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Q4 - Fall into Books: Autumn Reading Party
Hola, lovely people! 🙋🏻♀️
With the arrival of the cold, the rain, the sofa and the blanket, the autumn parties also arrive. Festivals, fairs and parties of all kinds are celebrated around the world.
The days are getting shorter, the leaves show off their stunning new colors, and the unmistakable flavor of seasonal fruits and vegetables is everywhere. Fall is here, and it's certainly something we need to celebrate with the perfect fall party idea.
A fall party brings together the beautiful vignettes of the season with its characteristic sweet and spicy aromas. Whether you are planning a very special celebration, your passion for leaves and nature, or a night of crime and mystery, these fall party ideas include foods, decorations, landscapes, festivities, cozy atmospheres, customs, nature, and traditions that will make you fall in love with your books.
There is no shortage of ways to make your fall party the most memorable one. Throw on a sweater and snuggle up to read with these festive fall party theme ideas.
Please, let me know how many books you'll be reading and WELCOME TO THE PARTY!!!
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“For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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📋GUEST LIST
Allie (# 23) - 0/10
🧡Amy (# 39) -
🧡Amy (Other Amy) (# 6) -
🧡Anna (# 38) -
🧡Ashly (# 59) -
AurorainBookland (# 34) - 0/4
🧡BarbaraBrubru (# 19) -
🧡Brianna Raquel (# 22) -
🧡Caraina (# 8) -
🧡Carmen (# 3) -
🧡Carrie (# 24) -
🧡Chrissie (# 12) -
🧡Ciara (# 15) - 44/25
🧡Debra Diggs (# 10) -
🧡Denise (# 11) -
🧡Gail W (# 7) -
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) (# 33) - 0/5
🧡Jaida (# 9) -
🧡Janine (# 29) -
🧡JennH (# 17) -
🧡Jordan (# 68) -
Kalyn (# 30) - 0/5
🧡Karin (# 5) -
🧡Laurie (# 47) -
Lisa Marie (# 85) - 0/5
Lucy (# 32) - 0/15
Patricia (# 21) - 0/5
🧡Qeen Eternity (# 20) -
🧡Rachael (# 4) -
Regina (# 14) - 0/12
Sahira (# 35) - 0/3
Sarah (# 27) - 0/12
🧡Shari (# 28) -
🧡Sophia (# 51) -
Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ (# 36) - 0/30
🧡TerryJane (# 16) -
🧡Ursula (# 13) -
🎉PARTYGOERS
Amy (Other Amy) (# 6) - 8/14
Caraina (# 8) - 5/24
Chrissie (# 12) - 8/10
JennH (# 17) - 7/10
Qeen Eternity (# 20) - 4/12
🥳BELLS OF THE BALL
Amy (# 39) - 20/10 Completed!
Anna (# 38) - 6/6 Completed!
Ashly (# 59) - 6/6 Completed!
BarbaraBrubru (# 19) - 7/7 Completed!
Brianna Raquel (# 22) - 12/12 Completed!
Carmen (# 3) - 70/50 Completed!
Carrie (# 24) - 12/12 Completed!
Ciara (# 15) - 44/25 Completed!
Debra Diggs (# 10) - 6/5 Completed!
Denise (# 11) - 12/12 Completed!
Gail W (# 7) - 8/8 Completed!
Jaida (# 9) - 29/9 Completed!
Janine (# 29) - 19/15 Completed!
Jordan (# 68) - 2/2 Completed!
Karin (# 5) - 5/5 Completed!
Laurie (# 47) - 10/10 Completed!
Rachael (# 4) - 6/5 Completed!
Sarah (# 27) - 12/12 Completed!
Shari (# 28) - 20/20 Completed!
Sophia (# 51) - 6/6 Completed!
TerryJane (# 16) - 57/30 Completed!
Ursula (# 13) - 5/5 Completed!
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STATS
Participants: 37
Books Read: 406
Book Goal: 436
Completed: 22
Updated on January 8, 2025 .
