2025 Reading Challenge discussion

EASY AS 1-2-3
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2024

For this open challenge, read books with numbers in the title. You may read books with cardinal or ordinal numbers, fractions, dates, or times, either as numerals or spelled out. You may also use multiplicative numbers such as once or twice, or group numbers like dozen or score.

Examples:




To join, post a message below letting the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read for this challenge.

Many thanks to Rachael for sharing her idea and for agreeing to lead this challenge.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Once I caught a book alive...

Welcome to this challenge inspired by March's theme: Numbers!

PARTICIPANTS
Updated up to message 98

Signed Up (9)
Ana (#30) 0/2
Ashley (#46) 0/4
Beth (#25) 0/5
Erin (#23) 0/7
Jana (#18) 0/6
Kalyn (#34) 0/3
Kristina (#10) 0/5
Marissa (#33) 0/3
Suzanne (#36) 0/5

In Progress (9)
Andrea (#9) 1/3
Catsalive (#4) 1/2
Debbie (#5) 1/3
Dr (#24) 2/10
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) (#40) 2/3
Jenn (#56) 3/5
Regina (#8) 7/8
Shari (#20) 1/6
That Girl Amnesia (Thalia) (#26) 1/4

Completed (20)
Amy (#37) 4/3
Ashly (#39) 1/1
Blu's World (#35) 3/3
✨ Brianna Raquel ✨ (#27) 6/5
Carmen (#11) 23/20
Carri Carey (#21) 8/8
Ciara (#17) 5/5
D.L. (#32) 5/5
Janine (#12) 7/6
JennH (#7) 5/5
Karin (#19) 1/1
Kendra (#6) 8/8
Laurie (#38) 3/3
Lina (#29) 2/2
Patricia (#22) 1/1
Rachael (#3) 5/5
Sarah (#16) 5/5
SarahKat (#15) 6/6
Sheila (#14) 15/8
TerryJane (#31) 8/6

Total number of participants: 38
Total number of books pledged: 190
Total number of books completed: 141 (74.21%)

When posting your progress, please include your original message number plus your current progress e.g. message 12 updated: 1/3 completed.
If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don’t delete your original sign-up post. Just update and let me know

I will be reading five books for this challenge.


COMPLETED: 5/5

1. Five Survive finished 2 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. The Two Noble Kinsmen finished 3 March, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. The Hundredth Queen finished 8 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. A Second Daniel finished 12 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Three Kisses, One Midnight finished 15 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review

Hmm! Maybe 2 to start.

EASY AS 1-2-3
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2024
1/2

1. Lord Freddie's First Love by Patricia Bray 8/3 3★

For this open challenge, read books with numbers in the title. You may read books with cardinal or ordinal numbers, fractions, dates, or times, either as numerals or spelled out. You may also use multiplicative numbers such as once or twice, or group numbers like dozen or score.

My goal is 3
0/3
In progress 1
The Family-First Entrepreneur: How to Achieve Financial Freedom Without Sacrificing What Matters Most
Ninth House
1st to Die

I'll go for this -- aiming for 8!
DONE~

📚 Progress: 8 / 8



✏️ TBR possibilities:
Forty Words for Love
One Great Lie
Zone One
A Thousand Ships
The Other Side of Infinity
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

EASY AS 1-2-3
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2024

I'll go for 5.

5/5

1 Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns 3/2/24
2 15th Affair by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 3/3/24
3 Heartstopper: Volume Five by Alice Oseman 3/3/24
4 The One by Kiera Cass 3/27/24
5 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie 3/31/24

7/8
📚 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
📚Around the World in Eighty Days
📚Five Little Pigs
📚 The Clock Strikes Twelve
📚 The Seven Dials Mystery
📚 I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
📚Two-Way Murder

I will pledge 3 for this challenge!

#1 Ninth House (finished 3/9) ★★★★✩

#2 Me Talk Pretty One Day

#3 Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

EASY AS 1-2-3
Message #
Progress: 0/5

Sign me up for 5!

1. Zone One by Colson Whitehead
2. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
3. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel James Brown
4. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
5. Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson

Hola!
Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 23/20





One Plus One✔️
4321✔️
Two Little Girls in Blue✔️
The Book of Three✔️
Ten Women✔️
Under One Roof✔️
Below Zero✔️
The Four Winds✔️
13✔️
The Forty Rules of Love✔️
Eighteen Below✔️
The Fourth Victim✔️
Five Knives✔️
The Ninth Grave✔️
Six of Crows✔️
Fearless Fourteen✔️
El quinto mandamiento✔️
The Seven Year Slip✔️
Eight Perfect Hours✔️
Twelve Red Herrings✔️
Station Eleven✔️
La Pieza 25: Operación Salvar a la Infanta✔️
El Cuarto Arcano I✔️

Please sign me up for 6.

Welcome everyone! Updated to here

Sheila from NC signing on. I’ll try for 8, although it seems I sometimes have a hard time finding numbers in the title. I’ll look forward to see what everyone else is reading.

I will sign up for 6 please!

6/6

9️⃣Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
9️⃣Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
6️⃣The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
1️⃣One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1️⃣One False Move
1️⃣The Once and Future King

Sign me up for 5 books

5/5-COMPLETED

✅1. One Odd Day (21/3/24)
✅2. Two Can Keep a Secret (25/3/24)
✅3. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (24/3/24)
✅4. The Three Little Kittens (24/3/24)
✅5. Two Bad Ants (25/3/24)

I have five books on my TBR that have numbers or number-related words in the title. I hadn't had any of them lined up for March but I can shuffle some things around & do my best.

