Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

This used to be a self-directed team challenge, which has now been retired. But since the work that was put into it was too good not to use anymore and there was so much detail to it, the mods have decided to offer this challenge up as an individual annual reading challenge instead.


How does this work?

◈ Using the spreadsheet below, you are provided with a selection of travel itineraries to take one or several around the world trips.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

◈ Trips will start in a random country/city and you will follow the globe in one direction the same as you would for a round the world fare. If you do not know the destinations, feel free to look them up for your own pleasure.

◈ Trips will consist of 8 stops across a maximum of 6 continents. At each stop, you will need to complete a task before moving on to the next stop in your trip.
(view spoiler)[Should you have questions about some of the tasks, please refer to the Goal FAQs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... (hide spoiler)]

◈ You can choose itineraries at random and do not have to follow them in order. So you could start with Travel Itinerary #5, then do Travel Itinerary #26 before hopping over to Travel Itinerary #1. It is entirely up to you, in which order you do the trips, or how many of them you complete.

◈ To track your progress, you can do so in this thread. Mods suggest reserving two spots when you sign up, just in case, as it all depends on your method of tracking. You can simply do it in your posts, or you could make a copy of the spreadsheet for yourself and fiddle around that way. Entirely up to you. Whatever works best for you.

◈ This is an annual challenge. It runs from 1st January to 31st December.

◈ Have fun!




Choose Your Own Adventure ~ Sapphire Coin

How to Earn:
Join a Choose Your Own Adventure Challenge
Earned Gem Coins will vary by Challenge, check challenge details for how to earn Coins and how many will be earned.
Example of ways to Earn Sapphire Coins: (view spoiler)[
Receive coins for completing participating challenge
Receive coins for special tasks within participating challenges
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This looks so fun!

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Travel Itinerary #18
1. Entebbe (UG) - Madinah (SA) The Boyfriend
2. Madinah (SA) - Omsk (RU) Death Comes to the Village
3. Omsk (RU) - Vladivostok (RU) King of Nothing
4. Vladivostok (RU) - Shirahama (JP)
5. Shirahama (JP) - San Jose del Cabo (MX)
6. San Jose del Cabo (MX) - Boa Vista (BR)
7. Boa Vista (BR) - Dakar (SN)
8. Dakar (SN) - Entebbe (UG)

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Around the World

1. Itinerary 27
Goal: 8 books - completed Apr 6
(view spoiler)[🌍 1. Nice (FR) - Riga (LV): Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as speculative-fiction. - Crucible of Gold (Temeraire, #7) by Naomi Novik
🌍 2. Riga (LV) - Tomsk (RU): Read a book where a character is superstitious or believes in some myth or entity. - Murder Road by Simone St. James
🌍 3. Tomsk (RU) - Ningbo (CN): Read a book that is an against all odds / survival story. - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand survival of men in WWII Japanese prison camp
🌍 4. Ningbo (CN) - Ayers Rock (AU): Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 3rd of a month. - Euphoria by Lily King pub date = Jun 3, 2014
🌍 5. Ayers Rock (AU) - Mendoza (AR): Read a book that is book 10 or more in a series. - Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17) by Agatha Christie book 17 of series
🌍 6. Mendoza (AR) - Columbia (US): Read a book that a player in your team has read during this team challenge. - Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1) by John Sandford read this as part of a Buddy Read in another group
🌍 7. Columbia (US) - Lagos (NG): Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 4 odd numbers. - Gaslight (Philip Taiwo, #2) by Femi Kayode ISBN10: 0316536644
🌍 8. Lagos (NG) - Nice (FR): Read a book with a gargoyle. - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz, #4) by L. Frank Baum part of this book is set in the Land of the Gargoyles (hide spoiler)]

