Bookcrossers discussion

Let's play Follow the Leader!

Start with the first book you finish in 2025, the last letter of the title must be the first letter of the next book you read for this challenge, repeat until you've read 25 books.
I'm posting an example below. (This is not my actual reading list.)

Where the Red Fern GrowS - letter is S so next book is
She's Come UndonE - letter is E so next book is
Everything She WanteD - letter is D
Etc, etc. etc. until you've read 25 books.
Of course, you can read other books in between these books, you don't have to do this all at once. You have an entire year.
Sooooo...who wants to come play in the stacks with me?
Just post below to join.
(And as always - paper books, Kindle, Audio, Library books - they all can be counted.)
Happy New Year & Happy Reading!

Edwina's List

1. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson - Finished

2. T - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty - Finished

3. S - Second Chance by Jane Green - Finished

4. E - Everything Is Not Enough by Lola Akinmade Åkerström - Finished

5. H - Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle - Finished

6. S - Salsa Magic by Letisha Marrero - Finished

7. C - Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare - Finished

8. L - Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi - Finished

9. L - The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen - Finished

10. Y - You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi - Finished

11. Y - The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner - Finished

12. S - Sociopath by Patric Gagne - Finished

13. H - Hide by Kiersten White - Finished

14. E - Enough Already by Valerie Bertinelli - Finished

15. Y - Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson - Up next

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Thanks, Edwina! I'm in. I rarely read one book at a time, so I figured I'd try it with two (especially if I have trouble finding one that works). I will be trying to work with mostly books in my "stash". I'm also going to be flexible in taking the last letter of the first title (before the colon) or the subtitle, as needed.

1. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott---> D (done)
and Call Us What We Carry --->Y (done)

2.The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis ---> E (done 2/9/25)
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang -->E (done)

3.Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music by Marius Kozak ---->C (have to stop the "E" loop) (currently reading)
Every Day I Write the Book: Notes on Style by Kumar --> K (DONE)

4.Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi ---> Y
Kindred by Octavia Butler ----->D (DONE 4/7/25)
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1. Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See (READ 1/6/25)
2. Notes to Self by Avery Sawyer (READ 3/15/25)
3. First Love by James Patterson (READ 3/19/25)
4. E-Elemental Pleasure by Mari Carr and Lila Dubois ((READ 3/32/25)
5. E-Every Witch Way but Wicked by Amanda Lee

(and so on, IF I get this far.)

Lisa wrote: "I'm in!

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer--finished
2. Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman--finished
3. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton--finished
4. Evicted by Matthew Desmond--f..."

This sounds fun.

1. How To Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
2. Entangled: The Homecoming by Barbara Bretton
3. Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
4. Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben
5. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
6. The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
7. Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
8. Split Infinity by Piers Anthony
9. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
10. Galactic Hot Dogs: Cosmoe's Wiener Getaway
11. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
12. Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman
13. Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews
14. Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
15. Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
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I'm in!

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer--finished
2. Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman--finished
3. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton--finished
4. Evicted by Matthew Desmond--finished
5.Divided in death by J. D. Robb--finished
6. Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz & David Hayward--finished
7. The Eighty-Dollar Champion--Elizabeth Letts--finished
8. Night of Miracles--Elizabeth Berg
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List 1

1. White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele - finished --> A
2. A - The American Future: A History by Simon Schama - finished --> E
3. E - Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower - finished --> D
4. D - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama - finished --> E
5. E - Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century - finished --> S
6. S - The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indians - finished --> S
7. S - The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature by Steven Pinker - finished --> T
8. T - Taken for a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Pollution by Jack Doyle - currently reading --> E
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[re-route to later]. D - The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell - not started --> L
[re-route to later]. L - Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis - not started --> M

List 2
1. Selected Poems by Harvey Shapiro - finished --> S
2. S - Selected Essays by John Berger - currently reading --> S
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List 3
1. The Gathering by Anne Enright - in progress --> G

Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Bookguide’s 25 for 25 chain starts with:
1. Mr. Kaor Yamamoto by Lex Boon. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

2. O options: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats OR The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot OR On Chesil Beach OR Once Upon a River OR One Hundred Years of Solitude OR One Upmanship OR Ontaarde moeders OR Ontmoetingen OR *Op doorreis OR *Origins Reconsidered OR *Out of My Life and Thought OR Outliers OR Overdrijvende wolkenvelden