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2025 Create-Your-Own Reading ChallengeDuration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Challenge Title: Make Use of My Kindle Unlimited Membership
Number of Books: 24 "Kindle Unlimited" books
Challenge Description:
Read Kindle Unlimited Books to make use of my membership.
14/24 Completed
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Shorties Run
Rules
under 80 pages
Read 2,025 pages WORTH OF SHORTS
431/2025 (1671to go)
His Boss for Christmas 1/2 ★ ★★☆ [67 p]
An Heiress for Christmas 1/4 ★★★★☆ [41 p]
A Prairie Dog's Love Song 1/16 ★★★☆ [70 p]
Yesterday 3/4 ★ ★★☆ [67 p]
Dog Days 3/10 ★★★★☆ [71p]
A Merry Brutal Christmas: An MM Holiday Short Romance 3/15 ★★★☆ [38p]
Turning the Omega 3/28 ★½ [29p]
Gear Heart 5/7 ★★★☆ [77p]
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Backlist Bash! January 1 - December 31
GOAL: Attempt 15 books from my TBR published before 2024
6/15; strikethroughs are DNFs
1.What the River Knows
2.A Gentleman Fallen on Hard Times
3.The Wishing Game Completed 3.26.25
4.Desire or Defense
5.The Best Intentions
6.An Improper Agreement
7.Together We Burn Completed 1.31.25
9.The Best-Laid PlansCompleted 5.31.25
10.Hands Down
11.The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
12.The Duke of Diamonds
13.Vienna Waltz
14.The Devil's Delilah Completed 8.10.25
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New To Me 2025Duration: 1st January 2025 - 31st December 2025
Number of Books: 120
To expand what I read and fall in love with books I would never normally try, or that haven't had many ratings yet.
New to Me MPG 0/10
Debut Author: 0/20
New to Me Author: 3/20
New Year's Resolutions Crystel Greene 1-Jan ⭐⭐⭐
Misfit Mage Michael Taggart 4-Jan ⭐⭐
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz 3-Jan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
New to Me Series 1/30
Hidden in Darkness Alice Winters 5-Jan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published 2025 0/40
For my goal I want to challenge myself and read 4 books at a higher reading level, including The Book of Elsewhere
Challenge Title: Return to Owner!Duration: 2025
Number of Books: 5 (May increase later)
Challenge Description: Read books that were borrowed/loaned
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I‘m in, I loved this challenge last year and want to challenge myself again.2025 Create Your Own Reading Challenge
Duration: 01 Jan. 2025 - 31 Dec. 2025
Rules
- no page number restriction
Read: 0/45
Challenge Title: Read your physical TBR!
Duration: the whole year of 2025
Number of Books: 45
Challenge Description: I want to read 5, 10 or 15 books for each of the 4 categories, and the books can only be from my physical books TBR, aka my bookshelves.
Contemporary Romance 0/15
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Romantic Suspense 0/15
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Fantasy/ Urban Fantasy 0/10
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Literary Fiction 0/5
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This challenge always helps me get some neglected books off my TBR pile, so I'm sticking with it.Create Your Own Challenge
Challenge Title: The Triple Challenge
Duration: Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025
Number of Books: 11/14
Part I - 10 Oldest TBR Books
Read the 10 oldest books from my GoodReads TBR list.
1.The Charm School by Susan Wiggs (1/13)★★★★
2.My Sexiest Mistake by Kristin Hardy (1/23)★★★★
3.The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred (6/30)★★★★★
4.Middle Church by Bob Edgar (7/31)★★★★
5.The Wager by Sally Cheney (4/17)★★★1/2
6.Hawk's Woman by Madeline Baker (3/26)★★★★
7.Heaven on Earth by Marilyn Pappano (2/11)★★★★
8.Outback Bride by Jessica Hart (6/8)★★★
9.Out of Captivity by Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, Keith Stansell, Gary Brozek (5/20)★★★★★
10.Barely Mistaken by Jennifer LaBrecque
Completed 9/10
Part II - Book to Movie
Read at least three books that were made into movies and then watch the movie.
1.Room by Emma Donoghue (2/19)★★★★★ *MW (2/28)
2.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (8/24)★★★★
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Read 2/3
*MW = Movies Watched 1/3
Part III - Finish Anthologies
I have a habit of starting anthologies because of one particular story and then not finishing them. So, I'm going to finish all anthologies started the previous year unless one of the stories in it is part of a series that I'm not caught up on.