2. Itinerary 3
Goal: 8 books
1. Gunnison (US) - Cartagena (CO): Read a book with stationery on the cover - The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage (Jul)
🌐 2. Cartagena (CO) - Santander (ES): Read a book you got for free - Fear Thy Neighbor by Fern Michaels borrowed from Libby
🌐 3. Santander (ES) - Kittila (FI): Read a book set in your home state/country - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky set in Pennsylvania, where I was born
🌐 4. Kittila (FI) - Tashkent (UZ): Read a book with a mask on the cover - Wouldn't It Be Deadly (Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery, #1) by D.E. Ireland mask on cover
🌐 5. Tashkent (UZ) - Bengaluru (IN): Read a book with a title between 16 and 25 characters - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #1) by Mark Twain 24 characters, excluding spaces
🌐 6. Bengaluru (IN) - Karratha (AU): Read a book that starts with "un." - Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, The by H.G. Parry unlikely
🌐 7. Karratha (AU) - Oita (JP): Read a book with one of these Harry Potter title words (Sorcerer, Philosopher, Chamber, Prisoner, Goblet, Order, Half, Deathly) in the title - Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
8. Oita (JP) - Gunnison (US): Read a book with people dancing on the cover - Instructions for Dancing (Jul)

I'll start with one trip but may add another:
Itinerary 18:
🩷1. Entebbe (UG) - Madinah (SA) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as to-read - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Still Alice Lisa Genova
🩷2. Madinah (SA) - Omsk (RU) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as first-in-series - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Out of My Mind Sharon M. Draper
🩷3. Omsk (RU) - Vladivostok (RU) Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter W
Table for Two Amor Towles 16 Feb WENDALL
🩷4. Vladivostok (RU) - Shirahama (JP) Read a book where the amazon ship weight for the hardcover is between 1-2 pounds
Horse Geraldine Brooks 22 Feb
🩷5. Shirahama (JP) - San Jose del Cabo (MX) Read a book where a character is given a last chance
Bibliolepsy Gina Apostol 1 Mar
🩷6. San Jose del Cabo (MX) - Boa Vista (BR) Read a book where a character is an actor
How to Age Disgracefully Clare Pooley 29 Mar
🩷7. Boa Vista (BR) - Dakar (SN) Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 3 odd numbers
A Separate Peace John Knowles 3 May
🩷8. Dakar (SN) - Entebbe (UG) Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 3.01 and 3.5
The Wangs vs. the World Jade Chang 6 Jun 3.2 rating


Trip #2:
💜1. Marudi (MY) - Kagoshima (JP) Read a book where the audio version is narrated by a female
Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor 10 Jun
💜2. Kagoshima (JP) - Petropavlovsk (RU) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as re-reads - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
The Quiet American Graham Greene 17 Jun
💜3. Petropavlovsk (RU) - Anchorage (US) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 24th of a month
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs Dave Barry 30 Aug (May 24, 2022 Kindle edition)
💜4. Anchorage (US) - Edmonton (CA) Read a book that has a hero or heroine that does something “dumb”
Three Days in JuneAnne Tyler 30 Aug
5. Edmonton (CA) - Port-au-Prince (HT) Read a book with a black cover
6. Port-au-Prince (HT) - Vitoria (BR) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 12th of a month
7. Vitoria (BR) - Salalah (OM) Read a book with the phrase "hands are tied" in a book
8. Salalah (OM) - Marudi (MY) Read a book that is in the "Everyone's Read It But Me" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...)

Trip #1 starting 1/1/2025
Travel Itinerary #20
1. Victoria Falls (ZW) - Mauritius (MU) Read a book with an alliteration in the title
2. Mauritius (MU) - Karratha (AU) Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the lowest number of pages (but meets the challenge page requirements)
- 101 pgs
3. Karratha (AU) - Queenstown (NZ) Read a book with more than 100, but less than 500 goodreads reviews
-407 reviews
4. Queenstown (NZ) - Baltra Island (EC) Read a book that mentions a Celtic god https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Chttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...- Roman Semionovich god of death and darkness (Slavic)
5. Baltra Island (EC) - Quebec (CA) Read a book that is in the "Best Non-Fiction (non biography)" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)

