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Annual Challenge #1 - Jenna's 2023 ATY 52 Challenge (reading in order, -ish)Tracked here monthly as completed!
CURRENT MONTH: ✨🌬MARCH ~ Prompts 10-13 🌬✨
10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
Posh: Any books featuring rich people or families
Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon ~ library
Currently Reading March
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✅ My Darling Duke ★ ★ ★ ★
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12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
Watership Down
(Reading in APRIL as part of a Group Read)
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13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
There's a Porcupine in My Outhouse: The Vermont Misadventures of a Mountain Man Wannabe ~ home library/paperback
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Books already completed for this challenge: 14/52 (view spoiler)
Annual Challenge #2 - Serial ReaderHere's my rough plan, where
💫 = a book I plan to count specifically for this challenge... numbers are for my own tracking purposes and do not denote reading order
📌 = tbr, not yet released
⚪️ = tbr, released
☑️ = read pre-2023
✅ = read in 2023 (counts toward challenge completion)
⚠️ = DNF
☠️ = part of main series but not reading it // series DNF
Progress: 15/30
Starting: 9
⚜️ Sinful Wallflowers Series: 1/3 - Stacy Reid
✅ My Darling Duke 💫
⚪️ Her Wicked Marquess 💫
⚪️ A Scoundrel of Her Own 💫
⚜️ Darkest Skies: 1/3 - Garrett Leigh
⚪️ Redemption 💫
⚪️ Deliverance 💫
✅ Salvation💫
⚜️ The Golem and the Jinni: 0/2 - Helene Wecker
⚪️ The Golem and the Jinni 💫
⚪️ The Hidden Palace 💫
⚜️ Earth's Children: 0/6 - Jean M. Auel
⚪️ The Clan of the Cave Bear 💫
⚪️ The Valley of Horses
⚪️ The Mammoth Hunters
⚪️ The Plains of Passage
⚪️ The Shelters of Stone
⚪️ The Land of Painted Caves
⚜️ The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels: 1/15 - Philippa Gregory
✅ The Lady of the Rivers 💫
⚪️ The White Queen
⚪️ The Red Queen
⚪️ The Kingmaker's Daughter
⚪️ The White Princess
⚪️ The Constant Princess
⚪️ The King's Curse
⚪️ Three Sisters, Three Queens
⚪️ The Other Boleyn Girl
⚪️ The Boleyn Inheritance
⚪️ The Taming of the Queen
⚪️ The Queen's Fool
⚪️ The Virgin's Lover
⚪️ The Last Tudor
⚪️ The Other Queen
⚜️ World Made by Hand: 0/4 - James Howard Kunstler
⚪️ World Made by Hand 💫
⚪️ The Witch of Hebron
⚪️ A History of the Future
⚪️ The Harrows of Spring
⚜️ Outlander: 0/10 - Diana Gabaldon
⚪️ Outlander 💫
⚪️ Dragonfly in Amber
⚪️ Voyager
⚪️ Drums of Autumn
⚪️ The Fiery Cross
⚪️ A Breath of Snow and Ashes
⚪️ An Echo in the Bone
⚪️ The Space Between
⚪️ Written in My Own Heart's Blood
⚪️ Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
⚜️ Rules of the Game: 3/6 - Brigham Vaughn
📌 Road Rules ~ Zane & Ryan
Coming March 2023 after revision from the original Prolific Works version
⚪️ Bending the Rules ~ Noah & Simon 💫
✅ Changing the Rules ~ Lance & Gabriel 💫
⚪️ Unwritten Rules ~ Jamie & Taylor 💫
✅ Rules of Engagement ~ Kelly & Anders 💫
✅ Breaking the Rules ~ Wade & Trevor 💫
Continuing: 7
⚜️ Down Home Series: 4/5 - Parker St. John
☑️ Down Low
☑️ Down and Dirty
☑️ Down and Out
✅ Down in Flames 💫
📌 Throw Down: Briar & Derek
⚜️ Calluvia's Royalty: 2/5 - Alessandra Hazard
⚪️ That Alien Feeling
⚪️ That Irresistible Poison
☑️ Once Upon a Time
☑️ Prince's Master
⚪️ Dearly Despised
⚜️ Wrong Side of the Tracks: 3/4 - K.A. Merikan
☑️ Scum
☑️ Primal
✅ D!ckhead 💫
📌 Book 4: Frank
⚜️ Off the Field Duet: 1/2 - Kimberly Knight & Rachel Adams
☑️ Traded
⚪️ Outed 💫
⚜️ Alphas of Nasila: 2/3 - V.K. Ludwig
☑️ Knot for Nest
✅ Heat for Hire 💫
⚪️ Purr for Purchase: A SciFi Alien Romance 💫
⚜️ Harry Potter: 5/7 - Rowling J.K.
