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Links for 2025 YLTO Yearly Challenge

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Badge one help
2025 Additional badges
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Badge One - Themes

Badge One will be based on Themes. We are not doing a full alphabet so as to accommodate all readers and their ability to complete books. We want everyone to be able to complete a badge. Badge One will be for 15 books.

✔📍B - Books about books - The Reading List 6/23/25
✔📍C - Childhood - The Fort 2/2/25
✔📍D - Dogs - Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero 5/4/25
✔📍F - Fantasy - Daughter of the Deep 3/17/25
✔📍G - Ghosts - Showdown in Mudbug 5/3/25
✔📍H - History - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive 4/2/25
✔:📍L - Love - Love Finds You in Snowball, Arkansas 6/7/25
✔📍M - Mythology - The Lost Hero 4/14/25
✔📍N - Nature - The Road to Paradise 6/20/25
✔📍P - Pirates - Pirates and Prejudice 2/12/25
✔:📍R - Religion - The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling 5/24/25
✔📍S - Survival - If We Make It Home: A Novel of Faith and
Survival in the Oregon Wilderness 2/23/25
✔📍T - True Crime - Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal 5/29/25
✔📍V - Villainy - Starter Villain 4/24/25
✔📍W - Women - Resistance Women 8/22/25

Additional list options #2

All following lists are 25 tasks. All of them omit the letter X.

List Two - Titles. Read books alphabetically by Title. Articles such as a, an, the, etc will be ignored. A Night to Remember may be read as N, but not as A. The Bat may be read as B, but not as T.
TITLES:
A -The Apple Orchard
B - A Bookshop in Berlin
C - Crime and Poetry
D - Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
E - Engaged in Death
f - Far Horizons
G - Girl One: Murder
H - The Housemaid Is Watching
I -Icebound
J -The Johnstown Flood
K -Kill the Farm Boy
L -The Last Chance Library
M -My Dad, Yogi: A Memoir of Family and Baseball
N -Necessary Lies
O -One Grave Too Many
P - Pretty is as Pretty Dies
Q -The Question of the Missing Head
R -Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
S -Since She Went Away
T - Town in a Blueberry Jam
U - Unfollow Me
V - A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front: Memoirs from a WWI camp hospital
W -Winterhouse
Y -Yarned and Dangerous
Z -Zero Days

Additional list option #3

List Three - Male Authors -first or last name counts. Read books alphabetically by Male Authors
MALE AUTHORS
A -Taylor Anderson - Into the Storm
B -Chris Ballard - One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
C -Harlan Coben - Stay Close
D -David Bell - The Forgotten Girl
E -David Ebershoff - The 19th Wife
F - Richard Fifield - The Flood Girls
G - John Grisham - Gray Mountain
H - Joe Haldeman - The Accidental Time Machine
I - Antonio Iturbe - The Librarian of Auschwitz
J - Tim Johnston - Descent
K - Stephen King - The Outsider
L - Damien Lewis - The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side
M - Daniel Mason - The Winter Soldier
N - Frank Nappi - The Legend of Mickey Tussler
O - Bill O'Reilly - Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
P - Otto Penzler - Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
Q - Spencer Quinn - Dog on It
R - Ethan Rarick - Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
S - John Scalzi - Lock In
T - Gordon Thomas - The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster
U - Timothy Underwood - The Cost of a Kiss: An Elizabeth and Darcy Story
V - Rudolf Vrba - I Escaped from Auschwitz
W - David Whitehouse - Mobile Library
Y - Rick Yancey - The 5th Wave
Z - Mitchell Zuckoff - Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

Additional List Option #4

List Four - Female Authors - first of last name counts. Read books alphabetically by Female Authors.
FEMALE AUTHORS:
A - Poppy Alexander - The Littlest Library
B - Laura Gail Black - For Whom the Book Tolls
C - Molly D. Campbell - Characters in Search of a Novel
D - Karen Dukess - The last book party; a novel
E - Janet Evanovich - Back to the Bedroom
F - Mary Dingee Fillmore - An Address in Amsterdam
G - Sulari Gentill - The Woman in the Library
H - Masha Hamilton - The Camel Bookmobile
I - Laila Ibrahim - Yellow Crocus
J - Eva Jurczyk - The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
K - Juliane Koepcke - When I Fell From the Sky
L - Laura Levine - Death of a Bachelorette
M - Debbie Macomber - A Christmas Duet
N - Christine Nolfi - The Road She Left Behind
O - Susan Orlean - The Library Book
P - Cate Price - Going Through the Notions (A Deadly Notions Mystery)
Q -Julia Quinn - The Duke and I
R -Kim Michele Richardson - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
S -Julie Schumacher - The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
T -Tilly Tennant - The Little Village Bakery
U -Lisa Unger - Heartbroken
V -Nicole Valentine - A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity
W -Wendy Welch - The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
Y -Ovidia Yu - Aunty Lee's Delights
Z -Carolyn Zane - Beyond the Storm