6. Quebec (CA) - Glasgow (GB) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Sun" in the text or title
Pg. 25 "still warm from THE SUN despite the heavy cloak"
7. Glasgow (GB) - Malabo (GQ) Read a book with a homophone in the title (http://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/...)
Hard to find a book that meets criteria but I read it to my nephew several times, making it meet page count. Especially since I had to read over and over and over in one sitting

8. Malabo (GQ) - Victoria Falls (ZW) Read a book with the phrase "weak at the knees" in a book. Google search shows books that supposedly has this in them but really does not. And the books with that title is definitely not something I am gonna read so the closest thing to that phrase is
- Pg 77 "So much of everything that my knees lose function,"



Trip #2 starting 1/20/2025
Travel Itinerary #5 Tasks
1. Marudi (MY) - Kagoshima (JP) Read a book where the audio version is narrated by a female

2. Kagoshima (JP) - Petropavlovsk (RU) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as re-reads - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
-Re-read tagged 297
3. Petropavlovsk (RU) - Anchorage (US) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 24th of a month
Pub 5/24/2016
4. Anchorage (US) - Edmonton (CA) Read a book that has a hero or heroine that does something “dumb”
5. Edmonton (CA) - Port-au-Prince (HT) Read a book with a black cover

6. Port-au-Prince (HT) - Vitoria (BR) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 12th of a month

Published: 11/12/2024
7. Vitoria (BR) - Salalah (OM) Read a book with the phrase "hands are tied" in a book

Chp 8 "hands are tied"
8. Salalah (OM) - Marudi (MY) Read a book that is in the "Everyone's Read It But Me" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...)

#528


Realizing I need to do each task before moving on to the next location so the first two trips might not count..........

Travel Itinerary #1 Tasks Start 3/5/2025-3/23/2025
1. Helsinki (FI) - Tromso (NO) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 4th of a month
- 3/5/2025
2. Tromso (NO) - Reyjkavik (IS) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as sci-fi - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
-3/8/2025
3. Reyjkavik (IS) - Anchorage (US) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as action - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
(176 ppl tagged)-3/10/2025
4. Anchorage (US) - Calgary (CA) Read a book with a country scene on the cover
-3/15/2025
5. Calgary (CA) - Quebec (CA) Read a book with a onomatopoeia in the title
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
-3/16/2025
6. Quebec (CA) - New York (US) Read a book where the characters eat steak
LOC 3756 "lasses, stiff drinks, and bloody STEAKS." (Eating steak at Pioneer Square in Seattle)-3/16/2025
7. New York (US) - Mariehamm (AX) Read a book which is set under the sea
-3/19/2025
8. Mariehamm (AX) - Helsinki (FI) Read a book that is in the "Most Interesting Magic System" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...)
#1506 -3/23/2025


New Trip Starting 3/25/2025
1. Baltra Island (EC) - Myrtle Beach (US) Read a book where a character is extremely lucky
- Casey survived an attack from a drug gang and left for dead, Luckily she was found, and lucky she woke up from her coma. 3/25/2025
2. Myrtle Beach (US) - Halifax (CA) Read a book that is in the "Best Humorous Books" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...)
3/26/2025
3. Halifax (CA) - Reykjavik (IS) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Temperance" in the text or title
- Chapter 4 ""Linora," Margaret said tightly, "a little TEMPERANCE, if you please." 4/9/2025

4. Reykjavik (IS) - Joensuu (FI) Read a book where characters go to the movies
- Movie on the lake in a floaty.

5. Joensuu (FI) - Nadym (RU) Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 2 odd numbers- Is there really so such thing. We are broken down here for awhile. Yippee!

So I asked because I don't believe this task is possible- Answer: No, there are no 10-digit ISBNs with exactly two odd digits. The ISBN-10 checksum algorithm, which ensures the number is valid, relies on the parity (evenness or oddness) of the digits in a specific way. For a 10-digit ISBN to be valid, the sum of the digits multiplied by their respective weights (from 10 to 1) must be divisible by 11. This requirement forces a specific relationship between the odd and even digits, making it impossible to have only two odd digits.