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Nubosidad variable✔️
El camino✔️
Ember✔️
Autumn in the Vineyard✔️
Entwined✔️
Cider With Rosie✔️
Quicksand✔️
Redención✔️
Shadowdance✔️
Piel✔️
Los destiladores de naranja✔️
Púa✔️
Where the Wind Blows✔️
La familia Medeiros✔️
Cincuenta cincuenta✔️
A Fall of Marigolds✔️
Cuanta más gente se muere, más ganas de vivir tengo✔️
What I Love About You✔️
A Peach of a Murder✔️
Babel✔️
Sovereign✔️
Circe✔️
While My Pretty One Knits✔️
The Bronze Bow✔️
Assault and Pepper✔️
The Tailor of Panama✔️
La vida de las marionetas✔️
La mansión Starling✔️
Los cazadores de antigüedades: Diario de un asesinato✔️
El abogado del diablo✔️
Nunca estuvimos allí✔️
The Brutal Telling✔️
La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom✔️
Bury Your Dead✔️
The Hangman✔️
The Mercy Chair✔️
October, October✔️
Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life✔️
El beso del infierno✔️
Daughter of the Forest✔️
Sombra y hueso✔️
Twisted Threads✔️
Thanksgiving✔️
Proof✔️
Sin retorno✔️
Chamusquina✔️
Los lobos de Urrun✔️
One Bad Apple✔️
The Plot✔️
Cutie Pies and Deadly Lies✔️
Puzzled to Death✔️
Small Pleasures✔️
Up from the Grave✔️
The Book of Magic✔️
La noche en que Frankenstein leyó el Quijote✔️
Bailén✔️
El despertar de la señorita Prim✔️
La librería perdida✔️
Dentro de casa✔️
Mujercitas✔️
Aquellas mujercitas✔️
La casa del arroyo✔️
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe✔️
The Gift of the Magi✔️
The Bookstore Sisters✔️
The Bookstore Wedding✔️
If the Fates Allow✔️
What Child Is This✔️
The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale✔️
Small Things Like These✔️
Tierra vasca: La casa de Aizgorri / El mayorazgo de Labraz / Zalacaín el aventurero / La leyenda de Jaun de Alzate✔️
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
Please sign me up for 5 books for now. COMPLETED: 6/5 books
It's a Killer Thriller Night
1. The Sentence finished 19 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. We Solve Murders finished 19 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. The Complete Quin And Satterthwaite: Love Detectives finished 3 December, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
4. Stillhouse Lake finished 12 December, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe finished 17 December, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
6. A Study in Silks finished 27 December, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I'll start with a goal of 5 books, but may raise it later.5/5
🍁Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Much of this is set at school plus much out of it is about how the protagonist is doing in school (more than half) After Ever After
🍁Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest. In this book they harvest plants from the sea more than once, along with fish and shellfish. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
🍁It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels. The Penultimate Peril
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
🍁 Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Most of this is set outdoors in 1915. So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
🍁 Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories. Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip is half memoir and the author recounts many memories of family road trips.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
In for seven, and so glad it's this time of year. I'll be reading for Killer Thriller Night and Monster Mash together since that will handle all my mysteries and hauntings and paranormal mysteries nicely. Update: Finished the seven; going for 14.Killer Thriller Monster Mash
Thrillers, mysteries, and books featuring monsters or supernatural elements
FALL INTO BOOKS: AUTUMN READING PARTYDuration: October 1 - December 31, 2024
☀ Completed: 8 / 8 ............... completed
☀ Back to School: The International House of Dereliction
☀ Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest: The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
* Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration:
☀ It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels: The Sequel
☀ Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements: Pet
* Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter:
☀ Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting: Where Wolves Don't Die
* Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness:
* Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover:
☀ Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories: The Excitements
☀ Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings: How to Solve Your Own Murder
☀ Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season: Cherringham - Silent Night, Stolen Night: A Cosy Crime Series
FALL INTO BOOKS: AUTUMN READING PARTYDuration: October 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Completed: 5/24
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels. The Heiress - Rachel Hawkins 10/7/24
