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This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list - published in 2024- Earls Trip - 12/13
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list - Something on the cover that starts with A, T, or Y - Northwoods - trees on cover
- 12/29- Has a mostly white cover - When in French: Love in a Second Language
- 1/31- Is on a Best of 2024 list - Crooked Plow - 12/17
- Is set in the snow - A Christmas Journey = 12/4
- Is by an author you've read before - The Limehouse Text - 12/22
- Features a winter holiday - Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas - 12/3
- Is nonfiction - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World - 12/2
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER - The Viscount's Tempting Minx - Erica Ridley - 12/17
- Has a mostly blue cover - Bloom
- 12/7- Is a speculative fiction novel - A Fall of Moondust - 12/10
- Features family drama - The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog - 12/5
- Has fire on the cover -
The Fire Engine That Disappeared - 1/14- Is written by a BIPOC author - Crook Manifesto - 12/9
- Is a love story - The Geek Who Saved Christmas - 12/14
How to Complete It
Tackle this challenge any way you'd like! Maybe your goal is to read 8 of the 15 prompts, or maybe you want to finish the whole list twice... it's up to you!
Love these prompts!This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
Completed: 15/15
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
☑ 1.
Prompt #50: A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024 - Dec. 2023
☑ 2.
Prompt #4: A book set underground.
☑ 3.
☑ 4.
On HuffPost's "Best Books We Read in 2024" list.
☑ 5.
☑ 6.
☑ 7.
Features Christmas.
☑ 8.
☑ 9.
☑ 10.
☑ 11.
☑ 12.
☑ 13.
☑ 14.
☑ 15.
Read:
ROUND TWO :
Completed: 9/15
Find a book that...
☑ 1.
Prompt #50: A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024 - Jan. 2024
☑ 2.
Prompt #1: A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y.
☑ 3.
☐ 4. Is on a Best of 2024 list: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Paste - "The Best New Fantasy Books of August 2024"
☐ 5. Is set in the snow:
☐ 6. Is by an author you've read before:
☐ 7. Features a winter holiday:
☑ 8.
☑ 9.
☐ 10. Has a mostly blue cover:
☑ 11.
☑ 12.
☐ 13. Has fire on the cover:
☑ 14.
☑ 15.
Read:
Winter Reading Challenge15/15
✅ Finished 🟦Currently reading
Find a book that...
1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
✅Murder Is a Must - Marty Wingate (cozy mystery)
2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
✅The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jennifer Croft (#1. cover than has image that starts with A, T, or Y; trees)
3. Has a mostly white cover
✅The Spy Coast - Tess Gerritsen
4. Is on a Best of 2024 list
✅The Lost Bookshop - Evie Woods
5. Is set in the snow
✅Mystery in White - J. Jefferson Farjeon
6. Is by an author you've read before
✅The Door - Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. Features a winter holiday
✅Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (Christmas Bookshop #2) - Jenny Colgan
8. Is nonfiction
✅A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid
9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
✅Yours, Plum The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse - P.G. Wodehouse
10. Has a mostly blue cover
✅The Christmas Egg - Mary Kelly
11. Is a speculative fiction novel
✅Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
12. Features family drama
✅Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford
13. Has fire on the cover
✅The Midnight Feast - Lucy Foley
14. Is written by a BIPOC author
✅Someone Like Us - Dinaw Mangestu
15. Is a love story
✅A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
Very nice, thanks as always to the mods for organising :)Goal: Slot in what I can!
This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list - The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave ✅ (senior citizen character)
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list - The Creeper (object starting with A, T or Y on the cover) (trees) ✅
- Has a mostly white cover Nightwatching ✅
- Is on a Best of 2024 list Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud (on an r/horrorlit best-of). ✅
- Is set in the snow So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison ✅
- Is by an author you've read before - What Lies Between Us by John Marrs ✅
- Features a winter holiday Hercule Poirot's Christmas ✅
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths ✅
- Has a mostly blue cover The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden ✅
- Is a speculative fiction novel - The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu ✅
- Features family drama - The Undoing of Violet Claybourne ✅
- Is nonfiction They Called Us Enemy by George Takei ✅
- Has fire on the cover - Moskva by Jack Grimwood ✅
- Is written by a BIPOC author - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due ✅
- Is a love story - A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin ✅
Winter Reading Challenge 1 Dec 2024 - 28 Feb 2025
☀ 15 / 15 ........ completed 1/17/2025
Find a book that...