6. Nadym (RU) - Labuan (MY) Read a book with the word artist, painter, museum, art or paint (plurals are acceptable) in the title


7. Labuan (MY) - Alice Springs (AU) Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Asia


8. Alice Springs (AU) - Baltra Island (EC) Read a book with a grey cover

I am vacationed out for the Year 🤣

TITLE: Around the World 2025
DATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
ITINERARY: Travel Itinerary #21
COMPLETED: 2/8

✅ 1. Sao Jose do Rio Prieto (BR) - Cape Town (ZA)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as fun - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - 1/31/2025

✅ 2. Cape Town (ZA) - Riyadh (SA)
Read a book with blue text on the cover
The Astrology House, Carinn Jade - 3/14/2025

❌ 3. Riyadh (SA) - Goa (IN)
Read a book with the phrase "Method to my madness" in a book

❌ 4. Goa (IN) - Kuantan (MY)
Read a book with the word darning in the text

❌ 5. Kuantan (MY) - Port Moresby (PG)
Read a book with a mobile phone on the cover

❌ 6. Port Moresby (PG) - Wellington (NZ)
Read a book with a interjection in the title

❌ 7. Wellington (NZ) - Chattanooga (US)
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 11th of a month

❌ 8. Chattanooga (US) - Sao Jose do Rio Prieto (BR)
Read a book that is in the "Best "Strong Female"Fantasy Novels" Listopia List

🛫(BR) 🛬 (ZA)
🛫(ZA) 🛬 (SA)

Around The World 2025
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025

Trip 26
1. Genoa (IT) - Yekaterinburg (RU)
Read a book where the author has a 4 letter name (first or last)

2. Yekaterinburg (RU) - Phuket (TH)
Read a book that won or was nominated in the 2014 Goodread Choice Awards (https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...)

3. Phuket (TH) - Adelaide (AU)
Read a book where a character is an imp

4. Adelaide (AU) - El Calafate (AR)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as alpha-male - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

5. El Calafate (AR) - Aracaju (BR)
Read a book with the phrase "gut feeling" in a book

6. Aracaju (BR) - Gran Canaria (ES)
Read a book that contains the word parsley

7. Gran Canaria (ES) - Porto (PT)
Read a book first published in October

8. Porto (PT) - Genoa (IT)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as japan - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

Around the World 2025

Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

I randomly generated Itinerary 21

1. Sao Jose do Rio Prieto (BR) - Cape Town (ZARead)
a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as fun - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

- finished 1/10/25

2. Cape Town (ZA) - Riyadh (SA)
Read a book with blue text on the cover

- Finished 1/13/25

3. Riyadh (SA) - Goa (IN)
Read a book with the phrase "Method to my madness" in a book

4. Goa (IN) - Kuantan (MY)
Read a book with the word darning in the text

5. Kuantan (MY) - Port Moresby (PG)
Read a book with a mobile phone on the cover

6. Port Moresby (PG) - Wellington (NZ)
Read a book with a interjection in the title

7. Wellington (NZ) - Chattanooga (US)
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 11th of a month

8. Chattanooga (US) - Sao Jose do Rio Prieto (BR)
Read a book that is in the "Best "Strong Female"Fantasy Novels" Listopia List

Reserved

I would like to join I randomly Generated number 11 using this generator https://www.random.org/integers/?num=...
which i will use for the rest of the challenge

Itinerary 11

1. Porto (PT) - Malabo (GQ)
Read a book where the first word of the title is "An"
An Early Grave 04/01 /2024

2. Malabo (GQ) - Thiruvananthapuram (IN)
Read a book where the first word of the text is "They"
Wide Sargasso Sea " They say when trouble comes close ranks" 09/01/2025