☑️ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
☑️ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
☑️ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
☑️ The Harry Potter Collection 1-4
☑️ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
⚪️ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 💫
⚪️ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 💫
⚜️ Texas Trilogy: 1/3 - Lorraine Heath
☑️ Texas Destiny
⚪️ Texas Glory 💫
⚪️ Texas Legacy 💫
Finishing: 1
⚜️ The Great Library: 2/5 Rachel Caine
☑️ Ink and Bone
☑️ Paper and Fire
⚪️ Ash and Quill 💫
⚪️ Smoke and Iron 💫
⚪️ Sword and Pen 💫
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CAUGHT UP
⚜️ Straight Guys Series: 14/15 - Alessandra Hazard
☑️ Straight Boy
☑️ Just a Bit Twisted
☑️ Just a Bit Obsessed
☑️ Just a Bit Unhealthy
☑️ Just a Bit Wrong
☑️ Just a Bit Confusing
☑️ Just a Bit Ruthless
☑️ Just a Bit Wicked
☑️ Just a Bit Shameless
☑️ Just a Bit Gay
☑️ Just a Bit Dirty
☑️ Just a Bit Wrecked
☑️ Just a Bit Bossy
☑️ Just a Bit Heartless
📌 Just a Bit Captivated 💫
⚜️ The Wrong Alpha: 4/5 - Alessandra Hazard
☑️ Unnatural
☑️ Feral
☑️ Illicit
✅ Expert 💫
📌 Forbidden 💫
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COMPLETE
⚜️ True Lovers Trilogy: 3/3 - A.E. Via
✅ Bishop 💫
✅ Wood 💫
✅ Rayne 💫
⚜️ Frat Wars 3/3 - Saxon James
☑️ Frat Wars: King of Thieves
☑️ Frat Wars: Master of Mayhem
✅ Frat Wars: Presidential Chaos 💫
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Series DNF ☠️
⚜️ Monstrous: 8/9 - Lily Mayne
☑️ Soul Eater
☑️ Edin
☑️ The Rycke
☑️ (3.5) Wyn
☑️ Gloam
☑️ Moth
✅ Seraph 💫
⚠️ Lor 💫
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ANNUAL CHALLENGE #3, PART 1//3SPELL-IT-OUT, PART 1//3
Level 5: Complete Task 1 & Task 2 for ALL the themes.
This means you will be reading 211 books in total.
My 2023 Challenge Home Base
Action
✅ The Alien's Runaway Omega
✅ Catch and Release
✅ The Good Liar
✅ Initiation
O
✅ Never Have I Ever: Had a Bromance with a Teammate
Read a book with an Action/Adventure theme:
Athlete
✅ A Boy for the Tentacle Monster
✅ Thrown Off the Ice
H
L
E
T
E
Athlete: ✅ Guarded
Contemporary
C
O
N
T
E
M
✅ Primal
O
✅ Rayne
✅ The Alpha Contract
✅ The Rest of the Story
Y
Contemporary theme: ✅ Brazen Affairs
Cowboys
C
O
✅ Wood
✅ Bishop
O
Y
✅ Salvation
Cowboys: ✅ The Station
Enemies-to-Lovers
E
N
E
M
I
E
S
T
O
L
O
V
E
✅ Rocky Start
✅ Budding Attraction Saxon James
Enemies-to-lovers theme: ✅ Breaking the Rules
Fantasy
✅ Feral Woods
✅ Alpha Heat
N
T
✅ Wed to the Omega Ashe Moone
S
Y
Fantasy theme: ✅ Where Flows the Water
Firemen
F
I
R
E
M
E
N
Firemen:
Friends-to-Lovers
F
R
I
E
N
✅ Dibs
S
T
O
L
O
V
E
R
S
Friends-to-lovers theme: ✅ The Long Game
Historical
✅ Heart Thief
I
S
T
O
R
I
C
A
L
Read a book with a historical theme:
Humorous
H
U
✅ Manbot
O
✅ Rules of Engagement
O
U
✅ Strictly Curious
Read a book with a humorous theme:
Hurt-Comfort
H
U
R
T
✅ Changing the Rules
O
M
F
O
R
T
Hurt/comfort theme: ✅ Be Mine, Twisted Valentine
ANNUAL CHALLENGE #3, PART 2//3SPELL-IT-OUT, PART 2//3
Law Enforcement
L
✅ As it Should Be
✅ The Wolf at the Door
✅ Evolved
N
F
O
R
✅ Cabin Fever
E
M
E
N
T
Law enforcement theme:
Medical
M
E
✅ D!ckhead
I
C
A
L
Medical theme:
Military
M
I
L
I
T
A
R
Y
Military theme:
Musicians
M
U
S
I
C
I
A
N
S
Musicians:
Mystery
M
Y
S
T
E
R
Y
Mystery theme:
Paranormal
✅ Frat Wars: Presidential Chaos
A
R
A
N
O
R
M
A
L
Paranormal theme:
Polyamorous
✅ Down in Flames Parker St. John
O
L
Y
A
M
O
R
O
U
S
Polyamorous theme: ✅ Heat Play Love
Scifi
S
✅ The Contract
I
F
I
Scifi theme:
Shifters
✅ Season's Change
H
I
F
T
E
R
✅ Windbrothers Desert Sean Michael
Featuring shifters:
Virgin
V
✅ In Bear Country
R
G
✅ Iced Out
N
Featuring a virgin: ✅ Expert
Tarot ChallengeMy Active Post in Tarot Challenge Thread
January 1, 2023 to December 31,2023
Progress: 9/22
✨ The Fool
Vulnerable, naïve, adventurous, open, purity, innocence, risk, fresh starts, new beginnings
✅ My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid
✨ Strength
Courage, confidence, passion, good over evil, personal power, protect loved ones
✅ Heat for Hire
✨ The High Priestess
Secret knowledge, immobility, trust, ability to see through deceit, female intuition.