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Additional List options #5 -7

List Five:
Specified Object on Cover
📍A- Airplane -The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
📍B- Butterfly - What the Night Sings
📍C- Chair - An Appetite for Murder
📍D- Dishes - Murder and Marinara
📍E- Elephant - Elephant Run
📍F- Fruit - Bitter Harvest
📍G- Gate - We Are All Welcome Here
📍H- Horse - Katie's Redemption
📍I- Insect - Death by a Honeybee
📍J- Jewel/Jewelry - The Ruby by Christina Skye
📍K- Key - Deadly Gamble
📍L- Lighthouse - Clammed Up
📍M- Mansion - Murder at Honeychurch Hall
📍N- Night Sky - Tea Is for Terror
📍O- Orange Fruit OR 75% Orange Cover - A Family for Thanksgiving
📍P- Picture within a picture - The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- eg: The Body Counter (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries, #2) by Anne Frasier
📍Q- Quilt - Murder, Plainly Read
📍R- Rose - Gone, But Not Forgotten
📍S- Sky (50% of cover - The Summerhouse
📍T- Tea Cup - The Rejected Writers' Book Club
📍U- Umbrella - No Hope for Gomez!
📍V- Vase with flowers - Bloom and Doom
📍W- Water - Butternut Summer
📍Y- Yacht OR 75% Yellow Cover - Float Plan
📍Z- Zeppelin - Flight of Dreams

List 6 :
Specified Location
📍A- Alaska - Submerged
📍B- British Columbia - The Glass Hotel
📍C- Congo - The Taste of Fear
📍D- Detroit - Mrs. Everything
📍E- Egypt - The Last Camel Died at Noon
📍F- France - The Paris Library
📍G- Georgia US - Red Mist
📍H- Hawaii - Moloka'i
📍I- Iceland - The Creak on the Stairs
📍J- Jamaica - Murder on Naked Beach
📍K- Kenya - Thunder Thighs
📍L- London - Can You Keep a Secret?
📍M- Moscow - A Gentleman in Moscow
📍N- Nevada - Wanna Get Lucky?
📍O- Oslo - I'm Traveling Alone
📍P-Pakistan - A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
📍Q- Queensland, Australia - The Happiest Little Town
📍R- Rome - Cleopatra's Daughter
📍S- Spain - The Angel's Game
📍T- Tuscany - Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust: Ambiguous Refuge
📍U- Ukraine - My Real Name Is Hanna
📍V- Venice - Death at La Fenice
📍W- Wisconsin - Buzz Off
📍Y- Yellowstone - Yellowstone Heart Song
📍Z- Zurich - The Lions of Lucerne

List 7: Specific Word in Title
📍A- Away - Take Your Breath Away
📍B- Black - The Black Ice
📍C- Crow - Crow Mary
📍D- Dark - Home by Dark
📍E- Evening - The Saturday Evening Girls Club
📍F- Fortune - Stars of Fortune
📍G- Girl - The Disappearing Girl
📍H- Hand - Dead Man's Hand
📍I- Island - Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
📍J- June - Justice in June: A Mary Magruder Katz Mystery
📍K- Kind - The Kind Worth Killing
📍L- Lord - The Thief Lord
📍M- Murder - An Appetite for Murder
📍N- Name - Hope You Guess My Name
📍O- Opal - The Princess in the Opal Mask
📍P- People - People Who Knew Me
📍Q- Quiet - Keep Quiet
📍R- Rain - The Sound of Rain
📍S- Silver - Love Finds You in Silver City, Idaho
📍T- Tree - Don't Die Under the Apple Tree
📍U- Under - Grace Under Pressure
📍V- Valley - Love Finds You in Sun Valley, Idaho
📍W- West - How the West Was Won
📍Y- Young - Forever Young
📍Z- Zebra or Zero - Zero-Degree Murder

Okay, I went a little overboard gophering. I just couldn't stop myself. Anyway, I won't get near this many read but a girl can dream. Heehee!

Love it! I have about 4 badges gophered, and now that I've actually started the challenge, I'm swapping things around.

Janice wrote: "Love it! I have about 4 badges gophered, and now that I've actually started the challenge, I'm swapping things around."

I was swapping before I finished gophering, lol. What I love about this challenge is like 90 % of the books I chose came right off my TBR and Own shelves, so maybe I'll make a dent this year. (Except of course, the ones I'll add looking at everybody else's challenges)

LOL! Exactly! Everyone has such interesting looking books.