1.Brief Cases by Jim Butcher
Completed 0/1
📚Create Your Own Reading ChallengeJanuary 1 to December 31, 2025📚
Didn't quite finish for 2024, trying again with adjustments!
Challenge Title: Kindle Unlimited Color Wheel Challenge 🎨
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2025
Number of Books: 39
Challenge Description: Read KU books with covers in each color in the following categories.
🎨 Progress: 26/39
PRIMARY COLORS (3 each of red, yellow, blue)
❤️:
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2 3(view spoiler)
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SECONDARY COLORS (3 each of purple, green, orange)
💜: 1 2 3
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2 3(view spoiler)
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ACHROMATIC COLORS (3 each of white, gray, black)
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OTHER COLORS (3 each of pink and brown)
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COMPLEMENTARY COLORS (2 of each)
🔴🟢: 1 2
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🟡🟣: 1 2
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Create Your Own ChallengeChallenge Title ❱❱ Series A-Z Challenge
Duration: Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025
Create Your Own ChallengeDuration: Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025
Read five books from each category and work down the TBR.
Library:
1. The Memory Library
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3.A Sea of Unspoken Things
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Kindle:
1. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
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Owned on Physical Shelf
1. Where Are the Children?, Jan 27, 2025
2. Hidden Pictures
3. Among the Hidden
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MARGIEMY PERSONAL CHALLENGE
Challenge Title: Read non-fiction books
Duration: 1 April - 31 December
Number of Books: 5
Challenge Description: learn something!
List of Books:
✅ 1. North to Paradise - 29 August
2. Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA: A Guide for Family Historians by Graham S. Holton
3. StoryTelling with Charts - The Full Story: The Ultimate Playbook to Master the Art and Science of Captivating Audiences by Telling Stories With Data and Framework Charts by Sam Schreim
4. Storytelling with Charts Using AI and Chatbots: Revolutionize Visualization: Unleash the Power of AI and ChatGPT for Storytelling by Sam Schreim
5. Bitcoin Evangelism by Brian De Mint
Challenge Title: Series Slasher A-ZDuration: Now-12-31-25
Number of Books: 26
Challenge Description: I've completed 2 series book challenge, so I love to read series! I have so many I've started and forgotten about or just haven't finished for whatever reason. I like the A-Z format so the RULES will be simple. I can use Title, Author FN/LN, series name and if it is an audiobook narrator's name. If I can slash through more series I am all for it!
List of Books: (you can post it in advanced or post as you complete them)
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S- Sue Brown, (Dark Haven,Darker Daddies #3)
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minnemoo wrote: "📚Create Your Own Reading ChallengeJanuary 1 to December 31, 2025📚
Didn't quite finish for 2024, trying again with adjustments!
Challenge Title: Kindle Unlimited Color Wheel Challenge 🎨
Duration:..."
This is a great idea. I want to combine my love of series with a hunt for colorful covers in all the dark romance I read *chuckles**
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With the year ending, most of us have started looking forward to the new year and have some reading goals we really want to reach.
This is the place to Create-Your-Own-Reading Challenge for 2025.
I've used the acronym SMART to explain how you can put yours together.
SPECIFIC - Sure we have goals and resolutions, but for this challenge you need to be specific on what you will read. Are you going for all classics, books of a specific author, books you already own, etc? You set the parameters, but make sure there is one.
MEASURABLE - Please don't say as many as I can read, please :). Knowing the titles in advance is not required, but you need to put a number of books as your goal. This is a requirement to participate in this challenge.
ATTAINABLE - Be realistic for this challenge. I know how we can go overboard, but you know, how many hours you read in a day. Do not set yourself up to fail. On this note, you are only allowed to have one Create-Your-Own Reading Challenge entry.
REWARDING - A tenet I follow everytime I create and/or join a challenge, is that it should be fun. This is not a punishment, but an activity that you really want to do. You get a better chance of completing it, if you are enjoying yourself.
TIME-BOUND - This challenge is good for the whole year. If you want to set a different start and end date, its up to you, but make sure I can see the duration period of your challenge.
Here is the suggested format:
Challenge Title:
Duration:
Number of Books:
Challenge Description:
List of Books: (you can post it in advanced or post as you complete them)