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements. Archangel's Storm - Nalini Singh 10/9/24; Burn - Suzanne Wright 10/11/24
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter. Frozen Footprints - Therese Heckenkamp 10/12/24
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting. A Superior Death - Nevada Barr 10/10/24
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
hi, sign me up for 9 books (for now)!7/9
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
1. All Girls
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
1. The Priory of the Orange Tree ⭐️
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
1. The Chalk Man ⭐️
2. The Chain ⭐️
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
1. Honor Lost (sci-fi supernatural elements) ⭐️
2. Rule of Wolves ⭐️
3. The Song Rising ⭐️
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
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Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
1. Truly Madly Deeply ⭐️
Sign me up for 5, please.Q4 - Fall into Books: Autumn Reading Party
6/5
✔ Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Dreamwalker by Rhys Bowen
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
✔ Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
Sister Raven by Karen Rae Levine
✔ It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
No Cats Allowed by Miranda James
✔ Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
The Wind: A Starlite Mystery by Ray Fraser and Michele Fraser
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
The Ex Hex
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Into the Forest
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Book of Shadows
✔ Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story by Jeff VanderMeer
✔ Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
Krampus: The Yule Lord
I will one from each prompt, so 12:√Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme: THE TRUANTS BY KATE WEINBERG
√Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest: CONSIDER THE FORK: A HISTORY OF HOW WE COOK AND EAT BY BEE WILSON - mentions fruit and harvesting multiple times
√Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.BROOKLYN BY COLM TOIBIN has Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations
√It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels: THE LOST BOOKSHOP BY EVIE WOODS.- involves a mystery and could also be supernatural
√Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements: MEN WITHOUT WOMEN BY HARUKI MURAKAMI- a few stories had supernatural/magical realism elements.
√Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
THE CHRISTMAS DOGSITTERS BY LUCY MITCHELL
√Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting: UNDER THE MAUI SKY BY KELLIE GILBERT
it is set mostly outside in nature (fields, the beach)
√Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness. THE KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVES BY HISASHI KASHIWAI
√Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover: FRIENDS WITH SECRETS BY CHRISTINE GUNDERSON takes place in fall and has a halloween party
√Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories: DEAR CALIFORNIA: THE GOLDEN STATE IN DIARIES AND LETTERS BY DAVID KIPEN
√Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings. MEG, JO, BETH, AND AMY: A GRAPHIC NOVEL RETELLING BY REY TERCIERO
√Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season: THE LESBIANA’S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL BY SONORA REYES It’s not holiday themed but takes place in the fall winter holidays
October 1 - December 31Progress: 8/10
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
other:
1/12Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
Sign me up for 25, including at least one of each category. I will pretend to have a busy social calendar via books, haha.
🍂 FALL INTO BOOKS: AUTUMN READING PARTY - Quarterly ChallengeDuration: October 1 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 57/30
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
🍂 The Orange Houses
🍂 Restart
🍂 Furia
🍂 Impossible Music
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
🍂 The Castle of Otranto
🍂 The Chalk Man
🍂 None of This Is True
🍂 The Burnt Orange Heresy
🍂 The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories
🍂 Paw and Order
🍂 Memento Mori
🍂 Tell Me What I Am
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
🍂 Love in the Afternoon ghost
🍂 The Last Chance Motel ghost
🍂 The House on the Borderland
🍂 The Shape of Darkness
🍂 Little Eve
🍂 The Historian
🍂 Dandelion Wine
🍂 The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
🍂 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
🍂 The Warm Hands of Ghosts
🍂 The Little Lost Library
🍂 The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
🍂 The Color of Revenge
🍂 Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
🍂 James Mississippi River
🍂 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
🍂 The Measure
🍂 Hunger