✅ Unnatural Selection
✨ The Magician
beginning, creation, turn dreams into reality
✅ Business Is Personal: The Truth about What It Takes to Be Successful While Staying True to Yourself
✨ The Hanged Man
letting go of the past, sacrifice, surrender, take a break
✅ Windbrothers Desert
✨ The Empress
feminine power, fertility, abundance, nurture, love of home and family, beauty, self-care
✅ The Indigo Girl ~ home library/paperback AND Audible
Read in FEBRUARY ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Based on historical documents, including Eliza's letters, this is a historical fiction account of how a teenage girl produced indigo dye, which became one of the largest exports out of South Carolina, an export that laid the foundation for the incredible wealth of several Southern families who still live on today. Although largely overlooked by historians, the accomplishments of Eliza Lucas influenced the course of US history. When she passed away in 1793, President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral."
✨ Wheel of Fortune
luck, chance, change, change is a constant in life
✅ The Lady of the Rivers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Card most frequently mentioned in this story: Wheel of Fortune
Other cards mentioned: The Hanged Man, The Tower
✨ The Star
creativity, hope, optimism, art, keep faith, self reflection
✅ The Gardens of Bunny Mellon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
✨ The Tower
unforeseen and traumatic events, sudden endings
✅ Thrown Off the Ice ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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✨ The Empress
feminine power, fertility, abundance, nurture, love of home and family, beauty, self-care
✨ The Emperor
patriarchy, material power, protection, structure in your life
✨ The Hierophant
the Pope, authority, convention, strict lifestyle, institutions
✨ The Lovers
love, strong relationship, crossroads, honesty and communication in relationships
✨ The Chariot
victory, conquest and control, willpower, keep fighting
✨ The Hermit
intelligence, education, quest for knowledge, enlightenment, self-reflection, healer
✨ Justice
hard work, sacrifices, balance, fairness, consequences
✨ Death
spiritual transformation, new beginnings, death
✨ Temperance
time, patience, self-control, change is coming
✨ The Devil
temptation, indulgence in sensual pleasures
✨ The Moon
present, future, changes
✨ The Sun
hope, energy, optimism, accomplishment, joy
✨ Judgement
trial, consequences, rebirth, self-reflection
✨ The World
perfect, success, accomplishment, completion, wholeness
Biannual Challenge #1: TBR &/Or Series Knockout Challenge – First Half 2023Duration: January 4, 2023– June 28, 2023
I'm in for Weekly!
✨2023 Members' Corner Challenge Home Base
✨TBR Shelf
✨TBR Backup Shelf
Progress: 11/26
JANUARY
✅ The Wolf at the Door
✅ Primal
✅ Rayne
✅ Seraph
FEBRUARY
✅ Salvation
✅ Heat Play Love
✅ Alpha Heat
✅ The Alien Bodyguard
MARCH
✅ Season's Change
✅ Thrown Off the Ice
✅ Catch and Release
Week 12: 22-Mar to 28-Mar
Week 13: 29-Mar to 4-Apr
APRIL
Week 14: 5-Apr to 11-Apr
Week 15: 12-Apr to 18-Apr
Week 16: 19-Apr to 25-Apr
Week 17: 26-Apr to 2-May
MAY
Week 18: 3-May to 9-May
Week 19: 10-May to 16-May
Week 20: 17-May to 23-May
Week 21: 24-May to 30-May
Week 22: 31-May to 6-Jun
Week 23: 7-Jun to 13-Jun
Week 24: 14-Jun to 20-Jun
Week 25: 21-Jun to 27-Jun
Week 26: 28-Jun to 4-Jul
Biannual Challenge #1: TBR &/Or Series Knockout Challenge – Second Half 2023Duration: June 29, 2023– December ____ , 2023
✨TBR Shelf
✨TBR Backup Shelf
Progress: 0/26
Lifetime Challenge - For fun, reading a book published every year since I've been born, including my birth year (1985). Books read: 34/37