☀ 1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: A book with a senior citizen character: The Vanishing of Margaret Small -read in Dec
☀ 2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list: A Book by a "Local" Author, librarian in local town: Jill Cullen: Flirting with a New Life: a novel -read in Dec
☀ 3. Has a mostly white cover: First Comes Love -read in Dec
☀ 4. Is on a Best of 2024 list: The Lost Bookshop -read in Dec
☀ 5. Is set in the snow: The Honjin Murders -read in Dec
☀ 6. Is by an author you've read before: Elizabeth Strout: My Name Is Lucy Barton -read in Dec
☀ 7. Features a winter holiday: Small Things Like These -read in Dec
☀ 8. Is nonfiction: Pope John Paul II: In My Own Words
☀ 9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in the word WINTER: Pip Williams: The Dictionary of Lost Words -read in Dec
☀ 10. Has a mostly blue cover: Brightly Shining -read in Dec
☀ 11. Is a speculative fiction novel: The Last White Man
☀ 12. Features family drama: The Guncle -read in Dec
☀ 13. Has fire on the cover: Shot With Crimson
☀ 14. Is written by a BIPOC author: Jacqueline Woodson: This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
☀ 15. Is a love story: Agnes -read in Dec
Yay, Winter Challenge <3When?
This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
ATY24/ATY25/PS25 = Book used for a 2024 or 2025 ATY or PS 25 main challenge
KU = Kindle Unlimited
AI = Audible Inclusive
Find a book that...
√1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
A book about a senior citizen
Journey Under the Midnight Sun (ATY24)
√ 2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
A book set underground, under sea, or in an underworld
Dreifach. by Ken Follett (ATY24)
√3. Has a mostly white cover
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World (ATY24)
√4. Is on a Best of 2024 list
House of Earth and Blood (ATY24)
√ 5. Is set in the snow
Los crímenes del glaciar (AI)
√ 6. Is by an author you've read before
The Blissfully Dead (ATY25)
√7. Features a winter holiday
Marias Kleiner Esel Und Die Flucht Nach Ägypten (ATY24)
√8. Is nonfiction
True Crime Best of Wahre Verbrechen – Echte Kriminalfälle: Ein erschütterndes Portrait menschlicher Abgründe. (True Crime International) (ATY25)
√9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
From the Cradle (KU)
√10. Has a mostly blue cover
Ship Wrecked (ATY25)
√11. Is a speculative fiction novel
Ready Player Two (PS25)
√12. Features family drama
Winter's Mourn (KU)
√13. Has fire on the cover
Phoenix Burning (PS25)
√14. Is written by a BIPOC author
The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding (ATY25)
√15. Is a love story
Love, Theoretically (ATY25)>
❄️
Winter Reading Challenge
❄️December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025
☃️ December 🎄
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: The Whispering Night
✔️ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: Eileen
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list: Funny Story
- Is set in the snow: The Sittaford Mystery
✔️ Is by an author you've read before: In Five Years
✔️ Features a winter holiday: A Doll's House
- Is nonfiction: Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: The Rival
- Has a mostly blue cover:
- Is a speculative fiction novel: The Hunting Moon
- Features family drama:
- Has fire on the cover: The City in Glass
✔️ Is written by a BIPOC author: Wrapped Up in You
- Is a love story: The Love Hypothesis
❄️❄️❄️
🥂 January 🍾
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story
❄️❄️❄️
💘 February 💝
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story
The Prompts:Find a book that...
1 Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
2 Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
Fair Rosaline
3 Has a mostly white cover
4 Is on a Best of 2024 list
The Voyage Home
5 Is set in the snow
Away in a Manger
6 Is by an author you've read before
Death on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis
7 Features a winter holiday
A Cotswold Christmas Mystery
8 Is nonfiction
Ghosts in the Hedgerow: A hedghog whodunnit
9 Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson
10 Has a mostly blue cover
11 Is a speculative fiction novel
Elidor
12 Features family drama
While I Was Gone
13 Has fire on the cover
Where the Hearth Is: Stories of Home
[My edition had a fireplace on the cover]
14 Is written by a BIPOC author
Notting Hill Carnival by Candice Carty-Williams
15 Is a love story
Under the Greenwood Tree
Winter challenge: 12/1 to 2/28📘-Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list:
How to Read a Book
📘- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list:The Whisper Sister (set in an underworld [gangs/mafia])
📘- Has a mostly white cover:
-📘 Is on a Best of 2024 list: Table for Two
📘- Is set in the snow: Out of My Mind
📘- Is by an author you've read before: Life, the Universe and Everything
📘- Features a winter holiday: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School (Christmas/New Years/Valentines Day)
📘- Is nonfiction: Girlhood
📘- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: Queenie (Williams)
📘- Has a mostly blue cover: A Hitch in Time: Writi
ngs from the London Review of Books
📘- Is a speculative fiction novel: Milkman Anna Burns
📘- Features family drama: The Viscount Who Loved Me
📘- Has fire on the cover:
📘 Is written by a BIPOC author:Hidden Figures
📘- Is a love story: Just Kids
🇩🇰 Winter challenge: enjoy! 🤩Goal: None whatsoever - for once 🫣😉
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
📗 Done: 15
▪️ Planned: 13
❣️ Completion date: 18.01.25
Find a book that...