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
🍂 The Death of Ivan Ilych
🍂 Chess Story
🍂 Held
🍂 The Kreutzer Sonata
🍂 The Ninth Hour
🍂 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
🍂 Ask Me No Questions
🍂 Mary Barton
🍂 Melania
🍂 The Baker's Secret
🍂 A Little Life
🍂 My Real Name Is Hanna
🍂 The Museum of Ordinary People
🍂 City of Night Birds
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
🍂 Bunner Sisters
🍂 A Cup of Silver Linings
🍂 How To Be Kind: Tales of Inspiration and Lessons in Kindness
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
🍂 Tales of Christmas
🍂 The Wish
🍂 A Quilt for Christmas
🍂 Christmas at Carnton
🍂 The Christmas Tree Farm
🍂 The Immortal Nicholas
🍂 A Cat Café Christmas
🍂 The Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott
🍂 Juniper’s Christmas
🍂 The Christmas Orphans Club
I'd like to go for 10 books.FALL INTO BOOKS: AUTUMN READING PARTY
Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2024
8/10
Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione 10/23/24
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
The Wedding People by Alison Espach 11/27/24
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 10/3/24
Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony 10/7/24
Criminal Crumbs by Jessica Beck 12/28/24
Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo & Dani Pendergast 10/23/24
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston 10/9/24
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Closely Harbored Secrets by Bree Baker 10/6/24
Hi ! I am in for 7 :) COMPLETED7/7
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration. Death of an American Beauty
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels. Voices of the Dead
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting. The Couples Trip
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.The Mirror & the Light
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings. Taste: My Life Through Food
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
I'm in for one of each!4/12
Autumn Reading Party
Crave by Tracy Wolff
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Jade War by Fonda Lee
Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
Completed:
FALL INTO BOOKS: AUTUMN READING PARTYDuration: October 1 - December 31, 2024
12/12
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.🪴
If We Were Villains
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest. 🪴
The Ex Vows
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.🪴
Ella Gets the D
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.🪴
Dark Matter
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements. 🪴
Soul of the Deep
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.🪴
Meet Cute Club
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.🪴
Camp Prodigy
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness. 🪴
Last Chance Books
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover. 🪴
The Fall of Whit Rivera
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.🪴
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings. 🪴
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season. 🪴
The Holly Project
I will read 10Progress 0/10
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season
Put me down for 12 and I will try for one for each category.Progress 12/12 COMPLETE!!!
✔️1) Back to School: Completed 11/20/24
Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
The Center of Everything
✔️2) Orchard Outing: Completed 12/15/24
Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
The Apple Orchard
✔️3) Oktoberfest: Completed 11/9/2024
Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
A Court of Mist and Fury
✔️4) It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Completed 10/20/2024
Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
The Boyfriend
✔️5) Monster Mash: Completed 10/7/24
Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
✔️6) 6)Sweater Weather: Completed 12/28/24
Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Winter Garden
✔️ 7) Woodland Wander: Completed 11/30/24
Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
The Midnight Feast
✔️ 8) Enjoy the Golden Season: Completed 12/26/24
Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Weyward
✔️9) Fall Foliage: Completed 10/24/24
Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
The Mountains Sing
✔️10) Remembrance Day: Completed 10/5/24
Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
✔️11) Happy Thanksgiving: Completed 12/31/24
Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Come Sundown
✔️12) Days Until Christmas: Completed 12/12/24
Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
Wreck the Halls
Welcome, everybody!!! 🤗“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus
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Denise wrote: "Update to msg. #11: 1/12"Sorry, Denise, but the challenge doesn't start until tomorrow. You finished the book before the starting date so we cannot count it as read for the challenge.