🧁 1985: Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
⚪️ 1986:
⚪️ 1987:
☑️ 1988: Civil War Women
☑️ 1989: Number the Stars
☑️ 1990: The Civil War: The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series
☑️ 1991: A Handful of Heaven
⚪️ 1992:
☑️ 1993: Tussie-Mussies: The Victorian Art of Expressing Yourself in the Language of Flowers
☑️ 1994: Walk Two Moons
☑️ 1995: Assassin's Apprentice
☑️ 1996: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
☑️ 1997: Texas Destiny
☑️ 1998: A Clash of Kings
☑️ 1999: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
☑️ 2000: The Amber Spyglass
☑️ 2001: Life of Pi
☑️ 2002: Eragon
☑️ 2003: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
☑️ 2004: The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature
☑️ 2005: Dragonflight
☑️ 2006: My Life in France
☑️ 2007: Details of the Hunt
☑️ 2008: Strongman
☑️ 2009: Tender: Volume I: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch
☑️ 2010: The Little Stranger
☑️ 2011: Blown Down
☑️ 2012: Bonds of Earth
☑️ 2013: The Lion and the Crow
☑️ 2014: Carte Blanche
☑️ 2015: The Nightingale read Feb 2020
☑️ 2016: His Favorite Color Is Blood: Coffin Nails MC
☑️ 2017: The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
☑️ 2018: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
☑️ 2019: Bone China
☑️ 2020: Danger Zone
☑️ 2021: Soul Eater
☑️ 2022: You & Me
✅ 2023: Expert
Chonkster List, idea borrowed from AnnaG with a some modification 🐱🥂Completed Chonks🥂
😸CHONK-A-DONK (501-600)
☑️ 503p Eragon
☑️ 512p The Little Stranger
☑️ 512p The Little Stranger
☑️ 532p Jane Eyre
☑️ 536p The Winter Sea
☑️ 541p The Odyssey
☑️ 544p Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
☑️ 552p The Forgotten Garden
☑️ 560p The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need
☑️ 562p The Distant Hours
☑️ 563p New Moon
☑️ 593p 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
☑️ 594p The Nightingale
☑️ 596p Over and Over Again
😻HE CHONK (601-700 pages)
☑️ 608p Solitary Witch: The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation
☑️ 618p Tender: Volume I: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch
☑️ 629p Eclipse
☑️ 654p Moby-Dick or, the Whale
😽HEFTYCHONK (701-800 pages)
☑️ 704p Eldest
☑️ 734p Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
☑️ 736p Angels & Demons
☑️ 756p Breaking Dawn
☑️ 835p A Game of Thrones
😼MEGACHONKER (801-900)
☑️ 870p Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
😹OH LAWD HE COMIN' (901-1000)
☑️ 936p Shantaram
☑️ 1,001p A Clash of Kings
🙀CHONK-QUAKE (1100+ Pages)
Duology/Trilogy/Series I'm working through or plan to read
( Core volumes only as they are my main focus )
Part 1: Duologies (2 books)
⚜️The Fairmile Series: 0/2 - Philippa Gregory
⚪️ Tidelands
⚪️ Dark Tides: A Novel
⚜️ Off the Field Duet: 0/2 - Kimberly Knight & Rachel Lyne Adams
☑️ Traded
⚪️ Outed
⚜️ A Thousand Nights: 0/2 - E.K. Johnston
⚪️ A Thousand Nights
⚪️ Spindle
⚜️ Seasons of the Storm: 0/2 - Elle Cosimano
⚪️ Seasons of the Storm
⚪️ Seasons of Chaos
⚜️ The Burning Chambers: 0/2 - Kate Mosse
⚪️ The Burning Chambers
⚪️ The City of Tears
⚜️ The Golem and the Jinni: 0/2 - Helene Wecker
⚪️ The Golem and the Jinni
⚪️ The Iron Season
⚜️ Crescent City: 0/2 - Sarah J. Maas
⚪️ House of Earth and Blood
⚪️ Untitled
📌 = tbr, not yet released
⚪️ = tbr, released
☑️ = read pre-2023
✅ = read in 2023 (counts toward challenge completion)
⚠️ = DNF
☠️ = part of main series but not reading it // series DNF
Duology/Trilogy/Series I'm working through or plan to read
( Core volumes only as they are my main focus )
Part 2: Trilogies/Series (3 books)
⚜️Sinful Wallflowers Series: 0/3 - Stacy Reid
✅ My Darling Duke
⚪️ Her Wicked Marquess