📗 Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list - Ilka vender hjem (Pub. in 2024)
📗 Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list - Udvalgte eventyr (local author)
📗 Has a mostly white cover - Den døde diplomat
📗 Is on a Best of 2024 list - Hævneren
📗 Is set in the snow - Julbröllop och adventsstök: Lucka 1
📗 Is by an author you've read before - A Witch Hunt in Whitby - Helen Cox
📗 Features a winter holiday - Christmas on the Island
📗 Is nonfiction - Blondinens betragtninger: Om køn, feminisme og #metoo
📗 Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER - Death of a Peer - Ngaio Marsh
📗 Has a mostly blue cover - A Funny Life
📗 Is a speculative fiction novel - Ender in Exile
📗 Features family drama - Rodløs
📗 Has fire on the cover - Bamser, bomber og brødristere
📗 Is written by a BIPOC author After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
📗 Is a love story - The Beekeeper's Promise
❄️ Winter Reading Challenge ❄️December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: [Senior citizen character]
Aunt Bessie Goes by Diana Xarissa Read 12/12/24 - 4*
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: [Do-Re-Mi song]
Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs Read 12/30/24 - 3*
- Has a mostly white cover: [73%]
Still Life by Sarah Winman
- Is on a Best of 2024 list: [September 2024]
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- Is set in the snow: [assumed from cover and setting of Siberia]
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
- Is by an author you've read before:
High Noon by Nora Roberts
- Features a winter holiday:
The Christmas Garden Affair by Ann Ripley Read 12/24/24 - 3*
- Is nonfiction:
God Is in the Small Stuff: and it all matters by Bruce Bickel
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER:
Quaker Testimony by Irene Allen Read 12/26/24 - 3*
- Has a mostly blue cover: [92.4%]
The Aviary by Emily Shore
- Is a speculative fiction novel:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Features family drama:
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- Has fire on the cover:
Jordan's Stormy Banks by Jefferson Bass
- Is written by a BIPOC author:
Execution in E by Alexia Gordon
- Is a love story:
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas Read 12/21/24 - 4*
Winter ChallengeDecember 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
senior citizen - The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie 12/11/24
cover has something beginning with A,T, or Y - A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen 12/11/24 - Áo dài
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 12/15/24
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro 12/27/24
As Red as Blood by Salla Simukka 12/18/24
The Searcher by Tana French 12/6/24
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 12/7/24
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 12/7/24
Paris is Always a Good Idea by Jenn McKinlay 12/13/24
Board Stiff by Piers Anthony 12/8/24
Criminal Crumbs by Jessica Beck 12/28/24
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong 2/21/25
The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura 12/26/24
During the Snowstorm by Mo Bao Fei Bao 12/14/24
December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.The Prompts:
Find a book that...
1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list (A book published in 2024):
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter (Read 12-13-24 -12-13-24)2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: (A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list (A book by an author who shares a last name with a famous non-writer):
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens (Read 12-11-24 - 12-12-24)3. Has a mostly white cover:
Dead as a Door Knocker by Diane Kelly (Read 12-21-24 - 12-31-24)4. Is on a Best of 2024 list:
Red River Road by Anna Downes (Read 12-20-24 - 12-31-24)5. Is set in the snow:
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (Read 12-1-24 - 12-2-246. Is by an author you've read before:
You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Read 2-3-25 - 2-8-25)7. Features a winter holiday:
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson (Read 12-2-24 - 12-3-24)8. Is nonfiction:
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid (Read 12-25-24 - 12-25-24)9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER:
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry Winkler (Read 12-10-24 - 12-10-24)10. Has a mostly blue cover:
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (Read 12-1-24 - 12-1-24)11. Is a speculative fiction novel:
The Need by Helen Phillips (Read 2-18-25 - 2-18-25)12. Features family drama:
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris (Read 12-7-24 - 12-8-24)13. Has fire on the cover:
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley (Read 12-9-24 - 12-10-24)14. Is written by a BIPOC author:
The List by Yomi Adegoke (Read 12-2-24 - 12-2-24)15. Is a love story:
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo (Read 12-11-24 - 12-11-24)15/15
Dina's Winter Reading Challenge: 1/15December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025
Find a book that...
1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
3. Has a mostly white cover
4. Is on a Best of 2024 list
5. Is set in the snow
6. Is by an author you've read before
7. Features a winter holiday
--> 8. Is nonfiction: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
--> 9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Wild Huntress
10. Has a mostly blue cover
11. Is a speculative fiction novel
12. Features family drama
13. Has fire on the cover
14. Is written by a BIPOC author
✔ 15. Is a love story: Practice Makes Perfect
Haven't done a seasonal challenge yet, let's go!💯Finished 02/07!
15/15
Find a book that...