Don't forget: Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2024
Sign me up for 12 books12/12-COMPLETED
✅Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Speak (5/12/24)
It's a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
✅Blink (4/12/24)
✅Tears Of Rage (1/12/24)
✅Last Exit to Brooklyn (4/11/24)
✅Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway (24/11/24)
✅The Window (3/10/24)
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
✅On Fire: A Teen Wolf Novel (3/12/24)
✅Moving In (22/11/24)
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
✅A Tale of Two Cities (4/12/24)
✅Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (3/12/24)
✅Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey (6/11/24)
✅The Queen (1/10/24)
I will join for 20 books.FALL INTO BOOKS: AUTUMN READING PARTY
Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 20 / 20 - COMPLETED
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
The Underground Library
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
Sugar Plums for Dry Creek
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Worst Case Scenario
The Housemaid Is Watching
The Murder Inn
One Perfect Couple
Lies He Told Me
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
The Heart of Christmas
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Sugar Birds
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
The Little Liar
The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight
The Light After the War
The British Booksellers
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
After Annie
The Phoenix Crown
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
The Paradise Problem
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
Spirit of the Season
An Amish Cookie Club Christmas
Please sign me up for 15 books. I reckon I'll mostly focus on Back to School, Killer Thriller and Monster Mash but we'll see what happens!Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
An Academy for Liars
Blood Over Bright Haven
Rani Choudhury Must Die
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
The Murder on the Links
Lie or Die
Death at Morning House
Lord Edgware Dies
Three Act Tragedy
The Invocations
Voyage of the Damned
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Mina and the Undead
The Light That Blinds Us
The Burning Maze
The Lost Story
Five Broken Blades
When Among Crows
Here to Slay
Sign me up for 5 please!Progress: 0/5
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
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It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
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Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
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Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
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Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
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Sarah, Shari, Janine, and Kalyn: WELCOME!! 🤗“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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Love this! I'll start with 5 and see how it goes.FALL INTO BOOKS: AUTUMN READING PARTY
Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2024
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
I'd like to join. Sign me up for 4 books please.
Hello! I'm in for 3 books. 0/3 books completed
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
I want to join this challenge. I plan to read at least 30 books. I will come back later with my reading plans.
Lucy, Teresa, Aurora, Sahira, and Stormie: Welcome to the party!!! 🤗🍂🍁🧡🍂🍁🧡🍂🍁🧡🍂🍁🧡🍂🍁🧡🍂🍁🧡🍂🍁🧡🍂🍁🧡
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California
I will sign up for 6 at this time and see how it goes.
I will attempt 10!20/10-- Challenge Complete!
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night:
1. Killer Kung Pao
2. Deal Gone Dead
3. A Murder on Wall Street
4. Find Me
5. Her Last Summer
6. The Boy
Monster Mash:
1. The Fifth Victim
2. The Thrill of the Haunt
3. Inspector Specter
4. Sprinkles and Sea Serpents
5. Ghost in the Wind
6. It's A Wonderful Midlife Crisis
7. Whose Midlife Crisis Is It Anyway?
8. A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis
9. My Midlife Crisis, My Rules
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander::
1. Upstream: Selected Essays
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories:
1. Making Payments: An American Indian, the Vietnam War, Laos, and the Hmong
2. The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
Happy Thanksgiving::
1. One Story, One Song
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season:
1. The Naughty, The Nice and The Nanny
Anna and Amy, welcome to the party! 🤗“the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light”
― Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
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Amy wrote: "Updated message 39-- 1/10"👍
Carmen wrote: "Denise wrote: "Update to msg. #11: 1/12"Sorry, Denise, but the challenge doesn't start until tomorrow. You finished the book before the starting date so we cannot count it as read for the challen..."
DOH! (slaps self on side of head): I guess I was focused on when the challenge UNLOCKED not when it STARTED. I changed it
10/10 Completed!Back to School:
Orchard Outing:
Oktoberfest:
It’s a Killer Thriller Night:
Monster Mash:
Sweater Weather:
Fall Foliage:
Remembrance Day:
Happy Thanksgiving:
Days Until Christmas:
Welcome, Laurie!🤗Amy, you're on a roll! 👍
Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.
― Ernest Dowson, The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson
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2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Come Sundown (other topics)Blessings (other topics)
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (other topics)
The Bog Wife (other topics)
How We Named the Stars (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Jessica Beck (other topics)Alison Espach (other topics)
M.L. Rio (other topics)
Karen Rae Levine (other topics)
Dani Pendergast (other topics)
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Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2024
As we dive into the cozy season of autumn, let's celebrate with a reading challenge inspired by various festive themes. Fall into fun by reading books related to any or all of these party themes. Let your imagination guide you—be inspired by the cover art, title, setting, or plot!
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
To join, post a message telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, you can learn more about how they work in this thread.
Thanks to Carmen for creating this challenge and agreeing to lead it!