⚪️ A Scoundrel of Her Own
⚜️ Kingsbridge Trilogy: 0/3 - Ken Follett
⚪️ The Pillars of the Earth
⚪️ World Without End
⚪️ A Column of Fire
⚜️ Century Trilogy: 0/3 - Ken Follett
⚪️ Fall of Giants
⚪️ Winter of the World
⚪️ Edge of Eternity
⚜️ Texas Trilogy: 0/3 - Lorraine Heath
☑️ Texas Destiny
⚪️ Texas Glory
⚪️ Texas Legacy
⚜️ Marie Antoinette Series: 0/3 - Juliet Grey
⚪️ Becoming Marie Antoinette
⚪️ Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow
⚪️ Confessions of Marie Antoinette
⚜️ Magdalene Line Trilogy: 0/3 - Kathleen McGowan
⚪️ The Expected One
⚪️ The Book of Love
⚪️ The Poet Prince
⚜️ The Infernal Devices: 1/4 - Cassandra Clare
☑️ Clockwork Angel
⚪️ Clockwork Prince
⚪️ Clockwork Princess
⚪️ After the Bridge
⚜️ The Dark Artifices: 0/3 - Cassandra Clare
⚪️ Lady Midnight
⚪️ Lord of Shadows
⚪️ Queen of Air and Darkness
⚜️ The Last Hours: 0/3 - Cassandra Clare
⚪️ Chain of Gold
⚪️ Chain of Iron
⚪️ Chain of Thorns
⚜️ The Eldest Curses: 0/3 - Cassandra Clare
⚪️ The Red Scrolls of Magic
⚪️ The Lost Book of the White
⚪️ The Black Volume of the Dead
⚜️Three Parts: The Gulag Archipelago: 0/3 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
⚪️ The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
⚪️ The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 2
⚪️ The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 3
⚜️ The Lost Queen: 0/3 - Signe Pike
⚪️ The Lost Queen
⚪️ The Forgotten Kingdom
⚪️ #3 Untitled
⚜️ All Souls Trilogy: 0/3 - Deborah Harkness
⚪️ A Discovery of Witches
⚪️ Shadow of Night
⚪️ The Book of Life
⚜️ Pharmako: 0/3 - Dale Pendell
⚪️ Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
⚪️ Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, & Herbcraft
⚪️ Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
⚜️ Ash Princess: 0/3 - Laura Sebastian
⚪️ Ash Princess
⚪️ Lady Smoke
⚪️ Ember Queen
⚜️ Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: 0/3 - Sharon Kay Penman
⚪️ When Christ and His Saints Slept
⚪️ Time and Chance
⚪️ Devil's Brood
⚜️ Languedoc: 0/3 - Kate Mosse
⚪️ Labyrinth
⚪️ Sepulchre
⚪️ Citadel
⚜️ Cursebreakers: 0/3 - Brigid Kemmerer
⚪️ A Curse So Dark and Lonely
⚪️ A Heart So Fierce and Broken
⚪️ A Vow So Bold and Deadly
⚜️ Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure Series: 0/3 - James L. Haley
⚪️ The Shores of Tripoli
⚪️ A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
⚪️ The Devil in Paradise: Captain Putnam in Hawaii
⚜️ The Bone Witch: 0/3 - Rin Chupeco
⚪️ The Bone Witch
⚪️ The Heart Forger
⚪️ The Shadowglass
⚜️ Frat Wars: 3/3 - Saxon James
☑️ Frat Wars: King of Thieves
☑️ Frat Wars: Master of Mayhem
✅ Frat Wars: Presidential Chaos
⚜️ Dragonriders of Pern: 3/3 - Anne McCaffrey
☑️ Dragonflight
☑️ Dragonquest
☑️ The White Dragon
📌 = tbr, not yet released
⚪️ = tbr, released
☑️ = read pre-2023
✅ = read in 2023 (counts toward challenge completion)
⚠️ = DNF
☠️ = part of main series but not reading it // series DNF
Duology/Trilogy/Series I'm working through or plan to read
(Core volumes only as they are my main focus )
Part 3: Avg Length Series (4-10 books)
⚜️ Down Home Series: 4/5 - Parker St. John
☑️ Down Low
☑️ Down and Dirty
☑️ Down and Out
✅ Down in Flames
📌 Throw Down: Briar & Derek
⚜️ The Bureau Series: 3/10 - Kim Fielding
⚪️ Corruption
⚪️ Clay White
☑️ Creature
☑️ Chained
⚪️ Convicted
☑️ Conned
⚪️ Caroled
⚪️ Camouflaged
⚪️ Caught
⚪️ Chambered
⚜️ Jock Row: 5/8 - Sara Ney
☑️ Switch Hitter
☑️ Jock Row
☑️ Jock Rule
☑️ Switch Bidder
☑️ Jock Road
⚪️ Jock Royal
⚪️ Jock Reign
⚪️ Jock Romeo
⚜️ The Wrong Alpha Series: 4/5 - Alessandra Hazard
☑️ Unnatural
☑️ Feral
☑️ Illicit
✅ Expert
📌 Forbidden
⚜️ Green Creek Series: 2/5 - T.J. Klune
☑️ Wolfsong
☑️ Ravensong
⚪️ Heartsong
⚪️ Brothersong