✅Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list (50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024(May 2024)) The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
✅Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list (4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld) Wool by Hugh Howey
✅Has a mostly white cover - In. by Will McPhail
✅Is on a Best of 2024 list (https://www.vanityfair.com/style/stor...) The Garden by Clare Beams
✅ Is set in the snow The Snow Child byEowyn Ivey
✅Is by an author you've read before
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore
✅ Features a winter holiday Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson
✅Is nonfiction Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
✅Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
✅Has a mostly blue cover Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
✅Is a speculative fiction novel - The Naturalist Society by Carrie Vaughn
✅ Features family drama The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
✅Has fire on the cover The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
✅Is written by a BIPOC author Bloodchild and Other Stories byOctavia E. Butler
✅ Is a love story The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab
Okay - fun! Let's see how it goes. I have no specific plans yet. The Prompts:
Find a book that...
✅- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
The Spy Wore Red by Aline, Countess of Romanones (prompts 4, 17, 25, 30)
✅- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell (1, 7, 45, 48)
✅- Has a mostly white cover
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
✅- Is on a Best of 2024 list
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
✅- Is set in the snow
Do Not Disturb by Frieda McFadden
✅- Is by an author you've read before
Uncertain Voyage by Dorothy Gilman
✅- Features a winter holiday
The Locked Tomb Mystery: and Other Stories by Elizabeth Peters
✅- Is nonfiction
Saving My Assassin: A Memoir by Virginia Prodan
✅- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
✅- Has a mostly blue cover
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
✅- Is a speculative fiction novel
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
✅- Features family drama
The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden
✅- Has fire on the cover
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo
✅- Is written by a BIPOC author
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
✅- Is a love story
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
Fun! I need a little nudge to get some reading done at the end of the year.Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before The Fox Wife
- Features a winter holiday The Dew Breaker (1 of the short stories takes place at Christmas Eve Mass)
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author Pointe
- Is a love story
The Prompts: 11/15Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list - The Jubilee Plot, David Field (A book with a senior citizen character)
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list - Wake Up Little Susie: A Sam McCain Mystery, Ed Gorman (A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y (An automobile))
- Has a mostly white cover - The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, Donis Casey
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive, Lucy Adlington
- Is by an author you've read before - The Dark City, Max Allan Collins
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction - Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher: The Shocking 1914 Case of a Vengeful Student, Dennis Webster
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER - Come to Grief, Wendy M. Wilson
- Has a mostly blue cover - Confronting the Invisible, David Field
- Is a speculative fiction novel - The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas
- Features family drama - 20 Minutes Before Take Off, Daniel Hurst
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author - The Newspaper Widow: Novel, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
- Is a love story
Kendra's ATY Winter ChallengeDuration: Dec. 1st, 2024 to Feb. 28th, 2025
0/20
Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
1. A book with a senior citizen character.
2. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024.
3. A book published in 2024.
Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
4. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y.
5. A book with a cover that features a single body part.
6. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song.
7. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld.
Other Prompts
8. A book with a mostly white cover.
9. A book that is on a Best of 2024 list.
10. A book that is set in the snow.
11. A book by an author you've read before.
12. A book that features a winter holiday.
13. A nonfiction book.
14. A book written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER.
15. A book with a mostly blue cover.
16. A speculative fiction book.
17. A book that features family drama.
18. A book with fire on the cover.
19. A book by by a BIPOC author.
20. A love story.
I'm sitting in front of the fireplace reading 📚 Find a book that... - 15/15 (completed 5th Jan 2025)
✔️ 1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (prompt: Published in 2024) (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list - Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher (prompt: A, T or Y on the cover: Y for Yarn) (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 3. Has a mostly white cover - Til meg selv by Marcus Aurelius (completed, physical book)
✔️ 4. Is on a Best of 2024 list - The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older (on ATY's best of 2024 list) (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 5. Is set in the snow - Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (completed, physical book)
✔️ 6. Is by an author you've read before - Scattered Showers: Stories by Rainbow Rowell (completed, e-book)
✔️ 7. Features a winter holiday - The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 8. Is nonfiction - Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER - Inferno's Heir by Tiffany Wang (completed, e-book)
✔️ 10. Has a mostly blue cover - The Christmas Clash by Suzanne Park (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 11. Is a speculative fiction novel - Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 12. Features family drama - Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 13. Has fire on the cover - The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag (completed, e-book)
✔️ 14. Is written by a BIPOC author - The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo (completed, audiobook)
✔️ 15. Is a love story - Some Like It Cold by Elle McNicoll (completed, audiobook)
Winter Reading Challenge December 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025
0/15
Find a book that...