3. Thiruvananthapuram (IN) - Taichung (TW)
Read a book where a character is a spy/intelligence agent
The Paris Affair 13/01/2025

4. Taichung (TW) - Obihiro (JP)
Read a with a cover showing someone wearing jeans or overalls.
16/01/2025


5. Obihiro (JP) - Santa Fe (US)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as lendable - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

Undertaking Irene 27/01/2025 10 tags

6. Santa Fe (US) - Chicago (US)
Read a book where someone desires world domination
The Hurricane Wars
Both MC's are "fighting for domination" in their World

7. Chicago (US) - Reykjavik (IS)
Read a book with a noun in the title
Head On

8. Reykjavik (IS) - Porto (PT)
Read a book where the audio version is narrated by a famous actorThe Time Keeper narrated by Dan Stevens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ste...

Round the World
Itinerary #1

1. Helsinki (FI) - Tromso (NO) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 4th of a month
The Woman in the Wallpaper Published Feb 4th 2025

2. Tromso (NO) - Reyjkavik (IS) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as sci-fi - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable Water Moon 25/02/2025

3. Reyjkavik (IS) - Anchorage (US) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as action - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable The Spy Coast Action page 1 col 2 35 tags

4. Anchorage (US) - Calgary (CA) Read a book with a country scene on the cover

5. Calgary (CA) - Quebec (CA) Read a book with a onomatopoeia in the title
whisper me this Kerry ann King KU
6. Quebec (CA) - New York (US) Read a book where the characters eat steak

7. New York (US) - Mariehamm (AX) Read a book which is set under the sea

8. Mariehamm (AX) - Helsinki (FI) Read a book that is in the "Most Interesting Magic System" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...)

My Second Spot

Travel Itinerary #1
1. Helsinki (FI) - Tromso (NO)Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 4th of a month
Bitterthorn (4 May) - 27/01/25

2. Tromso (NO) - Reyjkavik (IS)Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as sci-fi - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - 18/02/25

3. Reyjkavik (IS) - Anchorage (US)Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as action - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable Two Witches and a Whiskey - 19/02/25

4. Anchorage (US) - Calgary (CA)Read a book with a country scene on the cover
- 12/03/25

5. Calgary (CA) - Quebec (CA)Read a book with a onomatopoeia in the title
Burr - 03/05/25

6. Quebec (CA) - New York (US)Read a book where the characters eat steak

8

7. New York (US) - Mariehamm (AX)Read a book which is set under the sea

9

8. Mariehamm (AX) - Helsinki (FI) Read a book that is in the "Most Interesting Magic System" Listopia List 

Spot #2

My list of books to read and read and date finished.

1. Helsinki (FI) - Tromso (NO) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 4th of a month Fire Soldier

2. Tromso (NO) - Reyjkavik (IS) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as sci-fi - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Wool: Book One of the Silo Series

3. Reyjkavik (IS) - Anchorage (US) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as action - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Jurassic Park

4. Anchorage (US) - Calgary (CA) Read a book with a country scene on the cover
A Prayer for Owen Meany

5. Calgary (CA) - Quebec (CA) Read a book with a onomatopoeia in the title
Meow: A Feline Romance Comedy Novella finished 1/2/25 this had to have been the worst book I have read in my life!

6. Quebec (CA) - New York (US) Read a book where the characters eat steakTender Is the Flesh


7. New York (US) - Mariehamm (AX) Read a book which is set under the sea
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

8. Mariehamm (AX) - Helsinki (FI) Read a book that is in the "Most Interesting Magic System" Listopia List The Night Circus

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Option 20:

⁠⁠⁠⁠✓1. Victoria Falls (ZW) - Mauritius (MU) Read a book with an alliteration in the title - Command and Control by Marc Cameron
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓2. Mauritius (MU) - Karratha (AU) Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the lowest number of pages (but meets the challenge page requirements) All Systems Red by Martha Wells
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓3. Karratha (AU) - Queenstown (NZ) Read a book with more than 100, but less than 500 goodreads reviews - El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
4. Queenstown (NZ) - Baltra Island (EC) Read a book that mentions a Celtic god
5. Baltra Island (EC) - Quebec (CA) Read a book that is in the "Best Non-Fiction (non biography)" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓6. Quebec (CA) - Glasgow (GB) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Sun" in the text or title - Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓7. Glasgow (GB) - Malabo (GQ) Read a book with a homophone in the title (http://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/...) - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓8. Malabo (GQ) - Victoria Falls (ZW) Read a book with the phrase "weak at the knees" in a book - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros Loc. 1170

Books read for challenge - see message 20:

5. Calgary (CA) - Quebec (CA) Read a book with a onomatopoeia in the title: Meow: A Feline Romance Comedy Novella read 1/2/25

Around the World in 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

TRAVEL ITINERARY #1
1. Helsinki (FI) - Tromso (NO)
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 4th of a month
Book:
Author:
Read:
Rating:

2. Tromso (NO) - Reyjkavik (IS)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as sci-fi - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

Book: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Author: Hank Green
Read:
Rating:

3. Reyjkavik (IS) - Anchorage (US)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as action - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Book:
Author:
Read:
Rating:

4. Anchorage (US) - Calgary (CA)
Read a book with a country scene on the cover
Book:
Author:
Read:
Rating:

5. Calgary (CA) - Quebec (CA)
Read a book with a onomatopoeia in the title
Book:
Author:
Read:
Rating:

6. Quebec (CA) - New York (US)
Read a book where the characters eat steak

Book: The Shards
Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Read:
Rating:

7. New York (US) - Mariehamm (AX)
Read a book which is set under the sea
Book:
Author:
Read:
Rating:

8. Mariehamm (AX) - Helsinki (FI)
Read a book that is in the "Most Interesting Magic System" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...)

Book: The Name of the Wind
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Read:
Rating:

Spot 2 Just in case!

Around the World in 2025
January 01, 2025 through December 31, 2025

Goal #1: 8 books

Travel Itinerary #3

1. Gunnison (US) - Cartagena (CO)
2. Cartagena (CO) - Santander (ES)
3. Santander (ES) - Kittila (FI)
4. Kittila (FI) - Tashkent (UZ)
5. Tashkent (UZ) - Bengaluru (IN) The Battle of the Labyrinth
6. Bengaluru (IN) - Karratha (AU)
7. Karratha (AU) - Oita (JP)
8. Oita (JP) - Gunnison (US)

Spot #2

In Too be updated

This looks like fun!

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

ITINERARY #24
1. Baltra Island (EC) - Myrtle Beach (US): Ebola ’76 by Amir Tag Elsir (7/1)
2. Myrtle Beach (US) - Halifax (CA): The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (8/6)
3. Halifax (CA) - Reykjavik (IS):

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Itinerary #1

1. Helsinki (FI) - Tromso (NO) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 4th of a month
2. Tromso (NO) - Reyjkavik (IS) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as sci-fi - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
3. Reyjkavik (IS) - Anchorage (US) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as action - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
4. Anchorage (US) - Calgary (CA) Read a book with a country scene on the cover
5. Calgary (CA) - Quebec (CA) Read a book with a onomatopoeia in the title
6. Quebec (CA) - New York (US) Read a book where the characters eat steak
7. New York (US) - Mariehamm (AX) Read a book which is set under the sea
8. Mariehamm (AX) - Helsinki (FI) Read a book that is in the "Most Interesting Magic System" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...)

