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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work! ~ A Year-Long Reading Challenge
Individual Challenge
January 1st - December 31st, 2025


Let's read books and complete tasks related to team and partner sports that are played and enjoyed around the world!


On the 1st and 15th of each month I will post a new team sport in the Playing Field Thread. You will have four tasks to choose from for each sport. You only need to complete one. Participate in as many or as few sports as you would like.


You will make your Completion Posts here IN YOUR OWN THREAD. Please use this format. {You are welcome to copy and paste the game tasks into your own thread if you would like.}


Completion Post
Team Sport:
Book:
Author:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:


If you have any questions, please post them in the Referee's Table Q & A Thread.


Challenge Rules:
📘 Standard Rules Apply
📘I will create an individual thread for you prior to the start date.
📘Your first team sport will be posted on January 1, 2025.
📘Books must be completed after the team sport has been posted.

Completion Post
Team Sport: American Football
Book: For Letter or Worse
Author: Margaret Welch
Date Read: 1/2
Task: Read a book set in America.
How it Fits: set near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA

Completion Post
Team Sport: Soccer
Book: On Pens and Needles
Author: Sandra Orchard
Date Read: 1/15
Task: Read a book published since 2009
How it Fits: published in 2018

Completion Post
Team Sport: Basketball
Book: Ripe For Vengeance
Author: Wendy Tyson
Date Read: 2/4
Task: Read a book where all the letters of TWO are in the author's first AND/OR last name
How it Fits: Wendy TysOn

Completion Post
Team Sport: Baseball
Book: A Charming Hope
Author: Ashley Evercott
Date Read: 2/20
Task: Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in AMERICAS PASTIME
How it Fits: author's initials are AE

Completion Post
Team Sport: Softball
Book: America Fantastica
Author: Tim O'Brien
Date Read: 3/3
Task: Read a book with a female MC.
How it Fits: Angie is the FMC

Completion Post
Team Sport: Volleyball
Book: Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Author: Matt Dinniman
Date Read: 3/17
Task: Read a book where you see arms AND hands on the cover.
How it Fits:

Completion Post
Team Sport: Rowing
Book: Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
Author: Scott Adams
Date Read: 4/1
Task: Read a book with the word CREW found in the text
How it Fits: pg 165 "the crew's quarters"

Completion Post
Team Sport: Polo
Book: An Arrangement of Sorts
Author: Rebecca Connolly
Date Read: 4/17
Task: Read a book where the MC could be a member of "high society."
How it Fits: Moira was born into a high society family

Completion Post
Team Sport: Water Polo
Book: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Author: Timothy Egan
Date Read: 5/1
Task: Read a book with at least seven important characters.
How it Fits: so many important characters across the Klan leadership, politics, law enforcement, and opposition

Completion Post
Team Sport: Cricket
Book: Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
Author: James Otis
Date Read: 5/15
Task: Read a book with at least 20 chapters.
How it Fits: has 20 chapters

Completion Post
Team Sport: Wiffle Ball
Book: Murder in the Bayou Boneyard
Author: Ellen Byron
Date Read: 6/2
Task: Read a book where a character makes a joke.
How it Fits: a character makes a joke about purging their most recent meal

Completion Post
Team Sport: Rugby
Book: The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Date Read: 6/17
Task: Read a book set in England or Canada.
How it Fits: set in England

Completion Post
Team Sport: Beach Volleyball
Book: Wild Fae Primrose
Author: Tara Grayce
Date Read: 7/1
Task: Read a book where one character serves another. {Be creative!}
How it Fits: Munch brings lunch on a tray for Brigid, Robin, Guy, and himself

Completion Post
Team Sport: Handball
Book: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Author: Seanan McGuire
Date Read: 7/17
Task: Read a book where the MC's occupation should come with protective equipment.
How it Fits: Jack is a lab assistant, and there should definitely be protective equipment to keep fluids away

Completion Post
Team Sport: Tennis
Book: The Maid's Secret
Author: Nita Prose
Date Read: 8/1
Task: Read a book with the word HAWK or EYE found in the text.
How it Fits: pg 67 "Both Lily and Cheryl eye me curiously."

Completion Post
Team Sport: Pickleball
Book: From Fable to Grave
Author: Marlene Chase
Date Read: 8/16
Task: Read a book with at least one scene in the kitchen.
How it Fits: the FMC makes pancakes

Completion Post
Team Sport: Ice Hockey
Book: The Wicked Ones
Author: Robin Benway
Date Read: 9/4
Task: Read a book where the title starts with a letter in MONTREAL.
How it Fits: title starts with T