✔️1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett 10/8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the list Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women by Hetta Howes 1/18 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️features a historical figure
3. Has a mostly white cover
Still Life by Sarah Winman✔️ 4. Is on a Best of 2024 list Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough 1/27 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ 5. Is set in the snow The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting 2/18 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ 6. Is by an author you've read before Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott 1/3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ 7. Features a winter holiday My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor 1/31 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ 8. Is nonfiction Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen 1/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER To The Bright Edge of the World Eowyn Ivey
✔️10. Has a mostly blue cover
A Christmas Murder by Mary Grand 12/18 ⭐️⭐️✔️11. Is a speculative fiction Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 1/8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
12. Features family drama
✔️ 13. Has fire on the cover
Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell 1/8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✔️14. Is written by a BIPOC author The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 2/15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️15. Is a love story The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 12/08 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
❄️ Winter Reading Challenge ❄️ completed: 15/15 - done
December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: Pub in 24 - The Arizona Triangle -1/14/25√
2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: ATY item on cover - The House without a Christmas Tree - 12/7/24√
3. Has a mostly white cover: More or Less Maddy -- 1/18/25√
4. Is on a Best of 2024 list: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library --2/8/25√
5. Is set in the snow: The Lost House -- 1/16/25√
6. Is by an author you've read before: The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis-1/11/25√
7. Features a winter holiday: The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year - 12/2/24 √
8. Is nonfiction: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year - 1/4/25√
9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: It Started with a Book by Camilla Isley - 1/3/25√
10. Has a mostly blue cover: Knife Skills for Beginners - 1/2/2025 √
11. Is a speculative fiction novel: Wake Up and Open Your Eyes- 1/8/25√
12. Features family drama: This Winter - 1/7/25√
13. Has fire on the cover: Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend- 1/5/2025 √
14. Is written by a BIPOC author: The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson -2/1/25√
15. Is a love story: The Christmas Café - 12/5/24 √
The Prompts:Find a book that...
✅ Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
Tom Lake (A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024 - 2023 List)
✅ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing (Do Re Mi song: me, a name I call myself)
✅ Has a mostly white cover
The Poppy War
✅ Is on a Best of 2024 list
Mean Spirited
- Is set in the snow
✅ Is by an author you've read before
In the Lake of the Woods
✅ Features a winter holiday
Here
✅ Is nonfiction
Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self
✅ Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
Blackouts
✅ Has a mostly blue cover
Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times
✅ Is a speculative fiction novel
The Midnight Library
✅ Features family drama
The Immortalists
- Has fire on the cover
✅ Is written by a BIPOC author
The Fire Next Time
- Is a love story
I think I'll do this one.Duration: December 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
The Prompts:
Find a book that ...
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- Is on a Best of 2024 list (Zeit 100 beste Bücher des Jahres)
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Excited to join - this will be my first Challenge in this group❄️ Winter Reading Challenge ❄️
December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
~ Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
~ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
~ Has a mostly white cover
~ Is on a Best of 2024 list
~ Is set in the snow
~ Is by an author you've read before
~ Features a winter holiday
~ Is nonfiction
~ Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
~ Has a mostly blue cover
~ Is a speculative fiction novel
~ Features family drama
~ Has fire on the cover
~ Is written by a BIPOC author
~ Is a love story
The Prompts FILLED:
~ Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
~ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
~ Has a mostly white cover
~ Is on a Best of 2024 list
• Is set in the snow
Sugar Shack by Lucy Knisley
• Is by an author you've read before
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
~ Features a winter holiday
~ Is nonfiction
• Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
The House Swap by Miranda Rijks
~ Has a mostly blue cover
~ Is a speculative fiction novel
~ Features family drama
~ Has fire on the cover
• Is written by a BIPOC author
Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza
~ Is a love story
First challenge I've actually decided to complete with this group! Let me look at my 2025 list and come back to this 🤔This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
✨ Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife - [Book published in 2024]
✨ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Half of a Yellow Sun - [Related to Do Re Mi song]
✨ Has a mostly white cover ⭐⭐⭐
To The Bright Edge of the World
✨Is on a Best of 2024 list ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Project Hail Mary
✨ Is set in the snow - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hidden in Snow
✨ Is by an author you've read before ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Features a winter holiday
Little Women
✨ Is nonfiction ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Educated
✨ Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
✨Has a mostly blue cover ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Island of Sea Women
✨Is a speculative fiction novel ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Final Empire
✨ Features family drama ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Black Cake
✨ Has fire on the cover ⭐⭐⭐
A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii
✨ Is written by a BIPOC author ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Fifth Season
✨ Is a love story (sigh) ⭐
A Song to Drown Rivers
Finished 2/7/2025
Winter Reading ChallengeThis challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: Senior Citizen: Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing by Thomas
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: Tea? Coffee? Murder! - Blue Poodle Blues: A Black Feather Mystery by Barksdale
- Has a mostly white cover: My Life in France by Child
- Is on a Best of 2024 list: Table for Two by Towles
- Is set in the snow: Dead Men Don't Ski by Moyes
X - Is by an author you've read before: Tyler's Row by Read
- Features a winter holiday: No Holly for Miss Quinn by Read
- Is nonfiction: brother. do. you. love. me. by Coe
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: The Hustler by Walter Tevis
- Has a mostly blue cover: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol. 2 by Brower
- Is a speculative fiction novel: Hungry Hill by DuMaurier
X - Features family drama: The God of Small Things by Roy
- Has fire on the cover
X - Is written by a BIPOC author: Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Keyby Crowder
- Is a love story: Happy Place by Henry
How to Complete It
Tackle this challenge any way you'd like! Maybe your goal is to read 8 of the 15 prompts, or maybe you want to finish the whole list twice... it's up to you!