Reserved Part 2

Itinerary around the world 2025
1 january 2025- 31 december 2025

Itinerary 9

✔️1. Gunnison (US) - Florence (US) Read a book that was originally published between 2006 and 2010
Je bent gewaarschuwd originally published 2007

✔️2. Florence (US) - Bermuda (BM) Read a book where a character is a mythical creature

Achter de spiegel Cornelia Funke
Read 13 jan 2025 , 296 p. Name
Fairies and ghoals

✔️3. Bermuda (BM) - Abuja (NG) Read a book that has 3 vowels in a row in the title

The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life—Before 8AM Hal Elrod 224 p. 9 february 2025
Obvious

4. Abuja (NG) - Hurghada (EG) "Read a book with the phrase ""hot potato"" in a book"

5. Hurghada (EG) - Nizhny Novgorod (RU) Read a book with a ball gown on the cover

6. Nizhny Novgorod (RU) - Almaty (KZ) Read a book written in first person narration

7. Almaty (KZ) - Petropavlovsk (RU) "Sort your ""to read"" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is within Numbers 1-50 on your list (the first column before the book cover image)"

8. Petropavlovsk (RU) - Gunnison (US) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 16th of a month

Itinerary around the world 2025
1 january 2025-31 december 2025

I like the concept of this challenge but some of the tasks are (I feel) incredibly difficult. For example How do i search for a book where a character seeks world domination? Are there in fact any such books that are not Science Fiction or Fantasy?
There is a shelf for world domination but most of them seem to be non-fiction
Can anyone give me any ideas?

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

🌎✈️Turn #1 - Travel Itinerary #18✈️🌎

4/8

1. Entebbe (UG) - Madinah (SA)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as to-read - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
by Holly Black
How it fits: Listed as to-read on top shelves
Date read: 05/01/2025

2. Madinah (SA) - Omsk (RU)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as first-in-series - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

3. Omsk (RU) - Vladivostok (RU)
Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter W

4. Vladivostok (RU) - Shirahama (JP)
Read a book where the amazon ship weight for the hardcover is between 1-2 pounds

5. Shirahama (JP) - San Jose del Cabo (MX)
Read a book where a character is given a last chance

6. San Jose del Cabo (MX) - Boa Vista (BR)
Read a book where a character is an actor
by Jennette McCurdy
How it fits: Main protagonist is an actor
Date read: 01/01/2025

7. Boa Vista (BR) - Dakar (SN)
Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 3 odd numbers
by Morgan Rice
How it fits: ISBN10: 1640292691 (Odd numbers: 1, 1, 9)
Date read: 02/01/2025

8. Dakar (SN) - Entebbe (UG)
Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 3.01 and 3.5
by Freida McFadden
How it fits: Average rating is 3.47
Date read:13/01/2025

Marie (UK) wrote: "I like the concept of this challenge but some of the tasks are (I feel) incredibly difficult. For example How do i search for a book where a character seeks world domination? Are there in fact any ..."

I'm also finding the tasks to be a little more difficult than expected.

For world domination, you might be able to read some historical fiction or history. Many kings and other leaders sought world domination. Napoleon. Ghengis Khan. Alexander the Great. There are many others. Or a biography/memoir of an inventor who wanted their creation or company to spread worldwide.

Around the World 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Itinerary #27
1. Nice (FR) - Riga (LV) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as speculative-fiction - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
✅2. Riga (LV) - Tomsk (RU) Read a book where a character is superstitious or believes in some myth or entity-Smokin' Seventeen-2/1/25
✅3. Tomsk (RU) - Ningbo (CN) Read a book that is an against all odds / survival story-Code Name: Virgo-3/19/25
4. Ningbo (CN) - Ayers Rock (AU) Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 3rd of a month
✅5. Ayers Rock (AU) - Mendoza (AR) Read a book that is book 10 or more in a series-From Dead to Worse-2/9/25
6. Mendoza (AR) - Columbia (US) Read a book that a player in your team has read during this team challenge
✅7. Columbia (US) - Lagos (NG) Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 4 odd numbers-0778308065-She's Not Sorry-1/18/25
8. Lagos (NG) - Nice (FR) Read a book with a gargoyle

How should we fulfill the tasks that have to do with reading a book someone else on your team (or another team) has read? Do we just pick something that someone else within this thread has posted they've read?

Thanks!