I'm in for 5!

I'll try for 6.

I have one so far, so am trying for only 1 at the moment--already have a bagful of books for something else. However, it's entirely possible I have more coming from the library or have missed one with "half" in the title. I wish I'd remembered this one before putting all of my books on hold, because I like numbers.

1/1

Once. - I dnf my book with a number in the title but of course this means one time so I hope this is flexible :)

I would like to join with 6 books.

EASY AS 1-2-3
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2024
Progress: 1 / 6

For this open challenge, read books with numbers in the title. You may read books with cardinal or ordinal numbers, fractions, dates, or times, either as numerals or spelled out. You may also use multiplicative numbers such as once or twice, or group numbers like dozen or score.

Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness

Please sign me up for 8!

✅ Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Read 3/1/24
✅ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Read 3/3/24
✅ In Five Years - Read 3/4/24
✅ Fahrenheit 451 - Read 3/6/24
✅ A Thousand Splendid Suns - Read 3/9/24
✅ Dead Eleven - Read 3/12/24
✅ One Life - Read 3/14/24
✅ Nineteen Minutes - Read 3/21/24

Please sign me up for 1 book:)

I am aiming for 7

Please sign me for 10 books

Signing up. Let's start with 5, but I may change. Thanks!

1. One Summer in Savannah by Terah Shelton Harris
2. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin, MD
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5) by Harlan Coben
5. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin Stevenson
6. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sign me up for 4

0/4

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2.
3.
4.

I'm in for 5!

6/5

1. First Love, Take Two 🪴
2. One Day You'll Leave Me 🪴
3. Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun 🪴
4. One of the Good Ones 🪴
5. This One Summer 🪴
6. One of Us Is Dead 🪴

Updated to here! The challenge starts tomorrow (or in a few hours depending where you are in the world!)

Signing up for 2 for now, thanks!

🧮 Easy as 1-2-3 - Monthly Challenge 🧮
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2024

🧮Progress 2/2 🧮 - COMPLETED!

For this open challenge, read books with numbers in the title. You may read books with cardinal or ordinal numbers, fractions, dates, or times, either as numerals or spelled out.

Tracking the books I read for this challenge in my corner

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I would like to try for two books, thanks.

Progress
0/2

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

🔢 EASY AS 1-2-3 - Monthly Challenge
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2024
Progress: 8/6

🔢 Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke
🔢 The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
🔢 14th Deadly Sin
🔢 Zero K
🔢 Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
🔢 Once Gone
🔢 Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis
🔢 Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

COMPLETED: 5/5

✅ 1. Seventh Grade Rumors
✅ 2. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
✅ 3. 16 Ways to Break A Heart
✅ 4. Once Upon a Witch
✅ 5. The 9th Judgment

I'll attempt to read 3!

March: Easy as 1-2-3
Duration: March 1-31, 2024
Progress: 0/3

Hi, sign me up for 3 please!

Progress: 0/3

1. 14 Ways to Die


2. One True Loves


3. Six of Crows

For this challenge, please sign me up for 3 books:



1. Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
2. Nine Lives - Peter Swanson
3. The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Potson

Completed: 0/3

2024 Reading Challenge
March - Easy As 1-2-3
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2024

Progress: 4 out of 4

For this open challenge, read books with numbers in the title. You may read books with cardinal or ordinal numbers, fractions, dates, or times, either as numerals or spelled out. You may also use multiplicative numbers such as once or twice, or group numbers like dozen or score.

1. Lore Olympus: Volume Six by Rachel Smythe - ***** - 5/26/2024 - 432 Pages
2. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton - **** - 6/16/2024 - 505 Pages
3. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - **** - 6/28/2024 - 510 Pages
4. The Very First Damned Thing by Jodi Taylor - ***** - 7/5/2024 - 74 Pages

I will attempt 3
4/3-- Challenge Complete

1. Once Upon A Christmas Carol
2. One of Us is Dead
3. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
4. On Second Thought

March - Easy As 1-2-3

3/3 read - Completed!

✅1. One Life
✅ 2. Two Wars and a Wedding
✅3. Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, Texas Ranger

Sign me up for 1.

1. The Silence of Six, 3/31/2024, 5 stars (Reread)

I'm in for 3!

EASY AS 1-2-3
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2024
2/3

For this open challenge, read books with numbers in the title. You may read books with cardinal or ordinal numbers, fractions, dates, or times, either as numerals or spelled out. You may also use multiplicative numbers such as once or twice, or group numbers like dozen or score.

1. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
Finished 3/23/24
****
Fits: Has the word "One" in the subtitle

2. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
Finished 3/4/24
****
Fits: Has the numbers 80 and 90 in the subtitle

Welcome everyone. So far we have 36 participants and we have pledged to read 181 books between us

Update to message No. 26

1/4

1. One True Loves
2.
3.
4.

Update to message #21 - 3/8 books read!

Update to Message #24 2/10 books read, 8 more to go

1. Seven black diamonds - Completed
2. One blood Ruby -Completed
3. Eleventh Cycle - Currently reading

Update to Message 15: 2/6

9️⃣Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
9️⃣Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

I will try for 4

1/5 complete.

Updated message 37-- 1/3

Update to message 12, 3/6 books.

1. Darker by Four
2. A Million to One
3. Fourth Wing

Update to message #11

PROGRESS: 10/20

One Plus One✔️
4321✔️
Two Little Girls in Blue✔️
The Book of Three✔️
Ten Women✔️
Under One Roof✔️
Below Zero✔️
The Four Winds✔️
13✔️
The Forty Rules of Love✔️