The Prompts:Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
A book with a senior citizen character Hope Never Dies 08/12/2024
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024 The Murder of Mr. Wickham 27/12/2025 PAGE 2 NO 126
A book published in 2024 The City and Its Uncertain Walls 07/12/2024
A cozy mystery Aunt Bessie Believes 03/12/24
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y The Secret History 01/12/2024
A book connected to something you read in 2023 The Silver Locomotive Mystery 12/12/2024 read the first book in this series in November 2023
A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list A book involving travel The Figurine 02/12/2024 MC travels between UK and Greece
A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong Measuring the World 06/12/2024
- Has a mostly white cover Vision in White 02/01/2025
- Is on a Best of 2024 list Good Material on Best Books of the month 2024 number 176 23/01/2025
- Is set in the snow A Quiet Teacher 17/12/2024
- Is by an author you've read before Aunt Bessie Assumes 03/12/2024
- Features a winter holiday The Iceberg 22/02/2025 Go on a winter skiing holiday
- Is nonfiction The Nature of Winter 09/12/2024
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER The Hermitage L.J. Ross 09/12/2024
- Has a mostly blue cover Things We Lost in the Fire 10/12/2024
- Is a speculative fiction novel The Last Murder at the End of the World 26/01/2025 Shelved as such on first page
- Features family drama A Pocket Full of Rye 02/12/2024
- Has fire on the cover
09/12/2024 Depicts fire from a bomb set on bridge- Is written by a BIPOC author I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 07/12/2024
- Is a love story Christmas at the Little Paris Hotel 16/12/2024
AND DONE
Completed: 15/15- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: A book published in 2024
Christmas at Reedy Falls: A Romance
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y
Blueberry: The Berry Pickers
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
Haunted Ever After: #577 on Best Books of 2024
- Is set in the snow
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga) Part 1 Volume 2
- Is by an author you've read before
Up to Noir Good
- Features a winter holiday
Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Thefts of Christmas
- Is nonfiction
Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl: A Memoir
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
Drowning
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
DallerGut Dream Department Store
- Features family drama
Mardi Gras Murder
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
The Maid
- Is a love story
Charles, With Love
Winter Reading ChallengeCompleted: 15/15
Completed:
Winter Challenge 2024-2025This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
Challenge Completed 1/14/25
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
✅Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
51. A book published in 2024
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino - 12/4/24 - 4* - My Review
✅Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y
In Winter I Get Up at Night by Jane Urquhart - 1/4/25 - 4* - My Review
✅Has a mostly white cover
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis - 1/14/25 - 4* - My Review
✅Is on a Best of 2024 list
The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas - 12/18/24 - 3.5* - My Review
✅Is set in the snow
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry - 12/17/24 - 4* - My Review
✅Is by an author you've read before
The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami - 12/2/24 - 4* - My Review
✅Features a winter holiday
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva - 12/3/24 - 3* - My Review
✅Is nonfiction
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 12/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review
✅Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
Time of the Child by Niall Williams - 12/15/24 - 5* - My Review
✅Has a mostly blue cover
Faith by Jennifer Haigh - 12/26/25 - 3.5* - My Review
✅Is a speculative fiction novel
The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball - 12/21/24 - 3.5* - My Review
✅Features family drama
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard - 12/9/24 - 3* - My Review
✅Has fire on the cover
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger - 12/6/24 - 4.5* - My Review
✅Is written by a BIPOC author
The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa - 12/16/24 - 3* - My Review
✅Is a love story
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton - 12/14/24 - 4* - My Review
How to Complete It
Tackle this challenge any way you'd like!
Winter Reading challengeWhen?
This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: A book published in 2024...... Servant of Earth By Sarah Hawley
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Has a mostly white cover: The Diamond Eye By Kate Quinn
- Is on a Best of 2024 list: Iron Flame By Rebecca Yarros
- Is set in the snow:
- Is by an author you've read before:
- Features a winter holiday: Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
- Is nonfiction:
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER:
Death of Tina Fontaine By Joanna Jolly 12/13 4 stars
- Is a speculative fiction novel:
- Features family drama:Vanishing Acts By Jodi Picoult
- Has fire on the cover:
- Is written by a BIPOC author:
- Is a love story:
How to Complete It
Tackle this challenge any way you'd like! Maybe your goal is to read 8 of the 15 prompts, or maybe you want to finish the whole list twice... it's up to you!
