Beyond Barriers 📖 | Reading Challenge, July 2025.

missFiesty_69 ( Team Captain )
Minionite
Leprechaun
sambhavami
arya212002
nutmeg7
Moonstique
Amru4krish
Apsvenky
Gags05
Leenaaa

tags credit : oh_nakhrewaali

Log only the books you finish or DNF from July 1, 2025 to July 31, 2025. The logging will start and end at midnight whatever time zone you're in. The logging will officially stop at midnight PST July 31. (Pacific Time).

Log books within 3 days of finishing / DNFing them. Please DO NOT log pages that you intend to read or page counts of books that are in your TBR. ONLY FINISHED PAGES SHOULD BE LOGGED!

Add the book title/ author/ format and page count to the post you have reserved in your team’s thread (which will be posted by your captain). You will edit this post as you keep reading. You will also be adding the same page counts in the Google sheet that will be shared in your team’s thread.

Wherever possible, please use Amazon’s page counts for logging pages. For ebooks and audiobooks, use Kindle page counts. For paperbacks and hardcovers, use paperback page counts. If you cannot find the book on Amazon, you can use other legitimate sources.

For online fiction, use word count divided by 300 to log pages.

If you DNF, or if you are continuing a book from June, log only the pages you’ve read. You can use percentage read (at the point of DNF) for ebooks, actual page numbers for paperbacks and for audiobooks, log pages based on number of hours read (40 pages per hour at normal speed)

You are responsible for tracking your own reading. Please keep an accurate log of the books you finish. We trust you to be honest. And while we understand the spirit of competitiveness, please also remember that the Reading Challenge is designed to motivate you to read more and beat your own personal counts, so you are competing with yourself!

Lastly, have fun! This is not meant to stress you out, or cause a burn out, it's meant to nurture a love of reading. Read what you can, how much you can, when you can!

Moving on to the Disability Reads Themed part of the challenge!

In order to win this beautiful badge designed by Shibani, you will need to read a minimum of 500 pages of Disability themed fiction/ non-fiction.

These books can be included in your page logs for your team as well, so you stand to earn 2 badges should you participate in both the Disability Reads Challenge and the regular monthly Reading challenge.

This is an optional challenge.

You can choose to participate in only the July Reading Challenge OR only the Disability Reads challenge or both.

In addition to reading 500 pages, you will have to post a short review and 2 quotes highlighting how the book relates to the Disability theme in the Disability Reads Reviews thread.

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Team, please reserve a post for your page logs and log your book & page count in the excel as well!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VchL7TjKaw0ykhqclPIMnvMMZtdiuRWpt4k5iGZ5-T8/edit?gid=1169707783#gid=1169707783

missFiesty_69's PAGE logs 📚

1. First Form at Malory Towers | Enid Blyton | 208 pages

2. The Mystery of the Strange Messages | Enid Blyton | 256 pages

3. Second Form at Malory Towers | Enid Blyton | 192 pages

4. Peril at the End House | Agatha Christie | 256 pages

5 | The Mystery of the Pantomine Cat | Enid Blyton| 234 pages

6 | Top Ten Ways to Die - Hardy Boys | Franklin. W. Dixon | 169 pages

7 | The Case of the Beautiful Beggar | ESG | 192 pages

8 | Ram - Scion of Ikshavaku | Amish Tripathi | 354 pages

9 | Sita - Warrior of Mithila | Amish Tripathi | 361 pages

10 | Ravan - Enemy of Aryavartha | Amish Tripathi | 374 pages

11 | War of Lanka | Amish Tripathi | 500 pages

12 | The Housemaid's Secret | Frieda McFadden | 365 pages

13 | Tameron - Nora Phoenix | 306 pages

14 | A Lady for a Duke - Alexis Hall | 481 pages

15 | The Year We Fell Down - Sarina Bowen | 274 pages

16| Sita's sister - Kavita Kane | 320 pages

17 | The Case of the Daring Divorcee - Erle Stanley Gardner | 184 pages

18 | Third Form at Malory Towers | Enid Blyton | 208 pages

19 | Act your age, Eve Brown | Talia Hilbert | 403 pages

20 | Always Only You (The Bergman Brothers Book 2) | Chloe Liese | 383 pages

21 | If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin | 417 pages

22 | Part of your world | Abby Jimenez | 400 pages

23 | The Blue Bar | Damyanti Biswas | 390 pages

24 | Thirteen | Steve Cavanaugh | 368 pages

25 | The Blue Monsoon | Damyanti Biswas | 394 pages

26 | Upper Fourth at Malory Towers | Enid Blyton | 192 pages

27 | Stolen Bones | Carolyn Keene | 160 pages

28 | Murder on the Set | Carolyn Keene | 172 pages

29 | Mahabharat, Volume 3 | as translated by Bibek Debroy | 648 pages

30 | My Other Husband | Dorothy Koomson | 401 pages

31 | Soul Deep | Pamela Clare | 210 pages

32 | Husband Material | Alexis Hall | 423 pages

33 | Lady's Knight | Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner | 426 pages

34 | The Innocent One | Lisa Ballantyne | 352 pages

35 | Autoboyography | Christina Lauren | 417 pages

36 | Out on a Limb | Hannah Bonam-Young | 408 pages

37 | The Last Letter | Rebecca Yarros | 480 pages

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Leprechaun's July Log

1. The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort by Qian Shan Cha Ke - 3307 pages

(ch 1 to 203 - 764065/300 = 2546

204 to 207 - 16166/300 = 53

208 to 259 - 212626/300 = 708)

2. Cherry Amber by Yun Zhu - 874 pages

(262208/300)

This be my zone and my zone only...

1. The Cutting Edge | Jeffery Deaver | 541 pages
2. One Foot in the Grave | Peter Dickinson | 377 pages
3. Freedom Ship | Marcus Rediker | 328 pages
4. Lethal Game | John Gilstrap | 535 pages
5. Atomic Habits | James Clear | 422 pages

Total Pages = 2,203

sambhavami's reading list

- Ulka Rahashya - Kakababu - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 122

- Rajbarir Rahashya - Kakababu - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 119

- Radha Krishna - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 163

- Lal Kalo - Girindrasekhar Basu - 58

- Mandavi - Vaishakhi Thakur - 95

- Kolkatar Jongole - Kakababu - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 88

- Atha Mandodari Katha - Paramita Chakraborty - 157

- Those Days (English) - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 660

- All the Light We cannot See - Anthony Doerr - 530

- The Second Mrs Thistlewood - Dionne Haynes - 310

- Manda-Katha - Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri - 125

- 50 Comic Stories - Shibram Chakraborty (Bengali) - 162/296 -> In progress

Total Pages: 2589

To be started:

- Krishna Vasudeva - Bani Basu - 265 pages read already.

Arya212002 page log

1. Mile High — Liz Tomforde — 592
2. The Right Move — Liz Tomforde — 428
3. Caught Up — Liz Tomforde — 408
4. Passenger Princess — Morgan Elizabeth — 347
5. His Tesoro — Emilia Rossi — 396

Gags05's page log

1. The Wedding Photographer by Sakshama Puri Dhariwal : 165 pages (ongoing from June from page 54 till 219)

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2. Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce : 192 pages (out of 399) : DNFed

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3. It had to be a Duke by Vivienne Lorette : 372 pages

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4. None of this is true by Lisa Jewell : 390 pages

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5. Breast and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami : pages 198

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(Continued from June'25 from page 232 till end, i.e 430)

6. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir: pages 476

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7. Princess Trap by Talia Hibhert : Pages 80 (DNF)

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Reserved for Amru's July 📚🪵