⚜️ Calluvia's Royalty Series: 2/5 - Alessandra Hazard
⚪️ That Alien Feeling
⚪️ That Irresistible Poison
☑️ Once Upon a Time
☑️ Prince's Master
⚪️ Dearly Despised
⚜️ The Dune Chronicles: 0/7 - Frank Herbert
⚪️ Dune
⚪️ Dune Messiah
⚪️ Children of Dune
⚪️ God Emperor of Dune
⚪️ Heretics of Dune
⚪️ Hunters of Dune
⚪️ Sandworms of Dune
⚜️ The Great Library: 2/5 - Rachel Caine
☑️ Ink and Bone
☑️ Paper and Fire
⚪️ Ash and Quill
⚪️ Smoke and Iron
⚪️ Sword and Pen
⚜️ Harry Potter: 5/7 - J.K. Rowling
☑️ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
☑️ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
☑️ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
☑️ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
☑️ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
⚪️ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
⚪️ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
⚜️ The Mortal Instruments: 1/6 - Cassandra Clare
☑️ City of Bones
⚪️ City of Ashes
⚪️ City of Glass
⚪️ City of Fallen Angels
⚪️ City of Lost Souls
⚪️ City of Heavenly Fire
⚜️ An Ember in the Ashes: 2/4 - Sabaa Tahir
☑️ An Ember in the Ashes
☑️ A Torch Against the Night
⚪️ A Reaper at the Gates
⚪️ A Sky Beyond the Storm
⚜️ The Mists of Avalon: 0/7 - Marion Zimmer Bradley
⚪️ The Mists of Avalon
⚪️ The Forest House
⚪️ Lady of Avalon
⚪️ Priestess of Avalon
⚪️ Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
⚪️ Ravens of Avalon
⚪️ Sword of Avalon
⚜️ The Bronze Horseman: 0/5 - Paullina Simons
⚪️ Children of Liberty
⚪️ Bellagrand
⚪️ The Bronze Horseman
⚪️ Tatiana and Alexander
⚪️ The Summer Garden
⚜️ Earth's Children: 0/6 - Jean M. Auel
⚪️ The Clan of the Cave Bear
⚪️ The Valley of Horses
⚪️ The Mammoth Hunters
⚪️ The Plains of Passage
⚪️ The Shelters of Stone
⚪️ The Land of Painted Caves
⚜️ The Cemetery of Forgotten Books: 0/4 - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
⚪️ The Shadow of the Wind
⚪️ The Angel's Game
⚪️ The Prisoner of Heaven
⚪️ The Labyrinth of the Spirits
⚜️ A Song of Ice and Fire: 2/7 - George R.R. Martin
☑️ A Game of Thrones
☑️ A Clash of Kings
⚪️ A Storm of Swords
⚪️ A Feast for Crows
⚪️ A Dance with Dragons
⚪️ The Winds of Winter
⚪️ A Dream of Spring
📌 = tbr, not yet released
⚪️ = tbr, released
☑️ = read pre-2023
✅ = read in 2023 (counts toward challenge completion)
⚠️ = DNF
☠️ = part of main series but not reading it // series DNF
Duology/Trilogy/Series I'm working through or plan to read
( Core volumes only as they are my main focus )
Part 4: Long Series (10+ books)
⚜️ Straight Guys Series : 10/14
☑️ Straight Boy
☑️ Just a Bit Twisted
☑️ Just a Bit Obsessed
☑️ Just a Bit Unhealthy
☑️ Just a Bit Wrong
☑️ Just a Bit Confusing
☑️ Just a Bit Ruthless
☑️ Just a Bit Wicked
☑️ Just a Bit Shameless
☑️ Just a Bit Gay
☑️ Just a Bit Dirty
☑️ Just a Bit Wrecked
☑️ Just a Bit Bossy
☑️ Just a Bit Heartless
📌 Just a Bit Captivated
⚜️ The Stormlight Archive: 0/9
⚪️ Book 1, Part 1 The Way of Kings, Part 1
⚪️ Book 1, Part 2 The Way of Kings, Part 2
⚪️ Book 2, Part 1 Words of Radiance, Part 1
⚪️ Book 2, Part 2 Words of Radiance, Part 2
⚪️ Oathbringer
⚪️ Rhythm of War
⚪️ Book 5 (coming 2024)
⚪️ Book 6 (coming 2028)
⚪️ Books 7 - 10 (no release date)
⚜️ Outlander: 0/10 - Diana Gabaldon
⚪️ Outlander
⚪️ Dragonfly in Amber
⚪️ Voyager
⚪️ Drums of Autumn
⚪️ The Fiery Cross
⚪️ A Breath of Snow and Ashes
⚪️ An Echo in the Bone
⚪️ The Space Between
⚪️ Written in My Own Heart's Blood
⚪️ Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
⚜️ The Foxfire Books: 0/12 - Eliot Wigginton
⚪️ The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing
⚪️ Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living
⚪️ Foxfire 3
⚪️ Foxfire 4
⚪️ Foxfire 5
⚪️ Foxfire 6
⚪️ Foxfire 7
⚪️ Foxfire 8