1/15The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: The Thursday Murder Club
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: Most Wonderful
- Has a mostly white cover: King of Sloth
- Is on a Best of 2024 list: The Ministry of Time
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- Is by an author you've read before: Cruel Winter with You
- Features a winter holiday: Christmas Is All Around
- Is nonfiction: Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters and Mythos
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: If This Was a Movie
- Has a mostly blue cover: The Christmas Cookie Wars
- Is a speculative fiction novel: The In-Between Bookstore
- Features family drama: How We Named the Stars
- Has fire on the cover: For She Is Wrath
- Is written by a BIPOC author: So Let Them Burn
- Is a love story: Cinnamon Rolls and Villainy
Laura Z's Winter Challenge: 15/15 - COMPLETEDDecember 1, 2024-February 28, 2025
✅1. A book that fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list (published in 2024): Looking for Smoke ★★★★
✅2. A book that fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list (cover image starting with A, T, or Y - Tree): A December to Remember ★★★
✅3. A book that has a mostly white cover: The Altruists ★★★★
✅4. A book on a "Best of 2024" list (NPR 2024 Books We Love): The Truth According to Ember ★★★★★
✅5. A book set in snow: All I Want Is You ★★★★
✅6. A book by an author you've read before: Other People's Houses ★★★★
✅7. A book that features a winter holiday (Valentine's Day): The Second You're Single ★★★
✅8. A nonfiction book: The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever ★★★★
✅9. A book by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: The Phoenix Bride ★★★★
✅10. A book that has a mostly blue cover: The Ghostkeeper: A Graphic Novel ★★★★
✅11. A speculative fiction novel: We Lived on the Horizon ★★★
✅12. A book that features family drama: Oye ★★★
✅13. A book that has fire on the cover: Rental House ★★★
✅14. A book by a BIPOC author: Good Dirt ★★★★
✅15. A love story: This Is a Love Story ★★★
Jess' WINTER Challenge***Not sure how much of this I'll try since it's the last month push for me to finish other challenges (I completed ATY in Aug.). But I'll do what I can.***
This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story
Martha's Winter ChallengeThis challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list: book:The Glassmaker 12/2/24
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list: This Other Eden
- Has a mostly white cover: The Future 2/14/25
- Is on a Best of 2024 list: Orbital
- Is set in the snow: The Wood at Midwinter
- Is by an author you've read beforeAfter Dark 12/31/24
- Features a winter holiday: Time of the Child 12/11/24
- Is nonfiction: Memorial Days 2/16/25
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover: [[book:We Do Not Part|205436018]
- Is a speculative fiction novel: Playground 1/29/25
- Features family drama: The Road to Dalton 1/11/25
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author: Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me 12/8/24
- Is a love story: If Beale Street Could Talk
❄️☃️ Winter Reading Challenge ☃️❄️The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story
I'm in, but not sure how many I may finish.- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list - Somewhere Beyond the Sea
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover - City of Gods and Monsters
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow - The Child Finder
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction - The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama - Bird Box
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author - A Tempest of Tea
- Is a love story - The Love Hypothesis
I am going to give this a go but, as much as the completionist in me would like to read all the prompts, I may only be able to finish half due to other time-consuming activities that will keep me busy until Mid-January. ❄️Winter Reading Challenge Prompts❄️:
Finished: 3/15
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list]
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
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- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
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- Is a speculative fiction novel
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- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story
Reading order:
❄️Winter Reading Challenge Prompts❄️Link to my column in the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
❄️ Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list - 49. A book with a senior citizen character - Finn by Jon Clinch
❄️ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list - 1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum
❄️ Has a mostly white cover - The Stranger by Albert Camus
❄️ Is on a Best of 2024 list - The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
❄️ Is set in the snow - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
❄️ Is by an author you've read before - The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5) by Nita Prose
❄️ Features a winter holiday - Plum Pudding Peril (Murder in the Mix #50) by Addison Moore
❄️Is nonfiction - The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
❄️ Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER - Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt
❄️ Has a mostly blue cover - A Christmas Murder by Mary Grand
❄️ Is a speculative fiction novel - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
❄️ Features family drama - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
❄️ Has fire on the cover - Ten Lords a Leaping (The Twelve Days of Christmas, #3) by Emily E.K. Murdoch
❄️ Is written by a BIPOC author - Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1) by Femi Kayode
❄️ Is a love story - The Blonde Identity (Blonde Identity, #1) by Ally Carter
ATY Winter Reading Challenge
December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025
Find a book that...
🔻 Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list (senior, ATY BBOTM, pub 2024, cozy mystery)
The Proper Thing and Other Stories
(published in 2024)
⬜ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list (image ATY, rejected prompt, Do Re Mi, under)
⬜ Has a mostly white cover
⚠️ Is on a Best of 2024 list
Root Fractures: Poems
https://time.com/collection/must-read...
