engines 1/13
☃️SPY×FAMILY 2 1/15
☃️Three to Get Deadly 1/15
☃️Mislaid in Parts Half-Known 1/16
☃️The Light Fantastic 1/22
☃️Four to Score 1/22
☃️Poison Sleep 1/27
☃️Spy×Family 3 1/29
☃️High Five 1/29

February 2024
❤️A Longer Fall 2/2
❤️Yule Be Sorry 2/3
❤️A Memory Called Empire 2/3
❤️Hot Six 2/5
❤️Equal Rites 2/8
❤️Spy×Family 4 2/12
❤️Seven Up 2/12
❤️Dead Reign 2/13
The Tainted Cup 2/13 Link to Buddy Read
❤️Hard Eight 2/19
❤️Mort 2/22
❤️Spy×Family 5 2/26
❤️To the Nines 2/26
Spell Games 2/27

March 2024
☘The Russian Cage 3/2
☘A Desolation Called Peace 3/3
☘A Manor of Life & Death 3/3
☘Ten Big Ones 3/4
☘Sourcery 3/8
☘Spy×Family 6 3/11
☘Eleven on Top 3/11
☘Aftermarket Afterlife 3/12
☘The Sword of Summer 3/15
☘Twelve Sharp 3/18
☘Dragons of Autumn Twilight 3/21
☘Wyrd Sisters 3/22
☘Spy×Family 7 3/25
☘Lean Mean Thirteen 3/25

April 2024
🌷Fearless Fourteen 4/1
🌷The Serpent in Heaven 4/2
🌷Game of Scones 4/3
🌷Pyramids 4/8
🌷SPY×FAMILY 8 4/8
🌷Finger Lickin' Fifteen 4/8
🌷Foreigner 4/12
🌷The Hammer of Thor 4/15
🌷Sizzling Sixteen 4/15
🌷Dragons of Winter Night 4/21
🌷Guards! Guards! 4/22
🌷SPY×FAMILY 9 4/22
🌷Smokin' Seventeen 4/22
🌷Voyage of the Damned 4/24
🌷Explosive Eighteen 4/29

May 2024
🌸All the Dead Shall Weep 5/2
🌸A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker 5/3
🌸Notorious Nineteen 5/6
🌸SPY×FAMILY 10 5/6
🌸Takedown Twenty 5/13
🌸The Ship of the Dead 5/15
🌸Top Secret Twenty-One 5/20
🌸SPY×FAMILY 11 5/20
🌸Dragons of Spring Dawning 5/21
🌸Eric 5/22
🌸Tricky Twenty-Two 5/27

June 2024
🍧Coming Up Roses 6/3
🍧Turbo Twenty-Three 6/3
🍧Seven Faceless Saints 6/10
🍧Hardcore Twenty-Four 6/10
🍧The Hidden Oracle 6/15
🍧Look Alive Twenty-Five 6/17
🍧Moving Pictures 6/22
🍧Twisted Twenty-Six 6/24

July 2024
🦀Fortune and Glory 7/1
🦀Beast-Laid Plans 7/3
🦀Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight 7/8
Disciples of Chaos 7/10 Link to Buddy Read
🦀The Dark Prophecy 7/15
🦀Going Rogue 7/15
🦀Time of the Twins 7/21
🦀Dirty Thirty 7/22
🦀Reaper Man 7/22

August 2024
🐳The Silverblood Promise 8/1
🐳Bonfire of the Calamities 8/3
🐳Spy x Family, Vol. 12
🐳The Dead Cat Tail Assassins 8/13
🐳The Burning Maze 8/15
🐳War of the Twins 8/21
🐳Witches Abroad 8/22
🐳The Thursday Murder Club 8/25

September 2024
🦉Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries 9/3
🦉The Tyrant’s Tomb 9/15
🦉Test of the Twins 9/21
🦉Small Gods 9/22

October 2024
🎃Maplecroft 10/1
🎃Chapelwood 10/1
🎃Carter & Lovecraft 10/1
🎃After the End of the World 10/1
🎃Strange Practice 10/1
🎃Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies 10/3
🎃The Tower of Nero 10/15
🎃Lords and Ladies 10/22
🎃Grave Beginnings (Mystery bookclub)
🎃Grave Measures (Mystery bookclub)

November 2024
🦉The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels 11/1
🦉The League of Gentlewomen Witches 11/1
🦉A Coup of Tea 11/1
🦉The Spellshop 11/1 (Cozy November)
🦉Gobbelino London & A Complication of Unicorns 11/3
🦉Dreadful Company 11/8
🦉Johannes Cabal the Necromancer 11/15
🦉The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love 11/19 (Cozy November)
🦉Men at Arms 11/22
🦉Now or Never 11/26

December 2024
☃️Gobbelino London & a Melee of Mages 12/3
☃️Magic Tides
☃️Magic Claims
☃️Blood Heir
☃️Grave Importance 12/8
☃️Bitter Waters 12/8
☃️Johannes Cabal the Detective 12/15
☃️Soul Music 12/22
☃️The Icarus Needle

Books I would like to buddy read 2026:

2026:
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) series
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Jan. 6)
Operation Bounce House (Feb. 10)
Heretical Fishing 5 (Feb. 17)
Butterfly Effects (March 10)
Cinnamon Bun Volume 7: A Wholesome LitRPG June 16)
Heretical Fishing 6: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself (Aug. 18)

2025 Challenges:

Challenges to update:


The Challenge Factory
1. Ghostbusters 19/26

Game Night
1. Turf Wars (8/17-11/23)

Hooked on Books
1. DnD
2. Magic Show (7/1-9/30)
3. Escape Room
4. Bookopoly (9/1-11/30)
5. Toys/Objects Roundup (9/1-11/30)
6. DNO (9/7-12/6)

TOAP
1. Golden Girls
2. Pokemon
3. Candy Land