WoF - Lori Z


Tally Sheet
Badge #1
1. Task C - The Fort 2/2/25
2. Task P - Pirates and Prejudice 2/12/25
3. Task S - If We Make It Home: A Novel of Faith and Survival in the Oregon Wilderness 2/23/25
4. Task F - Daughter of the Deep 3/17/25
5. Task H - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive 4/3/25
6. Task M - The Lost Hero 4/14/25
7. Task V - Starter Villain 4/24/25
8. Task G - Showdown in Mudbug 5/3/25
9. Task D - Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero 5/4/25
10. Task R - The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling 5/24/25
11. Task T - Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal 5/29/25
12. Task L - Love Finds You in Snowball, Arkansas 6/7/25
13. Task N - The Road to Paradise 6/20/25
14. Task B - The Reading List 6/23/25
15. Task W - Resistance Women 8/22/25

WoF - Lori Z


1. Badge #1/Book #1
2. List #1/Task C-Childhood
3. The Fort
4. Kindle edition 246 pages
5. Read a book that has a childhood theme
6. On the book page its listed with the coming of age theme. The main characters are 3 twelve year old boys who have a fort in the woods and witness a crime. I was sort of thinking it would be like the movie "Stand by Me" but this was more dark and twisty.

That sounds interesting. It reminds me of the neighborhood children built. Do kids even do that any more?

Congrats on getting your first book done.

Thanks Janice! I don't know if kids build forts now. I'm thinking if they do it's virtually, unfortunately.

We used to gather our building materials and pack a lunch. As we marched down the road we'd sing, "The ants go marching one by one..." Great memories.

WoF Lori Z


1. Badge #1/Book #2
2. List #1/Task P - Pirates
3. Pirates and Prejudice
4. Audio Book/10 hours 32 minutes
5. Read a book that has a pirate theme
6. On main book page it's listed with Pirates as a genre. As you can probably tell this is a variation on Pride and Prejudice with Mr. Darcy going undercover as a pirate.

WoF - Lori Z


1. Badge #1/Book #3
2. List #1/Task S - Survival
3. If We Make It Home: A Novel of Faith and Survival in the Oregon Wilderness
4.Kindle Ebook 288 pages
5. Read a book that has a survival theme
6. This is about 3 women on a survival adventure that turns into a nightmare, when they find themselves on their own and lost in the Oregon Wilderness fighting to survive. It wasn't just about survival but also about healing old hurts and returning to their faith. This book could be for survival, religion or women themes.

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #4
2. List #1/Task F - Fantasy
3. Daughter of the Deep
4. Audio book/11 hours 16 minutes
5. Read a book in the fantasy genre
6. This book has Fantasy listed on main book page as a genre

WoF - Lori Z


1. Badge #1/Book #5
2. List #1/Task H - History
3. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
4. Kindle Ebook 304 pages
5. Read a book in the history genre
6. This book has history listed as a genre on the main book page

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #6
2. List #1/Task M - Mythology
3. The Lost Hero
4, Listened to Audio book/16 hours 33 minutes
5. Read a book in the mythology genre
6. Book is listed as mythology on the main book page

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #7
2. List #1/Task V - Villain
3. Starter Villain
4. Listened to Audiobook/8 hrs. 5 min.
5. Read a book with villains
6. This book had plenty of villains, from life long villains to generations of villains and of course, a starter villain.

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #8
2. List #1/Task G
3. Showdown in Mudbug
4. Read Kindle ebook 320 pages
5. Read a book with Ghosts
6. This book is #3 in the Ghost-in-law series, where people get help from a ghost to solve mysteries.

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #9
2. List #1/Task D
3. Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
4. Listened to audio book 6 hr 31 min.
5 Book with a dog
6. This was an inspirational story of a man and his dog but its not a story of master and canine its a story of true partnership, between a blind man and his guide dog.

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #10
2. List 1/Task R
3. The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling
4. 403 pages
5. Book with a religious theme
6. This is a book about a group of friends and their families brought together by circumstances which leads them closer to God and each other.

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #11
2. List 1/Task T
3. Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal
4. Listened to Audio book 12 hours/7 minutes
5. True Crime genre
6. This book had True Crime as a genre on main book page.

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #12
2. List 1/Task L
3. Love Finds You in Snowball, Arkansas
4. Read paperback 297 pages
5. Book about Love
6. This was a sweet love story, although a little predictable, still enjoyed it

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #13
2. List 1/Task N
3. The Road to Paradise
4. Read Kindle Edition/333 pages
5. Book about Nature
6. This book is set in Mt. Rainier National Park and the main characters are a park ranger and a naturalist in 1927. Of course, there is a villain wanting to destroy the natural beauty of the park by developing the area

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #14
2. List #1/Task B
3. The Reading List
4. Listened to Audio book/12 hours 47 minutes
5. Book about books
6. Genre of Books about Books listed on the main book page.

WoF - Lori Z

1. Badge #1/Book #15
2. List #1/Task W
3. Resistance Women
4. Read Ebook/Hardcover 608 pages
5. Book about women
6. Based on a true story of women in a resistance cell in Berlin during World War II

WoF - Lori Z

Whew, finished Badge #1 and requested it!
On to the next one, though a long shot, I'll keep trying!

WoF - Lori Z

List #2 Tally Sheet
Titles

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B -
C -
D -
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F -
G -
H -
I -
J -
K -
L -
M -
N -
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Q -
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Congrats on earning the first badge. :)

Thank you, Janice!