Soffitta1's 2025 Challenge

I'll be back!

1. 52 Books part 1

A pun in the title
Four aunties and a wedding
A character with red hair
Title starts with the letter “M”
My year of meats
Title starts with the letter “N”
No is not enough
Plot includes a heist
Portrait of a Thief
Genre one: Set in Spring
Tom Lake
Genre two: Set in Summer
Genre three: Set in Autumn
Genre four: Set in Winter
The fox wife
Author’s last name is also a first name
A prequel
Has a moon on the cover
Title is ten letters or less

2. 52 Books part 2

Climate fiction
Birnam Wood
Includes Latin American history
Author has won an Edgar award
Told in verse
A character who can fly
Has short chapters
A fairy tale retelling
Character’s name in the title
Daisy Jones and the Six
Found family trope
A sprayed edge
The Best Things
Title is a spoiler
Breaks the fourth wall
More than a million copies sold

3. 52 books part 3

Features a magician
A cross-over in a shared multi-verse
Shares universe with 28
In the public domain
Audiobook has multiple narrators
Includes a diary entry
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
A standalone novel
Direction in the title
Written in the 3rd person
Final sentence is fewer than six words long
Genre chosen for you by someone else
An adventure story
Has an epigraph

4. 52 Books part 4

Stream of consciousness narrative
Cover font is in a primary colour
A non-human antagonist
Explores social class
A celebrity on the cover
Author releases more than one book a year
Read in a -ber month
I think it was blue
Those who are loved
Related to the word puzzle
Set in a country with an active volcano
Set in the 1940s
300-400 pages long
Published in 2025

5. CoverCat

January - lowelibrary - cover contains something involved in a tea party
Small Ceremonies
February - pamelad - a tree on the cover
March - Tess_W - farm animals on the cover
April - VivienneR - cover shows a road
The road to Little Dribbling
May - LadyoftheLodge - more than two elements/objects on the cover
June - christina_reads - something with wheels on the cover
July - DeltaQueen50 - a fruit pictured on the cover
On the Future of Food - Catherine Joy White
August - susanna.fraser - cover image includes a photograph
September - sallylou61 - dogs and/or cats on the cover
October - JayneCM - something on the cover that will fit in your pocket.
The Glovemaker's daughter
November - majkia - celestial objects on the cover
December - Robertgreaves - something you would like for a Christmas (or equivalent gift-giving occasion in your tradition) present on the cover

6. ColourCat

January – pamelad – Green
Self-portrait in green
February – VivienneR – Gold
Goddess with a thousand faces
March – LadyoftheLodge – Pink
The Accidental Malay
April – Helenliz – Brown
May – Charon07 – Red
June – clue – Yellow
July – ish63 – White
August – DeltaQueen50 – Grey
September - NinieB – Silver
October – susanna.fraser – Black
Black thorn
November – MissWatson – Blue
December – Tess - Purple
The List

7. 25 best novels from the last 25 years
Rollover from 2024

1998 - Trumpet - read, highly recommended
1999 - A Place of Execution
2000 - Under the skin - read
2001 - Hallam Foe
2002 - The Cutting Room
2003 - Buddha Da - read, highly recommended
2004 - Fleshmarket Close - read, I love Rebus books!
2005 - Minaret
2006 - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox , read and enjoyed
2007 - Day - read and enjoyed
2008 - Kieron Smith, boy - read
2009 - Choke Chain
2010 - The Memory of Love
2011 - The Echo Chamber
2012 - The Panopticon
2013 - Life after life - read and recommend
2014 - How to be both - read and highly recommend
2015 - His Bloody Project
2016 - The Bookshop on the Corner
2017 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - read and enjoyed
2018 - The Long Take
2019 - Conviction
2020 - Shuggie Bain - already on my shelves
2021 - Deep Wheel Orcadia
2022 - The Pharmacist
2023 - In Ascension

8. KiddieCat
My own version

Tbr
End of a series - Endgame

9. Friends book group

10. Readalongs

Dial Lane Book group
TBR
Apr 2024
Butter
May 2024
In memoriam

11. This is the Canon
Decolonize your bookshelf in 50 books
Rollover from 2024
TBR
Salt

to source
Children of the New World
The Beautyful Ones are not born
The Bridge of Beyond
If Beale Street Could Talk
Between Two Worlds
Our Sister Killjoy
Territory of Light
The Joys of Motherhood
Segu
Woman Hollering Creek and other stories
Texaco
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Discerner of Hearts and other stories
The Years with Laura Díaz
The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories
Monkey Beach
Dogside Story
Shell Shaker
Dancing in the Dark
In Other Rooms
How to read the air
The Swan Book
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The White Girl

12. MysteryKit

January—LadyoftheLodge—winter mysteries
February—DeltaQueen50–vintage mysteries
March—majkia—espionage
The spy and the traitor
April--mstrust—paranormal
May—Robertgreaves—mysteries not set in my country
A rising man
June—KeithChaffee—LGBTQ+ detectives
July—christina_reads—series sleuths
August—LibraryCin—legal thrillers
September—Miss Brangwen—silver age mysteries
October--DeltaQueen50–police procedurals
One for sorrow
November--Tess_W--psychological mysteries and thrillers
December--lowelibrary—cozies
The Potting Shed Murder

13. Elly Griffiths - I'd like to finish the Ruth Galloway series
Rollover from 2024

Tbr
The Lantern Men
The Night Hawks
The Locked Room
The Last Remains

14. Agatha Christie

Jan - Five little pigs
Feb - The 13 problems
Mar - Three act tragedy
Apr - The Seven Dials Mystery

15. Ali Smith - Seasons
Didn't read them in 2024, so a rollover category.

Tbr
Autumn
Winter
Spring
Summer
Companion Piece

16. AlphaCat
Once again, I'd like to complete this with books I already have, where possible.

JAN
S - Second Skin
O - Ordinary People
FEB L G -
MAR U A -
APR
K - Best of friends - Kamila Shamsie
E - At the Existentialist Café
MAY
I - Contemporary Indian Short Stories Series IV
D -
JUN
C - Curdle Creek
Q -
JUL
W - The Walrus Mutterer
T -
AUG N J -
SEP B M -
OCT F
P - The Talk of Pram Town
NOV Y H -
DEC V R -

YEARLONG: X and Z

17. ABC - already bookcrossed

18. CatWoman
My own version

Tbr
1. Women and Myths - Storyland

Spare

Spare 2

I like “decolonising your bookshelf” as a category! And if I wasn’t feeling overcommitted already, I’d like to add Ali Smith’s Seasons too. I’ve already read Autumn, but I need to get to the other three.

Good luck with your 2025 reading!

Can't wait to see what your versions of CatWoman and KiddieCat look like.

Looking forward to the rest of the story...

Wishing you a enjoyable reading year!