✅ Is set in the snow
The Wood at Midwinter
⬜ Is by an author you've read before
⬜ Features a winter holiday
⬜ Is nonfiction
⬜ Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
🔻 Has a mostly blue cover
Piranesi
⬜ Is a speculative fiction novel
⬜ Features family drama
⬜ Has fire on the cover
⬜ Is written by a BIPOC author
✅ Is a love story
Annihilation
2/15
I'm really enjoying the seasonal challenges. Thanks for keeping them going, mod team.
I'm in - will look to do all 15 in support of lots of reading throughout the winter.This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
14/15 📚; updated 2.1.2025
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
fits Prompt #52, cozy mystery
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
fits Prompt #3, connected to Do Re Mi (a drop of golden sun)
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
(not yet finished but will finish in February
Goodreads 2024 Choice for Best Science Fiction
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
by Sarah J. Maas- Features a winter holiday
by Rebecca Raisin- Is nonfiction
by Michelle McNamara- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
by Richard Dawkins (R in Richard)- Has a mostly blue cover
by P.S. Cunliffe- Is a speculative fiction novel
by Lauren Thoman- Features family drama
by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg- Has fire on the cover
TBD (pick one from the many I've put on my TBR!)
- Is written by a BIPOC author
by Chibundu Onuzo- Is a love story
Winter Reading Challenge(Plan to do 12) 12/12
Find a book that:
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list (#51: Book published in 2024) The Mirror by Nora Roberts (12/5)
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list (#1: Cover image starting A, T, or Y) Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury (1/9)
- Has a mostly white cover It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis (1/3)
- Is on a Best of 2024 list: The Midnight Feast, by Lucy Foley (1/11)
- Is set in the snow Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson (12/1)
- Is by an author you've read before: Now or Never by Janet Evanovich (12/8)
- Features a winter holiday Mrs. Claus and the Santaland Slayings by Liz Ireland (12/11)
- Is nonfiction Crazy Joy: Finding Wild Happiness in a World That's Upside Down by Mary Katherine Backstrom (12/14)
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER The Great Good Thing, by Roderick Townley (1/14)
- Has a mostly blue cover The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (12/14)
- Is a speculative fiction novel Identity Unknown, by Patricia Cornwell (12/20)
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story Love in a Cold Climate, by Nancy Mitford (12/18)
Jennifer's Winter Challenge Books15 of 15 completed!
✔️ 1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
A book published in 2024.
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
✔️ 2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
DoReMi - narrator is a tea monk.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
✔️ 3. Has a mostly white cover
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
✔️ 4. Is on a Best of 2024 list
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
✔️ 5. Is set in the snow
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
✔️ 6. Is by an author you've read before
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
✔️ 7. Features a winter holiday
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
✔️ 8. Is nonfiction
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
✔️ 9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
✔️ 10. Has a mostly blue cover
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
✔️ 11. Is a speculative fiction novel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
✔️ 12. Features family drama
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
✔️ 13. Has fire on the cover
House on Fire by D. Liebhart
✔️ 14. Is written by a BIPOC author
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
✔️ 15. Is a love story
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab
The Prompts:Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story
Sherri H The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list - The Christmas Tree Farm
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list - Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list - The Women
- Is set in the snow - The Christmas Fix
- Is by an author you've read before - The Wedding Witch
- Features a winter holiday - A Winter Wish
- Is nonfiction - My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover - Matterhorn
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- Has fire on the cover - Iron Flame
- Is written by a BIPOC author - James
- Is a love story - More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
First time here. I'd love to play!ATY Winter Reading Challenge
01Dec24 through 28Feb25
15/15
Find a book that...
✔️ Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list [pub in 2024] Wordhunter
✔️ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list [What a Wonderful World] Danny the Champion of the World
✔️ Has a mostly white cover Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories
✔️ Is on a Best of 2024 list The Wedding People
✔️ Is set in the snow [bookr:The Christmas Guest|83814905]
✔️ Is by an author you've read before Joseph Boyden The Orenda
✔️ Features a winter holiday The Songbook of Benny Lament
✔️ Is nonfiction The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
✔️ Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER The Lost Girls of Penzance by Sally Rigby
✔️ Has a mostly blue cover The Island of Missing Trees
✔️ Is a speculative fiction novel The Testaments
✔️ Features family drama Fayne
✔️ Has fire on the cover Fight Night
✔️ Is written by a BIPOC author Crying in H Mart
✔️ Is a love story You Are Here
Read:
When?This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.
The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story
How to Complete It
Tackle this challenge any way you'd like! Maybe your goal is to read 8 of the 15 prompts, or maybe you want to finish the whole list twice... it's up to you!
This challenge runs from December 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025.The Prompts:
Find a book that...
- Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list
- Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list
- Has a mostly white cover
- Is on a Best of 2024 list
- Is set in the snow
- Is by an author you've read before
- Features a winter holiday
- Is nonfiction
- Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER
- Has a mostly blue cover
- Is a speculative fiction novel
- Features family drama
- Has fire on the cover
- Is written by a BIPOC author
- Is a love story
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