⚪️ Foxfire 9
⚪️ Foxfire 10
⚪️ Foxfire 11
⚪️ Foxfire 12
⚜️ The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels: 0/15 - Philippa Gregory
⚪️ The Lady of the Rivers
⚪️ The White Queen
⚪️ The Red Queen
⚪️ The Kingmaker's Daughter
⚪️ The White Princess
⚪️ The Constant Princess
⚪️ The King's Curse
⚪️ Three Sisters, Three Queens
⚪️ The Other Boleyn Girl
⚪️ The Boleyn Inheritance
⚪️ The Taming of the Queen
⚪️ The Queen's Fool
⚪️ The Virgin's Lover
⚪️ The Last Tudor
⚪️ The Other Queen
⚜️ Throne of Glass: 0/12 - Sarah J. Maas
⚪️ The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
⚪️ The Assassin and the Healer
⚪️ The Assassin and the Desert
⚪️ The Assassin and the Underworld
⚪️ The Assassin and the Empire
⚪️ Throne of Glass
⚪️ Crown of Midnight
⚪️ Heir of Fire
⚪️ Queen of Shadows
⚪️ Empire of Storms
⚪️ Tower of Dawn
⚪️ Kingdom of Ash
⚜️ Realm of the Elderling: 0/16 - Robin Hobb
☑️ Assassin's Apprentice
⚪️ Royal Assassin
⚪️ Assassin's Quest
⚪️ Ship of Magic
⚪️ The Mad Ship
⚪️ Ship of Destiny
⚪️ Fool's Errand
⚪️ Golden Fool
⚪️ Fool's Fate
⚪️ The Dragon Keeper
⚪️ Dragon Haven
⚪️ City of Dragons
⚪️ Blood of Dragons
⚪️ Fool's Assassin
⚪️ Fool's Quest
⚪️ Assassin's Fate
⚜️ Dark-Hunter Series: 0/28 - Sherrilyn Kenyon
⚪️ Night Pleasures
⚪️ Night Embrace
⚪️ Dance with the Devil
⚪️ Kiss of the Night
⚪️ Night Play
⚪️ Seize the Night
⚪️ Sins of the Night
⚪️ Unleash the Night
⚪️ Dark Side of the Moon
⚪️ The Dream-Hunter
⚪️ Devil May Cry
⚪️ Upon the Midnight Clear
⚪️ Dream Chaser
⚪️ Acheron
⚪️ One Silent Night
⚪️ Dream Warrior
⚪️ Bad Moon Rising
⚪️ No Mercy
⚪️ Retribution
⚪️ The Guardian
⚪️ Time Untime
⚪️ Styxx
⚪️ Son of No One
⚪️ Dragonbane
⚪️ Dragonmark
⚪️ Dragonsworn
⚪️ Stygian
⚪️ Shadows Within
📌 = tbr, not yet released
⚪️ = tbr, released
☑️ = read pre-2023
✅ = read in 2023 (counts toward challenge completion)
⚠️ = DNF
☠️ = part of main series but not reading it // series DNF
Series Completed or DNFd
COMPLETE:
⚜️ How to Date a Douchebag: ✨complete✨ - Sara Ney
☑️ The Studying Hours
☑️ The Failing Hours
☑️ The Learning Hours
☑️ The Lying Hours
☠️SERIES DNF'd☠️:
⚜️ Monstrous: 8/9 -- Series DNF ☠️
☑️ Soul Eater
☑️ Edin
☑️ The Rycke
☑️ (3.5) Wyn
☑️ Gloam
☑️ Moth
✅ Seraph 💫
⚠️ Lor 💫
☠️
⚜️ Sons of the Fallen Series: 4/7 - Jaclyn Osborn
☑️ Galen
☑️ Daman
☑️ Gray
☑️ Raiden
⚜️ Kingfountain - Jeff Wheeler
📌 = tbr, not yet released
⚪️ = tbr, released
☑️ = read pre-2023
✅ = read in 2023 (counts toward challenge completion)
⚠️ = DNF
☠️ = part of main series but not reading it // series DNF
Gardening // Garden Related Books Goal: 12 books, roughly 1/month
Progress: 2/12
JANUARY:
FEBRUARY:
MARCH: 2
The Gardens of Bunny Mellon
An Affair with a House
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
COVERS
Link to 2023 Around The Country in 50 Books (MM/MMM/MMF Challenge)My Active Post
Progress: 5/52
STATES
⚪️ Alabama
⚪️ Alaska
⚪️ Arizona
⚪️ Arkansas
⚪️ California
✅ Colorado - In Bear Country by Kiernan Kelly
⚪️ Connecticut
⚪️ Delaware
✅ Florida The Contract by Claire Thompson
⚪️ Georgia
⚪️ Hawaii
⚪️ Idaho
⚪️ Illinois
⚪️ Indiana
⚪️ Iowa
⚪️ Kansas
⚪️ Kentucky
⚪️ Louisiana
⚪️ Maine
⚪️ Maryland
⚪️ Massachusetts
⚪️ Michigan
⚪️ Minnesota
⚪️ Mississippi
⚪️ Missouri
⚪️ Montana
⚪️ Nebraska
⚪️ Nevada
⚪️ New Hampshire
⚪️ New Jersey
⚪️ New Mexico
✅ New York - Cabin Fever by Roe Horvat
⚪️ North Carolina
⚪️ North Dakota
⚪️ Ohio
⚪️ Oklahoma
⚪️ Oregon
⚪️ Pennsylvania
⚪️ Rhode Island
⚪️ South Carolina
⚪️ South Dakota
⚪️ Tennessee
✅ Texas - Heart Thief by Claire Thompson
⚪️ Utah
⚪️ Vermont
⚪️ Virginia
✅ Washington - A Very Mountain Man Valentine's Day by Shaw Hart
⚪️ West Virginia
⚪️ Wisconsin
⚪️ Wyoming
Bonus points if you read books set in:
⚪️ Puerto Rico
⚪️ Washington D.C.
2023 Re-reads:Windbrothers Series
Where Flows the Water
Windbrothers Desert
As it Should Be
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2025 Reading Challenge
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2023 CHALLENGES: TABLE OF CONTENTS // PROGRESS TRACKER
Annual Length Challenges
❇️ Jenna's 2023 ATY 52 Challenge : 14/52
❇️ Serial Reader 2023 Yearly Challenge: 11/30
❇️ Tarot Major Arcana Challenge (ATY + ) : 9/22
❇️ Lets-Spell-It-Out (MM) : 46/211
❇️ 2023 Around The Country in 50 Books MM Challenge: 6/52
🌟 2023 Garden Related Reads: 2/12
Description: personal goal of reading one book each month in 2023 related to gardening
BiAnnual Challenges
❇️ MM TBR, in two parts: 11/52
MM TBR Knockout Part 1 (January 4, 2023– June 28, 2023)
Personal Challenges:
🌟 Lifetime Challenge (Created by me😁): 35/38
Description: reading a book published every year since I've been born, including my birth year (1985). I'll likely take a few years to tick these off but thought I'd start tracking them here Started in 2020, this has been fun!
General Trackers: (no defined goals)
🌟 "Chonkers" Tracker - tracking completed chunky reads >500 pages (multi year, cumulative - started 2020)
🌟 Series Completion Tracker - tracking series I'm reading or interested in (multi year, cumulative - started 2020)
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2023 Reads, cumulative list, chronological (except DNF) and challenges they count for:
- ATY 52
- Serial Reader
- Tarot Major Arcana
- MM Lets Spell it Out
- MM Around The Country in 50 Books
- Garden Reads
- MM TBR Knockout
- Lifetime
✅ Catch and Release
- ATY 52 Challenge ✔️
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
✅ The Good Liar
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Initiation
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ An Affair with a House
- ATY 52 ✔️
- Garden Reads ✔️
✅ Manbot
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Heart Thief
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM Around The Country in 50 Books ✔️
✅ Thrown Off the Ice
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
✅ Never Have I Ever: Had a Bromance with a Teammate
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Renegade Love
✅ Evolved**
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Budding Attraction
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ In Bear Country
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM Around The Country in 50 Books ✔️
✅ The Contract
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM Around The Country in 50 Books ✔️
✅ Season's Change
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
✅ The Gardens of Bunny Mellon
- ATY 52 ✔️
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
- Garden Reads ✔️
✅ Cabin Fever
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM Around The Country in 50 Books ✔️
✅ As it Should Be
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Down in Flames
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ The Lady of the Rivers
- ATY 52 ✔️
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Windbrothers Desert*
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
✅ The Alien Bodyguard
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
✅ Alpha Heat
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
✅ The Indigo Girl
- ATY 52 ✔️
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
✅ The Long Game
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Where Flows the Water*
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Heat Play Love
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
✅ Iced Out
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Be Mine, Twisted Valentine
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Changing the Rules
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Business Is Personal: The Truth about What It Takes to Be Successful While Staying True to Yourself
- ATY 52 ✔️
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
✅ Strictly Curious
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Rules of Engagement
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Breaking the Rules
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Brazen Affairs
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Salvation
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Rocky Start
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Presidential Chaos
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Expert
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Lifetime Challenge ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ The Real Diana
- ATY 52 ✔️
✅ D!ckhead
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ The Alpha Contract
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Wood
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Rayne
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Bishop
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting
- ATY 52 ✔️
✅ Feral Woods
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Guarded
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ The Rest of the Story
- ATY 52 ✔️
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Seraph
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ A Boy for the Tentacle Monster
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Unnatural Selection
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
✅ JoAyyn
✅ Heat for Hire
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
✅ The Wolf at the Door
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
✅ My Darling Duke
- Tarot Major Arcana Challenge ✔️
- Serial Reader ✔️
- ATY 52 ✔️
✅ Meghan and Harry: The Real Story
- ATY 52 ✔️
✅ Primal
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
- MM TBR Knockout ✔️
✅ Dibs
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ The Station
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ The Alien's Runaway Omega
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ Wed to the Omega
- MM Lets Spell it Out ✔️
✅ A Very Mountain Man Valentine's Day
DNF 2023:
Lor ★
- Serial Reader ✔️
Sub for Hire ★ ★
How to Train Your Alpha ★ ★
* Re-Read
** 4-stars for Audible read, but 5-stars for the story (see review)
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Tracking what I actually read in This Year (2023) HERE
2023 on Goodreads